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Talent Cleared
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| October 18, 2002
| David Lieb - AP
Posted on 10/18/2002 12:05:45 PM PDT by FryingPan101
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OCTOBER 18, 13:30 ET Mo. Ethics Commission Clears Talent
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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: carnahan; senate; talent
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To: FryingPan101; TroutStalker; barker; KC_Conspirator
A "Daschle cryin' in his beer alert"!!!! fsf
To: FryingPan101
More bad news for The Widder.
To: FryingPan101
The Carnahan camp was hoping to make this a BIG issue. Too bad for them.
The story about this investigation was in the St. Louis and Kansas city newspapers this morn..and the Carnahan camp was drooling over their last chance...
Ashland, Missouri
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:10:32 PM PDT
by
rface
To: FryingPan101
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
"Curses, foiled again!" says Da$$hole!
To: FryingPan101
Lovin' it.
To: BallandPowder
LOL
To: Free State Four
Now where did I put the official seal of the DemonRAT party (the one with the baby crying)?
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:22:29 PM PDT
by
steveegg
To: rface
I don't know how you can tell the difference between normal Team Ma Carnahan drooling and drooling with anticipation <VBG>
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:26:00 PM PDT
by
steveegg
To: rface; BlackRazor; KQQL; frmrda; eureka!
This is a pleasant surprise.
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:31:05 PM PDT
by
Coop
To: Coop; rface; BlackRazor; KQQL; eureka!
This is good news. Always good when this stuff happens right before an election.
Does anyone know if this was a big deal out there?
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:34:21 PM PDT
by
frmrda
To: Free State Four
Some good news.
To: Free State Four
So far it looks like the best she can come up with is the fact Talent has no Missouri fishing license which you don't need anyway to fish on private property.
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posted on
10/18/2002 12:38:58 PM PDT
by
barker
To: FryingPan101
I will never forget the outcry from the Democrats after Watergate broke. Then they refuse to impeach a President who perjured himself and now this! The stench of hypocrisy rises to the heavens!!
To: Free State Four
Kelley had to know this was a bogus complaint when he filed it. It never amounted to anything more than a fake campaign issue, and the RAT's willing handmaidens: the KC Star, StL Post Dispatch and AP were happy to lend their hands.
Talent should include this in his ads as an example of how low the w/b will sink to attempt to smear him.
To: rface
Didn't they know better than to run her for re-election. The deal wa that she got to serve until the next election, that she had to show she was more than a seat-warmer, which she didn't.
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posted on
10/18/2002 1:38:01 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
To: FryingPan101
Come on Missouri, do us a huge favor and drop the weeping widow! Sorry, I feel sorry for her loss of her husband, however, not for using it to get a seat in the Senate which she was wholy unqualified to hold. Might as well as elected Gomer Pyle to the job.
To: RetiredArmy
Talent has my vote.
He had my vote when he was running against One-Term-Bob.
--erik
Columbia, MO
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posted on
10/18/2002 2:07:03 PM PDT
by
erikm88
To: FryingPan101
The question is that with only 3 weeks until election day, will the sheeple of MO. ever hear this aquital of Talent (R) from the lamestream media? This was a calculated dirty trick by the Rats to smear a real Republican threat to a weak Rat Senatrix in a critical election. Anyone else see a pattern here? CA, NJ, FL, SD, MN, TX, etc. This is a political war we can't afford to loss by default.
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posted on
10/18/2002 2:07:11 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: FryingPan101
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.Heh, Heh, This is a case of be careful what you wish for! Talent can really push this letter as vindication for him and as a stick to beat the Dems. with because it sounds like the typical Dem dirty trick. They wanted to get Talent off his stride by making him have to clear himself. I hope he hits them HARD with this!
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posted on
10/18/2002 4:22:26 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
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