Nov

3

Election Open Thread

November 3, 2008 | 8 Comments

Use the comments to let us know how the voting is going in your neighborhood.  Send photos to blogkc@blogkc.com or tag them with “blogkc” on Flickr. Also tweet your reports to Twitter Vote Report.
Rumor has that McCoy’s Public House in Westport might be offering a free beer to anyone wearing their “I Voted” sticker.  Democrats [...]

Oct

31

Star lazy about political endorsements?

October 31, 2008 | 15 Comments

Lance Weber, Libertarian party candidate for the Missouri House 39th district, recently posted this on Facebook.  It seems that the Star endorsed his opponent, the incumbent Democrat Beth Low, even though she didn’t fill out the newspaper’s questionnaire.  The real kicker is that despite Weber returning the survey, the Star refused to meet with him. [...]

Oct

30

Early voting open thread?

October 30, 2008 | 14 Comments

If you have voted early, how was it?  Leave your reports in the comments. Many states are seeing multi-hour waits to vote early.  Folks in KCK are complaining about the lack of evening/weekend voting hours and only one location.  Business seems brisk at KCMO’s satellite absentee voting locations.  Yours truly tried to vote at the [...]

Oct

29

Jeff Roe is pro-rail?

October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Remember the stink about low-life Republican operative Jeff Roe meeting with Mayor Funkhouser? Turns out that meeting may have been about light rail, since the pro-rail committee has paid Jeff Roe $19,000.

Oct

29

Anti-rail flow chart

October 29, 2008 | 7 Comments

The anti-rail crowd isn’t just some shady car wash owners and cranky old dinosaur businessmen. It goes right into the heart of the local political establishment, much of which is supposedly pro-rail. If you follow the money, you’ll see the complex web behind the scenes of Kansas City politics.  One of the biggest beneficiaries of [...]

Oct

24

Anti-Abortion extremists harassing Brooksiders

October 24, 2008 | 6 Comments

State Representative-elect Jason Kander (D-44) recently warned people about a group of anti-abortion extremists cruising Brookside, writing down addresses of houses with Barack Obama signs, and sending them these really nasty letters.  So, if you see people doing this in your neighborhood, be sure to write down their license plate numbers.

Oct

20

Turnout at recent presidential visits in Missouri

October 20, 2008 | 9 Comments

Presidential candidates are all over Missouri.  The most recent polls give Barack Obama a small lead over John McCain.  But terms of people willing to show up and see the candidates in person, it is Obama in a landslide.
Barack Obama in St. Louis: 100,000
Barack Obama in KC: 75,000
John McCain in St. Charles: 3,000
John McCain in [...]

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