This report explains that two campaign finance bills have been introduced in Missouri. One bill would restore campaign contribution limits that were removed in 2007, restored by the Missouri Supreme Court later that same year, and then removed again by GOP lawmakers and former Governor Matt Blunt in 2008. The other bill would ban contributions […]
Category: Missouri
Fighting corrpution like fighting H1N1?
Missouri state Rep. Jason Kander has written this editorial on campaign finance reform for the state. We must fight corruption the way we treat the flu — as an ever-adapting virus that requires an evolving vaccine. Honest governments, like healthy societies, are the result of eternal vigilance.
Sentence in Missouri obstruction of justice case is one year
Jeff Smith was sentenced in Missouri today to one year and one day in prison, according to this report. Two former St. Louis-area lawmakers and a campaign treasurer were sentenced Tuesday in a federal obstruction of justice case tied to a failed 2004 congressional campaign. Former state Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, received the harshest […]