missouri

Kathleen O’Dell reports on a town hall meeting held by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) with some choice hecklers:
[I]t was the next question from a Rogersville man that drew more applause: “What is the procedure for recalling U.S. senators?”
Someone quickly shouted to scattered laughter, “Where’s your birth certificate?” a reference to some Americans’ doubts about President [...]

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele + conservative radio show = hilarious gaffes. The liberal blog Fired Up! has the audio of Steele rolling along with Springfield, Mo., radio host Vincent David Jericho, who was ranting about the party’s all-but-certain U.S. Senate nominee in 2010, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).

On July 1, two Republican members of Missouri’s state legislature, and a representative of one other member, showed up at meetings called by Orly “queen of the Birthers” Taitz to discuss the pressing issue of President Obama’s citizenship. According to Tony Messenger, Rep. Cynthia Davis and Rep. Ed Emery, Sen. Jim Lembke sent a staffer [...]

Back in January, I reported that Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze (R), whose party had just won control of the legislature, was pushing legislation that would demand proof of President Obama’s citizenship before he’s placed on the ballot in 2012. Today we learn that fifteen members of the Missouri legislature, all Republicans, have signed on [...]

Following up on the news of Sen. Kit Bond’s (R-Mo.) retirement — that’s two Senate seats in one week for which the GOP has lost its preferred candidate. The first was Florida, now wide-open (possibly even leaning Democratic) with former Gov. Jeb Bush out of the race.
Perhaps Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the chairman of the [...]

Bad news for Republicans is trickling out of Missouri, where Kit Bond, the four-term Republican senator, is retiring. What would have been a relatively safe seat in 2010, in a state McCain narrowly carried (with less than 50% of the vote), will now be open.
Bond is one of only two statewide Republican officials, the other [...]

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Sarah Palin Introductory Tour continued through the weekend with stops at a pair of independent-league ballparks in Washington, Pa., a small city 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, and the St. Louis exurb of O’Fallon, Mo. The former rally was essentially a replay of the event in Dayton where Sen. John [...]