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Office in 2016. it will be a presidential year electorate. so that reelection race for that u.s. senate seat in missouri that will be a hot one in 2016 as is the governor's race. jay nixon is term limited out. that seat will be open. the democrats seem to be coalescing around another young popular candidate that already held state office. it looks like they will pick chris costar. it is turning into a free for all with six candidates entering the ring already. it is six candidates that all have a reasonable shot. that free far all is fall

And so now two men are dead. the party chairman still has his job, katherine hanoway's campaign continues. joining us now is a political reporter and columnist with the kansas city star. is there anything more to add tonight in terms of what we know about this investigation. >> they believe it may be related, but i can tell you that everyone else in missouri, republicans, democrats, other people you talk with think that the two suicides are directly linked and that spence jackson

Tom killing himself. one day after that john hancock said he was not going to resign or talk about this any more. he said he is sick and tire of even talking about it. i'm tired of talking about the controversy. i'm ready to move on beyond it. that same day, katherine hanoway started her canadadidacy back up again. spence jackson took a sick day, and some time that night or the next morning, he apparently killed hymn as we. he shot himself. sunday march 29th just after 7:00 p.m. police were called

Bad by it, spence jackson saying i believe in my heart that he knew what he was doing. spence jackson was the first person in missouri politics to call for the state party chairman to resign. he called on a completing candidate, katherine hanoway, saying she should demand that he resign. senator danforth was asked if he too believed that john hancock should resign. jack said no. he should not be allowed to resign. he should be fired. he said explicitly he wanted the head of the party forced out of office. does our party stand for what happened to tom schweich.

Campaign was a real thing. the donor said he met with john hancock at his office to talk about raising money. when he came to his office and they talked about raising money, he said although i do not recall the exact words, mr. hancock said something in the tone of well tom is jewish. and that is a negative attribute. 2015 really? leading candidate for governor statewide elected office holder kills himself because she so up set about an anti-semitic smear