Oct

22

More voting confusion

October 22, 2004 | 1 Comment

Is it something in the water? In addition to last week’s report of an Odessa man arresting for hocking his vote on eBay, now we have three people charged with voting in both Missouri and Kansas. Plus Phil Levota, Asst. Jackson County Prosecutor and the new chairman of the county Democratic Committee, voting [...]

Oct

21

Odessa man faces jail for selling vote on eBay

October 21, 2004 | Leave a Comment

An Odessa man is facing a felony charge for trying to sell his vote for president on eBay. He says it was a prank, but vote selling is definitely a felony. It’s also an opportunity for Lafayette County Prosecutor Page Bellamy to get some TV time during his campaign for higher office.
KCTV 5 [...]

Oct

20

Cerner execs encourage employees to support Patterson

October 20, 2004 | 2 Comments

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A company-wide email from several Cerner executives went out last week encouraging employees to support Jeanne Patterson in her race for Congress. While not technically illegal, it was definitely inappropriate. Meanwhile, Patterson has now put more than $2 million of her personal fortune into the race.
KC Star: Support Patterson, executives’ [...]

Oct

19

Stolen Honor on Channel 62

October 19, 2004 | 1 Comment

KSMO-TV 62, a.k.a. “WB 62″ is slated to air the highly controversial anti-Kerry docummentary Stolen Honor, as per orders from corporate parent Sinclair Broadcasting Group. The Midwest Grassroots Community has already organized a protest rally for Wednesday evening.
A national effort to put pressure on Sinclair’s advertisers seems to have had some effect [...]

Oct

19

Blunt-McCaskill debate, part I

October 19, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Last night’s debate was very intense, with candidates deviating little from their standard campaign themes. The journalists lob lots of softball questions at the candidates, who hit back with their standard stump speech responses.
Matt Blunt did a decent job of holding his own, but was obviously outgunned by Claire McCaskill, who [...]

Oct

18

Governor debate tonight

October 18, 2004 | 1 Comment

First debate between Claire McCaskill and Matt Blunt is tonight at 7:00pm at the Liberty Memorial museum. It will be aired on Channels 9 and 19, and 89.3 FM.
Blunt starts the week with a bizarre TV ad accussing McCaskill of sending jobs and doctors to Kansas, and telling her to run [...]

Oct

15

Downtown’s vibe on Bistate 2

October 15, 2004 | 3 Comments

With the proposed performing arts center and existing institutions like the symphony and opera, Downtown has a lot at stake in the upcoming Bistate 2 vote. However, the baseball stadium issue is keeping the Downtown Council conspicuously silent during this campaign.
KC Star’s Kevin Murphy: Downtown boosters silent on bistate plan.
“I think we can do [...]

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