"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Entries from January 2010

“Hot Rod” Jetton Due Back in Court

January 21st, 2010 · No Comments

 Will “Hot Rod” be doing the jailhouse rock today in court? KOMU.com: Jetton’s 11 a.m. court hearing in Scott County will be slightly different from last week’s. During Jetton’s arraignment, his attorney Stephen Wilson put in a request for a new judge. Thursday Judge Terry Lynn Brown from neighboring Mississippi County will preside over the [...]

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Tags: Spkr. Jetton

FiredUp Missouri’s Response to Historic Massachusetts Senate Loss

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments

It seems the Carnahan’s are so distraught about losing Teddy’s seat yesterday, they can’t even bring themselves to write about it or post anything today! (as of 1:08 CST) Their last post was yesterday titled ironically,“Don’t Believe The Hype.” Too funny!

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Tags: Roy Temple

Roundup: The “Scott” Heard Around the Country

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The Grey Falcon’s Blog: “The Democratic leadership and their media allies responded to this situation with very approach that is causing their downfall.  Before the voting even began, members of the Obama adminstration began telling reporters that Coakely was not going to win.  Many other high-profile were joining in that prediction, seemingly trying to get [...]

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Tags: Healthcare

Rep. Roorda Calls Obamacare Opponents “Tea baggers” on House Floor

January 20th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Democrat Rep. Jeff Roorda, District 102 Brian Nieves Fellow Patriots! OMG! Get this! We are debating a Resolution calling upon congress to reject Health Control & Rep. Roorda (D) just went off on “Teabaggers” Scott Dieckhaus Rep. Jeff Roorda opens remarks with derogative comments about ‘teabaggers’. I hope Jefferson County is ready to give him [...]

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Tags: MO Legislature

Clay Top Aide Runs Private Business Next to Congressional Office

January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

  Clay Chief of Staff Darryl Piggee and his wife, former Clay staffer Sherry R. faulkner Isn’t there something a tad bit suspicious when your chief of staff’s private business is across the hall from your official office? 7/31/08: An online reader of stlamerican.com, upset that we had anything nice to say about Chris Koster, [...]

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Tags: Rep. Lacy Clay

STL Oracle: Campaign Advice for Democrats in 2010

January 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Here in Missouri, I advise likely Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Robin Carnahan to condemn Reid now and threaten to withhold her vote for him as majority leader. Most Democratic senators, including Missouri’s Claire McCaskill, are reluctant to challenge the sitting majority leader out of fear of retribution on their state appropriations and other ways in [...]

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Tags: Senator McCaskill