Announcement is due on Talent ethics case

stltoday.com ^ | 10/17/2002 09:44 PM | VIRGINIA YOUNG

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JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Ethics Commission will make public as early as today documents showing what action it took on a complaint filed against U.S. Senate candidate Jim Talent.

The decision to open the records came after an impassioned plea from Roy Temple, a strategist for the Missouri Democratic Party who is on leave from his job as an aide to U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo.

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Carnahan was "behind in polls, behind in money, so this is just another stunt to distract the voters."

Yup.

[SERE_DOC]

Don't ya just figure, where was the investigation into the Rats, during the 2000 elections when the polling places were kept open to help the rats, in St Louis, & KC. Not to mention electing a dead man to the senate, what would have helped is to have stuffed old Mel and send his butt to Washington, at least the vote in St Louis would have been accurate "dead man voting"

[Coop]

I figured they would wait until about 30 Oct to spring this one.

[TroutStalker]

The Democratic Party, the Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star and the Associated Press ...

This is redundant.

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I figured they would wait until about 30 Oct to spring this one.

This is material for the Dems to use during the debate scheduled for Monday night (only three days away, how convenient).

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Here is an update:

Ethics Commission May Open Complaints to Public

Jefferson City (AP), 10/18/2002

The public could gain more information about ethics complaints against Missouri politicians under a policy change by the state Ethics Commission. Thursday's decision concerns requests for information about the agency's handling of complaints against Republican US Senate candidate Jim Talent. But, the change could have implications for candidates in all elections.

The Ethics Commission has kept secret almost all information about complaints against political candidates or committees. The filing of complaints still will be secret. But after an investigator makes a report, the commission's action and some information related to the complaint will be open to the public. Commission Chairman Robert Connor says the information about Talent hasn't yet been compiled.

(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Temple said that since 90 days have passed and Talent hasn't announced he was cleared, a logical conclusion was that the commission was proceeding with the complaint.

More like Temple knows there is nothing to the charge, but since he has filed the paperwork, he knows that the KC and St.Louis rags will dutifully "report" about this serious ethics charge - just before election day.

A lot like Mike McCurry waving that picture of the Clintoons dancing on the beach that was only picked up by the LASlimes. Hey, stop doing that and looky here!!!!fsf

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Mo. Ethics Commission Clears Talent

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Story Filed: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:30 PM EDT

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Ethics Commission has cleared Republican Senate candidate Jim Talent of wrongdoing in his dealings with a political fund-raising committee.

In a letter Friday to Talent, the commission said it had dismissed a complaint brought by the executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, Mike Kelley.

The complaint targeted Missouri Renewal, a political fund-raising committee established in January 2001 with Talent as the honorary chairman. The committee raised more than $100,000 last year.

Kelley claimed Talent was violating state law by using Missouri Renewal as a way to promote his candidacy. Under state law, candidates are prohibited from running political committees that can accept donations of unlimited size.

The Ethics Commission determined that Talent was not yet a candidate while he was involved with Missouri Renewal. Talent resigned from the group before declaring his candidacy in 2001 and had not received any contributions in support of a candidacy before then, the commission said in its letter.

The Democratic complaint also had alleged that Talent used his 2000 gubernatorial campaign committee, which had been restructured as a debt retirement committee, to spend money benefiting his Senate campaign in 2001.

The Ethics Commission said the expenditures -- though paid later -- had been incurred before the 2000 governor's election, which Talent narrowly lost to Democrat Bob Holden.

Talent is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan in the Nov. 5 election.

``Missouri voters recognize a trumped-up charge when they see one,'' Talent said in a statement. ``People don't want this kind of politics anymore.''

The letter was released after Kelley and media organizations, including The Associated Press, filed open-records requests for information about the agency's handling of the complaint.

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Mo. Ethics Commission Clears Talent
Awesome. Much better results than I expected.

[Wait4Truth]

Wow! This is great news! Talent needs to make an ad out of this!

[Darlin']

Oh, this is rich. The party of Clinton, McAuliff, Gore, Buddist temples, Charlie Trie, Kennedy, Leahy, Toricelli, Anita Hill, Denise and Marc Rich and dozens more unspeakable scoundrels initiated an ethics invesitgation.