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aGameOfThrones
02-27-2015, 12:19 PM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, who had recently launched a Republican campaign for governor, fatally shot himself Thursday in what police described as an "apparent suicide," minutes after inviting reporters to his suburban St. Louis home for an interview.

Schweich's death stunned many of Missouri's top elected officials, who described him as a "brilliant" and "devoted" public servant with an "unblemished record" in office. Just 13 minutes before police got an emergency call from his home, Schweich had a phone conversation with The Associated Press about his plans to go public that afternoon with allegations that the head of the Missouri Republican Party had made anti-Semitic comments about him.

The state GOP chairman denied doing so in an interview later Thursday.

Schweich had Jewish ancestry but attended an Episcopal church. Spokesman Spence Jackson said his boss had recently appeared upset about the comments people were supposedly making about his religious faith and about a recent radio ad describing Schweich as "a weak candidate for governor" who "could be easily confused for the deputy sheriff of Mayberry" and could "be manipulated."

"The campaign had been difficult, as all campaigns are," Jackson said. "There were a lot of things that were on his mind."

But Jackson said Schweich had been diligently going about his work, with another audit scheduled to be released next week.


Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy said Schweich was pronounced dead at a hospital from a single gunshot after paramedics responded to the emergency call.

"Everything at this point does suggest that it is an apparent suicide," Murphy said, adding that an autopsy would be conducted Friday.

Schweich was 54. He had been in office since January 2011 and had easily won election in November to a second, four-year term. He announced a month ago that he was seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2016, and was gearing up for an expected primary fight against Catherine Hanaway, a former U.S. attorney and Missouri House speaker.

Naturally high-strung, Schweich seemed unusually agitated — his voice sometimes quivering and his legs and hands shaking — when he told an AP reporter on Monday that he wanted to hold a press conference to allege that Missouri Republican Party Chairman John Hancock had made anti-Semitic remarks about him.

Schweich postponed a planned press conference Tuesday. But he called the AP at 9:16 a.m. Thursday inviting an AP reporter to his home for a 2:30 p.m. interview and noting that a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also had been invited. An AP reporter spoke with Schweich by phone again at 9:35 a.m. to confirm the upcoming interview.

Police say the emergency call to Schweich's house was received at 9:48 a.m.


http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-auditor-tom-schweich-dies-54-office-says-194300270--politics.html

enhanced_deficit
02-27-2015, 12:37 PM
Naturally high-strung, Schweich seemed unusually agitated — his voice sometimes quivering and his legs and hands shaking — when he told an AP reporter on Monday that he wanted to hold a press conference to allege that Missouri Republican Party Chairman John Hancock had made anti-Semitic remarks about him.

Schweich postponed a planned press conference Tuesday. But he called the AP at 9:16 a.m. Thursday inviting an AP reporter to his home for a 2:30 p.m. interview and noting that a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also had been invited. An AP reporter spoke with Schweich by phone again at 9:35 a.m. to confirm the upcoming interview.

Police say the emergency call to Schweich's house was received at 9:48 a.m.


Very strange, he calls for a press conference to tell press about some anti-semitic comments towards him by Republican party chairman and few hours later he shoots himself?



To strange apparent suicides that Gov Jay Nixon has to deal with on same day.

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Nine Reported Dead After Murder-Suicide in South-Central Mo.
February 27, 2015 7:24 AM
TYRONE, Mo. (KMOX) – UPDATED (12:01 P.M.) – Texas County Coroner Tom Whittaker tells KMOX News it appears the rampage began after the 36-year-old shooter found his mother dead, “most likely’ of natural causes, in their home in the enclave of Tyrone.
The eight people shot were four couples ranging in age from the early-40s to the mid-60s.
The gunman was found dead in neighboring Shannon County.
The highway patrol is not sure about the relationship of the shooter and victims.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon released the following statement regarding the shooting deaths in Texas County

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/02/27/nine-reportedly-dead-in-south-central-mo-shootings/

enhanced_deficit
02-27-2015, 02:28 PM
More details are coming out. If this is all, is calling someone a "jew" still a derogatory thing/anti-sematic among Republicans and can derail election campaigns of those called "secretly jew"? Strange news these days. Going by recent past news, Christian based Republicans seemed to be the biggest supporters of Israel and Jewish people.



GOP Gov Candidate Fretted About Anti-Semitic Attacks Shortly Before Committing Suicide
by Tina Nguyen | 8:59 am, February 27th, 2015

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A leading GOP candidate in the upcoming Missouri governor’s election was found dead in his home Thursday morning from an apparent suicide, and according to a regional paper, he claimed he’d been dogged by anti-Semitic remarks shortly before his death.
Tom Schweich, Missouri’s Republican state auditor, allegedly shot himself in the head less than a month after the election cycle began. Minutes before his death, however, he’d requested an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and according to the paper’s editorial page director Tony Messenger (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-auditor-and-governor-candidate-tom-schweich-has-died/article_879ddcd7-c997-5df3-bc61-39282c4f7434.html), he’d wanted to talk about rumors — started, he believed, by Missouri GOP chairman John Hancock — claiming he was secretly Jewish:


In several conversations via text and phone in the days leading up to Thursday morning, Schweich told Messenger that Hancock mentioned to people in passing that Schweich was Jewish. Schweich wasn’t Jewish. He was a member of the Church of St. Michael & St. George, an Episcopal congregation in Clayton.

Schweich told Messenger he believed the mentions of his faith heritage were intended to harm him politically in a gubernatorial primary in which many Republican voters are evangelical Christians. He said his grandfather was Jewish, and that he was “very proud of his connection to the Jewish faith.”
“He said his grandfather taught him to never allow any anti-Semitism go unpunished, no matter how slight,” Messenger said in a written statement.
Schweich told Messenger that he attempted to ask Sen. Roy Blunt to intervene but was unable to speak with him. Schweich said he had lunch with Blunt’s son, lobbyist Andy Blunt, according to Messenger’s account.



Hancock told reporters that while he may have mistakenly thought Schweich was Jewish at one point, he “certainly would not have said it in a derogatory manner.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-gov-candidate-fretted-about-anti-semitic-attacks-shortly-before-committing-suicide/



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