Hey look at the Mo. Republican Muschany that co-sponsored a bill in 2006 that toughened sex offender laws.

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri state Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was indicted today in connection with a reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after this year’s Legislative session ended.

The alleged victim is the daughter of a state employee. The girl’s mother and Muschany -– who is married and has two children — were romantically involved, the woman said.

A Cole County grand jury returned an indictment today charging Muschany with the Class C felony of “deviate sexual assault.” The indictment identifies the victim only by initials. It says that on May 17, Muschany “had deviate sexual intercourse” with the girl, “knowing that he did so without” her consent. 

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he’s like a comedian, a bad comedian that has NO timing

It turns out that two high-ranking McCain campaign officials, one of whom is also one of McCain’s more prolific bundlers, were both were paid lobbyists for Hess for roughly three years, according to disclosure forms.

The two lobbyists are Wayne Berman, McCain’s national finance co-chairman, and John Green, who’s been the McCain campaign’s chief Congressional liaison since March. Both men worked for a firm called Ogilvy Government Relations. The firm has been paid $800,000 by Hess from 2005 up to the present, including $720,000 during the period that both of the two lobbied for the company, the forms say.

So my question is to twist this to a local level, when Mr. Copeland spoke in favor of oil, how much money will Mr. Dupont errr Mr. Copeland get from Oil companies?

Next week we will find out, with the August 12th disclosure date.   I said yesterday that Carney campaign is literally dark on TV here in New Castle County, while Markell floods the airwaves with a variety of one minute and thirty second ads.   With 33 days to go until the primary, I find that odd.   Does think he is well known enough that he doesn’t have to lay down money on bio ads?   Does he think he does not need to air television advertising at all?   Will he be relying on an Union fed ground game instead?   I don’t know.

But given Drew Volturo’s latest article in the Delaware State News (which unfortunately I cannot link to online because it is behind), I have to wonder if Carney is hurting for money, given the Delaware Democratic Party’s continued disregard for its members and continued spending on pro-Carney radio ads:

Radio listeners throughout the state might have heard a new advertise­ment Tuesday plugging Lt. Gov. John C. Carney Jr.’ s work in the June passage of a cancer right- to- know law, the second radio spot funded by the Dela­ware Democratic Party favor­ing its endorsed gubernatorial candidate.

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The [original] wind power ad, which aired over two weeks at the end of July, cost at least $ 25,000.  The new 60-second ad will air through Monday on at least seven radio stations at a cost of more than $ 10,500, accord­ing to information provided by Delmarva Broadcasting and Clear Channel Delaware.

So an additional $10,500 has been used by the party for the new “I cured cancer” ads for Carney.   At this point, the party should just empty its coffers.  I am no longer outraged, but with each dollar they spend, the more resolve I have that Markell be elected our nominee and that Daniello and his minions be swept out of power.    But I digress.

With the party continuing to prop up Carney with its own money, what is the state of Carney’s fundraising?   Is he doing fine, and just planning on a last minute blitz of ads over the last two weeks of the campaign while Markell spends money on ads now, all the while having the state party prop him up in the meantime?    Or is the party spending money on ads for Carney because he is not bringing in the dough?

I suspect it is the former, rather than the latter.  My sources tell me that Carney’s union support is planning a big expenditure on behalf of Carney soon, either to the Carney campaign itself, or on its behalf.   I think the state party expenditures are just to let Carney tred water while Markell pounds the state with ads.   Which makes their spending our money all the more egregious.

Over at DWA a thread about a Carney blog was hijacked by the question of whether renters should be allowed to vote in a school referendum. Personally, I found this worthy of a post. (Sorry Mike and Co, but I gave you a few days to post on this before stealing snagging it for myself!)

So, here are my questions:

1. Should renters be allowed to vote in a referenda?

2. Should school districts still be funded by referenda?

Let ‘er rip!

I think Copeland messed up a little bit here.   In today’s News Journal, he said he “would not take off the table” the idea of allowing an oil platform to be built off the Delaware coastline.  Matt Denn pounces:

“I support limited oil drilling as part of a balanced national energy policy-but oil drilling off the coast of Delaware? We should not only take the idea off the table, we should throw it out of the house and lock the doors.

“Between his opposition to the Bluewater Wind project and his receptiveness to oil drilling off our beaches, Senator Copeland and I could not be further apart on the issues of renewable energy and the environment in Delaware. He has repeatedly sided with the power companies, at the expense of clean, affordable, renewable energy. Rather than doing the oil companies’ bidding and allowing them to drill everywhere, including off our coast, drilling should be limited to those areas that have already been identified.”

Just like Jason and Mike M. predicted.

Welcome back, Dave!

When you think about it, they ruled congress for almost the entire Bush mess, they have held the slim Dem majority hostage. So well, wouldn’t you know, their product isn’t selling anymore and voter rolls are showing it. I do admire their ability to still be able to control the message and get their bitches to vote in line. It is coming at the expense of the local and state politicians though. Which, is where the sheep are and the sheep aren’t going to speak up. So, over the cliff they go with the rest of the “moral majority”.

voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a move away from Republicans that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. Already, there has been a sharp reversal for Republicans in many statehouses and governors’ mansions.

But for a shift away from one party to sustain itself — the current registration trend is now in its fourth year — is remarkable, researchers who study voting patterns say. And though comparable data are not available for the 21 states where voters do not register by party, there is evidence that an increasing number of voters in those states are also moving away from the Republican Party based on the results of recent state and Congressional elections, the researchers said.

I mean, when you get fuktards like Atkins in your party, how do people not change their affiliation. Hell, even that drunk driving SOB is changing parties.

This Brett Favre saga has been the saddest example of a grown man not knowing when to hang up the cleats.  Now he has been traded to the Jets.  The jets, being the smart business people they are know that adding him to their roster gets them press and sells tickets.  It will also get them a lot of interceptions….

Damn, you know, it must be Obama’s lack of judgement and experience that has cause McCain to agree with his inflate your tires and get your car serviced statement.  My, my, my…

After telling a caller to a teleconference Tuesday night that, yes, keeping tires well inflated is a good thing, Senator John McCain tonight seemed to signal that the matter was being put to rest.

Seriously, you people and you know who you are, are such sheep. Now what are you going to do? Oh I know, wait a couple of days to feign over some other issue McCain will eventually flip flop on. Hard to rally around someone you didn’t want to be your candidate. Yet, the more you do, the more we see you for what you are.

Do you believe Ron Suskind’s latest allegation that the CIA and the White House created a forged document?