Stem cell research. Not a favorite of republicans.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C051043 SUPPORTERS OF HEALTH RESEARCH AND TREATMENTS [pdf] 8/23/2011

Sam Fox

7701 Forsyth Blvd Suite 600

St Louis, MO 63105

businessman

8/22/2011

$125,000.00

[emphasis added]

From 2006:

Catholic Group Urges Candidates to Return Cash

By STEPHANIE STROM

Published: July 25, 2006

The Missouri Catholic Conference is urging candidates for state offices to return contributions from a nonprofit organization that advocates for stem cell research and other medical analysis and testing….

….The Missouri conference sent the request to more than 50 candidates for state offices who received donations from the organization, Supporters of Health Research and Treatments….

[emphasis added]

Where have we seen that contributor’s name before? Oh, yeah:

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Sam Fox 7701 Forsyth Blvd. Suite 600

St. Louis MO 63150 Harbour Group Executive 3/31/2011 $25,000.00 Monetary April Quarterly Report

C081055 MISSOURI REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Sam Fox

7701 Forsyth Blvd St Louis MO 63105 Harbour Group 1/29/2011 $10,000.00 Monetary April Quarterly Report

C081055 MISSOURI REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — Sam Fox 7701 Forsyth Suite 600 St. Louis, MO 63105 7/19/2010 $10,000.00 Yes — 8 DAY BEFORE PRIMARY ELECTION

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER — Sam Fox 7701 Forsyth Blvd, Ste. 600 Saint Louis, MO 63105- Harbour Group, Ltd 06/12/2009 $1,000.00 Yes — JULY – COMMITTEE QUARTERLY REPORT

Giving money to competing interests?

Starkly different views ELECTION 2008 – MISSOURI LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Kinder, Page disagree on just about everything, including stem cells and Tour of Missouri.

….On the touchy topic that has split his party over the past couple of years – stem cell research – Kinder himself has been divided. He is campaigning as an opponent of embryonic stem cell research, and he says he was against Amendment 2, which protected that form of research in Missouri.

But in 2006, when the Amendment 2 battle was being waged, Kinder told the Post-Dispatch he was undecided. And a year earlier, he took credit for stopping a bill in the Legislature that would have criminalized stem cell research….

[emphasis added]

Yep, the single issue rubes get taken to the cleaners when they vote against their self interest on everything else.

President Obama signs the Stem Cell Executive Order and the Scientific Integrity Presidential Memorandum – White House Photo 3/9/09 by Chuck Kennedy

A list of participants and attendees.

FACT SHEET ON PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER REMOVING BARRIERS TO RESPONSIBLE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

INVOLVING HUMAN STEM CELLS:

…This Executive Order by President Obama revokes the Executive Order signed by President Bush on June 20, 2007 and the Bush Presidential statement of August 9, 2001 that limited federal funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells.

The previous Administration allowed the National Institutes of Health to fund human embryonic stem cell research on cell lines created before an arbitrary date, August 9, 2001, but prohibited research on cell lines created after that date. The Executive Order signed by President Obama today lifts this restriction, which has no basis in science and was not required by any law…

[emphasis added]

FACT SHEET ON PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM ON SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY:

…This memorandum helps to implement one of the President’s key campaign commitments on science policy, which was to “restore scientific integrity in government decision making…”

Damn, now I’m going to have to sell my stock in that leech breeding operation at a loss.

Tristero over at Digby’s fine establishment has some additional insight: “Junk Journalism, NY Times Division”.

Now we just have to wait for the right wingnuts running the Missouri General Assembly to introduce a joint resolution to overturn the president’s executive order. In five, four, three, two…

The 121st Legislative District cuts a horizontal swath through the central part of Johnson County and includes the cities of Holden, Knob Noster, and Warrensburg.

Do you remember this?:

Official Election Returns

State of Missouri General Election  – November 2006 – General Election

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

JOHNSON

Constitutional Amendment No. 2 – 2006 Precincts Reporting 21 of 21

Stem Cell Initiative

Yes 8,544 55.7%

No 6,796 44.3%

Total Votes   15,340

Uh, support for stem cell research in Johnson County during the 2006 election was substantial.

And this republican’s view?:

“I wouldn’t spit on Missouri Right to Life if they were on fire,” the usually affable Griesheimer said. “They are a bunch of liars who don’t care about anything but themselves.”

Denny Hoskins (r – “noun, verb, CPA”) had an attack piece sent on his behalf by the Missouri republican party touting his endorsement by Missouri Right to Life:

Ooh, a warm fuzzy picture!

Missouri Right to Life is no fan of stem cell research. Do you think that Denny Hoskins (r – “noun, verb, CPA”), with that endorsement, agrees with their fringe stance? Uhhh.

So, the Missouri GOP says this about Jim Jackson (D):

Note the “scary” Halloween type for Jim Jackson’s name.

You’d think they’d have reconsidered this attack piece given the 2006 ballot initiative results in Johnson County.

Nah. They’re just plain mean, nasty, and desperate.

Uh oh, no pleasant pastel colors?

Isn’t that the “sun” baby? I didn’t know the Teletubbies did political endorsements, especially since, you know, the right wingnuts have been more than a little snippy about certain things. Like that marriage stuff. And children’s television show fictional characters carrying a purse.

Who paid for this crap? Ah, the usual suspects:

…some Missouri lawmakers who consider themselves against abortion rights – particularly Republicans – have increasingly become frustrated with the criteria Missouri Right to Life uses to rate lawmakers and make endorsements. As a result, the group’s Capitol influence has waned…

They all must have made nice with each other. Or, Denny Hoskins (r – “noun, verb, CPA”) is on the fringe. It’s gotta be one or the other. Or both? What’s your guess?