Last night Purgason sent a statement via fax announcing he is setting up an exploratory committee for the race. He took aim at his own party.
“I think that my own Party bears some blame for many of the things that are happening today,” Purgason said. “We have forgotten our values, what we stand for, and what made us a great nation. In the past few years, the leaders we sent to Washington did not stand up for our values of smaller government and more freedoms but instead became part of the problem rather than the solution. As a result, we have become a Party without a true base and a vacancy in real leadership.”
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Purgason also criticized the president for trying to “change” America.
“We must stop the “changing” of America and fight for the renewal of America and the dreams we share as Americans,” he said
Looks Like Blunt Might Have Another Challenger
17 Wednesday Jun 2009
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other than Chuck Purgason…
but the article about him doesn’t have anything to really discourage the purists.
Purgason won 19629 votes from his district in the August 2008 primary, a number only topped by the primary in the 29th in that election.
The 33rd is a funky looking district too, here’s the map of results from the 08 general election
I don’t know how far north and west Purgason’s votegetting power wanders. He’d (hopefully) pull Howell county.. but the bigger areas in Republican primaries are Camden and Laclede which are a bit far from where he was been a Rep/Senator for 12+ years