If political dishonesty were an Olympic sport, Missouri State Rep. Scott Largent would qualify for the medal round.
Rep. Largent has served two terms in the state’s lower house, representing the 120th District. Now he’s running as a “consistent conservative” in a three-way race in the newly redistricted Senate District 31.
The frontrunner has been Ed Emery, a constitutional conservative late of the Missouri State House, having been “termed out” after serving eight years under the state’s term limits law. Emery has garnered awards as Legislator of the Year from The American Legislative Exchange Council and Legislator of...










An Olympian of Chicanery