An aide to Joan Bray is running in St. Peters? Wow, she ought to get a couple of dozen votes.

A pro- choice, pro- gay marriage liberal democrat running in the 16th ought to play real well in st. charles

Atleast we know where she stands! Tom Fann couldn’t decide if he was Democrat or Republican.

St. Charles County is not the same place it has been for the past 20 years, and it’s high time we got an honest-to-goodness progressive Democratic candidate to challenge the old ideas about who can lead here and who should represent us in Jefferson City. I know Ms. Manning personally, and she is a fine candidate and a very decent, smart and principled woman. She would do her constituents and her party proud in the Missouri House.

I’m glad to see another fine Democrat taking on Mr. Funderburk. If all goes well, maybe we can finally see some common sense legislation that is good for all Missourians come out of the St. Charles County delegation by 2009. How refreshing that would be!

Between Pio’s and the Dempsey’s personal fee machine doing business as the department of revenue, the Dempsey’s have employed and/or wined and dined half the who’s who in St. Charles. Doing favors for the other half is how they got the fee office to begin with. And now the county election authority moves our publicly owned voting machines into The Columns on election days, turning another Dempsey-owned venue and site of Tommy’s election night victory parties into a polling place. I’m glad he’s not getting a(nother) free ride in November.

So, truth in politics, you see a name and obviously it is a woman who has filed for the 16th and you immediately know exactly where she stands. Must be a pro-choice, pro-gay marraige liberal democrat. You’re sure of that, right? Must be so, she’s a woman and a democrat, right?
That’s what’s wrong with politics today, automatic generalizations and pre-concieved judgements.

Underestimate Kristy Manning and you do so at your own peril.

Kristy Manning will work twice as hard as her opponent, and then when she is our state rep will work even harder on the real issues that are important in state governance. She will not be bought and paid for by the school voucher money machine, Rex Sinquefield. Mark Parkinson has been bought and paid for by Rex and his little soldier, ex-rep Carl Beardon.
You go Kristy!

I hate to see so many hopes dashed on the rocks. I said Parkinson would beat Fann when similar Pollyannas were saying otherwise. Now you think that a total unknown will beat someone who has knocked every door in the district once already and will do so again at least once more? The majority of voters in the 16th won’t elect a democrat much less vote for a liberal democrat.

Fann will win the primary and lose the general, again. And if by some fluke he doesn’t win the primary, Parkinson’s margin of victory against Manning will be even greater than it would have been against Fann.

No use in waiting 4 months, start crying in your beer now Manning supporters. Let the games begin.