The 8th now includes Rolla and a good swath of the state, so that's how the SE all gets lumped in together.
Posted on 08/06/2008 12:52:51 AM PDT by Impy
KANSAS CITY - Congressman Kenny Hulshof defeated state Treasurer Sarah Steelman in Tuesday's Republican primary.
Hulshof will take on Attorney General Jay Nixon in November's general election.
Hulshof received 49.2 percent of the vote to Steelman's 44.7 percent - a margin of more than 17,000 votes.
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I think Steelman is better (and not guilty to boot). Washington porkers backed the congressman.
A pity there is now an open house seat and treasurer’s office.
Also that Matt Blunt quit.
Jay Nixon no doubt wishes to be a national figure.
I think Blunt’s swift exit was pretty gutless on his part. Nixon isn’t invincible. He did lose running for the Senate. Hulshof is at a disadvantage, but he can still pull off an upset with some tough campaigning (he did manage to dispose of the well-entrenched Harold Volkmer in a poor GOP year). It also looks like we got the best candidate for his House seat, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and the Dem primary was pretty brutal.
We probably will hold Steelman’s office, and more than likely will also take Nixon’s open AG office (which we haven’t won in 20 years). The Republican had no primary opponent and the Dems had another vicious primary, with a backstabbing weasel former RINO (Chris Koster) declaring victory before it was certified. Koster’s ex-wife spent nearly a quarter million airing ads against him, so this guy is MAJOR damaged goods if his primary win holds.
Although it’s a long way off, Steelman might be better utilized in 2012 to run against the dreadful Claire McCaskill.
Too bad the primary in Kansas next door didn’t go so well.
I’ve been trying to decide if this was the primary, how did they come up with a presidential candidate? What was that election called?
This was the state primary. The Presidential primary was months ago.
I don’t think that anyone I voted for won yesterday — haven’t checked the local stuff, but unless they were upopposed on the R ticket I didn’t pick a winner! ARGH!
I’m surprised that it was a close race. Hulsof’s 49% to Steelman’s 45%. He got most of the votes in the north east part of the state, which to me is weird, because he’s from the bootheel,IIRC. Guess he hit that area harder campaigning. Steelman did her best in the central and southern part, unfortunately those are the areas with less voters.
Hulsof talked a good talk, but he’s sullied by the stank of D.C. in my opinion.
Hulshof is from the Northeast. Jo Ann Emerson is from the Southeast/Bootheel.
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I was sure hoping Steelman would take it but I guess I gotta get behind Hulshof now.
Maybe he just wanted to leave politics behind and lead a normal life.
Blunt did a remarkable job of cleaning up one term bob’s mess. He said it himself, what more is there to do? The train is back on track, the mess is cleaned up.
McCaskill has surprised me. Being an auditor, she hasn’t been shy about attacking waste. Of course she’s not hitting Democratic sacred cows, instead she is poking the DOD.
Yes, he saw the numbers that he was going to have a tough race and headed for the door. Poor show.
Thanks for clearing that up. (But Steelman’s hometurf is Rolla- south central Mo. Don’t you lump us all in with those bootheelers! lol.)
Where did I get the notion that he was from the bootheel section??!! Must have misread his website stuff...
What more is there to do ? Stopping Grandstanding Jay Nixon from getting an office he is not entitled to by virtue of his own ego and allowing whatever good he did in cleaning up One-Term Bob’s mess not be for nothing. And also, most importantly, his being Governor during redistricting in 2011 is of paramount importance. We need to ensure the GOP continues to have a majority at the state legislative and federal level. Nixon will do his damndest to undo our hard-fought gains. So there is indeed plenty left to do.
The 8th now includes Rolla and a good swath of the state, so that's how the SE all gets lumped in together.
Sounds like she’s trying to redo Truman. I think she uses his desk in the Senate.
Was it related to immigration and/or the border wall?
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