Democrat running for 9th District U.S. House seat plans tour of his territory
Lyndon Bode, the presiding commissioner of Marion County who is running for the Democrat nomination for U.S. representative from the 9th Congressional District, will be in Union and Warrenton on Thursday as part of a three-day, 15-county campaign tour of the district. He plans to hold a news conference at each stop.
Bode will be in Union at 2:30 p.m. at north door of the Old Franklin County Courthouse and in Warrenton at 4 p.m. at the Warren County Courthouse.
In a statement, Bode promised to run “a very positive and upbeat campaign.”
Bode’s statement said he is in his 14th year as a presiding commissioner. Bode of West Ely, Mo., is 44 years old, married and has two young daughters.




Bill Haas Democrat running for 2nd District US House seat has been touring the 3 counties of his territory since March, maybe April, as have been 3 of the other 4 candidates. We skipped the press conferences so far. We’re like brothers. Once of us probably will win. We all want to. But we agree that the main goal is to beat Akin in the general. We should all work together to do that. We’ll see. I even treated the other candidates to “Anyone But Akin” bumper stickers out of my own pocket ($300) as reported on PubDef twitter. Someone else can pay for next batch. West County Dems? 20,000 of them if they catch on, someone’s bound to notice. Thought of it myself.