Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress GOP State Rep. Denny Hoskins displays Liebermanesque levels of sanctimony in a radio interview today. Somehow not paying over $20,000 in taxes becomes Chris Moreno's fault. And Michael Bersin's.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Representative Denny Hoskins (r - noun, verb, CPA) at his June 19, 2009 townhall meeting in Knob Noster, Missouri. Uh, we were there, we covered three of his townhalls in the same day, and it was interesting. So what's the big deal?
Michael Bersin
Michael Bersin
That'll teach us to take a look at public records more often. I mean, if we would have only caught it earlier, it wouldn't have been news, right? [hat tip to Mister Jay Em]
November 16 at 2:48pm
Laurie Squiric
Laurie Squiric
OMG....I just read every word of that radio interview transcript! DH has got to be related to SP and GB, it is clear as crystal! Seriously....related, college roomates, something!
November 16 at 6:18pm
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress GOP Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-09) was caught using a lobbyist written speech (Joe Wilson used a portion of the exact same speech.)

The Ron Burgundy reference writes itself. http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/3781/blaine-burgundy-here-for-genentech

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Now, speechifying in law making is not a field where you write your own material. Typically the writers are actual employees or peers. But when a biotech company lobbyist is ghostwriting your speeches, that's a bit different.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Mr. Noun Verb CPA owes $20K in back taxes. Oops.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Oh. My. And I thought Denny Hoskins was having a bad freshman year before the news broke yesterday that he owes over $20,000 in back taxes on properties his rental property business owns with his brother.
Michael Kiepe
Michael Kiepe
LOL! My friends ask me why I am not working towards a business degree. Look around!
November 14 at 12:33pm
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Please thank Cleaver, Lacy Clay, and Carnahan for their efforts on behalf of health care reform legislation with a public option.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
The House vote on health care legislation, scheduled for Saturday, precedes the Thanksgiving break. HCAN (Health Care for America Now) is urging St. Louisans to turn out and thank the two St. Louis Congressmen who will vote in favor of it: Lacy Clay and Russ Carnahan.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Ads are running in Roy Blunt and Blaine Luetkmeyer's respective districts on their awful votes against the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
The LCV ads show just how big oil companies are thanking Blunt and Luetkemeyer for their "No" votes on the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Senator Claire McCaskill is live right now with parents & teachers on improving financial aid for higher education.Watch it: http://su.pr/2i8yX3

Source: su.pr
Senator Claire McCaskill speaks with educators, parents, and students about opportunities for financial aid available to Missourians.View the live stream below by clicking the 'play' button.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Can we get Ike Skelton to support the public option? If you live in the 4th or know anyone who does, make sure your voices are heard today!

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
A little birdy just told me that Ike Skelton, contrary to his previous dithering on the public option, is still a gettable vote for a robust public option. Maybe he read Willy's piece. Who knows?
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Cynthia Davis and Todd Akin really do live in an alternate universe, and we've got the video to prove it.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
I've been down the rabbit hole. Monday evening, I attended a town hall hosted by Cynthia Davis, with Todd Akin as her guest, and attended by 25 or 30 of their true believers. What had been billed as an ...
Will Roth
Will Roth
Both make me sick.
October 22 at 12:28pm
Matt Nappe
Matt Nappe
obstructionist distractions to preserve insurance company profits and prevent honest dialog on real reform. throw the bums out. they no longer deserve any place in politics.
October 22 at 12:49pm
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Where is the alternative health care bill that Roy Blunt promised? (4 page memos without actual numbers don't count.)

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Come with me now on a trip back in time. It was in the balmy and glorious month of June, and republicans were really feeling quite heady and on top of the world, for a shrinking minority party. Remember? ...
Kevin A Evans
Kevin A Evans
Great question!! Let's have some accountability. Mr. Blunt? Can you speak for yourself?
October 21 at 8:08pm
Bob Delaney
Bob Delaney
Mr. Blunt, the world (or at least Missouri) awaits.
October 21 at 9:25pm
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Get well soon, Rep. Low!

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Beth Low is not sick with sinus infection afterall. Its H1N1. Yippee...I'll have deveolped immune resistance when the superflu hits.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Something funny is going in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
"The thing that really upsets me, that kinda got me going originally was, for years, there was a Christmas tree lit atSelmoPark. Remember that? . . . drive by? He stopped that. I mean, I think every ...
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress There are a lot of bad petitions floating around, so watch what you sign. Here's one of them.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE AS CERTIFIED BYSECRETARY OF STATEShall the Missouri Constitution be amended to restrict the ability of the General Assembly, counties, and other political subdivisions to tax and ...
Mark Matzeder
Mark Matzeder
I am of two minds about such petitions. When I was younger and more a democratic populist I'd sign petitions to put things I did not support on the ballot, under the concept that the general electorate should be deciding for themselves rather than politicians. The older I get, the more I appreciate the genius of the framers who made America a ... Read Moredemocratic Republic, where "informed" representatives could choose in our interest. Of course, it's all an Ideal, and neither model works well when a) the electorate is uninformed, b) the representatives are beholden to moneyed interests, and c) we grant corporations personhood
October 21 at 9:26am
Show Me Progress
Show Me Progress
i know what you mean. I definitely support the ability of citizens to vote directly on binding resolutions and laws, but it really has to be tempered so that we don't end up like California.
October 21 at 1:46pm
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress Here's a first person report of Vice President Joe Biden's visit to St. Louis yesterday, with some video of his speech.

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Speaking Thursday at the St. Louis County Police and Fire Training Center, Joe Biden described how this nation has stepped back from the brink of economic disaster since Obama took office on January 20th. ...
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress A happy followup on an earlier post we had about a relative who was carrying a baby girl with a condition that caused her to lack part of her abdominal wall. At the time of our first post, the insurance company tried to deny covering the baby because of a pre-existing condition.

http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/3631/shell-be-home-for-christmas

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
over a relative who was struggling with our broken healthcare system, a cousin who was carrying a baby girl with a pre-existing condition, Gastroschisis.
Show Me Progress

Show Me Progress It's bad enough that Rush can claim Missouri as a home state. Let's not allow him to be a part of the once and future elite football organization known as the St. Louis Rams. http://blog.showmeprogress.com/diary/3617/whereas-rush-is-a-racist-be-it-resolved

Source: blog.showmeprogress.com
Whereas Post-Dispatch columnist Kevin Horrigan explains that Limbaugh hates socialism and that the NFL is a highly socialistic organization, and
Barbara Woodruff
Barbara Woodruff
encourage everyone to sigh the petition against rush buying the rams....we don't want him!!!
October 14 at 8:37am
Richard Blowers
Richard Blowers
Seriously? You do not like a mans politics so you call him racist? Did you raise flags when Leonard Little killed an innocent woman in a DWI accident but still plays for the Rams? I have yet to see the evidence that Rush said any of the things he's accused of saying! The owner of the Yankees is a convicted felon! He's still an owner of a sports franchise?
October 16 at 11:09am