Republicans Have Ruled Mo. Legislature for 10 Years. What's Their Legacy?
The start of the 2013 legislative session will mark a decade of Republican leadership in the Missouri Legislature.It was in January 2003 that Republicans took complete control of both chambers. Since...
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View ArticleEd Martin On Failed Campaigns, Fundraising And The Future Of The Mo. GOP
In a narrow victory on Saturday, Ed Martin edged out incumbent David Cole to become the new Missouri GOP Chairman.Many speculate David Cole was ousted because of the GOP's poor performance in statewide...
View ArticleSchoeller Chosen As Executive Director Of Mo. GOP
A former southwest Missouri lawmaker has been chosen as executive director of the Missouri Republican Party.Former state Rep. Shane Schoeller, of Willard, was selected Thursday to oversee the daily...
View ArticleGOP Supermajority In Missouri House Grows Slightly As Vacant Seats Filled...
The Republican supermajority in the Missouri House inched up this week with the election of Republican Mike Moon of Lawrence County to the vacant House District 157 seat from southwestern Missouri....
View ArticleDespite Condemning The Candidate, The NRSC Funneled Money To Akin
Updated at 2:02 with McCaskill's finances.In spite of repeated assurances that they wouldn't support Congressman Todd Akin's senate bid after his damning comments regarding "legitimate rape," the...
View ArticleMo. Congressional Vacancy Avoids Partisan Pitfalls
There will be no repeat of the big-dollar, negative primary that plagued Missouri's Republican Senate contest when GOP leaders meet next year to select a replacement candidate for retiring...
View ArticleMissouri Republicans Predict Victory As Long As Focus Is Solely On Democrats
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – From U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt on down, Missouri Republicans at the party’s annual Lincoln Days festivities are full of confidence about their chances at the polls this fall and in...
View ArticleMissouri Republicans See 'Right To Farm' Ballot Proposal As Aid To GOP Turnout
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Missouri Republican Party has endorsed the proposed“Right To Farm” constitutional amendment set for the November ballot.The official support is aimed, in part, at promoting GOP...
View ArticleRand Paul Says GOP Future Hinges On Attracting Folks With Tattoos, And Without
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Potential 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul scanned the packed ballroom of fellow Republicans, most of them older and white, and declared Saturday that their party’s makeup needs...
View ArticleMissouri GOP Chairman Martin To Take Over Reins Of Eagle Forum
Just weeks before a divisive Missouri GOP fight, state Republican Party chairman Ed Martin has announced he will not seek re-election. Instead he plans to take over as the new president of Phyllis...
View ArticleMissouri GOP Chairman Reminisces As He Heads To The Eagle Forum
Ed Martin may be leaving his position as Missouri Republican Party chairman, but he’s still toeing the party line. Martin is now the president of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, a conservative interest...
View ArticleMissouri Republicans to hold presidential straw poll during Lincoln Days
Missouri Republican activists will signal their first 2016 presidential preferences by participating in a straw poll this weekend during the party’s annual Lincoln Days festivities.This year, the...
View ArticleMissouri Republicans take aim at Kander, Obama
(Updated 10:30 p.m. Saturday)Kansas City - President Barack Obama has Democratic company – just-announced U.S. Senate hopeful Jason Kander – as Missouri Republicans’ favorite verbal punching bag.That...
View ArticleSchweich donor makes key change in claim that state GOP chairman made...
Prominent Republican donor David Humphreys has revised his sworn affidavit that initially accused Missouri GOP chairman John Hancock of making an anti-Semitic remark about state Auditor Tom Schweich,...
View ArticleWhy did Tom Schweich kill himself? Police say they can't answer that
(Updated at 10:45 p.m. to reflect that confirmation of the suicide occurred on Tuesday, not Wednesday.)Clayton police say they may never know why Tom Schweich killed himself in February.The...
View ArticleMissouri political parties retool for 2016 as they seek to recover from...
Embattled and accused of being irrelevant, Missouri’s two major political parties are beefing up their operations nonetheless in preparation for next year’s high-stakes elections.That’s particularly...
View ArticleMo. Gov. Nixon Faces GOP Legislative Supermajority
Missouri Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon spent his first term compromising with and sometimes challenging the Republican-led Legislature. But now Nixon faces supermajorities in both the House and Senate with...
View ArticleDespite Condemning The Candidate, The NRSC Funneled Money To Akin
Updated at 2:02 with McCaskill's finances.In spite of repeated assurances that they wouldn't support Congressman Todd Akin's senate bid after his damning comments regarding "legitimate rape," the...
View ArticleMo. Congressional Vacancy Avoids Partisan Pitfalls
There will be no repeat of the big-dollar, negative primary that plagued Missouri's Republican Senate contest when GOP leaders meet next year to select a replacement candidate for retiring...
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