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Democrat Robin Carnahan and Republican Roy Blunt remain locked in a tight race to become the next U.S. senator from Missouri. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that Carnahan attracts 46% of the vote while Blunt earns 44%. In September, both candidates were at 46%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. Forty percent (40%) of Missouri voters favor the health care legislation being considered by Congress while 57% are opposed. Those figures include 25% who Strongly Favor the legislation and 47% who are Strongly Opposed. Overall, the Missouri numbers...

Union Violence: An African-American is beaten up at a political rally by thugs shouting racial epithets, and after three months his assailants are charged with the moral equivalent of jaywalking. Why wasn't it a hate crime? The beating of Kenneth Gladney by people wearing the purple shirts of the Service Employees International Union outside a Missouri health care town hall meeting three months ago met all the classic definitions of a hate crime. Time was, the beating of a black man outside a protest rally, and the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators, would be headline news. Gladney was working...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville to discuss health care reform. The charges were filed Tuesday by the St. Louis County counselor’s office, which prosecutes misdemeanor ordinance violations in unincorporated areas. All are to appear in court Jan. 21. The maximum penalty upon conviction would be one year in jail...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville to discuss health care reform. The charges were filed Tuesday by the St. Louis County counselor’s office, which prosecutes misdemeanor ordinance violations in unincorporated areas. All are to appear in court Jan. 21. The maximum penalty upon conviction would be one year in jail...

CHARGES WERE FILED TODAY IN THE KENNETH GLADNEY CASE!! Details coming. A confidential source just told me the news. Kenneth Gladney was beaten and stomped on by SEIU thugs outside the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in August.

Here is video of a new Missouri GOP ad hammering Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan for what they call her "closes ties to ACORN." The video points out links between Carnahan and ACORN, and says Carnahan is "too close for comfort" to ACORN. Carnahan is running for the open 2010 U.S. Senate Seat being vacated by GOP Sen. Kit Bond, who is retiring. GOP Rep. Roy Blunt is expected to be the Republican Nominee. . . . (VIDEO)

As Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan seeks a promotion to the US Senate, she has to expect a few questions about her past dealings with ACORN. After all, the Secretary of State ‘administers all statewide elections for both candidates and issues,’ as well as promulgates rules and guidelines, handles ballots and pollworkers, and generally oversees everything having to do with elections in the state. When a group like ACORN racks up more than a dozen convictions in the state, and submits tens of thousands of questionable or false voter registration forms, you have to expect that the Secretary of...

Democrat Robin Carnahan and Republican Roy Blunt are dead even in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the hotly contested race for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. Both candidates capture 46% of the vote in a new telephone survey of Missouri voters. Two percent (2%) favor some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are not sure which candidate they will vote for. Blunt, a member of Congress since 1997, has held the number two GOP position in the House, serving as minority whip. His son was governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Carnahan, currently Missouri’s secretary of...

Democrat Robin Carnahan and Republican Roy Blunt are dead even in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the hotly contested race for the U.S. Senate in Missouri.

The man expected to become the AFL-CIO's next president said Monday that lawmakers will pay a price if they abandon a government-run option in any health care overhaul. "We need to be a labor movement that stands by our friends, punishes its enemies and challenges those who, well, can't seem to decide which side they're on," said Richard Trumka, currently the AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer. The threats came less than a month after a protester outside an Aug. 6 health care forum meeting organized by Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., was sent to the hospital after a beating inflicted by goons wearing SEIU...

Ken Jacob locked eyes with "Skip" Ohlsen and asked him a simple question. "What's your name?" "Skip," said Ohlsen. Jacob was in no mood to play games. It was early 2005. Just months removed from a 20-year career as an influential Missouri lawmaker, the Democrat from Columbia was now in his new job working for a union in the capital city. He had been to a few meetings with Ohlsen and, like other Democratic operatives, had begun to question the man's credentials. Something just didn't feel right. The former minority leader of the Senate, known for his combative style and...

Tea Party researchers have discovered some interesting news on one of the people arrested for beating Ken Gladney. Elston K. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party. McCowan accused the Mayor of setting fire to his van . . . because that’s what big city mayors do in their spare...

America has been sucker punched. The unifier, the great post-racial, post-American President, has adopted the street tactics of Chicago thug politics. His ACORN/SEIU/Union goons are beating up decent American citizens at town hall meetings. And with the violence comes vilification: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed that protesters are "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare." Union thugs beat up a protester, Randy Arthur, at Florida Democrat Congresswoman Kathy Castor's town hall meeting in Tampa on Thursday. Castor's union thugs also shut the doors to prevent the opposing opinions from being heard. Fifteen hundred people...

Here is video from a rally today outside the SEIU Union Headquarters today in St. Louis, Missouri. The rally was to protest the beating of Black Conservative Kenneth Gladney who was beaten the other night outside a Rep. Russ Carnahan Health Care Town Hall Meeting. Gladney was reportedly beaten by union supporters of Carnahan wearing SEIU t-shirts. This video shows Gladney sitting in a wheelchair while his attorney reads a statement in his behalf. The attorney said Gladney could not speak because he is taking strong pain medication and still suffering from the beating. Gateway Pundit has much more on...

After his town-hall meeting, Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) decried the “assault” on his constituent meetings by right-wing activists. Jamie Allman, a St., Louis talk-show host, attended Carnahan’s press conference the next day and asked Carnahan to explain why the only people arrested for assault at his town-hall meeting were ObamaCare supporters — specifically, union thugs who assaulted opponents of the health-care reform plan. Suddenly, Carnahan got a lot more universal in his accusations: It “got out of control on both sides”? Did anyone from the opposition start cracking heads at that rally?

Channel 4 in St Louis just ran a teaser on TBS saying they will interview the woman arrested at the Carnahan rally tonight at the 5pm telecast.

6 arrested including SEIU members... RAW VIDEO from Missourah blog: A black conservative was attacked by the Carnahan-supporting mob. At least one SEIU member is arrested by St. Louis police in this video:

I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town hall meeting held by a Democrat congressman a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved too: the victim was black - attacked by a man yelling racial slurs. It's every Democrat talking point you've read about in the last day or two, come to life in an ugly fashion. With one twist. The man was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been union thugs. ...

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Missouri and Tampa town halls turn violent, but the violence is coming from one side, which one?...hmmmmm

Here is raw video of a Conservative African-American who said he was attacked at a St. Louis Town Hall Event. Several people were reportedly arrested: "Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started. Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical...

Email from eye witness and attorney confirms that SEIU-logo’d thugs attacked and beat a black man for distributing Gadsen flags following a Town Hall in St. Louis County on Thursday. Race was a factor in the beating.

Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up to attend the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis. They were Locked Out! But... The Carnahah staff was sneaking in SIEU members in the side door marked "handicapped."

Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up to attend the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis. They were Locked Out! But... The Carnahan staff was sneaking in SEIU members in the side door marked "handicapped." Here's the video:

Here is brief video from Democrat Rep. Russ Carnahan's Health Care Town Hall Meeting in the St. Louis area today. It turned into chaos according to Gateway Pundit, as Carnahan supporters were allowed in, but up to 1,000 Tea Party Activists were not allowed inside. When one Carnahan supporter was allowed inside a closed door, conservative activists being kept out were outraged. Check out Gateway Pundit for more details . . . .

August 03, 2009 Russ Carnahan to Hold "Cash for Clunkers" Speech Tomorrow in St. Louis Liberal Russ Carnahan is going to brag about the "cash for clunkers" speech tomorrow in St. Louis. Catherine Favazza reported: Rep. Russ Carnahan is holding a press conference tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4th, at 10:00 a.m. at McMahon Ford in South St. Louis. A source–and the St. Louis Post Dispatch and St. Louis Beacon–say he’s going to brag about “Cash for Clunkers.” If anyone is able to make his clunker speech please send photos or video.

Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh destroying Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan for his comments at a Town Hall Meeting held in St. Louis earlier this week to push Obama's Health Care Plan. Carnahan was jeered by those in attendance for his baldly inaccurate statements. . . . . (Watch Video)

Listen to this political hack as he insults the intelligence of these people! "Hey IDIOT Carahan, these people aren't drones!" Take your LIES elsewhere!"

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...