Democracy for Missouri endorses Keri Cottrell for House District 1!

Columbia MO – Democracy for Missouri, the statewide Democracy for America group, endorses Keri Cottrell for Missouri House District 1. As a school teacher in Canton, Missouri, Keri has demonstrated her passion for educating our children and for serving Missouri families. Keri has an impressive understanding of how to brings jobs to and improve the economy of rural communities. Her focus on jobs, education, the rural economy and health care make her an ideal candidate for representing Missouri House District 1. As a representative in Jefferson City, Keri Cottrell will work tirelessly to create quality jobs, make health care more affordable, and ensure that our children receive a first-rate education. Democracy for Missouri enthusiastically endorses Keri Cottrell.

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Democracy for Missouri Endorses Kelly Schultz for House District 21!

Columbia, MO--Democracy for Missouri, the statewide Democracy for America group, endorses Kelly Schultz for Missouri House District 21 as its first endorsement of the 2010 election cycle. Kelly is a champion of the fiscally responsible, socially progressive values that Democracy for Missouri stands for. Kelly Schultz has demonstrated her passion for serving Missouri families, working for the past eleven years in policy and constituent services in the Capitol as well as serving her community as current President of the Boone County Foster Parent Support Group. As a representative in Jefferson City, Kelly will work tirelessly to create quality jobs, make health care more affordable, and ensure that our children achieve a world-class education. Democracy for Missouri enthusiastically announces Kelly Schultz as our first endorsement of the 2010 election cycle.

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Democracy for Missouri ...going strong after 5 years!

This April 1st marked the 5th anniversary of the founding of Democracy for Missouri's website and while we have lost a lot of content due to a snafu with our host, we can begin again. Democracyformissouri.org and Democracyformissouri.com both now point to the "LeftinMissouri" website. This is a transition but will serve its purpose of helping to inform the progressive Democratic Wing of the Democratic party of what we can do to take back this State.
Along those lines...please note that Howard Dean is keynoting the DFA Campaign Training Academy in Kansas City this weekend!!! This is really cheap, and a great training. There is still time to sign up:
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/events/33829-dfa-campaign-training-in-kansas-city

Democracy For Missouri

There has been a bit of a snafu with the old Democracy for Missouri. so leftinmissouri.com will be it's home until we can find a happy place for it. :)

Bill Monroe and Wayne Brekhus have been invited to be bloggers as well. Enjoy :)

I'm back

Its been a few months since my last post. Haven't had the time or gumption to post. Now with the crazy Republican brownshirts and birthers. It might be time to come back.

Brock TV

Just checked out the website of the candidate with the social studies cred. I don't know if Olivo's site is a political one or a Mizzou Alumni fan site :)

(I especially like it when he points to the buttons above him on the video)

At least he doesn't mention clones.

Presidential Horse Race: True reflection of America or media manipulation?

Just read this CNN article about the race being a statistical dead heat. Last week some polls had Obama up in double digits. What is going on here, in my opinion, is a news media driven by the entertainment side of the 24/7 news business. This new poll made me shake my head and wonder who was really wagging the dog.

In the poll with just McCain and Obama compared together, Obama leads by five points. When you throw in Nader and Barr, it dwindles to 3 points. One reason why I am skeptical of this polled is that Nader polled at 6% and Barr at 3%. Now since the margin of error is close to these third party percentage vote totals, it is more than likely that these third party candidates don't have this much support In 2004 Nader got 465,650 votes while the Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik received 397,265 votes. I can't see that changing very much this election cycle. Nader is old news and Barr might spoil Georgia in a close race.

Here in Missouri, the Libertarian Party is the only established third party in the state and a lack of a more liberal third party candidate may have an impact, but most people when they get behind the curtain in the voting booth will usually vote for major party candidates.

BTW, I tried to set up this blog on Wordpress or b2evolution on a host server. But I found out it's a lot harder than it seems. I'll stay on Blogger for now.