Happy Days Are Here Again!!!

Yesterday was an amazing day for Democrats. Missouri has Democrat Claire McCaskill as U.S. Senator elect. Democrat Susan Montee will be our new State Auditor. Northeast Missouri will be sending Wes Shoemyer to the state senate. Democrat Paul Quinn will fill Wes’s old House seat for the 9th District. Tom Shively will replace Republican Kathy Chinn as state rep for 8th District. Democrat Rebecca McClanahan won the race for 2nd District–the seat vacated by Republican Bob Behnen. Rachel Bringer was re-elected as rep from the 6th District.

Locally Russ Steele was re-elected as Circuit Judge. Democratic office holders did well on the county level.

On the national level, Democrats have taken back the U.S. House of Representative. We are waiting for official results from Virginia and Montana , but it looks like we’ve also got control of the Senate. Democrats won the majority of yesterday’s governor races.

Happy days are here again!!!

Wes Shoemyer to Hold Farm Issues Forum

Democrat Wes Shoemyer will hold a Farm Issues Forum on Tuesday, October 31st. The event will be held at the George Keller farm near Palmyra, Missouri. Wes will be talking with area farmers about agricultural issues including SAC Act (Farmers’ right to save their own seed), NAIS (National Animal Identification System), value added agriculture and local control issues.

Twelve Days Until the Election…Cue the Background Music!

Twelve days before the election…things look good, but the fight isn’t over yet. Nationally it looks like the Democrats will regain the U.S. but the Senate looks like a toss-up. Claire McCaskill vs. Jim Talent may be the race that decides control of the Senate. Claire is running an amazing campaign but she is fighting the full financial might of the G.O.P. Duane Burghard is on the verge of taking back the 9th Congressional District, but Hulshof is entrenched and fighting. Susan Montee should have an easy victory but Matt Blunt wants his own sock-puppet as Auditor and will be funding attack ads. Wes Shoemyer and Beau Hicks are running strong but will face a Republican blitz until election day.

The Democratic Party has the best candidate and the best message…the fight is now the ground troops. Ground troops? That’s us! Democrats, progressive independents, Republicans-with-second-thoughts are the people who will win this election. It’s up to us to talk to people, write letters to the editors, put up the last signs, phone-bank and make last minute financial contribution. Let’s get to work! And I think that we need to mentally cue up some background music. I’d suggest music from one of the Rockie movies: Eye of the Tiger….

• “Face to face…out in the heat….handing tough, stayin hungry..they stack the odds, still we take to the street for the “kill” with the skill to survive…It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight, risin up to the challenge of our rivals…and the last know survivor stalks his prey in the night and he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger….”

Columbia Daily Tribune Endorses Wes Shoemyer

On Tuesday Henry J. Waters III, publisher of the Columbia Daily Tribune endorsed Wes Shoemyer for Missouri State Senate. Mr. Waters wrote: “Wes Shoemyer will inject a breath of fresh air, and some moderation, into the Missouri Senate. Voters in the 18th District will do well to put him there.” You can read the full endorsement as a PDF file at www.nemodemocrats.org