Monday, April 22, 2013
The former U.S. Representative says the Republican Party needs conservatives in it moving forward.
The official ceremony was over, but still plenty of people who wanted to press the flesh with the man in Congress who helped steer a bill through to a conclusion. People who wanted their picture taken to commemorate the day. For a few minutes, it may have seemed like Todd Akin was back in Congress representing much of West St. Louis County on Friday, after a ceremony dedicating the Ballwin Post Office branch on Manchester Road in honor of Army Specialist Peter Navarro, the Wildwood native who died serving his country in Iraq. At this ceremony, Akin was in the front row of the audience, not on the riser giving remarks. That fell to Ann Wagner, the Ballwin Republican who succeeded Akin when he ran for the U.S. Senate last fall. The general …
Saturday, March 30, 2013
A popular, hard-hitting TV series, Law & Order: SVU, revisits infamous, controversial words of Wildwood-based former Rep. Todd Akin and uses them into an episode. Some media sources and viewers think NBC should not have exploited it. Your reactions?
Creators of “Law & Order: SVU” like to create plots based on the news of the day, and an episode that aired Wednesday night got its cue from former Rep. Todd Akin, R-Wildwood. The show was about how a high-profile rape victim must face off against her attacker in court. The episode entitled, “Legitimate Rape,” is a reference to Akin’s controversial remarks last year that women who endured “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant, stated a Politico article on Tuesday. In the episode's promo, which accompanies this article, NBC bills it as “ripped from the headlines” and “words that set off a national controversy.” As Politico points out, a man in a suit and tie with a flag lapel pin appears as a court witness saying, “It’s nearly impossible …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Republican from St. Louis County represents Missouri's new Second Congressional District.
Ballwin native Ann Wagner took the oath of office in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday, as the 113th session of Congress was seated. Wagner, the new representative for Missouri's Second District, succeeds Representative Todd Akin from Wildwood, and along with William "Lacy" Clay in the First District, absorbs the former Third District represented until Thursday by Russ Carnahan. Wagner, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee and an Ambassador to Luxembourg, defeated Democrat Glenn Koenen in November. Wagner will serve on the House Committee on Financial Services, and was also elected to serve as a member of the GOP Leadership by her fellow Republican freshmen. Soon after being sworn in, Wagner voted to elect John…
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The U.S. House went along with a Senate plan Tuesday to address expiring Bush-era tax cuts while delaying spending cuts.
U.S. House of Representatives voted late Tuesday night 257-167 to endorse a Senate vote early Tuesday morning on a bill to avert the so-called "Fiscal Cliff", as tax cuts passed when George W. Bush was president expired Jan. 1, in addition to automatic spending cuts, which were delayed. A complete list of the yeas and nays can be found on the website for the House of Representatives. Of those who represent the greater St. Louis region, Democrats William Lacy Clay and Russ Carnahan—along with Republicans Blaine Luetkemeyer and Jo Ann Emerson—voted yes, while Todd Akin voted no. Kansas City area Congressman Sam Graves was one of six House members who did not vote. The Senate legislation passed early Tuesday 89-8. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-…
Monday, December 17, 2012
Representative-Elect Ann Wagner answered more Patch user questions and talked about the work being done to prepare as she's sworn into office next month
Visitors to 14551 Manchester Rd., Ballwin, MO 63011 will notice the level of activity there is not up to the level it was just a few weeks ago. In fact, the walls in the campaign office of now Congresswoman-Elect Ann Wagner are now barren, save for the maps she carried around during campaign appearances to explain the boundaries of Missouri's new Second Congressional district. But while the campaign apparatus will wind down as soon as this week, Team Wagner is still plenty busy. As soon as the Ballwin Republican's victory over Democrat Glenn Koenen was assured November 6, another campaign began, this time for a leadership position. She was voted by her freshman colleagues to be their voice with GOP house leaders. Next up was getting a …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The paper's political columnists, known as "The Fix," stated the Wildwood Congressman had "the most colossally bad major campaign of the 2012 general election."
Washington Post political writers are wrapping a bow on the just completed 2012 election cycle by taking a look at the best and worst from the campaign's advertising, and they are pulling no punches in their assessment of what was the worst. According to Aaron Blake, Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan, who together compile the paper's column known as "The Fix", the first ad put out by Todd Akin's U.S. Senate campaign after the firestorm over his comments about "legitimate rape" in an August FOX2 interview claimed the top spot. "The ad seems to try and dismiss Akin’s words as a slip of the tongue rather than a fringe theory about women, and the moment, in our minds, deserved significantly more contrition. We’re not sure anything would have …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sen. Claire McCaskill is the projected winner of the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, defeating Republican challenger Rep. Todd Akin.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has defeated Republican challenger Todd Akin in the U.S. Senate race in Missouri. With 55 percent of the precincts counted on the Missouri Secretary of State's website, unofficial results show McCaskill currently winning by more than 138,000 votes as of 10:10 p.m. Ballots are still being counted in Missouri. McCaskill delivered her victory speech to a cheering crowd of supporters at the Chase Park Plaza at 10 p.m. "With a stubborn determination, tenacity and refusal to give up, we showed the country what Missouri is made of," McCaskill said. McCaskill thanked her supporters during her speech, and went on to mention her mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, who died in the final days of the campaign on Oct. 29. "There…
It was a bright and early election selection for Todd Akin, and his wife, Lulli, who both voted at a polling place hosted at StarBridge Christian Center in Wildwood.
Enthusiasm, spirit and passion are the three elements Wildwood resident and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin spoke about Monday evening, as he met with more pre-election supporters at various campaign stops. But he told Eureka-Wildwood Patch Tuesday morning while standing in line to wait to vote that "all the work has been done, and now it's about hoping for a good outcome." Akin's wife, Lulli, said they slept like a rock last night. Akin, currently the 2nd District U.S. Congressman, said his main question mark, and possibly concern for Election Day, is how long after 7 p.m. it will take for the voter turnout to be compiled. "So many elections this year are very, very close. The outcomes are important because they influence the …
This is where you can find election results for local and legislative races.
- - - Updated at 11:35 p.m. - - - Incumbent Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced he had received a concession call from Republican challenger Ed Martin. Koster also thanked the 400 or so employees at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. “My success tonight is completely a reflection of them and their dedication to the state we love,” Koster said. - - - Updated at 11:30 p.m. - - - Peter Kinder, the Republican Lieutenant Governor of the State of Missouri, celebrated his election to a third term with supporters in Creve Coeur Tuesday night. Kinder was doing a radio interview by phone with talk show host Dana Loesch just before 11 p.m. Tuesday when he received a call from his opponent, former State Auditor Susan Montee. He …
In the final survey of Red Arch and Blue Arch insiders before election day, Democrats said they are disappointed President Obama largely conceded Missouri to Mitt Romney.
In a primary and general election season that has seen more than a fair share of advertisements, Republicans and Democrats polled in an unscientific survey have agreed that Senator Claire McCaskill's ad strategy was better than that of her GOP opponent, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin. That result, obtained through the final pre-election survey of "Red Arch" and "Blue Arch" Democratic and Republican activists in Missouri, may not come as much of a surprise, given the fundraising challenges faced by Akin since August. His comments about rape and pregnancy saw party and third party funding sources dry up until the campaign's waning days, as the GOP largely sought his exit from the race. Still when asked, "Regardless of your partisan preference, which U…
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