One Court-Politicization Front Group Gives Way to Another

Anyone who has been following the efforts of GOPers to scrap Missouri's non-partisan court plan in favor of a more political alternative may want to note the recent restructuring of that campaign. 

We've devoted significant space on this site to exposing the folks behind the Adam Smith Foundation --the group which was initially constructed to demolish the non-partisan court plan.   As previously explained, the Adam Smith Foundation was a cooperative effort between Blunt allies Jeff Roe and James Harris aimed squarely at setting up a structure that could be used to intimidate judges and assault Missouri's longstanding process for selecting judges.

Well, perhaps the Adam Smithees got a bit more attention than they'd bargained for --and of the wrong kind.  Opponents of non-partisan courts appear to have refocused their efforts in the form of a new front group, Missourians for Better Courts.  Just like the Adam Smith Foundation, the new group was also headed up by Team Blunt alumni.  The executive director of Better Courts for Missouri is former Blunt administration stalker staffer and "low-level" aide, Jonathan Bunch. 

There's probably no better way to close this post up than by citing the words I wrote to close up my initial post about the Adam Smith Foundation:

The Adam Smith Foundation is just the latest iteration --cobbled together by the same group of GOP operatives and retreads who've birddogged every other political smearjob in the state over the last three years-- of a Republican establishment bent on co-opting every last portion of state government in a program designed to build in a permanent political advantage.  Same crew, same game, new name.

Same crew, same game, new game.  True, now as ever.