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04.14.2008 12:06 pm

Steelman plugs program for veteran business owners, farmers

Veteran business owners and farmers will have a better chance of qualifying for low-interest loans under an expansion of the BIG Missouri program, State Treasurer Sarah Steelman announced Monday.

That program allows banks to offer low-interest loans to qualifying business owners or farmers. This expansion would give veterans preference when awarding those loans.

(Just to be clear, veterans in this case refers to the military variety, not those business owners and farmers who have been in their capacity for a long time.)

Reservists and widows of veterans killed in combat are also eligible under the expansion.

“When their job has been disrupted, or maybe their small business, they may need that extra help,” Steelman said during a news conference at the Capitol.

Steelman will face off against U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof in the August Republican gubernatorial primary. Attorney General Jay Nixon is the presumptive Democratic nominee.

The three hopefuls also had speaking engagements at a Missouri Association of Counties gathering today.

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Sarah Steelman is on track to win the governor’s race and win it big! While lazy Kenny is fattening his payroll with rube hacks like Lloyd Smith and glorified interns like Jason VanEaton, Steelman is out talking to Missourians about substantive policy issues.

No one knows Kenny outside Columbia and he can hire all the “consultants” he wants. He has the stench of loser on him like Talent and the look of corruption with all Blunt’s plumbers joining his team.

— Jesse Ford
3:23 pm April 14th, 2008

#1, You make some great points. People are tired of baby Blunt and were going to turn him out to pasture if he ran again. We all know what the state did with “Vote with Bush” Talent back in 2006. Hulshof is more of the same…..resembles Talent in many ways and is acting more like a baby Blunt clone. Little wonder to me why Steelman is resonating around the state even though the republican establishment abhor her and will do everything they can to slip their man past her in the primary.

Go Steelman…..give ‘em hell!

— Robb(I)
7:48 am April 15th, 2008