De-mock-racy at work. (No Comment).From a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. : "You could have heard a pin drop on the floor of the Missouri House during a recent mock <noinclude></noinclude> Wikipedia does not currently have an encyclopedia article for . You may like to search Wiktionary for "" instead. To begin an article here, feel free to [ edit this page], but please do not create a mere dictionary definition. debate to train freshman legislators after newcomer Representative-elect Cynthia Davis, Republican-O'Fallon, committed the first gaffe. Davis cited the House rulebook to prevent current Representative Chuck Graham Chuck Graham (born February 24, 1965) is a Democratic politician currently representing the 19th Senate District in the Missouri General Assembly, which includes the city of Columbia, Missouri, where he lives. , Democrat-Columbia, from continuing to speak. Davis said members `cannot be recognized on the floor to debate unless they are standing, and I don't believe he (Graham) is standing.' Graham, a six-year veteran of the House, has been in a wheelchair wheel·chair or wheel chair n. A chair mounted on large wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person. wheelchair, n since a car accident twenty-one years ago." |
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