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Missouri Auditor and governor candidate Tom Schweich has died (self-inflicted gunshot)
StL Post Dispatch ^
| Feb, 265, 2015
Posted on 02/26/2015 11:47:26 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Tom Schweich, Missouri's Republican state auditor and a leading contender for the governor's office in next year's election, has died, according to office.
Earlier in the day, a police source said Schweich had sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The initial statement from Schweich's office said only that he was being treated.
Schweich was 54.
His death was confirmed by his office early Thursday afternoon
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2016election; auditor; isolatedincident; phonecalls; schweich
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To: NEMDF
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:06:20 PM PST
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Second Amendment First
Tragic. Military vet who did a combat tour.
Smart money would still be on Blunt but he was as good a candidate as the dims could get.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:18:07 PM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: fungoking
Oops wrong candidate.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:20:14 PM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: Second Amendment First
I suspect he got a phone call from his doctor.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:22:58 PM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: NEMDF
Did he have any ties to the Ferguson crap and DOJ meddling? What would the state auditor have to do with Ferguson?
To: Second Amendment First
I cannot help but wonder if maybe the auditors were auditing the Auditor.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:26:42 PM PST
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
To: Second Amendment First
Quote from the local STL news. “The police source said Schweich’s wife was in another room of their house when she heard her husband making phone calls, followed by a single gunshot.”
Can’t even imagine what his poor wife is going through.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:40:57 PM PST
by
Snark
To: DoodleDawg
No. Agreed. Way too many tin foil hat wearers around here.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:41:11 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
To: Second Amendment First
This is sad! With that said, it now leaves a possibility for Sarah Steelman to run for Governor.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:49:34 PM PST
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
To: Second Amendment First
Someone probably had info they were going to bring out, and it was not good.
To: Graybeard58
Last two days some very derogatory political ads against this man have been on local radio. I wonder if that could have had anything to do with this suicide.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:51:52 PM PST
by
cotton
(one way, one truth, the life.)
To: cotton
Last two days some very derogatory political ads against this man have been on local radio.There wouldn't be a politician alive if they were that thin-skinned.
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:52:43 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: easternsky
That was my thought as well.......................
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posted on
02/26/2015 12:59:34 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: cotton
The propensity Missouri Republicans have for excoriating each other is legendary. Steelman vs. Hulsof. Steelman vs Brunner. On and on...
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posted on
02/26/2015 1:37:33 PM PST
by
donozark
(On the other side of fear lies freedom)
To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA
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posted on
02/26/2015 8:11:10 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Second Amendment First; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ..
No idea if the truth of the assertion that it was self inflicted.
YMMV
The biggest killer of mankind
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
02/26/2015 8:18:11 PM PST
by
null and void
(No crime, real or imagined, is too small to not be declared a felony.)
To: Impy
I would presume he does. The question is whether there will be a special election called (since the term just commenced last month) before 2018.
To: easternsky
Someone probably had info they were going to bring out, and it was not good. That's what it sounds like to me.
To: SJackson
Tenuous connection to Judaism/anti-Semitism - see article.
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posted on
02/26/2015 8:29:15 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Politics1 lists a 2016 special, FWIW.
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posted on
02/26/2015 8:44:09 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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