McCaskill to start weeklong campaign tour in Mo.

Friday, June 29, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is launching a weeklong campaign swing through Missouri that she is calling the official start of her re-election bid.

McCaskill was to begin Saturday in St. Joseph for the opening of a Missouri Democratic Party coordinated campaign office. The first-term senator then plans to travel by RV to about two dozen communities scattered throughout the state.

Congressman Todd Akin, St. Louis businessman John Brunner and former Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman are competing in the Republican primary on Aug. 7 to challenge McCaskill.

McCaskill will be getting some campaign help from Vice President Joe Biden.

McCaskill’s campaign says Biden will make his first trip to Missouri to help McCaskill’s re-election bid when he attends a fundraiser July 9 in Kansas City. McCaskill calls Biden a good friend and says she’s humbled to have his support.

Earlier this week, McCaskill drew attention by saying she plans to skip the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina to campaign in Missouri instead.

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copcamaro 11 months ago

I sure hope claire doesn't have to worry about any more conventions, and is defeated in coming election! She is one of the worse examples of a politition we have ever had. Remember her town hall meeting here in Jeff city? She has NO respect as to what the majority of voters want. Just whatever the party wantss. This little ploy about not attending the dem convention, fools NOBODY> VOTE HER OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tonto_goldberg 11 months ago

It would be a little easier to vote against her, and I would, if there was a decent (halfway decent, even) person running against her. There's not a fresh idea in the bunch, all their rhetoric comes from Breitbart and Hannity.

There used to be some life to the GOP. Lately, it's all ben a homogenized mess of "No taxes, no immigrants, and no gays". How many times do those things need repeated? We heard it the first time, and the second, and the third, etc.

JCLifer 11 months ago

AMEN, Tonto. This ain't my grandfather's GOP. These current Repubs are more about noise and obstructionism than they are about following their parties principles and core beliefs.

tonto_goldberg 10 months, 4 weeks ago

I believe the current crop of candidates need to sit down and listen to John Danforth, if he's not too disgusted with them by now. Maybe they should take notes and have a quiz after the lecture. After all, Danforth brought the Missouri GOP from irelevance to prominence with ideas about responsibility and growth.

You seem be saying the candidates who shout "no!" can save the country with a homogenized mess of negative bumper sticker slogan ideas from Breitbart and Hannity. Is that about it? All we need are some good short slogans?

clingingredneck 11 months ago

At what point do you guys realize you are the frogs in the pot of slowly boiling water? When do we get tired of this socialistic baloney? How many more taxes without representation are we going to put up with? What else are you going to be taxed for NOT Doing?

Here's the real question. When the people in power won't obey the law or enforce it, and they declare things law that go against our constitution, who makes them behave? It used to be the private militias. But now those folks have all been declared terrorists. So what is the civilized solution? Who enforces the law on the law makers?

clingingredneck 11 months ago

You are right. Socialism is fun until you run out of other peoples money. And they have already bled me dry. Our Supreme Court is a joke, rewriting laws for the law makers, protecting lies under free speech. Our Chief Law Enforcement Officer is a criminal. And our president is a liar and con man. I really wish our first black president could have been someone to be proud of. I'm afraid that just like the Civil War, when people look back on this mess, all they will see is the racism and they will miss the real point. It's about states rights and individual freedoms. The same thing the Revolutionary war was about and that the Civil War was about. I'm afraid we are headed there again.

JCLifer 10 months, 4 weeks ago

History is doomed to repeat itself. Too bad public schools don't teach actual history anymore instead of that touchy freely liberal version.

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