Recently, St. Joseph’s Mayor Kenny placed an insert in the St. Joseph News Press to “clarify” his defense of frivolous spending on two downtown projects. The merits of the projects, the effectiveness of his defense, and the clarity of the insert piece can be debated. What can’t be debated is that this is a violation of Missouri Ethics laws.
If the advertisement was paid for by the City of St. Joseph, Mayor Kenny needs to fully reimburse the city for the expense of advertising his business. This is a gross misappropriation of funds and severe lapse in judgment by the Mayor and the city staff.
If this piece was paid for by Mayor Kenny’s campaign committee, it needs to state so on the document. Failure to state who paid for a political piece is a blatant violation of Missouri Ethics laws.
If this was paid for by Mayor Kenny from his own pocket, it is misleading and illegal. This is a political piece to defend his position on funding for city projects and therefore should be under the jurisdiction of the Missouri Ethic Commission.
We hope Mayor Kenny will clarify who actually paid for this advertisement in the coming days. We would hate for the MEC to have to clarify things for him.
The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it would give $3.8 billion more to GMAC Financial Services and become the majority owner of the auto lender.This is the third round of government bailouts for GMAC bringing the total amount of taxpayer money given to GMAC to $16.3 billion.
This is happening while other lenders rescued by the Treasury have begun to repay their taxpayer bailouts.GMAC appointed Michael A. Carpenter as chief executive just over a month ago.Carpenter is a former Citigroup executive and current director.Good to know that he has experience running failed companies.
MCV-PAC wonders why the government feels the need to attempt to take over failed businesses with taxpayer money instead of allowing taxpayers to keep their money and letting failed businesses fail.
Until last year GMAC was an auto and home lender, last year it was converted to a bank holding company in order to qualify for bailout financing.GMAC is the only bank of the 19 that were subjected to stress tests that were unable to raise sufficient capital from private investors.
MCV-PAC sees this as yet another example of the Obama administration picking the winners and losers instead of giving everyone equal opportunity and letting the market decide who wins and loses.
Barack Obama needs to realize that he is not a hedge fund manager, his job is not to try and find which companies to use taxpayers money to take over, instead he should be working to protect taxpayers money.
Northwest Missouri Rep. Sam Graves has announced several listening-tour stops around the 6th district as a part of his “Main Street Matters Listening Tour”. According to a press release on his website, Rep. Graves will be discussing the issues that Congress has dealt with this session, including the Stimulus, Cap and Trade and Health Care Reform. As Ranking Member on the House Small Business Committee Graves has a particular interest in how the Obama/Pelosi policies will affect small businesses in Northwest Missouri.
Graves town hall meetings will most likely prove to be less exciting than the townhalls that have dominated the news cycle lately. This is mainly due to the fact the Sam Graves represents his constituents and their values and has consistently voted against the liberal policies that the citizens of his district strongly oppose. Graves has voted against all of the government bailouts, he voted against Cap and Trade and has vigerously opposed the Democrats healthcare and their “public option” that would lead to the end of private insurance. The list of stops on the listening-tour can be found at http://www.house.gov/list/press/mo06_graves/cont.shtml.
Maybe Missouri’s Claire McCaskill could learn from Graves, if you actually represent your voters they don’t feel like they must yell at you in order to be heard.
The 6th District is very privileged to have a strong representative who stands up for them in Washington. If you attend any of these listening-tour stops, please take time to thank Mr. Graves for his consistent support of Conservative values.
Below is a video showing Rep. Graves defending small business on House Floor last month.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon barely waited for President Barack Obama to sign the $787 billion stimulus package before announcing on February 17th the use of $8.5 billion (nearly a 5th of the $46 billion slated for transportation) for construction of what was believed to be the nation’s first stimulus-fueled project: a crumbling 76-year-old bridge that crosses the Osage River about 30 miles southwest of Jefferson City. The remote bridge project which will benefit only a couple hundred people living in Tuscumbia, the county seat of sparsely populated Miller County is likely to employ 25 to 30 mostly local workers.
MCV-PAC questions the economics and the “stimulus” nature of a project that amounts to spending $28.3 million per job “created or saved”, or at best $4.25 million per resident of Tuscumbia.
Last weekend, presumed Democrat candidate for US Senate, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, attempted to dodge the question of whether she would have voted for the extravagantly wasteful “stimulus” bill as ALL DEMOCRAT SENATORS DID: “I don’t think it was an option to do nothing,” Carnahan said. “People who kept saying no to everything … don’t have a lot of credibility on this stuff.” “I don’t know everything that was in that package,” she said, adding that “something had to be done, and it had to be done quickly.”
MCV-PAC ran the figures, and legislators would have had to read 640 words per minute (that’s almost 2 pages) to know everything that was in the 1071-page stimulus bill within the 10 hours before they had to vote.MCV-PAC wonders, as all responsible Missourians do, whether doing something is better than doing nothing when you admittedly don’t know what you are doing. So, what kind of credibility do Carnahan, Senator McCaskill, or the rest of the Democrat Senate actually have? Can we trust Carnahan to represent OUR best interests when she wouldn’t even bother to slow down the process, preferring to just doing the “something” that was presented by San Francisco and Las Vegas liberals Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
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