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Meet Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. Most will recognize her name; she's the daughter of Missouri's late governor and posthumously elected U.S. Senator, Mel Carnahan. She's also the "Show Me" state's highest election official. Robin Carnahan doesn't merely administer elections. She's hell-bent on preventing them. Her short track record in public office demonstrates the dangers of partisan politicians holding offices on which mere little guys must depend for an honest democratic government. Oh, sure, she recently came up with more than a dozen reasons for counting votes on spoiled ballots in Rolla, Missouri — her decision yielding a one-vote...

(This is kind of a long read, but very interesting.) The original frmat is probably superior to my formatting abilities. - Here http://www.gopvideo.com/2006june/missouri_democrats_media_scandal.html Missouri Democrats and their Unreported Abuses of State Power In Bed with Jimmy Carter, AARP and the State's Largest Newspapers 6/2/2006 Missouri Democrat Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State, Shielded from Scandal by the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch GOP Video News Focus The Temple-Carter-AARP-Carnahan emails [pdf] Missouri Politics, Who's Who: Jason J. Carter, President Carter's Grandson, Attorney, Law Firm website Profile Robin Carnahan, Missouri Secretary of State, daughter of former US Senator Jean Carnahan...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Republican Party yesterday called on Jay Nixon to launch an investigation into whether the Secretary of State's Office has been using taxpayer dollars to conduct partisan political activities in violation of Missouri law. Through a Sunshine Law request, the Republican Party obtained emails through the Sunshine Law that show Carnahan's office lied about its role in writing a letter on behalf of former President Jimmy Carter attacking a voter identification bill designed to prevent fraud. The emails also showed that political operative Roy Temple was manipulating policy for Carnahan's office and that his wife,...

Jefferson City, Missouri -- Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's Commissioner of Securities Matt Kitzi issued a consent order last week concerning a St. Louis business that claimed it could produce a car that runs on water. The order alleges that William P. Alexander and his company, Emerging Technologies Development Company, offered and sold unregistered investments in Emerging Technologies Investment Group LLC. In a July 2004 news release, the company claimed it would create several thousand jobs in St. Louis to produce a water-powered car that would likely make the need for gasoline obsolete in 100 days. However, the company admits...

A letter Senator Tom Daschle wrote two years ago to a fellow Democratic senator in Missouri is stirring up an abortion dispute in South Dakota's US Senate race. Republican challenger John Thune says the fund-raising letter illustrates a clear difference between the two candidates on abortion. The letter went to Senator Jean Carnahan of Missouri. It said in part, "The US Senate's pro-choice leadership cannot afford to lose an ally like Senator Carnahan." Thune says the letter gives voters a clear understanding of their choice in the Senate election. He says he has always believed it's the government's job to...

Robin Carnahan, daughter of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, is running for Secretary of State in Missouri. This is the state officer who controls voter fraud. Her mother was the beneficiary of such fraud when a St. Louis judge ordered that the polls be kept open until 11 PM during the 2000 election after her father had died in a plane crash. I have just heard that this same judge is Robin's "partner" (and I don't mean business partner). I also saw them listed together as donors to Hillary's leaving-the-White-House-moving-to-New-York gift list, as they gave her two cashmere sweater sets...

The Missouri 3rd Congressional District seat has been held by Richard Gephardt since I was in High School ~25 years ago. Now we have D-Russ Carnahan, son of the late Missouri Governor, and former US Senator, Mel and Jean Carnahan, a sitting state representative, running gainst R-Bill Federer. Bill has run against Gephardt before and lost. Has the Republican party given up on this seat? I see nothing more than the usual campaign signs and a few bumper stickers in the area. The campaign is sending out eMails at the rate of about 1 every 2 weeks by my estimation,...

KANSAS CITY, Kan., March 18 (UPI) -- The family of Kansas Gov. Mel Carnahan has asked for a new trial for punitive damages in the death of Carnahan and his son, it was reported Thursday. Jackson County jurors awarded the family $4 million in damages last January, much less than $100 million it requested after the fatal plane crash, the Kansas City Star reported Thursday. Circuit Judge Charles Atwell reduced the amount manufacturer Parker-Hannifin must pay from $4 million to about $2.4 million. Parker-Hannifin has also filed a motion asking Atwell to set aside the verdicts as unsupported by the...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A jury found an airplane parts manufacturer negligent in the 2000 plane crash that killed Gov. Mel Carnahan and his son, and awarded their family $4 million. The Carnahan family's attorney argued that a pair of vacuum pumps made by Parker Hannifin Corp. failed, causing the plane to crash. Killed were pilot Randy Carnahan, his father and Chris Sifford, a longtime aide to the governor. The jury awarded compensatory damages of $3 million for Mel Carnahan and $1 million for Randy Carnahan. The jury did not award any punitive damages. ``Justice was served today,'' said...

Democratic Activist Charles Greeley of Des Moines, Iowa is a follower of the late Senator Paul Wellstone. He believes the Democrats should nominate Wellstone. "Paul stood for progressivism. He'd be an articulate spokesman for our party, and far better than any of his competition." Greeley is promoting the Wellstone campaign in Iowa. A member of Fmr. Governor, Country Doctor, and all-around great American Howard Dean (D-VT) sees a slight problem with this. "I don't think Americans will elect a dead candidate." said Shelley Hopkins of the Dean Campaign. The words from the front-running campaign of a man who walked on...

ST. LOUIS - The son of the late Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan launched a bid Wednesday to fill the congressional seat being vacated by presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt. State Rep. Russ Carnahan, speaking before supporters in a St. Louis park, called the campaign "an opportunity whose time has come." His mother sat in the crowd, smiling. "I think he can make a great contribution," she said. "He hasn't asked me for advice yet." Gephardt, the former House minority leader, is not seeking re-election in 2004 as he bids for the White House. The 3rd...

Missouri state representative-turned-aspiring congressman Russ Carnahan should have it made. His father, the late Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, cast a huge shadow over state politics for three decades. His mother, Jean Carnahan, most recently was a U.S. Senator. And since age 8, he's been canvassing precincts, stuffing envelopes and building a get-out-the-vote machine. Not so fast. Between now and the August 2004 Democratic primary, Carnahan, 44, must craft a public persona distinct from the man whose shoes he'd like to fill, retiring Rep. and presidential candidate Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.); piece together the same coalition of working-class Catholics and black city...

Just went to the Senate web site, and asked for Missouri's senators. Jean is still listed as a Senator, but when one clicks on the link for her "web site", it is GONE!!yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Senators are assigned to a "Class", either I, II, III, which determines their dates of term of service (and hence their re-election schedule). Mel Carnahan was in Class I - terms of service expire in 2001, 2007, etc. Upon his death, his office was inherited by his wife which triggered the special election this year. Did Jean Carnahan also inherit/maintain this senate class for this Missouri senate seat? All other senators elected this year are in Class II - terms of service expire in 2003, 2009, etc.

Did you see what happened at 2:30 a.m. EST today on MSNBC? (Don’t worry, not many other people did either.) Missouri Democrat Jean Carnahan had already conceded defeat to Republican Sen.-elect Jim Talent, but that wasn’t good enough for the pro-Democrat network. The lamebrained news reader did acknowledge that Carnahan admitted her loss. But we at MSNBC, he pontificated, know better, and the race is still too close to call, he claimed. Did he think that the old dear gave in because she just couldn’t stay awake any longer? Did he think she would pull a Sore Loserman? Note to...

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Tonight on the local news (KMOV), they quoted election officials in St. Louis County as saying they expected turnout tomorrow to be high, near record levels for off year election because of the Senate race. Last off year election the turnout was 57%. This time they are expecting about 65%. They said if the weather is decent, the turnout could reach 70%. They already had something like 15,000 absentee ballots and that didnt count those that came in today. Last election, they only had 11,000 or so. St. Louis county has the largest number of voters in Missouri. A Democrat...

<p>President George W. Bush came to the Family Arena in St. Charles today to stump for Republican Jim Talent in his tight race with Democrat Sen. Jean Carnahan, urging a partisan crowd to send someone to Washington who will help him turn his agenda into law.</p>

<p>Secretary of State Matt Blunt, a Republican, attempted Wednesday to curb any talk that a victory by Jim Talent on Nov. 5 could quickly put the GOP back in control of the U.S. Senate.</p> <p>"It won't be Nov. 6," Blunt said in an interview. "It's not even possible."</p>

<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - For his first public appearance since his father's death last weekend, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Talent campaigned in solid GOP territory Tuesday with another father -former President George Bush, father of President George W. Bush.</p> <p>During a campaign luncheon in Springfield, hundreds of party loyalists heard Bush praise Talent as the man who can "change it all" for the president.</p>

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A plane carrying three U.S. senators bound for a campaign event in Missouri landed in Alabama after pilots reported problems with the landing gear, a Republican official said. Ann Wagner, co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee and the Missouri Republican chairwoman, said late Monday that a plane carrying Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Sens. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., and Rick Santorum, R-Pa., reported problems with its landing gear and landed at Mobile. A police report at Mobile Regional Airport indicated that a Challenger 250 landed safely Monday at 3:28 p.m. CST after reporting its landing...

Q: Please explain your view of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. To what degree does it and the case law that flows from it mandate the separation of church and state? A: Like most Americans, I consider myself a religious person. I was also taught and today strongly believe that in order to protect the freedom of my family members to worship; I must defend the freedom of other families to worship as Episcopalians, Catholics, Jews, as well as people of faiths beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition. In other words, I believe in the need for lines of separation...

WASHINGTON - It was all too similar: A fatal plane crash days before an election in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race, throwing a campaign into chaos and casting sorrow over the national political scene.The accident that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, members of his family and three of his staff on Friday chilled political figures from Missouri, coming as it did almost exactly two years after the death of Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan.Sen. Jean Carnahan, the Missouri Democrat who now finds herself in a tough campaign against Republican Jim Talent to keep the seat she was appointed to...

A dead man and the candidate he beat in controversial circumstances two years ago are again playing a central role in an agonisingly close election that Republicans and Democrats agree holds the key to the Senate. Missouri, the classic "swing state" and home of President Harry Truman, tends to reflect the national centre of political gravity. This year, the seat is one of six that will determine if Republicans control the Senate on Nov 5. If Jim Talent, a smooth lawyer who has represented the state's richest district in the House of Representatives, can oust Jean Carnahan, a 68-year-old grandmother...

Don't expect to wake up on November 6th knowing which political party controls the U.S. Senate. Unless an unexpected tide breaks for one party or the other, control of the Senate may be just as in limbo then as it is now. Consider: Missouri: Jean Carnahan is running neck-and-neck with Republican Jim Talent for the remainder of the term Carnahan's husband won posthumously in 2000. Should Talent win, his seating in the Senate might either be obstructed by the Democrat governor or at the Senate itself, particularly if it's a razor-thin victory that might require a recount or a legal...

Senator Jean Carnahan wagged her finger and glared at her Republican challenger in Missouri. She claimed Jim Talent had just called her patriotism into question at Thursday's debate. Talent replied that he was only questioning her votes against parts of President Bush's agenda. The aggressive move by Carnahan came in the middle of an otherwise cordial forum at Columbia College. Both major party candidates tried to associate themselves with President Bush. Talent has said Carnahan doesn't support Bush's homeland security bill. He's also criticized the incumbent for voting in committee to cut missile defense, although she later voted for it....

Senator Jean Carnahan wagged her finger and glared at her Republican challenger in Missouri. She claimed Jim Talent had just called her patriotism into question at Thursday's debate. Talent replied that he was only questioning her votes against parts of President Bush's agenda. The aggressive move by Carnahan came in the middle of an otherwise cordial forum at Columbia College. Both major party candidates tried to associate themselves with President Bush. Talent has said Carnahan doesn't support Bush's homeland security bill. He's also criticized the incumbent for voting in committee to cut missile defense, although she later voted for it....

<p>This story was published in Editorial on Wednesday, October 23, 2002.</p> <p>MISSOURI voters have a clear choice on Election Day: the relentless moderation of Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., or the staunch conservatism of her GOP opponent, former Rep. Jim Talent. They should choose Mrs. Carnahan because of her stands on the issues, her efforts to bridge the partisan divide and the grit she has demonstrated since stepping into her husband's Senate seat.</p>

ST. LOUIS - In her first political debate, rookie Sen. Jean Carnahan stammered through a couple of answers and offered a couple of replies that had little to do with the questions. But the Democrat survived the televised hour without a major gaffe, probably exceeding some people’s expectations. Republican challenger Jim Talent, who spent eight years in Congress, was comfortable on his feet, and he came off authoritative about Washington issues, as expected. He also avoided embarrassing mistakes during last night’s debate, which was carried to a statewide viewing and listening audience. But then, Talent, the more experienced debater, wasn’t...

From the onset of the debate, it was quite clear who had the upper hand in this race, as Jim Talent shined before the people of Missouri.

Editorial 07/13/01 note: for links to information resources, go to NewsBoom RIGHT-WING GRANOLA A Catalogue of Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes Sam Gibbons was right. Gibbons was a paratrooper who dropped into Normandy in the hours before D-Day in 1944. Figuring, correctly, that he stood a good chance of dying before the day was out, he jumped out of the C-47 Gooney Bird into the blackness of Nazi-occupied France with a can of G.I.-issue Schlitz stuffed into each jump boot. Like most of the paratroopers on June 6, 1944, he missed his drop zone. After almost breaking his leg on landing,...

<p>What was your impression of the Carnahan-Talent debate Monday night?</p> <p>Surveys are unscientific and for entertainment only.</p>

I watched all three debates featuring the senatorial nominees in SD, MO, and OR Monday, as carried by C-SPAN. I can say without hesitation that the GOP candidates far outperformed their Democrat rivals. Thune and Talent were especially polished, sincere, and well-informed. Gordon Smith in OR proved that he may be the "second" Lincoln Chaffee. Smith is clearly a liberal Republican despite the 77 percent rating he sports from one of the "conservative" ratings organizations. Smith was a better debater than Democrat Bill Bradbury, but his views are similar to Bradbury on many fronts. Smith talked about how much he...

<p>Missouri Democrats are suing Secretary of State Matt Blunt, a Republican, saying new "provisional voting" rules could create a replay of the chaos two years ago at St. Louis polling places.</p> <p>On Monday, Cole County Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder heard brief arguments, then delayed the case until Thursday. He rejected a request for a temporary restraining order against Blunt's new rules.</p>

ST. LOUIS -- Republican Jim Talent told Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan on Monday night to stop scaring senior citizens. Carnahan shot back that his Social Security proposal frightens them. In the first debate of their U.S. Senate campaign, the two clashed over health care and retirement security, tax cuts and support for the president's homeland security bill. “I know my opponent has said we are scaring seniors but his plan is scaring seniors because they do not want to risk what they have laid aside in the stock market,'' Carnahan said. She was criticizing a bill that Talent sponsored as...

<p>Sen. Jean Carnahan and former Rep. Jim Talent tangled over Social Security, health care, tax cuts, and missile defense in a civil but sharp exchange Monday night.</p> <p>In their first and only one-on-one televised debate, the two candidates for the U.S. Senate both stressed their experience in public office and portrayed themselves as willing to work across party lines.</p>

In their long-awaited first debate Monday in the battle for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat, Republican Jim Talent showed why he was eager to confront Democrat Jean Carnahan anywhere and often.With his 16 years' experience in Jefferson City and Washington, Talent came off as comfortable and conversational in the televised debate from St. Louis. Carnahan, who has never run for public office before, was somber throughout and, at times, halting.But she became more assertive in the forum's final 30 minutes.That was when the debate, broadcast statewide on public television, turned to issues that Carnahan and Democrats nationwide have emphasized in this...

<p>Missouri's two major-party candidates for U.S. senator -- Democrat Jean Carnahan and Republican Jim Talent -- will meet tonight in their first and only solo televised debate.</p> <p>Carnahan, the incumbent, and Talent, a former congressman, are expected to focus on a variety of issues as they make their case to viewers and potential voters in the general election Nov. 5. The victor could well determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.</p>

Missouri Democrats are mum on whether they would try to delay the seating of Jim Talent in the U.S. Senate if he defeats Sen. Jean Carnahan. Carnahan is subject to immediate replacement because she was appointed to the seat. There is speculation in Washington that Gov. Bob Holden, a Democrat, would hold off certifying Talent's election Nov. 5 because it immediately would shift control of the Senate to Republicans by one seat -- at least until the new Senate is sworn in in January. Holden and Secretary of State Matt Blunt, a Republican, need to sign a certification for submission...

Missouri A-A-R-P Tells Carnahan to Stop Ad Campaign THE MISSOURI CHAPTER OF THE A-A-R-P TELLS JEAN CARNAHAN'S CAMPAIGN TO STOP IT. THE SENIOR CITIZEN'S GROUP IS UPSET THAT THOUSANDS OF MAILERS USING THE A-A-R-P LOGO APPEARED TO ENDORSE CARNAHAN OVER RIVAL JIM TALENT IN THE MISSOURI SENATE RACE. NORMA COLLINS WITH THE A-A-R-P SAYS THE GROUP IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO TAKE NO SIDES IN POLITICS. A-A-R-P HAS SOME 140 THOUSAND MEMBERS IN MISSOURI.  

<p>With the U.S. Senate election just weeks away, the Missouri Ethics Commission announced Friday that it is alleging that Republican candidate Jim Talent may have violated state campaign finance laws after his narrow loss for governor in 2000.</p> <p>The details are contained in a five-count complaint that the commission kept under wraps for months. If the commission sticks with its stance, Talent could face fines of $17,000 or more. Commission officials say they may change their mind.</p>

<p>President George Bush spoke to a friendly crowd at Hammons Student Center backed by (left to right) Rep. Roy Blunt, Sen. Kit Bond and. Senate candidate Jim Talent.</p> <p>In a whirlwind visit to Springfield, President George W. Bush stumped for Senate candidate Jim Talent and addressed a welcoming crowd at Hammons Student Center.</p>

| top news | u.s. | world | business | sports | health | tech | arts | weather | politics | search OCTOBER 18, 13:30 ET Mo. Ethics Commission Clears Talent JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Ethics Commission has cleared Republican Senate candidate Jim Talent of wrongdoing in his dealings with a political fund-raising committee. In a letter Friday to Talent, the commission said it had dismissed a complaint brought by the executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, Mike Kelley. The complaint targeted Missouri Renewal, a political fund-raising committee established in January 2001 with Talent as...

<p>JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Ethics Commission will make public as early as today documents showing what action it took on a complaint filed against U.S. Senate candidate Jim Talent.</p> <p>The decision to open the records came after an impassioned plea from Roy Temple, a strategist for the Missouri Democratic Party who is on leave from his job as an aide to U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo.</p>

In Missouri, Jim Talent has a very good chance of taking the Senate Seat from Jean Carnahan.. Carnahan is an appointed Senator and not an elected Senator, according to Missouri law, her appointment ends as soon as someone is elected to fill the seat. In this case, the election will be finished on Nov. 5 and Talent will be Missouri’s Senator. I expect there will be court challenges in Missouri to prevent Talent from taking the seat …. And I can see this issue at the Missouri Supreme court in short order. I am sure that the Talent campaign is...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, dipping into two Senate races with vulnerable Democratic incumbents, is stumping for the White House's hand-picked GOP candidate in Minnesota and a top Republican target in Missouri.</p> <p>With no official policy events on his schedule, Bush appears Friday at campaign rallies in Springfield, Mo., and Rochester, Minn. In 2000, Bush won Missouri and lost Minnesota -- states that combine for a rich 21 electoral votes.</p>

<p>Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri is falling in the polls, despite a barrage of Democratic TV ads against her Republican challenger for backing personal Social Security investment accounts.</p> <p>Mrs. Carnahan's campaign has been running the ads throughout the state for the past three weeks, charging that her opponent, Jim Talent, wants to privatize the Social Security system. But the latest polls suggest that the ads have not been helping her; the former four-term congressman has surged into the lead by 6.5 percentage points.</p>

October 17, 2002 The Devil in the Data: All Poll Numbers Are Not Created Equal I'm rather glad that MSNBC has hired John Zogby to conduct polls in a number of Senate races, but it's not because Ialways love his numbers. Picking apart his polls can often be more enlightening than the findings themselves. I'm not making a blanket statement about Zogby's polls or anyone else's. But it certainly is true that recent polls by the University of New Hampshire, Lake Snell Perry and Associates, and Zogby International have raised more than a few eyebrows. Let's take a look at...

Bumbling "Sen." Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., is creating an uproar with her comment that she is the "number one target of the White House." In an interview Tuesday on CNN, she also said, "They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me." Well, Jean, apparently they are: Republican candidate Jim Talent is beating you in the polls, and it's easy to see why. Carnahan, you might recall, was never elected to the Senate. Her dead husband was, amidst massive Democrat vote fraud that included polls in St. Louis slums being illegally kept open hours after closing time. Missouri's Democrat...

Missouri Senate: Carnahan Down in Latest Poll South Carolina Governor: Two-point Gap Tennessee Senate: Alexander Holds Comfortable Lead In The MSNBC/Zogby International 10-State Tracking Poll will track key elections in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. Poll results will be released September 21, 2002, October 12, 2002 and November 2, 2002. Seventy percent of the interviews are completed at night, 30% are completed during the day. *Please correctly attribute any information from the following polls to their proper survey source. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.   Missouri...