$124 later it was time for breakfast so we stopped into one of my favorite breakfast spots in all of Missourah, Gailey’s Breakfast Cafe downtown. 

Paddy Malone’s having dinner with Victor and he saw a state Rep. candidate in a competitive general election, and upon seeing him predicted (accurately as it turns out) that he would lose. He said that he had gained five pounds and was as pasty as when he left the capitol in May. Well, Curtis is down weight, and has the legit farmer’s — or in this case politician’s tan. 

Scott Faughn is the publisher of The Missouri Times, owner of the Clayton Times in Clayton; SEMO Times in Poplar Bluff; and host of the only statewide political television show, This Week in Missouri Politics.