Gov And DA Play Games While Ferguson Burns
Gov. Jay Nixon and local prosecutor Robert McCulloch are engaged in a war of words that sounds like a shoving match on the school playground.Cloud over Michael Brown inquiry as attorney general arrives...
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#Ferguson: Why Can't Those People SPELL?
I am beginning to think it is a leftist conspiracy. Starting to wonder if tin foil affects the part of conservative brains in charge of grammar and spelling.Counter Protestors in Ferguson MO...
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered the National Guard to withdraw from the...
Gov. Jay Nixon orders National Guard to withdraw from Ferguson so the community can get on with "restoring trust" in its police force. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who Monday sent National Guard troops to...
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Poll finds divide on Obama, Nixon handling of shooting aftermath
A plurality of Americans approve of President Obama's response to Ferguson, according to a new CBS/NYT poll, but the poll also finds that a significant number do not have an opinion on the...
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#MOLeg: Veto override of #HB1307 increases Missouri abortion waiting period...
Late last night, at around 11:30PM CDT, The Missouri Senate successfully overridden the veto of HB1307 by a 23-7 vote. Just a couple of hours earlier, the House successfully overridden the veto by a...
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Five observations about the 'public safety' press conference from Gov. Jay...
As the grand jury in the August 9 shooting death of Mike Brown at the hands of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson nears a decision, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon held a press conference today to discuss...
View ArticleViolence Will Not Be Tolerated.
#ViolenceWillNotBeToleratedpic.twitter.com/apFZN7P9xn— minefield101 (@minefield101) November 12, 2014Mo. governor: 'Violence will not be tolerated.' Who knew Nixon espoused smashing the state for its...
View ArticleHow To Get Away With Murder...in Ferguson
Cross-posted at Attytood:The shorter version of this week's news out of Ferguson is basically this: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. The grand jury investigation of the shooting of teenager Mike Brown,...
View ArticleThe Ferguson Grand Jury is now in the proverbial 'Hot Seat'
Jury duty, let me tell you for those who haven't had the privilege/duty/downright burden -- Jury duty is 'Not a Picnic', not by any noble construing of the word.It kind of feels like the 'whole weight...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: How to save a Senate seat in Missouri
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskillLeading Off:•MO-Gov: Despite Democrats losing control of the Senate, no one challenged Harry Reid for the position of minority leader, though at least half a dozen...
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Ferguson Missouri: How to Fail at Government Without Even Trying
We seem to be on the eve of the Grand Jury decision on whether they are going to indict Officer Wilson in the murder of the Michael Brown. If I were a betting man, I'd say the jury will choose to not...
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Missouri governor declares state of emergency ahead of grand jury decision in...
Just moments ago, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency for Missouri, giving the National Guard full permission to help police the state as residents and observers across the country...
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Gov. Jay Nixon has his Miss South Carolina moment, refuses to say he's in...
Having yesterday declared a state of emergency in Missouri, Gov. Jay Nixon, held a press conference last night on how the state is preparing for an upcoming grand jury decision in the shooting death...
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The Center Cannot Hold: St. Louis County on the Eve of the Darren Wilson Verdict
The meeting starts and everyone around me instinctively stands up and faces towards the front of the room. It takes me a couple seconds to realize they've all angled themselves towards the American...
View ArticleThe real "state of emergency" in Ferguson
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s declaration of a “state of emergency” in Ferguson is bad news in many ways, but I’ve been struggling with finding a way to express my outrage. Then, yesterday, someone did...
View ArticleThe Dixiecrats are still with us.
You know how for so long we have thought that the racist wing of the Democratic Party called the Dixiecrats, that were based in the South were dead and replaced by Republicans? The actions of...
View ArticleFerguson and the Impotence of Gov. Jay Nixon
Only a few hours have passed since Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced that a grand jury had found no probable cause to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael...
View ArticleHow Robert McCulloch indicted himself
Cross-posted at Attytood:Each and every minute felt like an hour. The first bulletin on Monday that the Ferguson grand jury had reached its decision -- and that it would be announced that night -- came...
View Article"You know The Fix is in when ..."
"You know The Fix is in when ..."Prosecutor Manipulates Grand Jury Process to Shield Officerby Marjorie Cohn, Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; huffingtonpost.com -- 11/29/2014You know the fix...
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Art Laffer and Alex Sinquefield take to St. Louis Airwaves to Ask Missouri to...
With Kansas facing some tough economic decisions in the 2015 legislative session, several Republicans have decided to back away from the Kansas model and look for a different way to approach taxation....
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Seattle MLK Day Marchers Block Highway 99 - Police Arrest 19 Protesters
(Seattle MLK Day Marchers - Photo by Mark Taylor-Canfield) On January 19, marchers took to the streets in Seattle to mark the city's 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration. Organizers...
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MO Governor Nixon Ridicules Kansas 360 Mile, $18B Ditch Project
Kansas, like many agricultural states orient itself around crops and farmland not just as a matter of living but as a way to think of ourselves as a state. Individuals who live in the cities in...
View ArticleMissouri Legislators: Not For Sale (But Taking Payments)
While Missouri's divided government - a Democratic governor with a Republican Legislature - can at times be contentious, this years session began with some hope of movement on the issue of Missouri...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Missouri GOP is in for a serious...
Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder may emerge as the primary frontrunner if he runsLeading Off: •MO-Gov: The Republican gubernatorial field has yet to fully take shape, and a new early February survey from the...
View ArticleMy letter to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon
March 5, 2015The Hon. Gov. Jay Nixon Jefferson City, MOSir:The release today of the report of the US Justice Department task force regarding the situation in Ferguson has, I hope, been cause for...
View ArticleCountdown to Death – Will anyone save Cecil Clayton?
Cecil Clayton is missing 1/5 of his brain. He lost it in 1972, when a chunk of wood flew up from a log he was cutting and embedded deep into his skull. To save his life, doctors had to remove 20% of...
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The Daily Kos Great Mentioner investigates two competitive races in the Show...
Likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris KosterPotential candidates are constantly getting "mentioned" for higher office, but who's doing all that work? Why, the Great Mentioner, of course. In...
View ArticleMissouri Activists Fill the Capital to Protest ALEC Right to Work Legislation
Even more friends here in the #moleg to fight against so called #RightToWork bill. pic.twitter.com/mCoMHayjNV— Paul LeVota (@paullevota) May 11, 2015Missouri activists today filled the rotunda in...
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Aetna gets huge fine in Missouri for not enough autism coverage and too much...
Jay Nixon announces a mixed bag settlement with Aetna First, the good news. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced a $4.5 million settlement with Aetna Insurance for not covering the diagnosis and...
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Gov. Jay Nixon Commits to Support LGBT Residents in Missouri
There is rarely a sharper contrast. This morning, Sam Brownback (R-KS) committed to a policy which provided for discriminatory standards to be held by organizations against those who are LGBT. This...
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08.09.2014: The day that changed #Ferguson forever
(Cross-posted from JGibsonBlog) One year ago, on August 9th, 2014, at 12:03PM CDT in Ferguson, Missouri at Canfield Green Apartments, the events of what happened that afternoon changed the fate of the...
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After 22 years of a life sentence for marijuana, a Missouri man is finally...
Pack your bags, Jeff—you are finally headed home. Jeff Mizanskey was sentenced to life in prison after he was charged with possession of 35 grams of marijuana in 1994. It was his third charge and even...
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Missouri (R)s Use Override Session to Allow Companies to Act as Private...
The Missouri Legislature, which exists as a super-majority Republican held body in both the senate and the house, closed out their veto session with a resounding rebuke of governor Jay Nixon. Using...
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St. Louis workers won't get a raise after judge strikes down minimum wage...
St. Louis workers have been fighting for better, but the state's Republican legislature is standing in their way. The Missouri minimum wage is $7.65 an hour. And there it stays for the whole state,...
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November Endorsements for Hillary Clinton. SEVEN and counting. UPDATE: Make...
So its November, almost halfway through and Hillary Rodham Clinton has picked up 7 endorsements this month. Which is on pace to match the 14 she received in October.Too many to merit their own...
View ArticleMissouri (D)s Come Out Fighting: Advocate Agenda on Non-Discrimination,...
Midwest and red state Democrats have fallen into a see-saw of political advocacy when facing a Republican super majority; complain about the negative policies about Republicans but fail to push forward...
View ArticleMissouri Representative: Voter Disenfranchisement is "Unintended Consequence"...
Missouri Republican Bill Kidd, R-Independence, is no stranger to controversy. When sexual harassment charges swirled around the statehouse, Representative Kidd had a bold proposal: a dress code to put...
View ArticleMO Governor Jay Nixon Lays Out His Last Agenda in State of the State
To say Governor Jay Nixon’s second term as governor was a bit rocky would be putting it mildly. Once thought to be a front runner for a potential pick as Vice President on a Democratic ticket, Governor...
View ArticleMore Dems Join in Calling Attention to the Socialism Issue
Yesterday, not long after Claire McCaskill stood strong and called attention to some of the difficulties in electing a self-avowed socialist, many were quick to toss accusations for “red-baiting.”Joe...
View ArticleState of Missouri Open Thread Diary: Let's Talk Missouri!
Missouri has numerous pieces of legislation going, from voter rights restrictions to abortion and birth control bills.. combined with the efforts of the governor in the State of the State...
View ArticleLIVE: Missouri Senate Democrats Are In the Middle of a Multi-Day Filibuster...
Senator Bob Onder (R-Lake St. Louis), the legislator who proposed SJR39, a constitutional amendment to codify the right to discriminate, had expected a strong debate on the senate floor. He may not...
View ArticleMissouri state House votes to cut University of Missouri's funding
The University of Missouri has had a tumultuous year. It is still reeling from the tensions and biases, contained on most college campuses, that have risen up over the past couple of years of protest....
View ArticleCop secrecy and paranoia should never mix
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is catching a lot of flak for signing a law that blocks the release of footage from police dash cameras and body cameras to the general public. Critics of the governor’s...
View ArticleTop Missouri public defender's staff is so overburdened, he's assigning a...
Missouri’s head public defender is making a loud statement. Citing Governor Jay Nixon’s vetoing of a Missouri Senate Bill back in 2011 which would have provided funding to the already “overburdened...
View ArticleMissouri Republicans Go On The Attack Against Voting Rights, Voters Get Final...
Lin Manuel Miranda, writing for the broadway hit Hamilton declared: “Raise a glass to freedomSomething they can never take away,” Missouri Republicans, however, would beg to differ. Today in Jefferson...
View ArticleIn Louisiana, 18 Grams of Pot Can Get You Put Away for 18 Years
The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the ghastly sentencing of Gary Howard to 18 years in a Louisiana state penitentiary, all because he was found in possession of a mere 18 grams of...
View ArticleMorning Digest: New York lawmakers launch impeachment investigation into...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Matt Booker, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: California nominates first Filipino American to become its...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Edwin Edwards is gone, but his legacy in Louisiana politics...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Biden won plenty of Nevada legislative seats, but not enough...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
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