More than a week has passed, but unless I missed it, the Joplin Globe has still run no story on the Missouri Ethics Commission's decision to allow Rep. Ron Richard, R-Joplin, the speaker-in-waiting, to keep more than $80,000 in over-the-limit campaign contributions.
Richard was one of a number of candidates who met with the Commission behind closed doors to claim hardship and ask the Commission to let them keep contributions that were above the limit.
Even if the Globe did not want to handle the story itself, it had the Associated Press version available. As noted in this blog, Richard used a considerable amount of this money to make campaign contributions to his fellow representative during his successful campaign to be anointed heir apparent to Speaker of the House Rod Jetton.
2 comments:
A. The Ethics Commission has no legal authority to make any decisions in the matter of returning money. The spineless courts refused to make the decision and handed the decision-making over to the Commission. All of which is unconstitutional.
B. For what is supposed to be a non-partisan blog this article is obviously biased against Ron Richard.
C. Richard was not annointed heir-apparent. He was ELECTED. There is a huge difference.
I guess Mr. Richard needs all of the $$ donations to secure his status in the House....whoops he is running unopposed, what does he need that money for?? Must be great to live in SW (Rep) MO and not have to answer for all of the MONEY issues in which he is INVOLVED--please challenge his thinking Randy
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