I just heard that Matt Blunt has dropped out of the race for governor! His excuse was that he "had accomplished everything he set out to do for Missouri!" If running the state into the ground was his goal, mission accomplished! Thousands of jobs have left the state, 8400 jobs gone just since May 2007. Unemployment is among the highest in the nation and wages among the lowest. We are 42nd in home ownership, and 48th in pay growth under his administration. National economic groups give our economy a D under Blunt! He slashed and burned medicaid leaving over 400,000 without health care. His goal was to get rid of it entirely. He slashed higher education. We have had world class researchers fleeing the state because of his ban on stem cell research. Yes, it looks like he did accomplish all he set out to do! He tried to do to Missouri what Bush has done to the country. He had to know it would be an ugly campaign because of his terrible record. He also has legal problems. It is rumored that he has spent nearly $100,000 in legal fees in recent weeks. He is being sued by his own Republican attorney for destroying emails concerning secret meetings that were damaging to his administration and then firing and smearing the whistleblower. (I wonder where he learned to do that!!!) Even national media called him the most endangered governor in the country! Jay Nixon, the Dem candidate, has been ahead in all of the polls. We will continue working to get Jay Nixon elected and also Kay Barnes. She is running against Bush's biggest rubberstamp in Congress, Sam Graves. I look forward to restoring Harry Truman's state to its rightful "blue status"! It looks like a strong possibility as another one bites the dust! Goodbye, Baby Blunt and good riddance!
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