Eugene Dokes, Navy veteran and small business owner files candidacy for district 70 Republican Eugene Dokes officially filed today as a candidate for the newly redrawn House of Representatives District 70. The district spans from Hazelwood to St. Charles City and includes portions of Bridgeton, Maryland Heights, Creve Coeur, Earth City, Harvester and Cottleville. Dokes […]

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Clay shouldn’t be so confident, especially after the hit piece the Post Dispatch put out on him on Sunday. Clay  said he wasn’t worried about facing a fellow Democratic incumbent. He said the new First District includes only 20 percent of Russ Carnahan’s old district. “He doesn’t have a chance,” Clay said. “Eighty percent of […]

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The nanny staters are at it again! This time they want to protect us from the payday loan industry by placing an initiative on the ballot in November to cap interest on these short term loans. Look, we all want to pay the lowest interest we can on our loans, but it’s a fact of […]

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With gas prices spiking again, it’s amazing to watch the lengths to which Democrats will still go to prevent domestic energy production which could help lower prices, promote energy independence, and create jobs. Just yesterday WKBW in Buffalo, NY, reported, “U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Sunday called on the U.S. State Department to press the […]

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As we approach the 2-year anniversary of President Obama’s unaffordable health care spending law in the coming month, new polling shows the law remains unpopular with Americans as reports continue that the law is failing to control costs. USA Today writes, “The health care overhaul that President Obama intended to be the signature achievement of […]

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“I’ll Always Do My Best to Protect What Really Matters to You.” Remarkably, this quote is not from Rep. Clay responding to a constituent, but instead to his handlers and benefactors in the predatory”rent to own” industry. The industry has called Clay “the greatest champion the rent-to-own transaction has ever had.” Now, call us cynical, […]

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Never thought we’d hear a stalwart Democrat like St. Louis City treasurer candidate  Brian Wahby describing as “excellent” Koster’s attempt to help repeal Obamacare! Does Mr. Wahby also believe Mr. Koster’s past support for voter ID is “excellent” too? Related: St. Louis Loses Dem Convention: Is Brian Wahby Responsible? Tipline: El-Amin on Chris Koster: “He’s […]

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Reacting to President Obama’s speech on energy yesterday, The Wall Street Journal editorializes, “‘The American people aren’t stupid,’ thundered President Obama yesterday in Miami, ridiculing Republicans who are blaming him for rising gasoline prices. Let’s hope he’s right, because not even Forrest Gump could believe the logic of what Mr. Obama is trying to sell. […]

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Obama on McCaskill: “I Just Love Her So”It’s quite instructive to look at the “highlights” of the nearly $1 trillion stimulus passed by the Democrat Congress at the urging of President Obama. Three years after Obama promised, “It’s a plan that will save or create up to 4 million jobs over the next two years” […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Fh9N_8xvsoY” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]“If there’s a debt, Missouri’s kids and grandkids will pay that debt off” –Governor Jay Nixon (2009) Today marks the 3-year anniversary of President Obama signing his nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill into law.  A report from Obama economic advisors Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein in early 2009 claimed that […]

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