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Same planet, different armories

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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General Assembly, guns, Jeremy LaFaver, Justin Hill, missouri, social media, Twitter

In alarming ruling, Missouri’s gun-friendly Constitution now allows felons to possess weapons

By YAEL T. ABOUHALKAH

The Kansas City Star 02/27/2015 7:31 PM 02/27/2015 7:45 PM

The gun-loving Missouri General Assembly went overboard in 2014, asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment that said “the right to keep and bear arms is an unalienable right” in the state.

Many law enforcement officials were horrified, saying this could open the way for felons to possess guns. But voters approved the measure.

Now look what happened Friday.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker lashed out after a circuit judge in St. Louis ruled that the constitutional amendment can’t prohibit a felon from possessing a gun.

[….]

If your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail.

A discussion on guns via Twitter between Representative Jeremy LaFaver (D) and Representative Justin Hill (r):

Jeremy LaFaver ‏@jeremylafaver

If DHS shuts down, NBD. Felons can now carry guns in Missouri, so we should be okay. 8:32 PM – 27 Feb 2015

Rep. Justin Hill ‏@HillForMissouri

@jeremylafaver Felons have guns anyway. 10:58 PM – 27 Feb 2015

Let’s give them away for free, just to be sure.

Jeremy LaFaver ‏@jeremylafaver

@HillForMissouri And now they can have them legally. I feel safer. I’m sure suburban moms do to. #2016 9:46 AM – 28 Feb 2015

Rep. Justin Hill ‏@HillForMissouri

@jeremylafaver Guns don’t kill, people do. Don’t feel as safe, learn to protect yourself. Man has had to do it since the beginning of time. 9:50 AM – 28 Feb 2015

It’s a rare privilege to live in a hunter/gatherer society with no government services.

Jeremy LaFaver ‏@jeremylafaver

@HillForMissouri Ok… 10:19 AM – 28 Feb 2015

Or a libertarian paradise. Like Somalia.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Were you there?

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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4th Congressional District, Congress, funding, Homeland Security, Jim White, missouri, Vicky Hartzler, vote

This morning:

Jim White ‏@JW_for_Congress

Time for a change. This congress is not working. Government should govern. 7:25 AM – 28 Feb 2015

You got that right.

Last night the U.S. House of Representatives settled on a voting on a measure to continue funding Homeland Security for one more week. You read that right. One more week.

[….]

One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

of the

United States of America


AT THE FIRST SESSION

[….]

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS.

   The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 (Public Law 113-164; 128 Stat. 1867) is amended by striking the date specified in section 106(3) and inserting `March 6, 2015′.

[….]

[emphasis in original

One week. They get to play this game next week, too. The vote:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 106

[….]

     H R 33      2/3 RECORDED VOTE      27-Feb-2015      9:59 PM

     QUESTION:  On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment

—- AYES    357 —

Clay

Cleaver

Graves (MO)

Luetkemeyer

Smith (MO)

Wagner

—- NOES    60 —

—- NOT VOTING    15 —

Hartzler

Long

[emphasis added]

Not Voting? Why?

The empire strikes back

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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If you’re interested, Missouri GOP Chair John Hancock is now issuing the expected and inevitable statements denying Tom Schweich’s posthumous accusations that he spearheaded an anti-Semitic whisper campaign in order to derail Schweich’s gubernatorial candidacy in favor of the Rex Sinquefield-blessed Catherine Hanaway. Not a surprising move, although his terminology in an email sent to folks identified as “party-leaders” is interesting:

Many of you on this committee are aware of the issue, as it came up in several of our conversations during the past few months,” Hancock wrote, as quoted by the Post-Dispatch. “While those who know me understand I would never denigrate anyone’s faith, Tom had mistakenly believed that I had attacked his religion.”

This left me scratching my head. Nothing that I’ve read implied that Hancock had ever attacked Schweich’s religion. According to reports, Schweich was an Episcopalian and nobody to my knowledge is accusing Hancock of slandering Episcopalians. What folks are saying is that Hancock was falsely asserting that Schweich, who had a Jewish grandfather, was himself Jewish. And that Hancock was doing it in those Republican circles where that might make Schweich persona non grata – at least as far as raising money to finance his race against Hanaway.

There’s a difference. Maybe Hancock doesn’t understand that, or maybe he’s just a sloppy kind of guy when it comes to explaining himself. But what Schweich accused him of wasn’t attacking his religion, but of practicing the dirtiest type of very dirty politics. An accusation that derives a certain credibility from the fact that we all know Republicans are good at doing just that – as I pointed out earlier.

That impression is reinforced by Hancock’s efforts to discredit the motives of Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger who had been made privy to what was on Schweich’s mind during his last weeks of life:

“Now, some political opponents-particularly liberal Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger-are using this tragic incident as an opportunity to criticize me and to smear the Missouri Republican Party,” Hancock wrote, as quoted by the newspaper. “These attacks are not only disgusting; they are wrong.”

Hoowee! Hancock evidentaly belongs to that school of conservative thought that seeks to answer any accusation of wrongdoing by evoking that rightwing bugaboo – those damn “liberals.” Count on them to be “disgusting and wrong.”

Wrong in what sense, though? Does wrong here mean inaccurate or morally culpable? Does Hancock think Messenger made up Schweich’s claims? By his own admission, lots of folks knew that Schweich was getting hot under the collar about what he considered an underhanded and nasty effort to knock him out of the race for the governor’s mansion. So what’s disgusting and wrong, in either sense, about telling folks about the beliefs that had been driving Schweich prior to his death, especially since Messenger correctly ensured that his account of what Schweich said neither affirmed or denied the accusations. If, based on past experience, we’re inclined to take Schweich seriously, the onus should fall on those of Mr. Hancock’s partisans who paved the way for us.

By many accounts Schweich was a highly-strung individual; maybe he was magnifying a few garden-variety incidents of who knows what. But by all the same accounts, he was also a man of integrity who refused to countenance what he considered bad behavior; it is probably undeniable that if he had not taken an even more decisive action yesterday, he would have been making those accusations public himself. How is it wrong – or even “liberal” – for Tony Messenger to act as Schweich’s proxy? Wasn’t Messenger just practicing honest journalism?  Doesn’t Tom Schweich, whose last phone call seems to have been an effort to arrange an interview on the subject, deserve a little respectful and honest journalism on the day of his death?

 

Who’s on first base …

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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On the topic of the alleged GOP whisper campaign against Tom Schweich:

The Post-Dispatch reports Schweich believed Republican Party chairman John Hancock, elected last weekend, was saying Schweich is Jewish to hurt him politically in the gubernatorial primary race, as many Republican voters are evangelical Christians.

So what are all these reporters trying to say about evangelical Christians? Think maybe they should broaden the target? Narrow it? Tell it like it is? You already know what I think.

After thoughts: Do you think saying evangelicals might not vote for a Jew is an effort to make anti-Semitism sound respectible? As if it’s just a crazy foible of the religious which is to be expected and tolerated?

Follow the disclaimer

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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Schweich the target of new ‘House of Cards’ themed radio ad

by Eli Yokley • February 20, 2015

[….]

“….Paid for by Citizens for Fairness in Missouri, Seth Shumaker, treasurer.”

Let’s take a look at the committee’s particulars, via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141044: Citizens For Fairness In Missouri

Committee Type: Political Action

716 South Baltimore

Kirksville Mo 63501

[….] Established Date: 02/10/2014

  Termination Date:

Treasurer

Seth Shumaker

716 South Baltimore

Kirksville Mo 63501

[emphasis added]

Information Reported On: 2015 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $2,862.54

Monetary Receipts + $0.00

Monetary Expenditures – $800.00

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     ($800.00)

Ending Money On Hand   $2,062.54

[emphasis added]

The committee filed an Amended Statement of Committee Organization on February 18, 2015 [scanned on 02/19/2015]. The committee treasurer and committee address were changed. There is no listed deputy treasurer.

We’ll have to wait until April 15, 2015 when the next quarterly campaign finance report is due to find out if and when anyone contributed additional monies to the committee and where the committee spent it.

Previously:

State Auditor Tom Schweich (1960-2015) (February 26, 2015)

Tony Messenger on State Auditor Tom Schweich (February 26, 2015)

GOP: The party of hate (February 27, 2015)

Blunt is ready to torch DHS; Kander is readying the fire brigades

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Government shutdown, immigration policy, missouri, Roy Blunt Jason Kander

Jason Kander, Roy Blunt’s Democratic challenger for his Senate seat, is fielding a petition on his campaign Website to prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from closing. Here’s what Kander has to say about the insane willingness of Republicans in the Congress to sacrifice DHS to their desire to send a “message” to the president – and maybe to the crazies in their base – on the issue of immigration:

Tomorrow at midnight, funding expires for the Department of Homeland Security.

As Homeland Security Secretary Johnson said, it is “indulging in a fantasy to believe you can shut down the Department of Homeland Security and there be no impact to homeland security itself.”

Add your name and tell Congress: Stop playing games with our national security and vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security before Friday night at midnight.

Compare Kander’s serious approach to the don’t-bother-me, who-gives-a-damn attitude of GOP insider Blunt, who voted against the “clean” bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently brought up in the Senate in order to avoid the shutdown:

“This is a debate over funding a part of government so essential that if funding is not there, almost all of the employees show up anyway. They’re considered essential,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said recently on the Senate floor.

Except that folks who know, know that’s not true:

While the most critical DHS functions – such as border and airport security and immigration enforcement – would continue, a review of the 2013 shutdown showed that some effects will be felt acutely in areas where the department already faces problems.

[…]

The 2013 shutdown provides a template for how DHS would be affected this time. A 2013 Congressional Research Service report found that an estimated 31,295 DHS employees were furloughed, but about 85 percent of the department’s workforce remained on the job.

The report said that “the total number of employees furloughed was relatively small compared with the overall size of the department,” but it pointed to a number of significant effects.

DHS procurement “activities were disrupted to some extent,” the report said, noting that DHS is the sixth-largest federal agency for procurement spending.

Other effects included the suspension of E-Verify, a program businesses use to determine the work eligibility of new employees, and a shutdown of the department’s civil rights and civil liberties complaint lines.

In the cyber arena – where DHS plays a key role in combatting attacks aimed at civilian federal networks and communicating with critical industries – there would be further impacts from a shutdown, DHS officials said.

The operational problems of the potential shutdown, however, are separate from the fact that a rich politician like Blunt is so willing to casually dismiss damage that shutting down jobs – or pay for those who, like a reverse Wempy, have to work today for a hamburger tomorrow – assuming that they can make it until tomorrow. At the very least, attitudes like Blunt’s isn’t gonna do a lot of good for morale, and, as I remember from my days as a manager, morale is a big part of how well things run.

And for what? A Republican colleague of Blunt, Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, describes the bone of contention succinctly: “Hopefully we’re gonna end the attaching of bullshit to essential items of the government.” Get that? Even sane GOPers thinks the tantrum is over a pile of steaming BS.

But wait a minute. Doesn’t Blunt usually like to pose as a sane GOPer? Is he really so scared of a rightwing challenger in 2016 – or just rightwing indifference come voting time – that he’ll sacrifice the good of the country to protect jingoistic BS? It seems to me that he needs to take to heart the rest of Senator Kirk’s comments: “In the long-run, if you are blessed with the majority, you’re blessed with the power to govern. If you’re gonna govern, you have to act responsibly.” Kander isn’t even the junior Senator from Missouri yet and he’s trying to do just that. What’s wrong with Blunt? You think he really just doesn’t give a damn as long as he can get the Big Money boys to keep paying his bills?

Fun and games with the NRA

27 Friday Feb 2015

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Big event in Missouri, one of the NRA’s prime fiefdoms:

TYRONE, Mo. – A door-to-door killing spree that left eight people dead in a rural Missouri community may have been triggered by the alleged gunman finding his mother dead in her home, the county coroner said Friday. The woman apparently died of natural causes.

The 36-year-old suspect was later found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in his pickup in an adjoining county.

Texas County sheriff’s deputies found bodies in five separate residences in the Tyrone area of south-central Missouri after responding to a 911 call around 10:15 p.m. Thursday regarding a disturbance.

But, of course, guns don’t kill people, other people do. Most often other people with guns, but still…

What the hell, I hear you saying, it’s just more of the same ol’, same ol’. Like the nine month old accidentally killed by his five year old brother last month. Or the business as usual shootings in St. Louis and Kansas City. We’re used to it now. We read about it every day, shrug and go about our business. Nothing we can do about crime and human nature. Especially armed human nature.

But there is a reason that St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson is joining forces with the folks who are taking the Guns “R” Us constitutional amendment that voters approved last August to the state’s Supreme Court – and it’s not just because the ballot language was misleading. The irony is, I’m willing to bet, that lots of the folks who’ve been cavorting in that NRA bed are also the folks who have been the loudest about defending the police from the demands of anti-brutality protesters. Nothing like doing what you can to make working police less safe while posing four-square behind your friendly local policeman.  

GOP: The party of hate

27 Friday Feb 2015

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anti-semitism, Catherine Hanaway, John Hancock, John McCain, missouri, racism, Tom Schweich, whisper campaigns

Read Tony Messenger’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial piece on the death today of State Auditor and gubernatorial candidate, Tom Schweich. It’s heartbreaking. If you don’t have the stomach for sad stories and righteous anger is more your thing, just read the excerpt that Michael Bersin posted below  

Messenger makes it clear that he doesn’t know the nature of the desperation that led Schweich to do what he did. What he does know: the chair of the Missouri Republican Party, who claimed neutrality in the primary race between Schweich and Catherine Hanaway, was, according to Schweich, planning to undercut Schweich through a “whisper” campaign. Schweich’s grandfather was a Jew and that seems to be sufficient to do damage among Republicans.

The use of a race-baiting whisper campaign is old-hat for Republicans. The Nation describes one of the more notorious examples:

Eight years ago this month [i.e.,  Jan. 2008], John McCain took the New Hampshire primary and was favored to win in South Carolina. Had he succeeded, he would likely have thwarted the presidential aspirations of George W. Bush and become the Republican nominee. But Bush strategist Karl Rove came to the rescue with a vicious smear tactic.

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, “Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain…if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?” This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

In his editorial article Messenger hones in on racism in Missouri:

Missouri is the state that gave us Frazier Glenn Miller, the raging racist who last year killed three people at a Jewish community center in Kansas City. It’s the state in which on the day before Schweich died, the Anti-Defamation League reported on a rise of white supremacist prison gangs in the state.

Division over race and creed is real in Missouri Republican politics, particularly in some rural areas. Schweich knew it. It’s why all week long his anger burned.

True enough. But from what I’ve been seeing over the past six years, this roiling racist frenzy isn’t just a Missouri phenomena, but the new defining characteristic of the Republican Party itself. Since Richard Nixon, Republican politicians have been attempting to generate and exploit white racial resentment. But it’s taken the election of an African-American president to rouse the tribal hysteria that we’ve seen in recent years.

Republican politicians and their media counterparts on Fox television and rightwing radio routinely engage in the type of racist innuendos and slurs that would have been enough to have ruined careers a decade or so ago had anyone dared say out loud what is now par for the course. I could give examples, but there’s so many it’s hard to choose – and you already know what I mean. Take for instance,  this list of the ten most racist moments at the last GOP convention. It’s even disturbed some Republicans. Charlie Christ left the GOP because “‘I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president.” Hmmm, unfriendly. Politicians are politic, but the gist is clear.

As for anti-Semitism, remember Eric Cantor? You know, the Jewish guy who used to be House Majority Leader – and the only Republican Jewish member of the House of Representatives? Prior to his defeat, which many attributed to anti-Semitism, Cantor essentially admitted that racism and anti-Semitism was a problem in the House GOP caucus. And you all know about the history of anti-Semitism in the leadership of the American Family Association (AFA), the group that has given its heart, soul and financial support to the Republican Party – which reciprocates by regularly regularly sucking up in the AFA’s direction.

Of course rightwingers become apoplectic when they hear that other R word coupled with Republican, not to mention anti-Semitism. Not Islamophobic though – they seem to like that epithet. And it’s not just the denial; there’s all the projection too. Wingers are always on about how liberals are the real racists. Sadly, though their outrage is far too shrill and contrived; their red-faced conniption fits ultimately just make the rest of us laugh.

But I’m not laughing now. Folks who have a chance of adding control of the executive branch of our state to their legislative branch trophies, are accused of waging an anti-Semitic whispering campaign against a fellow party member. It’s going to be hard to escape the fall-out from this latest, local evidence of Republican moral rot. Or at least it ought to be.

*Phrase added in next to last paragraph.

Tony Messenger on State Auditor Tom Schweich

27 Friday Feb 2015

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State Auditor Tom Schweich [2013 file photo].

This evening:

Messenger: From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich

[….]

Had I not ignored his phone call to me at 9:41 Thursday morning – I was doing a thing at my kids’ school district – I might have been the last person to talk to the man who wanted to be governor. It made for a chilling day in which I decided to do something I’ve never done before as a reporter: reveal the contents of off-the-record conversations with a source. That source is now dead. I believe it’s what he would have wanted.

I have no idea why Schweich killed himself. But for the past several days he had been confiding in me that he planned to accuse the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, John Hancock, with leading a “whisper campaign” among donors that he, Schweich, was Jewish.

He wasn’t, which is to say that he attended an Episcopal church, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t proud of his Jewish heritage, passed down from his grandfather.

[….]

Go. Read the whole thing.

Previously:

State Auditor Tom Schweich (1960-2015) (February 26, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a little bit more

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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2016, campaign finance, Eric Greitens, governor, missouri

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C151053 02/26/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Jeffrey and Susan Stuerman 950 Weatherstone Dr St Charles MO 63304 Stuerman & Company, LLC President 2/25/2015 $25,000.00

C151053 02/26/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Mark and Paula Bobak 15 Cricklewood Place St Louis MO 63131 Williams Venker & Sanders Attorney 2/25/2015 $25,000.00

That’s a $100,000.00 fundraising start in the last few days on a possible gubernatorial campaign.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: There is another? (February 25, 2015)

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