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Political Cornflakes: Missouri governor indicted over extra-marital affair

Happy Friday. From the this-isn’t-good file: Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted by a grand jury in St. Louis Thursday on a charge of invasion of privacy, after the ex-husband of a woman with whom Greitens had an extramarital affair said the now-governor tried to blackmail her. Republicans had high hopes for keeping Missouri red this fall, though the indictment doesn’t help. [Politico]

Topping the news: Senate hopeful Mitt Romney hired a longtime aid who also serves as President Donald Trump’s campaign treasurer to oversee his own campaign’s financial accounting. [Trib]

-> Legislators have drafted a series of bills in hopes of not repeating the case of Gary Ott where a Salt Lake County Recorder with Alzheimer’s spent years in office with no way to remove him.