State for sale to the highest bidder.

State for sale to the highest bidder.

Ted Folkert

Big money floods MO. Race

Matt Pearce of the L.A. Times tells us about this national group that pours hundreds of thousands of dollars into a Cole County, Missouri judicial candidate’s campaign. Cole is a rural county of 50,000 registered voters, but it includes the state government of Jefferson City.

In the only contested judicial race in Missouri, Brian Stumpe, the Republican candidate, is running to unseat 20 year Democratic incumbent Pat Joyce. It seems that one of Joyce’s rulings two years ago effectively stamped out a 2012 statewide ballot initiative backed by conservatives that aimed to replace income tax with sales taxes.

The Republican State Leadership Committee, a conservative political nonprofit, recently donated $100,000 to Stumpe after spending $150,000 on more than 100 television ads on opposition to his opponent.

Now this is a perfect, real life, example of that worn out phrase of “the best judge money can buy.”

Just one more reason to vote Democratic!

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