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Senator Claire McCaskill (D): veteran town hall forums on June 1st and 2nd

31 Monday May 2010

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Senator Claire McCaskill (D) will be holding six town hall forums in Missouri in Missouri this week. The press release:

McCaskill Holds Veterans Town Hall Forums

May 27, 2010

On June 1st and 2nd, Senator Claire McCaskill is hosting six veterans town hall forums across the state to hear directly from Missourians about what Washington can do to ensure our veterans receive the care and treatment they deserve.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

St. Louis County

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 3944

10815 Midland Boulevard

St. Louis, MO

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM

Franklin County

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2482

1087 N. Service Road

St. Clair, MO

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Springfield

American Legion Post 69

149 Memorial Plaza

Springfield, MO

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Smithville

American Legion Post 58

2607 E. 92 Hwy

Smithville, Missouri

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

St. Joseph

Pony Express Post 359

4826 Frederick Ave

St. Joseph, MO

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Columbia

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 280

1509 Ashley Road

Columbia, MO 65201

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Constituents are highly encouraged to register for the events so our office can anticipate the number of people to expect. Depending on the turn-out, there may be more people wishing to attend the event than there is capacity. Seating will be first-come, first-serve.

Individuals with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services to participate in this event should contact Jo Middleton at 314-367-1364 no later than May 28.

For additional information, please contact one of McCaskill’s five Missouri offices.

This will definitely be more civilized than the town halls of last August.

Where have we seen that one before?

30 Sunday May 2010

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Spotted in Jackson County, Missouri:

If it’s all the McSame to you…

It’s definitely a good Cass County Democrat.

Jo Ann Emerson (r): wedge issues trump everything for republicans

28 Friday May 2010

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8th Congressional District, DADT, Jo Ann Emerson, missouri, Tommy Sowers

Hat tip to our good friends at Fired Up.

Wedge issues trump everything for republicans.

The White House issued the following statement on yesterday’s votes in Congress in the process of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release May 27, 2010

Statement by the President on Votes to Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

I have long advocated that we repeal ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’, and I am pleased that both the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee took important bipartisan steps toward repeal tonight.  Key to successful repeal will be the ongoing Defense Department review, and as such I am grateful that the amendments offered by Representative Patrick Murphy and Senators Joseph Lieberman and Carl Levin that passed today will ensure that the Department of Defense can complete that comprehensive review that will allow our military and their families the opportunity to inform and shape the implementation process.  Our military is made up of the best and bravest men and women in our nation, and my greatest honor is leading them as Commander-in-Chief. This legislation will help make our Armed Forces even stronger and more inclusive by allowing gay and lesbian soldiers to serve honestly and with integrity.

Incumbent Representative Jo Ann Emereson (r), facing one of the most serious and credible campaign challenges in her insider Washington congressional career, took time to “diss” challenger Tommy Sowers’ (D) military career – right before Memorial Day. All because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:

8th District candidates split on military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy

Friday, May 28, 2010

By Rudi Keller Southeast Missourian

Democratic congressional contender Tommy Sowers, a former Army officer, on Thursday endorsed plans to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, however, said she opposes repeal and opposes allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces….

….In addition, Emerson said her opposition is based on comments from field commanders “who have said that in very difficult situations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in combat jobs, that it is beneficial to have knowledge of that because there can be distractions. Since Sowers has never commanded anybody, he might have a different perspective….”

[emphasis added]

A video on Tommy Sowers’ service – from his campaign:

Now, Jo Ann Emerson’s remark doesn’t appear to be very accurate, does it?

As for wedge issues – in 1993 I asked my father, he of twenty-two years of service, about gays in the military. He told me (paraphrased), “There always have been, there always will be. Nobody cares as long as everyone does their job.”

Five Reasons Clean Energy Trumps Tea Party Slogans

28 Friday May 2010

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Sometimes I think America is the proverbial child-star-gone-bad of nations: we have a crippling addiction, but we still won't go to rehab.

We are hooked on burning dirty fossil fuels like cavemen, and no matter how many times we hit rock bottom — deadly coal mining accidents, the uncontrolled oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and American soldiers risking their lives overseas — we won't embrace the safer, smarter, cleaner path of renewable energy.

Change shouldn't be this hard.

That is the message behind a new ad campaign launched by NRDC's Action Fund this week. The ad urges senators from both sides of the aisle to put America back in control of our energy future.

Americans want change: a recent poll found that seven in ten Americans think clean energy legislation must be fast-tracked in the wake of the catastrophic Gulf oil spill.

Yet our elected officials haven't delivered the clean energy that voters want. Too many lawmakers fear that if they vote for a clean energy future, they will fall prey to populist mood swings come November. But they are mistaken and here is why:

1. Support for clean energy and climate action is not a flash in the pan. President Obama made clean energy one of the three planks of his platform. His energy policies have been vetted, reviewed and fleshed out through the longest presidential campaign in history and into his administration.

And all the while, clean energy has remained popular with American voters. So much so that Tea Party candidates now talk about it themselves. Most of their claims are bogus, but it is revealing that they haven't left clean energy on the cutting room floor.

2. Tea Party candidates are like the streaker at a football game. They get a lot of attention for their bold, rebellious positions, but after you get a closer look, you want to turn your head away. Their catchphrases simply don't hold up to scrutiny, never mind a 24-hour news cycle.

Rand Paul sounded good in his 30-second campaign spots, for instance, but just days after he won the primary, he started saying business owners should be allowed to kick people of color out of their establishments. After seeing Paul on The Rachel Maddow Show or Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric, viewers start to realize that Tea Party slogans don't always make for sound governing policy.

3. The Tea Party is today's rebranding of conservative Republican voters. It baffles me that people talk about the Tea Party as if it were something new, when in fact it is just the latest packaging of the radical right.
We have seen this before and we know how it ends: people who identify with the radical group of the day are people who already vote and who will continue to vote for the most conservative candidate. This is not a new batch of voters up for grabs, and therefore, there is no point in pandering to them.

4. Angry voters may scream the loudest, but that doesn't make them powerful. It is human nature to pay attention to the loudest person in the room, but that doesn't mean you have to like them. The official Tea Party page on Facebook has only 200,000 fans. The “Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck” Facebook page has 280,453 fans.

Right now, every politico is trying to figure out how to win in November, and some are getting distracted by the noise of the radical right. The truth is that these people have been angry for a long time and they will be angry long after lawmakers leave Congress. It is how they live their lives. And while they have extra visibility right now, it looks like most elections will be decided on issues particular to each state, not Tea Party anger.

5. People will vote for lawmakers who create jobs, growth and security. In the end, winning elections and governing the nation is about making people's lives better. Passing clean energy and climate legislation will do that. It could generate nearly 2 million jobs, put America at the forefront of the global clean energy marketplace, strengthen national security and reduce dangerous pollution.

Now is not the time to be bullied. It is the time for lawmakers to stand up and put America on a path to a cleaner, better future. This kind of change isn't hard at all.

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Hey, Graduates. It's All About YOU.

28 Friday May 2010

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commencement advice, Looking out for No. 1, service to society?

I attended the high school graduation ceremony at my step-granddaughter’s school last night and was struck by the shallowness of the message they received there.

The speeches could be summed up with the Army slogan, “Be All You Can Be.”  Well, that’s very nice, but I can’t be the only one who misses the inspiring stuff like “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.”

When I graduated in 1957, the message was laid on pretty thick that we were damned lucky to be living in a rich and free country.  (That could have been some overkill because of the brewing Cold War events.)  But the fact that we were expected to give back to society and make the world a better place than we found it was part of the air we breathed.  At church, club meetings, even high school sororities and fraternities all taught us that “To whom much is given, much is expected.”

While I was in college, John Kennedy was elected and got the Peace Corps organized.  It was the most natural thing in the world to want to sign up.  Many people who couldn’t make the cut were incredibly disappointed.

No need to review the breakdown of the sense of community and belongingness that held us together and looking out for one another back then.

And I know we can’t blame today’s young people for being the product of an age of obsessive individualism.  Neil Postman summed up our present state of affairs in “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in an Age of Show Business.”

I just think it’s sad that young people aren’t challenged to think beyond their own goals, plans and happiness any more.

Education Jobs Fund bill could save over 7000 teacher jobs in Missouri

28 Friday May 2010

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education, Education Jobs Fund, missouri, stimulus

We received the following press release from the U.S. House Labor and Education Committee:

White House Releases State-by-State Estimates of Jobs Funded Through the Education Jobs Bill

Chairman Miller Urges Congress to Act Quickly to Prevent Students from Losing a Year of Learning

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the White House released state-by-state estimates of the number of jobs that will be saved or created through the $23 billion Education Jobs Fund, that is included as emergency spending in the FY2010 Supplemental Appropriations Bill. The $23 billion emergency investment will help fund an estimated 300,000 education jobs across the country, including teachers, librarians, principals, guidance counselors, school cafeteria workers, and janitors, among others.

U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee and a lead advocate in Congress for education jobs, released the following statement.

“The financial industry collapse has trickled down to local communities in the form of decreased revenues, lost property taxes

and, ultimately, harmful budget cuts to school districts across the country. Without immediate action, our students and teachers stand to suffer the consequences of a system breakdown in which they played no part. If we balk now and let our students lose a year of learning in our schools because of the of financial scandals, it will be a scandal on the Congress.”

“These budget cuts would punish teachers, devastate communities and set back the significant progress students have made since the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Keeping teachers in classrooms and educators in schools is part of a larger strategy of getting Americans back to work. By investing this emergency money to save jobs, we prevent further turmoil by keeping unemployment and COBRA costs from spiraling out of control and creating more burden on local communities….”

The estimate [pdf] for Missouri:

Estimates of Jobs Funded Under

Teacher Jobs Bill*

All Funding Directed to K – 12

Council of Economic Advisers

May 2010

Missouri 7,194

Total 313,471

Sources: State – level funding estimates from Department of Education; compensation estimates based on National Center for Education Statistics data.

*These estimates should be viewed as provisional and subject to margins of error.

And this definitely has local impact. From the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal:

3/2/2010 12:47:00 PM

School officials cut budget now to lessen later pain

Jack Miles

Editor

Warrensburg – Teacher cutbacks and program reductions face students returning in the 2010-11 school year and cuts could worsen, district

administrators reported Monday.

The board-approved plan to slash spending by more than $1.5 million affects every district school….

If we don’t invest in the future we’re doomed.

The Missouri Court Plan: opposition right wingnuttia's epic fail

27 Thursday May 2010

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Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts, a group which supports the current status of the “Missouri Court Plan”, a non-partisan procedure for selecting judges in Missouri, has issued an analysis of the signatures collected by the opponents of the court plan, “ShowMe Better Courts”:

BREAKING: Missourians apparently reject proposal to inject partisanship and politics into Missouri courts

Analysis predicts ShowMe Better Courts failed to collect sufficient signatures in at least six of nine Congressional districts

Jefferson City, MO – Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund today announced that according to an analysis of signatures submitted to the Secretary of State by ShowMe Better Courts, a group proposing a constitutional amendment to dismantle Missouri’s Non-Partisan Court plan, it appears that insufficient signatures were collected to qualify the amendment and send it to the voters.  The review predicts that ShowMe Better Courts fell short of the signature requirement in at least six of nine Congressional Districts.

“Missourians were presented a clear choice between preserving Missouri’s Non-Partisan Court Plan, a model for the nation, or scrapping it in favor of judicial campaigns full of partisanship, politics and negative campaigning.  It appears that Missourians have rejected this proposal to inject politics and partisanship into Missouri’s courtrooms by refusing to even provide sufficient signatures to put this bad idea on the ballot,” said Ken Morley, an advisor to Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund.

In order to qualify a proposed constitutional amendment for the ballot, proponents must submit signatures equaling 8% of the total number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election in at least six of the nine Congressional Districts in Missouri.  The review revealed that despite spending more than $1.5 million on signature collection efforts, ShowMe Better Courts failed to collect sufficient signatures in the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Congressional Districts.   An analysis of signatures can be found at http://mofaircourts.com/analys…  A copy of all signatures submitted by ShowMe Better Courts was obtained from the Secretary of State’s office through a Sunshine request, and is also available for review at http://mofaircourts.com/petiti…

Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund mounted an unprecedented voter education campaign to warn Missourians about this dangerous proposal, including grassroots education activities, online communications, and educational radio advertising.

“Amendment proponents spent an unprecedented amount on signature collection.  To fail to collect sufficient signatures after spending over $1.5 million demonstrates clearly that once Missourians understood the risks presented by this proposal to dismantle Missouri’s Non-Partisan Court Plan, they rejected it out of hand,” said Morley.

Despite claims by ShowMe Better Courts that approximately 250,000 signatures were submitted, a full count of all petitions reveals that less than 200,000 signatures were actually submitted to the Secretary of State.

In two words, epic fail. One point five million dollars. Savor that for a moment.

Our previous coverage:

The Missouri Plan: In Plain English (October 31, 2007)

The irony impaired opponent of the “Missouri Court Plan” (January 31, 2008)

Attack on the Non-Partisan Court Plan (March 19, 2008)

The Missouri Court Plan (May 11, 2009)

The irony impaired opponent of the “Missouri Court Plan” – part 2 (May 13, 2009)

Joan Bray Anoints a Successor

27 Thursday May 2010

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For her own seat, at least.

I am endorsing Barbara Fraser to be the next state senator in the 24th District. I currently hold this seat but am leaving at the end of the year because of term limits. I believe Barbara should succeed me in the Missouri Senate.

Barbara, a teacher for more than 22 years, has spent over 20 years serving our communities as a school board member, state representative, and currently as a member and chair of the St. Louis County Council.

Democratic values are constantly under fire in the Capitol from the Republican majority. We need like-minded activists such as Barbara who will work hard and long with us to defeat their destructive agenda. We need Barbara’s energy, experience and expertise in the Legislature. She’ll be ready to work the minute she wins.

Barbara puts people first. She will bring her energy, passion and thoughtful approach to creating jobs and economic progress; investing wisely in education; increasing access to health care; protecting the environment; promoting alternative transportation; and ensuring needed government services are provided in an effective and cost efficient manner. Barbara is a staunch supporter of equal rights for all.

Barbara faces a hotly contested primary in the 24th district (mid-St. Louis County). I am convinced she is the best candidate.

Term limits are forcing two progressive Democrats to leave the Missouri Senate. Barbara’s victory will maintain one of those seats. As a strong progressive woman she will make her voice heard on behalf of our community.

Former state rep and candidate for lt. governor Sam Page is also running for the 24th Senate District, as is Helen Steele Burton.

…Adding that just because Sen. Bray “anoints” a successor doesn’t necessarily make Fraser the prohibitive favorite for the nomination. Sam Page leads by far in fundraising, and has quite a few notable endorsements himself.

"Um. … Well, I … uh"

26 Wednesday May 2010

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When I spoke Monday to Robin Acree of Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) as she was driving back to Mexico, MO, she sounded drunk. On power. She was high from attending the annual shareholders’ meeting of UnitedHealth in Overland Park, KS, a suburb of Kansas City and seeing its multimillionaire CEO stuttering as he came under fire from progressive activists in the room. She said this was just the latest action of its kind, following on the heels of similar face-offs at shareholders’ meetings of Signa and Wellpoint.

Five members of HCAN and Main Street Alliance took the floor and called CEO Stephen Hemsley on the carpet. GRO member Ann Johnson has been unemployed for a year and a half and thus without health insurance. She was after Hemsley for sending UnitedHealth employees to town halls and Tea Party events last summer as part of an effort to kill health care reform. He tried to weasel out of that one by contending that the employees were not paid to go. Note to Mr. Hemsley: When you pay people’s salary and give them time off work to attend political events, you look foolish pretending that it’s a coincidence when they show up in goodly numbers. At least have the grace to blush for that song and dance.

After Johnson softened Hemsley up, other folks pummeled him. The CEO found himself stammering when one of them wanted to know how, since UH spends only 60 cents out of every dollar it takes in on health care, how he planned to change the company’s practices so that it would be spending 80 cents on the dollar as the law will require. What, no plans? No plans at all?

And by the time the 80 percent medical loss ratio requirement kicks in, the company will no longer be allowed to use rescissions to fatten the bottom line. An activist challenged him for using them at all and for announcing that the company has no intention of calling an early halt to the practice of canceling people’s policies when they get sick by dredging up some “pre-existing condition.” He couldn’t exactly respond with “But, but. Look at all the hundreds of millions of bucks we made by the unnecessary suffering and death of customers who depended on us.” Nah. Not advisable.

While he was reeling from that question, someone else asked if he could explain why Warren Buffett had recently divested himself of $102 million in UnitedHealth stock. Well. What’s a guy to say? “Once we are no longer allowed to throw unprofitable customers on the trash heap, our obscene profits will drop. Actually, Mr. Buffett took the wisest course by getting out now.” Better to stay silent.

A representative of Main Street Alliance, a coalition of small business owners, pointed out that small business has been doing all the job creating these last few years, and yet such businesses are facing 30-40 percent hikes in their health insurance premiums. This recession would be easing up a lot faster if the health insurance industry weren’t hobbling the engines of economic growth. It’s not easy for the company honcho to respond to the implication that UnitedHealth is about a half step behind Goldman Sachs and Bank of America as far as damaging this nation’s financial health.

The pro-health reform visitors also spoke in favor of two proposals that were being considered to put before all the shareholders. In order to get them on the ballot, 3 percent of those present had to vote in favor. The proposal that shareholders have the ability to vote on the pay of executives passed solidly with 45.9 percent of the shareholders in attendance. What do you think? If that one passes on the balloting, will Hemsley still be making about $9,000 an hour?

The other proposal was that the company be required to disclose all its lobbying expenditures, including money to third parties like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AHIP. That one got only 7 percent approval, but that’s still enough to get it on the ballot.

So Robin was inebriated from watching her allies beard the lion in his den, making Hemsley look foolish in front of the people interested enough in that corporation to attend its annual meeting–people who, in fact, may wonder whether he deserves that princely salary.

Hey, Robin. Cheers.

Courtney Cole (D) in the 121st Legislative District: job creation is job one

26 Wednesday May 2010

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Courtney Cole, the Democratic Party candidate in the 121st Legislative District, issued a press release on job creation yesterday:

Courtney Cole Calls for Special Session on Jobs Bill and Tax Credits

Urges Legislature to Pass Bi-Partisan Jobs Bill, Support the Ford Claycomo plant and quit playing politics with tax dollars

Warrensburg, MO — Democratic candidate for 121st District State Representative Courtney Cole is calling on the legislature to remove political agendas and agree to a special session to focus on passing a badly needed jobs bill to put Missourians back to work.

Cole’s request is after Governor Jay Nixon announced that he would be open to a special session if the legislature would guarantee it would be productive.

“Missouri has a 9.5 percent unemployment rate and small businesses are closing their doors every day. We cannot afford to lose more jobs.That is why today, I’m joining the bi-partisan call for the legislature to hold a special session focusing on a serious jobs bill that puts Missourians back to work and food on the table,” said Cole.

Cole is calling for the legislature to support incentives to keep the Ford Claycomo plant here in Missouri, incentives for manufacturing and small business growth in rural areas, and a serious review of the recent findings in an audit completed by State Auditor Susan Montee regarding tax handouts.

The audit, released in April, found that the legislature underestimated tax credit giveaways by over $1 billion dollars.

“The legislature must pass a plan to bring in long-term, good paying manufacturing, agricultural and small business jobs for Missouri families throughout the state,” said Cole. “We must remove politics out of who gets tax credits and allow Economic Development Director David Kerr to focus the necessary resources on attracting jobs. The partisan political games in Jefferson City have wasted millions of our hard earned tax dollars and kept too many people out of work. It’s time for it to end.”

And then there was this interpretation:

Mrs. Courtney Cole (D-Warrensburg)

May 25, 1:06 PM

Kansas City Religion & Politics Examiner Steven Fines

….Cole, who has increasingly close ties to the Missouri democratic establishment, is using Nixon’s Kansas City jobs speech to further the bond between her and the democratic minority. The Missouri Democratic Party is desperately trying to pick up seats in the Missouri House of Representatives after a dismal 2008.

However, in Cole’s August 3, 2009 candidacy announcement, she immediately highlighted job creation….

….Cole signaled early on that job creation is her number one priority.

“…Cole, who has increasingly close ties to the Missouri democratic establishment…”

Uh, Courtny Cole filed as the only Democratic Party candidate in the 121st Legislative District. She is an elected member of the Missouri State Democratic Committee. Now, would you mind telling us, good correspondent of the Kansas City Religion & Politics Examiner, how “increasingly close” worked into your story? Just asking.

“…The Missouri Democratic Party is desperately trying to pick up seats in the Missouri House of Representatives after a dismal 2008…”

Uh, if the Democratic Party picked up seats in the Missouri House in the 2008 election you’d think that it was the republican party that had a “dismal” year in 2008. You’d think.

And besides, Representative Denny Hoskins (r – noun, verb, CPA) really hasn’t had a very good 2010.  

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