Recycle Bin: Last Week’s Top Posts

Conflict of Interest? Forsee Also A Board Member for Great Plains Energy
When Forsee isn't serving as President of the University of Missouri system or thinking about how to spent some portion of his enormous Sprint Nextel severance package, he also sits on the the Board of Directors for Great Plains Energy Incorporated.

Rep. Tim Jones To FBI: "You probably need to talk to the speaker or the floor leader or both of them" & Tilley Now Has A Deal To End Burcham's Lawsuits -- How 'Bout That?
A recap of the Steve Tilley/Tom Burcham racket related to this weeks’ revelation of FBI interest.

Cynthia Davis Sponsors Constitutional Amendment Mirroring Missouri Roundtable's Latest (30th) Ballot Initiative
This week, Rep. Cynthia Davis introduced HJR 49, a constitutional amendment very similar to the Missouri Roundtable for Life's latest ballot initiative (their 30th in 22 months). Like the initiative it replaces, Davis' proposal would block lawful stem cell research, and could even prevent grants and private foundations from going to institutions like the University of Missouri.

Sarah Palin Somewhat More Reasonable Than Roy Blunt On Birtherism
Remember when Roy said reporters “don't have any capacity to talk about that [Obama’s citizenship] in a legitimate way, so I'm going to stop talking about it?”

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