Missouri’s Republican Senator Kit Bond will appear on the Comedy Central’s  fake-news show ‘The Daily Show’ Monday night.

Bond says he’s flying to New York Monday for the appearance. He indicated he might have some zingers for host Jon Stewart, but he wouldn’t elaborate.

During the appearance Bond will try to promote his new book, ‘The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam’. He co-authored it with  Lewis Simons. The book was released last month.

In Kansas City Friday evening,  Bond ripped the Obama Stimulus plan in the wake of the  news the unemployment rate has topped 10%.

“Many businesses are afraid to expand because with all the threatened burdens government is pushing on them, with higher costs for health care, higher taxes, potentially a heavy tax on energy;  they can’t afford to take on more employees.”

He also laid some of the blame on the Bush Adminstration. He says both governments failed to solve the real problem that led to the recession. Bond says that was the  failure to get the bad loans out of the market.

Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton’s announcement this week that he will not support the Democratic Health Care bill put him in Friday’s New York Times.

Here’s the  Skelton part of the piece:

Defectors Among the House Democrats

Jay Mallin/Bloomberg Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, opposes the Democratic health care bill.

While Democratic leaders say they are confident they will have the 218 votes needed to pass major health care legislation this weekend, a number of House Democrats, including several from Republican-leaning districts in the South, have announced that they will oppose the measure, which is President Obama’s top domestic priority.

The Democrats currently control 257 voters in the House, and one more Democrat, Bill Owens, newly elected from New York, will be sworn in on Friday. With all 177 Republicans likely to oppose the health care bill, Democrats at most can afford to lose 40 of their own caucus members.

They will definitely lose a bunch. Among them is Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

“I oppose the creation of a government-run public insurance program and continue to have serious concerns about its unintended consequence for Missourians who have private insurance plans they like,” he said in a statement issued this week.

Mr. Skelton also expressed concerns that the bill would allow tax dollars to pay for abortions, a worry that led 40 Democrats to send a letter to House leaders urging them to tighten provisions to prevent federal money from paying to terminate pregnancies.

Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, and his Northwest Missouri counterpart Rep. Sam Graves are pushing hard for the Kansas City World War I Museum to be at the center of the 100th Anniversary of the start of the “the war to end all wars” in 2014.

Here’s part of Graves statement.

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1849, the World War I Memorial and Centennial Act of 2009. I want to thank my friend and Missouri colleague, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, for introducing this legislation and would very much like to echo his remarks. He’s been very active in this process and with the work he has done at the Memorial in Kansas City. I am very proud to call him a good friend.

As Mr. Cleaver has already mentioned, H.R. 1849 is a fitting recognition and tribute to all U.S. veterans who served in World War I at home and abroad. This bill designates the Liberty Memorial and the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri as the National World War I memorial. To be clear, there is no nationally recognized memorial honoring the service of Americans who served in World War I.

H.R. 1849 also establishes a World War I Centennial Commission to ensure suitable observance of the centennial of World War I, which is fast approaching.

Again, I do want to thank Congressman Cleaver for his outstanding work on this important legislation and strongly urge its adoption.”

Former US Attorney General and Missouri Senator John Ashcroft is in the Tiahrt for Senate Camp.

He endorsed him today, according to the Tiahrt campaign. “

“Todd Tiahrt is a principled fiscal and social conservative who understands what it takes to keep this country safe,” said Ashcroft. “He fights for the conservative values he believes in and does not waver in the face of tough opposition”, said Ashcroft through a campaign statement.

 He added, “Conservatives across this country are yearning for principled conservatives in Washington,” continued Ashcroft, “I feel strongly that Todd Tiahrt can help provide that common sense conservative leadership in the Senate.”

Kansas City Council Member Jan Marcason has been appointed to the Missouri Women’s Council by Governor jay Nixon.

The 15 member panel is part of the Missouri Economic Developement Dept. According from a statemen from Marcasion’s office the Council, “the council works closely with other agencies and community-based organizations to build awareness, educate, promote opportunities” for women and their families.

She remains on the City Council.

Attorney Arthur Benson says he’s filing a civil rights suit alleging racial profiling continues in the Power and light entertainment district in Kansas City.

the entertainment district, owned by the Cordish Corp, and supported with taxpayer dollars has been the source of  discrimination charges for the last year.

Earlier this year, the City Council debate and then approved a general dress code for entertainment districts like the Power and Light district.

According to Benson, a group of African-American family members were denied admission to certain sports in the district based on their style of dress.

In a statement, Benson says ” For two years the City of Kansas City has received hundreds of complaints of racial profiling at the Power & Light District, has held hearings, and negotiated at great length with representatives of the developer and entertainment venues in the District, and still race discrimination continues in admissions to places of public accommodation, in violation of Missouri law.

Kansas Govenor Mark Parkinson is lowering state flags to half staff  to honor the former Kansas Govenor, the late William Avery.  He died at the age of 98.

State flags will remain at half staff until sundown November 14.

Here’s  the Avery biography which was supplied by the Governor’s office:

William Avery was born on August 11, 1911, near Wakefield in Clay County, Kansas. After attending Wakefield High School, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1934. He returned to farming and ranching in Wakefield and married Hazel Bowles in 1940. He has four children.

A Republican, Avery was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1950 and served to 1955. In 1954, he campaigned for the Republican nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives on an “anti-big-dam” platform, opposing the Tuttle Creek Dam project on the Blue River. He won both the nomination and election, beginning a congressional career which would span the next 10 years. In 1964 Avery left the U. S. House and was elected 37th governor of Kansas. He served one term as governor, losing a re-election bid to Robert Docking in 1966. In 1968 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the U. S. Senate. Avery returned to private life and settled in Wichita, Kansas. He was with Garvey Enterprises (1967-1968), the Clinton Oil Company (1969-1971), and later served as president of the Real Oil Company.

For more information on the William H. Avery Papers Collection at the Kansas State Historical Society, please visit:  http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/personalpapers/findingaids/avery_william_henry.htm

In the on-going  battle to prove who is the most conservative candidate in the GOP 4th District Congressional primary,  Vicky Hartzler has  been endorsed by the conservative Eagle Forum, founded by Missourian Phyllis Schlafly.

“We proudly and enthusiastically support Vicky Hartzler as a champion of free enterprise and Missouri values. She is a rising star who can do so much to fix what is broken in Washington. When it mattered the most, Vicky Hartzler stood up to protect marriage from activist state and federal judges, and Missouri values won the day”, Schlafly said in statement.

“I am deeply grateful for Eagle Forum’s support in a race where I sometimes feel like David going against Goliath. Phyllis Schlafly’s courage and success in standing up for what’s right for our great nation have always been a great inspiration to me, said Hartzler.

Here’s part of Congressman Roy Blunt’s take on the Tuesday results:

“”Independents, conservatives, conservative and moderate Democrats and Republicans teamed up for big victories Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey. It was great to see strong voter support in Virginia and New Jersey for ideas that also represent the basis of my platform in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race — jobs and economic growth that emphasize free enterprise instead of government control, fiscally responsible budgets, and no job-destroying tax hikes. But, the bottom line is these victories will improve the lives of the people of Virginia and New Jersey. That is why elections are important.

“The McDonnell and Christie victories last night were rejections of the policies of the extreme left. Missourians also reject the nation’s hard move left with its government takeover of everything in site, the failure to deliver on new jobs promises and the constant theft of our freedoms.”

After top government officials told a House Committee distributing H1N1 flu vaccine will remain problematic, Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tiahrt is a member of House Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Relations. “Even our top public health officials can’t answer what the vaccine need is or when we will meet that need,” said Tiahrt.

He also blamed Washington for a lack of US made H1N1 flu vaccine. He says there only a handful of plants in the world that manufacture the drug. He pointed out the only US plant is French owned.