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This past Friday, supporters of the so-called “Civil Rights Initiative” measure to ban affirmative action programs in Oklahoma withdrew their petition, so Oklahoma voters will not vote on the issue in November.   
 
California millionaire Ward Connerly had targeted Oklahoma (and Missouri) for 2008 as part of a long-term national strategy to eliminate education and business opportunities for women and minorities state by state.   

From the Tulsa World:

“The Secretary of State's Office counted 141,184 signatures on the petition but found a large number of duplicate names and addresses.”  

Could it be…more fraud from Connerly's group?

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” 

Bill McClellan today had a semi-amusing column about who will be the next presidential candidate from Missouri. It mentions Jay Nixon, Claire McCaskill, and Robin Carnahan on the Dem side.  Matt Blunt, Chris Koster (???), and Catherine Hanaway on the Repub side.

McClellan isn't the only one who has mentioned McCaskill or Carnahan and "president" in the same sentence.  The Huffington Post has an article from Friday about McCaskill which likens her to Missouri's favorite son and only president Harry Truman. 

And, Fired Up! readers will remember that USA Today and the Kansas City Star have both mentioned SOS Robin Carnahan as a rising star with presidential potential.­  Story Continued »

Greg Gordon's story (McClatchy) tonight reports more in depth on the actions of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Divisions actions under the Bush/Rove administration.

U.S. Attorneys, Reloaded

...From the facts available, it looks like a main reason for installing Mr. Schlozman was to help Republicans win a pivotal Missouri Senate race...

...A single Senate campaign may not seem that important. But Missouri’s race was among the nation’s closest, and if Mr. Talent had won, the Republicans would have kept their Senate majority. The American people have a right to know whether Mr. Schlozman was sent on his brief assignment in Missouri to pursue justice, or to affect the outcome of an election.­

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Despite already wasting an entire pathetic legislative session on one failed, unconstitutional proposal to make it harder for people to vote, Delbert Scott seems bound and determined to waste more of Missouri’s taxpayers’ time on dredging up the photo ID to vote issue again.

Rumor has it that Delbert is doing this because Delbert really wants to be Secretary of State…Perhaps he doesn’t realize that destroying fair elections in Missouri by prohibiting eligible voters from voting isn’t the best positioning for one who would like to be our chief elections official.

Besides being a huge Republican donor and strategist, Erdman served as co-chair of the highly criticized, partisan, and failed Missouri Government Review Commission.

After all the campaign's dirty tricks in 2004, I thought I had seen it all. Was I ever wrong. Turns out the Swift Boat Veterans could have learned a thing or two about ruthlessness from Missouri Senator Jim Talent.

I read today about Jim Talent's efforts to slander and demonize a young veteran of the war in Iraq, a man named Josh Lansdale. That young man's only transgression, the act for which Jim Talent thinks he should be publicly branded as a liar, was that he fought bravely in the war on terror and then spoke out at home about the mistreatment of veterans.

Congratulations to Claire McCaskill for winning the debate in St. Louis tonight!