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Sec. of State candidate Schoeller attacks "puppy mill" language

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The Republican nominee for Secretary of State is conducting a so-called “Farm Values Tour” across Missouri this week. 

At a meeting of the Missouri Soybean Association, Schoeller criticized departing Secretary of State Robin Carnahan for using the phrase “puppy mill” in the ballot initiative narrowly passed by voters in 2010.  Schoeller said his Democratic opponent Jason Kander would follow Carnahan’s lead if elected.

Schoeller said, “I would do everything I can to be fair and treat them as they would expect to be treated, and not have to worry about a Secretary of State who sides with an outside interest group, like the national Humane Society of the United States.”

A state law last year removed the phrase “puppy mill” and did away with the cap of 50 dogs per breeder.  Meanwhile, a spokesman for Kander says he would be a non-partisan Secretary of State, while Schoeller would, quote, “stick up only for his friends.”

Missouri Public Radio State House Reporter Marshall Griffin is a proud alumnus of the University of Mississippi (a.k.a., Ole Miss), and has been in radio for over 20 years, starting out as a deejay. His big break in news came when the first President Bush ordered the invasion of Panama in 1989. Marshall was working the graveyard shift at a rock station, and began ripping news bulletins off the old AP teletype and reading updates between songs. From there on, his radio career turned toward news reporting and anchoring. In 1999, he became the capital bureau chief for Florida's Radio Networks, and in 2003 he became News Director at WFSU-FM/Florida Public Radio. During his time in Tallahassee he covered seven legislative sessions, Governor Jeb Bush's administration, four hurricanes, the Terri Schiavo saga, and the 2000 presidential recount. Before coming to Missouri, he enjoyed a brief stint in the Blue Ridge Mountains, reporting and anchoring for WWNC-AM in Asheville, North Carolina. Marshall lives in Jefferson City with his wife, Julie, their dogs, Max and Mason, and their cat, Honey.