Local politicos are a-wag over rumors that Sen. Jeff Smith, who represents part of St. Louis in the Missouri General Assembly, will soon announce he's stepping down because of legal problems.
Daily RFT reached out to Smith this morning but hasn't yet gotten his response. More next week.
Despite this issue being 'NEWS' back in Dec '07 that none of the papers wrote about - the Post Dispatch got the drop on you.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2009/08/missouri-sen-jeff-smith-pondering-resignation-over-fbi-inquiry/comment-page-4/#comment-47917
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Let's hope his dirty, shady connections to known felony criminal Milton H. Ohlsen III played a part in Jeff Smith's fall from grace.
The Federal Election Commission investigated happenings in Senator Smith's campaigns that led to a Milton H. Ohlsen. Documented here: http://eqs.sdrdc.com/eqsdocs/28044191033.pdf
Ohlsen is a convicted drug dealer, he has pled guilty to fraud and federal firearms violations as well. He has been charged with assault and felony theft. This guy is as dirty as it gets and Jeff Smith alligned himself with such scum in furtherance of his political asperations.
Maybe it's because he sleeps with so many constituents. They are obviously slutty girls, but it is still a bad career move.
The rumors are a flyin'.
I am willing to bet there is nothing to this.
The political kids in this town just start frothing at the mouth whenever the rumor of misdoing goes around. No one has proved anything so I hope people just relax and don't jump to any conclusions.
This reminds me of the rumor last year that Blunt was stepping down because he was secretly gay; the Scott Eckersly e-mails revealed his secret and it was going to break that night on CNN. Never happened and was in no way true though many people swore to it.
Most of these rumors turn out to be bogus.