
Sen. Kit Bond, whose mastery of pork-barrel spending benefitted his native Missouri, dies at 86
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state’s the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86. Bond’s family told Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office that Bond died in St.
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