Great ad.

Chris Koster is the only candidate running with the experience to be Attorney General. 14 years as a public servant. 10 years as a County Prosecutor followed by 4 years as a State Senator. Harris and Donnelly do not come close to the experience which Koster will bring to the Attorney General’s office.

The only part of the ad which I wish Koster was able to touch on was all the other great organizations which have endorsed him, Police, Fire Fighters, Organized Labor and Prosecutors (including Bob McCulloch)across the entire state.

Absolutely correct Horner. Below is a list of some of the organizations standing up and endorsing Chris Koster over both Harris and Donnelly. All great true Democratic organizations. With this type of support and experience it is no surprise that McCulloch is and so many others are supporting Koster.

LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRST RESPONDERS
Missouri State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police
Missouri Deputy Sheriffs’ Association
St. Louis Police Officers’ Association
Missouri State Council of Firefighters
Firefighters Local 0042
Firefighters Local 0073
Firefighters Local 0077
Firefighters Local 0152
Firefighters Local 0671
Firefighters Local 0757
Firefighters Local 1030
Firefighters Local 1084
Firefighters Local 1211
Firefighters Local 1730
Firefighters Local 1786
Firefighters Local 1889
Firefighters Local 2001
Firefighters Local 2184
Firefighters Local 2195
Firefighters Local 2460
Firefighters Local 2543
Firefighters Local 2618
Firefighters Local 2665
Firefighters Local 2677
Firefighters Local 2743
Firefighters Local 2921
Firefighters Local 2945
Firefighters Local 2952
Firefighters Local 3031
Firefighters Local 3112
Firefighters Local 3122
Firefighters Local 3133
Firefighters Local 3228
Firefighters Local 3410
Firefighters Local 3705
Firefighters Local 3739
Firefighters Local 3769
Firefighters Local 3808
Firefighters Local 3904
Firefighters Local 3905
Firefighters Local 3923
Firefighters Local 3987
Firefighters Local 4026
FLAME, St. Louis Firefighters
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch
Nodaway County Prosecuting Attorney David Baird
Shannon County Prosecutor Jodi Barnes
Knox County Prosecutor David Brown
Hickory County Prosecutor Jim Hackett
Pemiscot County Prosecutor Michael Hazel
Bates County Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Jenkins
Reynolds County Prosecutor Robert Johnson
Barton County Prosecutor Steven Kaderly
Moniteau County Prosecutor John Kay
Ripley County Prosecutor Chris Miller
Scotland County Prosecutor Kimberly Nicoli
New Madrid County Prosecutor Lewis Recker
Washington County Prosecutor John Rupp, Jr.
Buchanan County Prosecuting Attorney Dwight Scroggins
Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Sokoloff
Callaway County Prosecutor Bob Sterner
Clark County Prosecutor Scott Summers
Adair County Prosecutor Mark Williams

ORGANIZED LABOR
Jim Hoffa, Jr.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamsters Local 6
Teamsters Local 41
Teamsters Local 245
Teamsters Local 541
Teamsters Local 604
Teamsters Local 610
Teamsters Local 618
Teamsters Local 682
Teamsters Local 688
Teamsters Local 823
Teamsters Local 833
Teamsters Local 838
Teamsters Local955
Carpenters’ of KC and Vicinity
Lathers #27-L
Carpenters #55
Carpenters #61
Carpenters #106
Carpenters #110
Carpenters #168
Carpenters #201
Carpenters #244
Carpenters #311
Carpenters #444
Carpenters #510
Carpenters #515
Carpenters #714
Carpenters #777
Carpenters #918
Carpenters #945
Carpenters #948
Carpenters #978
Carpenters #1055
Carpenters #1329
Carpenters #1455
Carpenters #1904
Floorlayers #1181
Millwright #1463
Millwright #1529
Millwright #2834
Cabinetmakers #1635
Floorlayers #1181
Roofers #20
Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO
Carpenters District Council of Kansas City & Vicinity
Greater Kansas City Building & Construction Trades
Service Employees International Union Local 2000
The Springfield Building and Construction Trades Council
The St Joseph Building and Construction Trades Council
The Joplin Building and Construction Trades Council
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades District Council 3
Operating Engineers #101
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1287
Heat & Frost Insulators #27

ORGANIZATIONS
Freedom, Inc.
La Raza Political Club

ELECTED OFFICIALS
Congressman Lacy Clay
Senator Tim Green
Senator Jeff Smith
Senator Victor Callahan
Senator Yvonne Wilson
Florissant Mayor Robert Lowery
State Representative Talibdin (T.D.) El-Amin
State Representative Rodney Hubbard, Jr.
State Representative Theodore Hoskins
Former State Representative Betty Thompson
Former State Representative Yaphett El-Amin
St. Louis County Councilwoman Hazel Erby
Councilwoman Yolanda Austin
Councilwoman Yolanda Fountain Henderson
Councilwoman Marjorie Jones
Councilwoman Betti Gottstein
Alderman Frank Williamson
Committeeman James Clayborne
Committeeman Claude Brown
Committeewoman Norma Leggette
Committeewoman Dutch Newman
Committeeman Thomas Hayes
Committeewoman Ernestine Hill
Committeewoman Louise Tonkovich
Committeeman James Cotter
Tamara Thomas, School Board Director, Jenninga
Harold Austin, School Board Director, Jennings
Edward Haynie, Normandy School Board

I must admit I was orginally suspicious of Koster, and was leaning toward Jeff Harris. I like Harris because he is not from St. Louis, like the rest of our ticket and he’s been a good guy. But I must say, Koster is impressive and without a doubt is the best candidate that we can run against the GOP in Noveber. He has run the best race of all the Democrat AG candidates and his TV is not only excellent it is everywhere. As a former Harris supporter, I now look forward to voting for Chris Koster on August 5th.

Horner and Glarner (no doubt the same person):

Thanks for posting a listing of local organizations straight from Koster’s website. It’s clear you intent is to solely use this board as a propaganda machine.

Face it, Chris Koster is not the best choice in this race. As a DEMOCRAT I will be backing Jeff Harris, a lifelong Democrat who opposed the Republican-led cuts on Medicaid.

This ad is funded through an illegal fundraising scheme that the Ethics Commission will soon have to issue a ruling on. That ruling, by the way, could land Koster in court on CRIMINAL charges. Do you know what that means? Koster, a candidate for Attorney General, is facing the same track record as the man he used to work for - felon Bill Webster.

So to all the Koster supporters you’re right - he’ll make a great follow-up to Bill Webster. But frankly, I look forward to watching him lose the election in two weeks and later paying tens of thousands in fines.

Johnny,

I agree with you on two points.

First you said “I was orginally [sic] suspicious of Koster”. Me too, in fact I still am. He’s a political opportunist and that’s reason enough for me to continue to be suspicious of him.

Second you said Koster is “the best candidate that we can run against the GOP in Noveber [sic]“. Again, I agree. Noveber is a non-existent month and when that month shows up on a calendar maybe I’ll consider a vote for Koster. Until then, it’s Jeff Harris all the way!

As for the ad, it’s amazing what a bunch of rich people can buy you - television time. Thank you Jim Stowers and Rex Sinquefield.

Z,

I am not Horner. Nice try though. Are you Shecky, Gay Dem Girl, Sexy Dem Girl, and Nick? You do not need to answer that, do not really care.

Kinda doubt that Bob McCulloch would do a TV spot for Koster if he thought that Koster was not the best person for the job or if he thought Koster had broken a law..Don’t you think, don’t you??. Also, kinda don’t think all the organizations listed above would endorse Koster if they though there was a better candidate out there.

Koster has a ton of real Democrats supporting him and the most experience of all the candidates running. I understand why you feel it neccesary to sling mud.

Things the Koster campaign should find unfortunate:

1) organizations don’t get to vote in the election - people do
2) televisions don’t vote - people do
3) Koster’s rich friends only get one vote in the election, even if their over-limit contributions can still find their way to his campaign’s coffers
4) those pesky votes to cut Medicaid from 2005 still haunting Koster
5) campaigning is so tough Koster missed 5 percent of the votes in 2008
6) Koster’s replacement as Cass County prosecutor is backing Jeff Harris (hmm…)
7) and the list goes on…

By the way, I’m just Curt - no one else - good try though

No doubt about it. Great endorsement. If McCulloch is endorsing Koster (along with all the other names listed above) all the arm waving about Koster is over. Welcome to the party Chris, you have my vote.

So willing to break the law to win an election. Chris Koster will never be a Democrat in my eyes. The political opportunist is never the person to vote for - he will always do what is most advantageous politically, not what is right or even what is not that is still based on conviction. Chris Koster is wrong for Missouri and he will never get my vote.

Also, let us not forget that Koster bought endorsements from La Raza, Freedom and William Clay. Who else has he bought off?

Koster’s posters are so full of it. Time and time again it has been pointed out that Jeff has the most endorsements. Inflating endorsments by listing each local is garbage also. This is a site that has counted the endorsments by all the candidates. http://thewatchword.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/former-lt-governer-joe-maxwell-endorses-jeff-harris/
I would also say that Roger Wilson, Warren Hearnes, Joe Maxwell and Maida Coleman is better than anything the imposter has.

Koster has never answered why he voted to kick 100,000 people off health care. Or why he cut a TV add for John Ashcroft. Or why he supported Matt Blunt. Or why he supported George Bush. Ir why he voted for photo id, MOHELA, Blunt’s school funding formula, or banning the teaching of sex ed in the public schools. Why did he grovel for Farm Bureau’s support by handling the bill to take away local’s ability to regulate CAFO’s. Or why he laundered money through the Economic Growth Council. Koster is a fraud.

There is a reason Jeff is leading in the polls despite all Koster’s phony money. He is a real democrat. He worked in the ag’s office. He was democratic leader.

By the way I am not a Harris campaign worker, his brother, or the other posters you mention. I am someone who knows that Koster is a loser and that if he wins the primary democrats will pay.

So, Matt Koster from Alpharetta, Georgia, I make this promise again. If you agree to donate the max to Jeff I will bet you the max to the imposter that when I reveal myself I neither a Harris campaign worker or his brother or any other relative.

So put up or shut up.

By the way, Koster keeps saying the ethics commission said his money laundering scheme was okay. Tell us all who over there said it and when they said. And if you do I will shut up about that.

Jeff Harris has a great agenda to be a great attorney general. He has more than twenty proposals for what he will do when he is AG. that is more than all the candidates combined. He is astrong candidate across the state. He also has support from all democratic interests groups.