Zweifel announces re-election. St. Charles County featured in video

Clint Zweifel announces Re-Election

State Treasurer Clint Zweifel (ZWY-ful) today announced he is running for re-election to a second term in 2012. He made the announcement via a video on his campaign website. He will kick off his campaign Wednesday, June 22 in Forest Park in St. Louis.

A local farm, Sam's Carpet Cleaning, and St. Peter's Mayor Len Pagano, all of  St. Charles County, are shown in the video.

Call to Action: Tea Party Gathers in SCC This Weekend

Call to action for rational St. Charles County voters to stop the wrong wing's propaganda.

This Saturday (June 10), wrong wing  2nd Congressional District candidate Ed Martin (Yes, the same Ed Martin who resigned in disgrace for legal and ethical problems as Gov. Matt Blunt's Chief of Staff) is heading a rally at the intersection of K & N at 10 AM. The main purpose is to showcase Ed Martin corporate give away programs, but that is hidden under the guise of erroneously blaming President Obama for high gas prices.

Before Martin and his crew can spew worst than a BP oil rig and flood this busy intersection with raw, unvented, mind numbing sewage, voters should know the facts about today's high price of gas:

1.      Last month, Exxon Mobil's CEO testified to Congress that oil would be selling for $65 a barrel instead of $100, if it weren't for commodities speculators. Obama's every attempt to stop these speculators has been thwarted by oil owned politicians like Roy Blunt.

2.      Big Oil Blunt, as he is affectionately known, is one of the leading recipients of oil and gas money according to  Center for Responsive Politics. A large chuck of that has come from the oil barons, the infamous Oklahoma Koch brothers.  The Koch brothers are funding all the anti-union fervor in Wisconsin. Remember Roy, we are judged by the company we keep.

3.      With the US using 26 percent of world oil production and only having 2.2 percent of the world's known oil reserves, 'drill baby drill' is a misleading mind opiate for the misinformed. The longer we wait to develop alternative sources the more dependant we become and the more severe the recession.

4.      Former Shell Oil executive John Hofmeister, author of "Why We Hate the Oil Companies", points out that China is wisely buying up world oil fields in order to secure a long term price stability for their energy. Meanwhile the US is subject to the volatile day to day fluctuations of commodities markets where a bomb going off in the Middle East one day can mean $10 more for tank of gas the next day. Yet, any attempt to reform our 'rich get richer' trade system is a third rail to Ed Martin and the wrong wing Republicans beholding to Wall Street and the oil barons.

Respond now to stop the oil slick that is Ed Martin, call or contact:

·         Ed Martin at 314 256 1776

·         Senator Roy Blunt at 314 725 4484

·         Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer at 636 239 2276

·         Congressman Todd Akin at 636 949 6826

Tell them that you're informed and active, and will not stand idly by and let voters be mislead by politicians beholding to corporate interests rather than the people. 

What a difference a decade makes: Effects of the Bush-era tax cuts

As war rages on Capitol Hill regarding how to solve the nation’s debt and deficit crisis and everything seems to be on the chopping block, these cuts seem impervious to the executioner’s axe. After taking a look at these charts from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an non-partisan organization, the question is, why?...see link

http://holykaw.alltop.com/what-a-difference-a-decade-makes-effects-of-t?tu2=1

Akin helps make the case against voter ID cards

Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan should send U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Somewhere in West St. Louis County, a thank you note.

The six-term representative just helped Ms. Carnahan make her case against the scourge of voter identification bills like the ones that the Missouri Legislature passed last month. The argument against such proposals is that too many eligible voters — Ms. Carnahan estimates more than 230,000 of them — do not have the requisite up-to-date drivers licenses to properly vote under such laws.

One of them, apparently, is Mr. Akin...see story

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_67cc62a4-fff3-50e4-a26b-f5fb8e45f1d3.html?mode=story

Why Are Republicans So Keen to Persecute Elizabeth Warren?”

Warren is a respectable honest person who thinks the society should be just and fair. Those kinds of peoples have to be persecuted by the mean and evil, the Warren kind of people are a lethal threat to their very existence.
"The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee session yesterday  with the Republican’s favorite punching bag, Elizabeth Warren, managed to notch abuse up to a level that is politely described as unseemly or more accurately called Republican Derangement Syndrome.
The fact that Republicans’ last effort to use screechy and mean against Warren failed to deter her has not led them to improve their game. Two months ago, a nasty two hour Congressional hearing with Warren was the culmination of weeks of right wing media attacks, with the Wall Street Journal leading the pack.
We noted:

The last time I can recall the Journal becoming quite so unhinged about an individual was over Eliot Spitzer. And since Warren seems pretty unlikely to be found to have similar personal failings, the specter of the right throwing what look to be ineffective punches at her makes for a peculiar spectacle. What is the real aim behind this drama?
The reactions to Warren, both on the right and left, are becoming divorced from reality. She has assumed iconic status as a lone mediagenic figure in the officialdom who reliably speaks out for the average person, a Joan of Arc for the little guy. And she drives the right crazy because she is rock solid competent and plays their game better than they do. She sticks to simple, compelling soundbites and images without the benefit of Roger Ailes and Madison Avenue packaging, and she speaks to an even broader constituency, Americans done wrong by the banks, than they target. No wonder they want to burn her at the stake."   http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/why-are-republicans-so-keen-to-persecute-elizabeth-warren.html

Our hearts go out....how you can help

Our hearts go out to our neighbors in Joplin and other areas of Missouri impacted by the recent storms.

The Emergency Managment Administration has provided contact information for those who wish to help.

http://www.sema.dps.mo.gov/newspubs/template.asp?ID=N09110046

Rep. Eric Cantor: Spending cuts in exchange for Missouri tornado aid

Rep. Eric Cantor: Spending cuts in exchange for Missouri tornado aid

The State Column Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Virginia U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor said Tuesday that any spending costs associated with federal disaster funding for Joplin, Missouri, tornado victims must be offset with spending cuts.

The Virginia Republican said “if there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.”
The House Republican leader is the first to push for spending cuts related to the disaster that has already claimed over 100 lives. Democrats slammed the Republican leader, saying it amounted to “ransom.”

Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/rep-eric-cantor-spending-cuts-in-exchange-for-missouri-aid/#ixzz1NNdOMDI8