From the monthly archives:

January 2008

They might have folded their campaign tents, but you can still vote for them next Tuesday–and you can vote for a lot of other people too on Super Tuesday.

Romney, McCain, Huckabee and Paul are still running big league campaigns as well as Clinton and Obama.

But you can still vote for Thompson, Giuliani, Tancredo and Edwards, Richardson, Kucinich, if you want to.

Deputy Secretary of State Mike Bushmann, who heads the elections divison, says they are among the names of 27 candidates on the ballots of three parties facing voters Tuesday. He says candidates who have announced their recent withdrawals from the presidential races are still listed because they announced too late to have their names removed.

Among other Republican candidates is postal service employee Virgil L. R. Wiles of Florissant, Hugh Cort, who says he’s an internationally recognized counter-terrorism expert. Among the Democrats is substitute teacher Ralph Spelbring and a bunch of other names you’ve heard of at various times.

You even have six choices on a third-party ticket: the Libertarians.  One of the candidates calls himself "the most recognized sports odds maker and prognosticator in the world."  Another is the founder of the American Medical Marijuana Association. Still another is a charter bus driver.

Maybe it’s not true that anybody in this country can be president, but Missouri’s Super Tuesday ballot shows that certainly anybody can run.

More information is available on the Secretary of State’s website .

Audio for this story removed 2/4/08.


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Campaign Contribution Proposals Could Return

by admin 01/31/08 11:00 PM

The top Democrat in the Missouri House is pushing a campaign contribution limit proposal favored by the party’s main gubernatorial candidate, number two man in the State Senate says that bill isn’t going anywhere.
House Minority Leader Paul LeVota (D-Independence) wants the current campaign contribution limits extended to cover political parties as well as [...]

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Legal Challenge to Stem Cell Summary Has Day in Court

by admin 01/31/08 9:07 PM

The legal challenge to Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s summary wording of an initiative to limit certain forms of stem cell research in Missouri has its day in court – but there could be more such days.
Attorney Eddie Greim, representing the plaintiffs led by the group Cures Without Cloning , [...]

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Navy Will Build New "Missouri"

by admin 01/31/08 3:36 PM

In U. S. Navy history, the word "Missouri" and "Battleship" are almost automatically together.
But the newest warship to carry that name won’t be a battleship.
It will be a submarine that’s 25 percent longer than a football field, goes at leat 28 miles an hour under water, and will operate [...]

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Michael Devlin Now "Home" at Prison in Cameron

by admin 01/31/08 8:26 AM

Michael Devlin has moved into his permanent home to serve his 74 life prison sentences. Devlin will be at the Crossroads maximum security prison in Cameron. He’s being held in a single-man cell and is held in administrative segregation.
He’s been undergoing evaluation at the prison diagnostic center in St. Joseph for about three [...]

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