In a gubernatorial press release yesterday [1], Matt Blunt gushes with self-praise for all he's done and all he still plans to do regarding funding of electronic tracking for Missouri offenders.

Gov. Matt Blunt today highlighted the state's investment in global positioning satellite (GPS) technology as a tool to track paroled offenders. Tough new sexual predator laws the governor signed dictate that the tracking technology will ultimately be used statewide to help protect children from sexual predators. ...

In the last three years, Gov. Blunt has recommended a total of almost $500,000 in funding to introduce and pilot GPS technology as a means to track paroled offenders, including $225,000 for next fiscal year.

The governor's excitement about state funding of offender tracking is little surprise, considering that electronic tracking is the business of Alanco Technologies, a company for which two Blunt fee agents serve as paid lobbyists.

Among those who are registered to lobby in Missouri for the interests of Alanco Technologies are Tom Carter of Ozark [2] and Tyler Alcorn of St. Louis [3]. If those names sound familiar for other reasons, it may be because Tom Carter's spouse runs three Blunt administration fee offices [4] in southwest Missouri, and Tyler Alcorn was the original Blunt awardee [5] for the fee office in West St. Louis County.

In other words, the same guys who have already profited handsomely from Blunt's politically-calculated administration of government stand to gain even more as the Governor prioritizes more funding for projects that are right up the very narrow alleys of their lobbying clients.

You see, Alanco Technologies --as it happens-- is already engaged with the state of Missouri as a contractor for the provision of electronic offender tracking services [6]. And Alanco offers GPS tracking among its handful of products. Here's betting that Alanco, with the assistance of Blunt-favored lobbyists Carter and Alcorn, will be high in the running to grab the new bags of cash that the Governor throws at the electronic offender tracking program.