PUB DEF

Dem Demolition Derby for Lt. Gov Spot!

From the Post-Dispatch: Scott Eckersley, a lawyer fired from Gov. Matt Blunt‘s office, filed a suit today that accuses several top Blunt aides of ordering the illegal destruction of state e-mails to prevent potentially damaging messages from being turned over to reporters. The suit contends that Eckersley was fired for repeatedly pressing Blunt aides with [...]

Gov. Matt Blunt gave the kind of Christmas gift Sunday that only a governor can give. Blunt announced his decision to pardon Alicia Allison-Brown, Jesse Barnes, James Birdwell, Sr., Craig Johnson, Robert Jordan and Carl Smart, who all were convicted of non-violent offenses years ago and have since, according to Blunt, become and remained law-abiding [...]