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The Pony Express, Acts of Valor & Community Spirit!
What Kind of Volunteers Does it Take To Run a Statewide Campaign?
While most other candidates have to pay people to help them, I have one of the most remarkable collection of volunteers ever! Jerry Dollar painted the sign, more volunteered to walk in three parades, but the tee-shirt story topped it all.
Curtis Shipman from Sedalia offered to print the shirts, but we needed to get them to Salem, Desoto and O’Fallon. On Monday, Curtis drove the shirts from Sedalia to his appointment at the VA Hospital in Columbia. There, Caroline Howell, who lives in Columbia met him and got the shirts to her house where her husband, Dan, drove them to Warrenton. There he was met by David Lah who brought them to O’Fallon. I met up with Donna in St. Louis and we made all the connections necessary to look great for all our parades. With a remarkable amount of organization, concern for our state and a desire to make this happen, we had wonderful shirts to make us all look good!
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Happy 4th of July!
A Sneak Preview of Things to Come
Here we are getting ready for three parades on Wednesday. We hope you will get to watch us as we inspire tens of thousands of people to be brave, strong and constitutional! One of my Facebook friends wrote this: “Why are all these people setting off fireworks?
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Marriage – Is it government’s business?
Last week I attended the Acton University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.This week my parents are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. It’s always happy to arrive at a new benchmark, yet many governmental policies are to blame for making marriage less popular than ever before in our nation’s history. Some think marriage is meaningless. Many now mistakenly assume that our problems will be resolved if the state no longer even recognizes marriage. Since the founding of America, government has largely ignored marriage and pays little attention to it. So long as citizens pay taxes and government gets its share, that is usually the end of the story.
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Cynthia Davis Receives the Exclusive Endorsement
250,000 Pro-Life Voters Will Have a Choice
Since the readers of my “State Talk” newsletter are so important to me, I wanted you to be among the first to know. In case you felt the earth quake and wondered what that was about, here is the story. Missouri Right to Life made a courageous and bold move and is endorsing my candidacy for Lt. Governor. This is causing ripples across the nation because I am running on the Constitution Party ticket. However, when the other two major parties fail to field candidates who are capable of promoting our values, it becomes necessary to seek other options.The biggest problem the voters have is trying to tell the difference between the candidates who shoot hot air and the real deals. Fortunately, Missouri Right to Life has done extensive homework to make it clear for us to know.
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Legislative Results of the 2012 Session
Want to guess? Government grew Bigger
Last week I attended the State Committee meeting in Columbia. During the meeting I gave a brief overview of the legislative session. Now that the dust has settled, it is clearer than ever. Despite the fact that self identified “Conservatives” are in control of the legislature, our government continues to increase in size and intrusiveness every year. This year was no exception.Many legislators try to justify their actions by claiming they have great reasons for voting to increase the expense and encroachment of government. I know from spending eight years in the legislature how easy it is to follow the crowd while the taxpayers end up getting the shaft and the tab. As a result, most bills now headed to the governor’s desk are unconstitutional, make government bigger, more oppressive, more expensive or are a waste of paper because the problem they seek to correct is already addressed in current law. Additionally, the unintended consequences usually set off a new chain of foibles.
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Memorial Day At the Veteran’s Walk in O’Fallon
When I was in city government, we acquired land for a new I-70 interchange project. Instead of leaving the remnant to go to waste, we decided to build a memorial for the veterans. People from all over come to O’Fallon to see our memorial.
This Memorial Day, we honored those who served our country by participating in the ceremony in O’Fallon.
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Talk or Walk
Coupling good Intentions With Sound Economics
My daughter graduated from the St. Charles County Community College last Saturday. I am happy for her, yet we all need to be asking ourselves what kind of a world the next generation will face. Two of the commencement speakers quoted Dr. Seuss. Is anyone else concerned with the dumbing down of America? Are we now trying so hard to entertain that we must draw from a socialist children’s book author for inspiration? Nevertheless, three of my children have now earned four post-secondary degrees, and I am grateful for the opportunities afforded all of us living in a country that values education. -
Reading – Writing – Arithmetic?
Character means more than party affiliation
All this time we thought our education tax dollars were intended for teaching “the three Rs”—reading ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. If the school boards would focus on the purpose for their creation, we would save ourselves a great deal of wasted time, emotional turmoil and tax dollars.California provided the nation with a lesson on how far a state can go off the mission of academics with a bill passed last year. This new law is now forcing their school children to be indoctrinated in “politically correct” distractions pertaining to deviant lifestyles. Sadly, this is way off target and will prove to be a greater distraction to learning the basic essentials. California may find they have created more problems than they solved.
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The Budget
Is it about money or philosophy?
At the Camden County Tea Party with some great fellow patriots, Ike Skelton and his wife. While many candidates run on the promise of making government more fit, trim and live within its means, the actions show to the contrary. The House and Senate have finished their preliminary work on the state budget, and the end result is still more spending than ever before. At the time I was first elected to the legislature in 2002, the budget was around $18 billion. This year, it is around $24 billion. How does that happen if the Republicans are in control, and most of them told the voters they would pare down our bloated government? Although Democrats are in a severe minority, they should go home happy because they succeeded in keeping much of the excessive governmental spending. It’s kind of like going on a diet that only lasts until you discover you have to give up doughnuts, ice cream and french fries. If you have the stomach for it, “click here” if you want to read the story behind the broken promises to be financially prudent.
This process of waiting until the last week to work out a budget formed around bad decisions, forces the legislators to hurriedly pass the budget as they are constrained to do so before the adjournment on May 18th. These budgets also give us a glimpse into the priorities of the legislature.
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Platform Comparisons
Why do political parties have a mission statement?
Here I am with the founder of the Constitution Party, Howard Phillips and some other patriots. This past week, I was at the Constitution Party National Convention in Nashville, TN. In all the years I served the Republican Party, including being an elected State Committee Woman, I was never offered the opportunity to attend a Republican National Convention. So, this one was particularly special for me. I went as a delegate, committee member and a speaker and was honored to be with some of the most brilliant minds in this country.
