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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigns, ending political career once aimed at presidency
KC Star ^
| 5/29/18
| Jason Hancock
Posted on 05/29/2018 2:33:31 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
Eric Greitens stormed into the governor’s office in January 2017 vowing to clean up a state government he said was corrupt.
He resigned Tuesday just as abruptly as he had arrived on Missouri's political scene, his career buried under an avalanche of scandal and felony charges.
Mike Parson, 63, a fellow Republican and former sheriff who served 11 years in the General Assembly before being elected as lieutenant governor in 2016, will take over as Missouri’s 57th governor. He’ll finish Greitens’ term, which runs until January 2021.
A Rhodes scholar and former Navy SEAL, Greitens was once considered one of the brightest stars in the Republican Party — a rock star who traveled the country campaigning for his fellow GOP governors, all while building his national profile and donor base for an almost inevitable run at the White House.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: americanheartland; billclinton; clinton; ericgreitens; greitens; hawley; heartland; imstillwatching; ivyleague; joshhawley; kansascity; middleamerica; missouri; mo; mo2016; mo2018; mo2020; parson; resignation; rga; rhodesscholar; sexscandals; stl; stlouis; x42; yourenotsafe
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
What is Sarah doing now ?
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:48:28 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: GuavaCheesePuff
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:50:29 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
To: DoodleDawg
Looks like a heap of dumbassery to me. Come on folks. Keep it clean.
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:50:53 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I believe she is working for Greitens as an administrator I believe.
To: old-ager
It helps MO republicans. No way we could afford the internal war. We have an internal war going on over this. Hopefully this gives us time to patch things up enough to get Hawley over the finish line. Had Greitens let the drag on through impeachment then that would have really hurt the GOP.
To: Darth Gill
Greitens caused this by screwing around and getting himself involved in a political honey trap.
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:57:59 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: DoodleDawg
A Rhodes scholar and former Navy SEAL, Greitens was once considered one of the brightest stars ... There's your problem !
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:58:44 PM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(I am a Putin bot and I approve this message.)
To: DoodleDawg
Greitens supports blame Hawley for a lot of the problems Greitens has faced. Some will blame him for the resignation. It's going to cause a split in the party; how serious remains to be seen. Personally I don't think it's fatal to Hawley's campaign but it doesn't help either. Greitens was a constant slow trickle of bad news that was paralyzing the Missouri GOP. To be fair, the state party is in disarray, so it didn't take much. Still, I like Mike Parsons coming in as Governor, and like him or not, Hawley is the guy endorsed by Trump to defeat McCaskill. They have five months to put together a good campaign. It will be easier with Greitens out of the way.
To: DoodleDawg
You can tell from the other comments on this thread that the Todd Akins treatment is at work on Hawley. It doesn’t matter that the argument is all going in the opposite direction, the objective is to divide our side and get McCaskill reelected. She is an evil schemer and this will be a dirty fight. Gretens pulled the pin in the grenade released the spoon and threw the pin. SEALS aren’t supposed to do that.
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posted on
05/29/2018 2:59:52 PM PDT
by
centurion316
(Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
To: DoodleDawg
How do these people think they can get away with their malfeasance?
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:01:07 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: centurion316
Well said.
Greitens sounds like an utter dumb@ss.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:02:28 PM PDT
by
Conserv
To: DoodleDawg
Pelosi used the Mark Foley scandal to take over in 2006. Foley was tied to every Republican running. Look for the same play again.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:04:42 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: old-ager
How does it do that?
I see the opposite.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:05:56 PM PDT
by
KEVLAR
(Liberty or Death)
To: Reverend Wright
Like Clinton, did he study a broad?
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:06:05 PM PDT
by
proust
("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
To: DoodleDawg
Greitens should have never been nominated by MO Republicans in 2016. Catherine Hanaway or John Brunner would have been better.
To: DoodleDawg
I voted against Greitens in the primary since there were better conservatives running against him, but then I didn't vote for rino Blunt in the primary either.
Maybe this will clear the decks for the #1 goal, defeating McCaskill.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:07:32 PM PDT
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
To: DoodleDawg
He was a Rat until 2015. Then he became an opportunist. Anyway, good riddance.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:08:30 PM PDT
by
bkopto
To: Reverend Wright
What’s wrong with a Rhodes Scholar? It’s a high honor for educational achievement.
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Greitens was only a Republican for two years. The rest of his life, he has been a Democrat...Bingo! And he was a Rhodes Scholar to boot, so the voters should have known better.
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:14:14 PM PDT
by
Always A Marine
("I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation")
To: All
It would be nice if republicans could learn to ‘keep it in their pants’... at least if they are married and in / or running for, high office.
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