Subject: Rod Jetton

• Not Exactly Skinhead Spam

  May 18, 2006

• Kraske's big scoop declines to name names

  Could Rod Jetton be known as 'lawmaker' to Star readers?Basketball players pound their chest after a powerful dunk. The daily newspaper equivalent of the pec slap is the copyright symbol. "©" made an appearance on the front page of Sunday's Kansas City Star. The Steve Kraske-written story said the FBI is investigating Missouri lawmakers for trading favors for campaign donations.Kraske's sources are solid. Three lawmakers told The Star's chief political writer they had spoken with agents.But Kr

  March 31, 2009

• Letters from the issue of February 28, 2008

  February 28, 2008

• How Would Jesus Haunt?

  October 12, 2006

• And we're back ...

  Rod Jetton​The big story of the weekend was the Kansas City Star's look into one of the most powerful men in Missouri politics: political consultant and former lawmaker Rod Jetton. It's a must-read story that looks into campaign donations to Jetton's clients, especially those coming after controversial votes and allegations that Jetton is more of a lobbyist than a consultant, thus skirting ethics laws. The Star reports that the way Jetton "conducts political business has attracted the scrutiny

  October 19, 2009

• Nixon talks political controversy (just not his own)

  Jay Nixon​Jason Rosenbaum, our pick as Best Blogger of 2009, captured Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's reaction (click for the video) to The Kansas City Star's big story on political consultant and former lawmaker Rod Jetton and accusations of "pay for play." In short, Nixon wants limits on campaign contributions. The Democratic governor had to be happy the spotlight was off him -- if just for a moment -- but the Lake of the Ozarks dirty water scandal keeps dogging him. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's

  October 20, 2009