Bob McCarty Writes

‘Oh!  What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!’ — Sir Walter Scott, 1808 Officials representing the St. Charles County (Mo.) Republican Party Central Committee seem to be offering different versions of the events that took place Saturday during the 2012 presidential caucus meeting (a.k.a., “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”) at Francis [...]

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Today, after some 20 years of gradual movement toward the exit door of the Republican Party, I find I am a man without a political party to which I can, in good faith, belong. My ever-so-gradual exit from the Republican Party — the only party to which I have ever belonged — began in 1992, [...]

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Today may go down in history as “The St. Patrick’s Day Massacre” as the day some 2,000 people walked away from Francis Howell North High School in St. Peters, Mo., after political bedlam broke out during the 2012 St. Charles County Republican Presidential Caucus. GOP voters began showing up at the high school two hours [...]

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Lisa Payne-Naeger summed up one of the problems related to Family Court justice in Missouri in the opening paragraph of her March 30 post, Best Interests of Children Take Backseat as Bill Advances Thru Missouri Senate “Sight Unseen”: Americans gasped when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uttered a few words about the health care [...]

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By Lisa Payne-Naeger, Guest Blogger Americans gasped when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uttered a few words about the health care reform legislation known as ObamaCare:  “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” One year later, members of the Missouri Senate seem to be following Pelosi’s lead when it [...]

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Though natural gas pipeline explosions like the one that leveled a neighborhood and left several people dead in San Bruno, Calif., Sept. 9 are rare, having petroleum product and natural gas pipelines running through her yard still makes Shelley Miller of St. Peters, Mo., nervous and scared. “I started shaking from the inside out,” said [...]

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With the primary election for the Missouri U.S. Senate race barely a week away, I received news today that members of three influential Tea Party groups have NOT endorsed Roy Blunt! The groups members hail from Blunt’s “backyard” cities of Branson and Springfield as well as from St. Charles County. The first message, in the [...]

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