Sen. Scott Rupp (R-Wentzville) is going to lead a filibuster. Most of the Senate Republican powers that be, including Majority Leader Kevin Engler (R-Farmington) and last year’s nominee for Treasurer, Brad Lager (R-Maryville) seem to support Martinez, but I get the feeling that Rupp wouldn’t be making noises about talking her nomination to death unless he had at least nine other Senators on board. Meaning that at least ten members of the State Senate have spines and nads.
Sen. Robin Wright Jones (D-St. Louis) is most on Martinez’s side, though that shows you how stupid Miss Jones is, because the new St. Louisans that Miss Martinez would like to see St. Louis have would hurt St. Louis’s black population most actuely in the pocketbook and in other ways.
