How Long Before Matt Blunt is Indicted?

I'm taking bets here, and for the commenter who gets it closest - the drinks are on me at The Record Bar in Westport until the winner can't walk - and then I'll cover the cab.

We have the FBI looking into the patronage fee-office system, where political donors of the party in the governors mansion (figurativly - his pedantic little princess of a wife doesn't like the mansion so he commutes 140 miles one-way from Springfield in a 6-Suburban caravan, at taxpayer expense, to Jeff City every weekday. Then there are the questions about how he afforded the Springfield house in the first place...)

Ronnie Earle may soon request the presence of young master Blunt in Austin to answer charges that his 2002 campaign for Secretary of State was the recipient of illegal funds that originated with the disgraced Tom DeLay.

There is the probe into his 2004 campaign for governor when he used $48,000 of the public funds to run ads to encourage the citizenry to go to the polls. This ploy gave Blunt an unfair edge over his opponents and allowed him to win by a nose.

As Secretary of State, Blunt instructed county election officials for lists of absentee voters, and then forwarded those names to Republican campaign operatives, and the GOP began cantacting those voters. (This is called "caging".)

And that's just off the top of my head.

It is imperative that we send a Democratic majority to both chambers of the statehouse when we vote in November, because "The Punk must be Lame Ducked!"