This is an interesting development in the race for the RNC Chairmanship. What many people do not know is that when the RNC meets in January to elect their Chairman they will also elect a Chairwoman. Why the Chairwoman has been relegated to meaningless status I can’t answer. The position does exist though. Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary of State (boy, wouldn’t you have rather | Read More »
Following the spirited defense of SC GOP Chairman Katon Dawson by Glenn McCall (which you can read about in this Minority Report exclusive), we now have reporting from the National Review’s Jim Geraghty that indeed Dawson would not have been aware of the “whites only” rule in the charter. George Bunch, the president of the club, said that the deed’s restriction has been “invalid” since | Read More »
Allow me to introduce a website that has a lot of potential to be an excellent tool in conservative activism at the state level: Flip4.org I’ll allow the site designers description to speak for itself. State legislatures are the front lines of American politics. They are where good ideas—and bad ones—can be introduced and tested. They are where our rising stars emerge, or where scandals | Read More »
Here’s a quick run down of some of the important Missouri stories that I’ve run across over the last few days. We’ve seen a lot of talk over the past few months of a bailout fever. First it was the $700B financial bill, the Big 3 are up to plate and a plethora of state groups and other industry insiders are lining up at the | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick. U.S. household debt is falling and the savings rate is on the rise. Economists say consumers appear to be curbing their spending and displaying a healthy prudence about taking on new debt — something financial planners have been admonishing Americans to do for decades. What economists don’t know is whether people are bringing down their debt voluntarily or whether it’s | Read More »
This is a cross-post of the Minority Report exclusive that absentee linked to in RedHot the other day. Katon Dawson is the Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. He is one of several announced candidates for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. There is much to like about Chairman Dawson. He has ably run the South Carolina Party for the last seven years | Read More »
It happens at the local level too. Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed is calling on State Auditor Susan Montee to revise a recent audit critical of his use of a city car. In October, Montee issued an audit that tweaked Reed over the “luxury” options in his city-owned Buick Lucerne, including a heated steering wheel and seats. In a city like St. Louis that | Read More »
Here’s a brief roundup of some of the happenings in Missouri.
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has received a donation that can only be seen as a little tit-for-tat. Thompson Coburn — which in October was promised a $700,000 incentive package in exchange for keeping its office downtown — gave the mayor’s re-election account $20,000 on Nov. 26, according to filings with the state Ethics Commission. The venerable law firm — a staple of the St. | Read More »
A few months back I wrote about an David T. Beito and Ilya Somin op-ed that appeared in the Kansas City Star about how the battle over eminent domain has become a civil rights issue. In that piece they quoted an amicus brief filed by the NAACP in Kelo v. New London: “[t]he burden of eminent domain has and will continue to fall disproportionately upon | Read More »
KSDK News in St. Louis, MO is reporting: Dead voters still registered By Leisa Zigman, I-Team Reporter KSDK — The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records all over the country. A record-setting 4,205,774 registered voters are on the books in Missouri. That number includes over 340,000 first time voters. But are they all legal? Using high tech computer software, | Read More »
Warren Throckmorton has found evidence that a New Yorker has illegally voted in Florida: To summarize, Ms. Appleton has been FL for 6 weeks, says she voted in FL, but plans to return “home” to NY a day or so after the election. According to this link and this one, Ms. Appleton’s residency is open to question.
I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project – a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, | Read More »
I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project – a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, | Read More »
SurveyUSA has Sam Graves (R) leading Kay Barnes (D) by a commanding 54-36%. Graves (the incumbent) looks to be cruising to re-election. In an election for US House of Representatives in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District today, 10/29/08, six days till votes are counted, incumbent Republican Sam Graves defeats Democratic challenger Kay Barnes 54% to 36%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KCTV-TV in Kansas | Read More »
The Kansas City Star is reporting that more than a dozen counties in Missouri have more registered voters than they have adults. This is a phenomenon that we have seen across the country as state after state has failed to properly manage it’s voter rolls. More than a dozen Missouri counties have more registered voters on their rolls than they do voting age adults. Topping | Read More »
The health care issue is set to be one of the most important issues in the next four years if the rhetoric coming from both sides is to be believed. (I question whether it really be. Remember Social Security in 2000. We’ve done a great job on that in the last eight years.) Here is a cornucopia of information that you can use to arm | Read More »
The Obama/Biden campaign has been extremely proud of the get out the vote organization that they have created. I haven’t seen any actual numbers, but I’m certain that they have been pushing for new voter registration just like ACORN. So, to no real surprise, they are having the same problems as ACORN: Rich Chrismer, the St. Charles County elections director, says his office last week | Read More »
As many of you know, I often guest on AOL Political Machine blogger Tommy Christopher‘s Blog Talk Radio program Unusable Signal. Tommy has been making a claim for a while now that the rich benefit disproportionately from the government. He has made this claim yet again in a blog entitled “I’m Tommy the Elitist”.Therefore he says that they should pay more in taxes, their “fair | Read More »
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