Could MO be going Blue???

Of course the election is a year away, but things are looking up for those of us in MO who are tired of living in a red state. I mentioned last week that our Congressional candidate, Kay Barnes former Mayor of KC, is considered one of the #1 challengers to unseat an incumbent anywhere in the country. We are hoping and praying that she will rid us of the slimy Bush rubberstamp, Sam Graves. Our little fundraiser last week raised over $7000 for her campaign. Cheney has been here fundraising for Graves. (A sure sign that Graves does not care what people think being seen with Mr. 11%!!!) We hope that the Cheney stench will work magic for Dems in the voting booths next year!
We also have been suffering from "Blunt Trauma" here in MO for four years under the tyranny of Roy Blunt's boy, Gov. Matt Blunt. Tom Delay and Daddy Blunt have poured lots of cash into his campaigns. He is like Bush's mini-ME in Missouri. Following Bush's lead, he has slashed social programs, privatized and awarded cronies every agency he could, and has shrouded his office in secrecy. He has nearly killed stem cell research in this state, driving away important jobs and labs who want nothing to do with his backward ways. He had a goal to completely do away with Medicaid and has proceeded to nearly do it. He privatized every agency he could and, of course, awarded those offices to his cronies. It can take you all day to get a license plate or driver's license under his "streamlined" private plan. Now he has been caught destroying government documents. He was warned by his lawyer not to do this so of course he had to fire the lawyer. When asked by reporters if this was true, his comeback was that his former attorney couldn't make any statements against him because of lawyer-client privilege...not that he was innocent, but that you can't prove it because of a technicality. He kept saying the lawyer never warned him that this was illegal! It is now claimed that documents have been found proving that Blunt was warned that he was in violation of the law and destroyed the docs anyway.
Now it seems that all of Matt Blunt's "great accomplishments" might come back to haunt him. He is considered the most endangered governor seeking re-election in the US!!!! We have a great Dem candidate opposing him, our former Attorney General, Jay Nixon. Hopefully, we will be celebrating his inauguration in 2009!
There is hope!!!
Kathy from MO