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Emily West, whose father is a Republican candidate for the Missouri State House, is telling voters not to support her dad on Election Day, according to The Kansas City Star. “I can’t imagine him being in any level of government,” she told the newspaper, referring to Steve West, 64, on Monday. Steve West made headlines over the summer for previous anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic comments he made online that came to light, including one in which he said “Hitler was right” about who was “behind” the events taking place in Germany before World War II. “A lot of his views...

When I started setting up The Torch, I did a lot of research on what left leaning sites were focusing on Missouri. The bulk of the links I reviewed I found at the official website of the Missouri Democratic Party.What I didn't expect to find was a website selling me on the theraputic effects of Japanese massage aromatherapy, but that's exactly what I found when I went to the link posted on the Missouri Democratic Party's website for the Missouri House Democrats. Seriously, see for yourself. First, open this link in another tab or window.Now, under "Meet the Party," click...

Question of the day: Do you favor a 24-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion, as advanced by the Missouri House? YES--It helps to protect women from making a decision they may regret NO--It treats women as if they are incapable of making their own decisions

GOP takes Mo. House, Senate by clear margin Republicans have not taken the control of the House in almost half a century. By ROBERT SANDLER November 6, 2002 JEFFERSON CITY — Republicans won enough state races Tuesday to take control of the Missouri House of Representatives – for the first time since 1954. The final details of some elections were unknown at press time. The secretary of state's office was reporting that the St. Louis election computer systems had crashed, and workers were in the process of faxing information to Jefferson City. But the results of many races are still...