Fundraising for Kay Barnes

By Kathy from MO

We were cohosts at a fundraiser last night for Kay Barnes. She is challenging the US Congressional seat of one of Bush's biggest rubberstamps here in MO, Sam Graves. It was a great night! Kay gave a wonderful speech and visited with all of the guests. She is bright, articulate, friendly, and determined. She has a great record as Mayor of KC and has strong rural ties in the district. I think she has a very good chance of beating Graves. She has been rated by Congressional Quarterly as one of the top challengers to an incumbent in the country and is seen as the first real challenge Graves has ever had. He should be very worried!

We had approx. 100 people at our event at the Byron Cohen Gallery. Our preliminary total is $4700. We know there are more donations that have not been counted, but that was a great evening for Kay considering we were competing with three events in KC this week for her. The biggest will be with Nancy Pelosi tomorrow. In fact, one of our big donors of $1300 pulled their donation from us to give it at the Pelosi event. Oh well, we may not be the big guns, but I am pleased with how we did. It was a lovely evening in a beautiful setting with nice people, good food and drink, and a great candidate to back. We all have our fingers crossed that she will be the one to send Sam Graves packing next fall. He is so arrogant, he has had Cheney campaigning with him around the district! That's pretty bold to be seen with Mr. 11%!!!!! We hope that all of Missouri keeps those two connected in their minds when they go in to vote next year!