Ward Connerly recently visited Kansas City, promising to end Affirmative
Action in Missouri with a 2008 ballot initiative. Christopher Arps, a former staffer for former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (never did the word “former” sound so sweet) brags about speaking at Connerly’s press conference on his “New Leadership” blog, a forum he routinely uses to bash the American and U.S. Rep. Wm. “Lazy” Clay, as Arps insultingly styles the 1st District congressman from St. Louis.
The EYE wonders where Arps got the gas money to make the trip to K.C. The man is a deadbeat dad, and not just a missed-one-payment type – according to the Missouri Department of Corrections, Christopher Arps of Florissant was convicted of non-support for six out of 12 months in St. Louis County in 2001. According to the Department of Corrections official, Dean Watson, the dude is on active probation in District 8E (Florissant) until 2011. That’s right – Arps will still be under review by the Department of Corrections for his apparent unwillingness to support his children when the next presidential primary is heating up. Maybe he needs to spend less time on Republican politics and more time on his family. And maybe instead of preaching responsibility, Arps should start practicing it.