Four AG candidates; three answers. Guess who’s MIA?
CDT Politics Blog:
In the midst of the controversy over Scott Eckersley firing, I’ve contacted all four candidates running for attorney general to get their opinion on the situation and the overall issue of e-mail retention.
Eckersley’s firing renewed questions about whether Gov. Matt Blunt is disregarding state law mandating […]

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Big Muddy Politics:
State Senator Mike Gibbons (R-Webster Groves) is now an announced candidate for Attorney General, the state’s sunshine law enforcer. Why haven’t we heard from him on the Blunt/Eckersley Scandal? Where is Sen. Gibbons?
The Missouri Democratic Party released this video of Gov. Blunt in St. Louis answering questions about his attack on Eckersley. Guess […]

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By Rob Luke
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s lone GOP candidate for attorney general, Senate President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons, will focus on law-and-order issues in his upcoming campaign.
But he also pledged to clean up what he perceives as corruption within the state attorney-general’s office.
Gibbons officially announced his campaign in a press release posted on his campaign […]

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Our guest contributor Raymond Fitzgerald hit the nail right on the head yesterday. Fitzgerald opined on this site that Col. Jack Jackson was not going to commit political suicide and challenge Governor Blunt next year. He speculated that Jackson merely wanted a face to face meeting with the Governor to gauge his reaction to a possible Jackson candidacy.
“I believe […]

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CDT Blog: 
It’s not much of a surprise, but Senate President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons, R-Kirkwood, is set to officially kick off his bid to replace Attorney General Jay Nixon in Columbia on Saturday.
That’s the news according to a blurb in the Central Missouri Young Republican Newsletter: Read more

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Sources tell Fired Up! that United States Attorney for Missouri’s Eastern District Catherine Hanaway has become increasingly personally involved of late in efforts to find GOP Senator and (largely irrelevant) Attorney General candidate Michael Gibbons a soft landing place into which he can drop from the race. Read more…

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