<\/a>Talk about overinflated: Missouri\u2019s own right-wing billionaire and political meddler\u2014Rex Sinquefield<\/a>\u2014has found a novel way to pump up support for his latest pet project. He’s renting a huge blimp and is flying it around the state.<\/p>\n

The 200-foot-long, 60-foot-wide airship is allegedly one of the biggest blimps in the world–and a great excuse for puns. Ostensibly, it’s floating over Missouri cities this fall as a way of supporting a Republican state lawmaker\u2019s \u201cpublic listening tour.\u201d The cost of renting the blimp is covered by part of a $2.5 million donation Sinquefield made to the \u201cCreate a Great State\u201d effort. But the listening tour–which is touted as vehicle for soliciting \u201cgreat ideas\u201d for Missouri\u2014has been less than public, as it doesn\u2019t publish a schedule, and the media has not been invited. In fact, the most public and visible aspect of the program is the blimp itself–and Sinquefield’s puffed-up ego, of course. The listening tour is somewhat of a joke, actually.<\/p>\n

But the biggest joke is the blimp itself. Emblazoned on the side of the blimp is the slogan \u201cGrow Missouri,\u201d and the hashtag #GrowMO.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Sinquefield and friends, that\u2019s the same hashtag adopted by Grow More<\/a>, an organization that advocates for legalizing marijuana in Missouri. Oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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