Although I’m not a resident of St. Louis City, I was pleased to note that Larry Williams SOUNDLY defeated D. Schesch for St. Louis Treasurer. In my opinion, no politician in recent St. Louis history has done more for St. Louis City than Larry Williams, who can be credited not just for providing reasonably-priced and needed parking in and around St. Louis, but for orchestrating an arrangement that helped to convince the Federal Reserve to expand their existing downtown STL facility and remain in St. Louis. Over 1000 jobs were saved!
So what if a few of the meter lenses are a bit fogged-up and scratched? I’m certain he’ll correct that minor problem now that the election is over! Congratulations to Larry Williams and to all of St. Louis City!

Missouri is still a Conservative State.

August 5 is the date Jetton lost his BIG race. His attacks on Blaine and his work to build his little consulting empire have taken a major set-back. What is even more interesting is that campaign staffers in the Pearce campaign are learning that Jetton and Crowell helped get money to groups to attack Republican David Pearce. They have further learned that the goal was to elect Rex Rector so that Chris Benjamin would have an easier shot at winning the Senate Seat for the Democrats. Remember that Benjamin worked for Crowell and Jetton. Campaign staffers are also noticing that Steve Tilly’s chief of staff (as the majority leader) was the treasurer for the groups that hit Pearce. The overall analysis is that there is division in the House ranks. Reporters should make calls…there is a story there…

As for Koster…give the eleciton one more week and Donnelly wins. Had Harris shown some muster…he should have stepped aside and given Margaret more support. Koster was able to divide and conquer, but alas…it is not over. Recount…recount…

Kenny Hulshoff is a good man. He ran a great race. He can hold his head high. Hopefully he will keep Jetton away…

The heat never bothered the Continental Army when they were fighting for our rights to representation, so I find it disappointing that anyone use that excuse now. Is walking from the air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned polling place really that hard to do?

Seeing the results of this primary, I have a feeling that the Democrats could well walk away with a majority of the big seats up for vote in November.

So Tim, why aren’t you in the hot sands fighting instead of all those tired young women fighting for your conservative butt?

MO probably still is as it ever was…and ever will be…

I was an Assistant Supervisor at the polls and was shocked at the low turnout. In my precinct there were 250 voters out of a pool of 1300. What gets me is that we were all commenting at how crazy it will be in November.
Why is there such a difference? The locally elected politians probably affect your life more than the president and maybe even the governor many times.

One lady said her ballot was wrong because she wanted to vote for a certain state senator. There was no convincing her that she was not in that district. She was in such a snit. So she gets on her PDA. I asked if she had her white card from the Board of Elections but she didn’t. She thought she knew everything, but didn’t even know who her current state senator was. Why are voters so uninformed in such an information age.

Because I am not in the Army Pia. I can’t believe I had to explain that to you. I am chugging out tax dollars though…

I worked the polls yesterday and while it was steady, it was really a low turnout. Frankly, I was not surprised, people are going to be people and apathy will reign when it comes to a primary.

Changing the subject a little, the amount of $ that was spent on the primary campaigns and the unending phone calls and negative ads was appalling. I think that I am going to keep a tally of who calls us the most as we approach November and then vote against them! It is so irritating to the extreme and it is getting worse every year! How much $ is being spent by the candidates to constantly phone people with their canned calls that most people don’t want to receive. I don’t know about anyone else, but we just don’t answer, or we answer and immediately hang up! How convenient that the no call list does NOT include political harrasement–oh sorry–campaign phone calls. I’m glad we will have some peace for a little while (at least a week).

Further, the amount of $ that is spent on these campaigns could pay off the national debt, feed the hungry, provide health care for everyone, etc. (I know, someone is going to make a comment about the $ spent on the War in Iraq!–for the record–I agree!) It is obscene! My grandaughter needs $ to go to the college of her choice. Anyone out there want to make a $50,000 contribution? NO? But we are willing to donate so that phone calls and TV ads are a constant annoyance to the voting public and candidates can travel all over the US! Perhaps the candidates could set their own limits and donate the $ to the government–like that is going to happen! The candidates need to get a grip and stop this nonsense! Don’t even talk to me about their views on campaign limits–what a joke!

There were no issues in my District which were worth my vote. Heat had nothing whatever to do with it.

Pia, your jibe at Tim rings rather hollow. Many years of feminist activism finally gave women the chance to get in the service and get shot at. If Tim should be in the Army, so should you.

As for me, I did my hitch back in the Korea days, plus five years of Reserves. Heat doesn’t bother me, I spent the summer of ‘55 in Kansas.

Where are all the election breakdowns? Too soon? I am looking for state representative races. Where are they? pc

Too hot to vote, I do not think so. As for the Republican gubernatorial primary, in the long term, it hurts Hulshof to win this time around and helps Steelman 4 years from now. I believe that no matter who won the primary battle, the winner was going to lose to Jay Nixon. Hulshof will not beat Nixon, partly because of 4 years of Matt Blunt. Also, McCain will lose to Obama, partly because of 8 years of G. Bush.

I find it extremely disappointing that on the front page of the Post-Dispatch on primary day was a story about the high temperature. Not only did the paper in town refuse to put the election notice on the front page top fold, but they chose to scare people with talking about how hot it was going to be. I’m so glad they decided to report on the low turnout today.

Tim said :

The heat never bothered the Continental Army when they were fighting for our rights to representation, so I find it disappointing that anyone use that excuse now. Is walking from the air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned polling place really that hard to do?

Man… that was extremely well said. Wow.

I agree that the only real reason for the Republican primary this year was to pick who was going to lose to Jay Nixon.

Sarah Steelman was the stealth Libertarian candidate, and I was extremely glad to see her ran out of the race.

Hulsof is a good person, but I’m ashamed to say one of the “old School” republican’s who will continue to put the interest of corporations before the interest of citizens and promote the same old broken systems.

As a conservative and a Republican, I’m heartily ashamed that our party couldn’t find anyone to put up against a guy like Jay Nixon, who’s good work as Attorney General and great personality makes him a formidable and worthy opponent.

Too bad my party had nothing to offer except a stealth Libertarian and a pleasant lightweight.

I suspect that this will be the case all across the United States this November, and frankly, I can’t wait.

This is the wakeup call the GOP needs : Get your act together, or get used to political obscurity.

Get your act together.
Mac
http://www.brownsludge.com

Steelman running in 2012? Are you kidding me? With a $700,000 debt to pay off? So much for skills learned as a treasurer!

It’s interesting to see the USA TODAY listing of the top 10 most educated states [ percentage of post graduates ] and that 9 out of the top 10 are BLUE states….Missouri is ranked 42nd and it’s not surprising after reading some of the RED-neck statements from our Republican conservative bloggers in Missouri.

Lets hope that Missouri is still a conservative “Red State” come this November. U.S. Army 1954-1956.