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« on: February 26, 2015, 02:32:27 PM »

https://twitter.com/ksprnews/status/571029703110189056
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2015, 02:33:59 PM »

Horrible news. RIP. Sad Sad
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2015, 02:42:26 PM »

Wow. Was he facing a corruption scandal or something?
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2015, 02:43:23 PM »

Completely unexpected. RIP.
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2015, 02:43:45 PM »

No idea. Missourians? Condolences going out throughout state guv, Nixon has ordered all state flags to half-mast.
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2015, 02:59:42 PM »

This reminds me of how the picture with the stripper kept Kinder from running for Governor in 2012 (except this is much more morbid and tragic, obviously).
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2015, 03:06:20 PM »

RIP. Don't know too much about him.
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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2015, 03:25:07 PM »

He had requested interviews with the AP and Post-Dispatch a few hours earlier.
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2015, 04:02:55 PM »

This reminds me of how the picture with the stripper kept Kinder from running for Governor in 2012 (except this is much more morbid and tragic, obviously).

I'm not familiar with this story, but besides Blunt, now being the only statewide Republican, will he reconsider this race for 2016?
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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2015, 04:05:53 PM »

This reminds me of how the picture with the stripper kept Kinder from running for Governor in 2012 (except this is much more morbid and tragic, obviously).

I'm not familiar with this story, but besides Blunt, now being the only statewide Republican, will he reconsider this race for 2016?

I think Kinder is unelectable at this point, Ds would destroy him over the stripper stuff.
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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2015, 04:20:06 PM »

RIP, he was one off my most respected Republican politicians.
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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2015, 04:27:58 PM »

RIP.
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2015, 04:42:57 PM »

Damn, RIP.  I'm not aware of there being anything that was going on corruption wise, but you never know.  A tragedy no matter what though.
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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2015, 04:52:25 PM »

Wow, this is terrible. RIP.
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« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2015, 04:57:16 PM »

This is just sad. RIP.
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« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2015, 07:44:17 PM »

This is awful!
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« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2015, 07:51:11 PM »

He had confided to a journalist that he believed the MOGOP chair was leading an anti-Semitic whispering campaign against him. Schweich was Episcopal but had Jewish heritage.
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« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2015, 09:41:23 PM »


This made me wonder, based on how I read that the requests were rather frantic in nature: was he attempting to commit suicide in front of reporters and with cameras rolling a la Budd Dwyer?
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« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2015, 10:52:08 PM »

Well something is certainly fishy. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2015, 11:11:54 PM »

Disturbing news. Condolences to his family in this painful time for Missouri and the country.
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« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2015, 11:18:47 PM »

RIP. Sounds like this primary was really nasty.
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« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2015, 03:51:46 PM »

This is devastating, RIP. Smear campaigns have no place in our society, especially ones which use someone's heritage as a weapon against them.
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« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2015, 01:16:09 AM »

This is devastating, RIP. Smear campaigns have no place in our society, especially ones which use someone's heritage as a weapon against them.
We don't know if that's the real cause yet.
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« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2015, 09:44:03 AM »

This is devastating, RIP. Smear campaigns have no place in our society, especially ones which use someone's heritage as a weapon against them.
We don't know if that's the real cause yet.

Yeah, but it is still disgusting regardless of whether it was the cause or not.
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« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2015, 05:13:13 PM »
« Edited: March 01, 2015, 05:17:45 PM by rbt48 »

Here is the latest from the St Louis Post-Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-tensions-that-schweich-faced-had-mounted/article_16ee39b6-e84c-5f1a-9bfd-56c34f0e9894.html

The story characterizes his death as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  There is also a link to a voicemail he left with the newspaper inviting them to a news conference at his house for that afternoon.
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