Category Archives: Missouri

Election Day Impressions

  I got to my polling station at 6 AM to work for the Ann Wagner Campaign for the 2nd Congressional District in Missouri and the line of voters was already out the door of the Kirkwood Baptist Church, stretching out alongside the sanctuary, extending to the end of the parking lot. The voters kept [...]

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New Poll Shows Akin up by Four

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 15, 2012   New Poll Shows Akin up by Four St. Louis, MO: In case you missed it, a new poll by Citizens United has Todd Akin ahead of Claire McCaskill by four percentage points, 49% to 45%. This is after weeks of Claire McCaskill outspending Akin by seven to [...]

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GOP leaders on Todd Akin: ‘We’re done’

Akin says his decision to run is being guided by faith and belief in God. | AP Photo   By MANU RAJU  Texas Sen. John Cornyn doesn’t want to talk about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.   “We’re done,” Cornyn, chairman of the powerful National Republican Senatorial Committee, responded when asked whether the committee would [...]

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Ann Wagner speaking at the Bonhomme Republican Womens Club on 4-20-12.

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McCaskill ups security after tea partier comments

By JOHN BRESNAHAN   POLITICO Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is getting additional security after a tea party-affiliated activist backing one of her GOP opponents publicly declared that they “have to kill the Claire Bear.” The U.S. Capitol Police contacted local police in Kirkwood, Mo., and asked them to step up patrols near McCaskill’s home. McCaskill also [...]

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AULA President and CEO Calls on Congress to Support the “SAFE Act” and to Halt “the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade”

On Tuesday, Dr. Yoest joined Missouri Rep. Todd Akin (both at left) for a news conference at the Robert A. Young Federal Building in St. Louis, asking members of the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 4971, the “Stop Abortion Funding in Multi-State Exchange Plan Act,” or the “SAFE Act.” “The healthcare law signed by President [...]

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Election 2012 Missouri: President…. Romney 48%, Obama 45%

Mitt Romney still leads President Obama in a head-to-head matchup in Missouri but by a much narrower margin. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds the prospective Republican nominee with just a three-point edge over the president – 48% to 45%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and [...]

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Missouri 2nd Congressional District Convention April 21, 2012

On a picture perfect Saturday morning in St. Louis County, Mo., 391 grassroots activists gathered in the Lindbergh High School Gym to take part in the delegate selection process that will send former Sen. Jim Talent, Alan Icecit and Phyliss Schafley (Eagle Forum) to the Republican National Convention this August in Tampa, Florida to select [...]

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Participatory Democracy: Missouri Caucuses, Bonhomme Township

I had the privilege of taking part in the first round of the delegate selection process during a three hour Caucus held in Bonhomme Township at the Kirkwood Community Center in St. Louis County, Missouri. Before the start of the meeting, I could not have told you much more than about 60 seconds worth of [...]

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Martin May Switch to Missouri Governor’s Race

By: David Cantanese Former U.S. Senate candidate and current Missouri congressional candidate Ed Martin is now considering his third contest of the 2012 cycle: A race for governor. Appearing on Mark Reardon’s St. Louis radio program Tuesday afternoon, the conservative talk show host asked Martin to get in the race and Martin replied, “I will [...]

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