From this article in a St. Louis newspaper: “This past November — the day of the general election — I’m at a stoplight on King’s Highway [in St.Louis] when a passenger in a green BMW next to me rolls down the window and sends a cigarette butt bouncing off my car an into the street. Nice, I thought to myself, real classy. But what most shocked me about the act was when I made eye contact with the cigarette tosser it was none other than [Congressman] Lacy Clay! I guess the congressman didn’t need to worry about appearances that day. He was running for re-election against a Libertarian candidate and easily won 93 percent of the vote.”

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