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National GOP launching massive TV ad buy in 40 congressional districts -- none in Missouri

Democrats in Missouri are abuzz over today's report inPolitico, the national online politics site, about the "$22 million TV ad blitz" soon to be launched by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 40 House districts around the country.

No Missouri House seats are among them, despite frequent national GOP assertions that U.S. Reps. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, and Ike Skelton, D-Lexington, are among their targets.

The state Democratic Party swiftly declared that the NRCC's announcement is bad news for the two Democrats' GOP rivals: Vicky Hartzler (Skelton) and St. Louis lawyer Ed Martin (Carnahan).

No reaction yet from Martin's camp.

Martin, by the way, says he's following through tonight with the first of his three scheduled "debates'' -- hosted by ally Martin Duggan -- although Carnahan never agreed to the events and isn't showing up. (The two have agreed on two debates in September.)

This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon.

Jo Mannies has been covering Missouri politics and government for almost four decades, much of that time as a reporter and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the first woman to cover St. Louis City Hall, was the newspaper’s second woman sportswriter in its history, and spent four years in the Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau. She joined the St. Louis Beacon in 2009. She has won several local, regional and national awards, and has covered every president since Jimmy Carter. She scared fellow first-graders in the late 1950s when she showed them how close Alaska was to Russia and met Richard M. Nixon when she was in high school. She graduated from Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana, and was the daughter of a high school basketball coach. She is married and has two grown children, both lawyers. She’s a history and movie buff, cultivates a massive flower garden, and bakes banana bread regularly for her colleagues.