GWB Mental Health Policy

This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

March 5, 2006

Missouri Senate bill targets consulting contracts

"The consulting contract between House Speaker Rod Jetton and state Sen. Jason Crowell would be illegal under a bill introduced this week by a St. Louis Democrat. Jetton, R-Marble Hill, receives $1,000 a month to act as a political consultant for Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau. Crowell's campaign fund pays the money to Jetton's firm, Common Sense Conservative Consulting LLC. The contract has paid Jetton $33,000 since the consulting firm was created in June 2004. 'The perception is just terrible,' said state Sen. Rita Days, D-St. Louis. 'It doesn't pass the smell test.'":
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2 comments:

Sickly Person said...

I am never surprised when I read stories such as this, but I'm pleased that Senator Days has called her colleagues on the carpet. You know, I think that the capitalist culture urges all of us to take advantage of opportunities to make money, no matter what. When it's not outright breaking and entering, some (such as Jetton and Crowell) will justify what they do and forge ahead. It still makes me wonder, though, what they were thinking.

9:33 AM
Danny Wedding said...

Thanks for the comment, Leslie. It is the power of the press that will limit abuses like this (they go unnoticed without investigative journalism). Blogging helps too.

5:01 AM

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