Previously: Teabaggers, and nullification, and the cult of the lost cause, oh my!
Wait, could that be? Why yes, it’s a lobbyist waiting in the wings.
Carl Bearden (r), lobbyist: ….You need to make sure that you look around the perimeter of this rotunda. You need to make sure that you look around, uh, chambers in the Senate and the House and read the words that are on these walls because when we determine and decide and elect people who believe and practice the words in this capitol we’ll have a better state and we’ll have a better country. [applause]
[inaudible] Right behind you is “Where there is no vision the people perish”. We have to have a vision for a free America. We have to have a vision for a free Missouri. And without your activity as a [inaudible] said, that cannot happen because, folks, we sent some good people to Jefferson City. We sent some good people to Washington, D.C. How many of you all are married? How many wives do we have present? Every wife knows in order to make a good husband she has to watch him and tell him when he’s not doing right. [laughter, applause] That’s what we have to do to the folks that we elected to represent us. We do not elect them to come here or to Washington to represent themselves or represent the special interests, but to represent us, to represent America, to represent Missouri [inaudible]. [applause]
For Missouri’s future prosperity depends on you and me. You know, I, I want to encourage you at the risk of discouraging you first. And when you go about and when you spend the rest of the day here and either this evening or tomorrow you’ll read about this rally. And you’re gonna read some great things about how tons of people showed up. But you’re gonna read in at least one blog and perhaps one newspaper where it was a very poorly attended rally. [laughter] Right? You’ve seen that forum. What they don’t [inaudible], what they don’t understand is you’ve been watching the national scene. There are a lot of people on there that did not get what happened on November second. [inaudible] still exist. So when you read those things just know that you are like a, a, uh, a ear of corn. An ear of corn contains a lot of seed doesn’t it? These seed takes a lot of other ear of corns to make a lot of bushels. And you are representative of the bushels that exist in our country and our state today, so give yourselves a hand. [applause]
[inaudible] while I have said we are not going to wait for [inaudible] if we want an America for our grandchildren and great grandchildren that we know was envisioned we have to stay active. One of the ways government takes our liberty is by taking our money. Liberty is part of money. And you’ve heard [inaudible] talk about the national fair tax, here in Missouri we can enact a measure [inaudible] Missouri jobs and prosperity. Just imagine living in a state that when you pick your paycheck up every week that there is no deduction from the state stealing part of your liberty. [cheers, applause] Just imagine living in a state that actually creates jobs, that is growing in population, gaining congressional seats, not losing them. [applause] Missouri jobs and prosperity act is [inaudible] for Missouri. Can and will make it happen. The Missouri jobs and prosperity act replaces the income tax with a consumer driven sales tax that will create twenty thousand jobs a year every year. And I think that’s good [applause]. [inaudible] And folks, we can make it happen, but the big government big spenders here in the state don’t want that to happen. They will make things up. They’re gonna fight it. Folks, it’s up to each and every one of us to protect our liberties. We need to be supporting Missouri jobs and prosperity act. And in two thousand twelve we are doing the best we can to make sure that you get that opportunity in an election coming near you in November two thousand and twelve. We’re gonna be asking you over the next few months and the next two years while it’s happening to be a part of that team that making that happen, make sure that people know that we respect, we want, we demand that our government not tread on our liberty and you can be a part of that process.
Ronald Reagan said about talking about elected officials, they don’t see the light, they can feel the heat. Folks [cheers, applause], folks we need to [inaudible], stand up, [inaudible] and we need to [inaudible] the same [inaudible]. God bless you, God bless America.
Introduced with “he’s helped us a lot” and as a “former representative”
It must be lobbyist humor, or something: “…We do not elect them to come here or to Washington to represent themselves or represent the special interests…”
Your moment of zen.
“…You know, I, I want to encourage you at the risk of discouraging you first. And when you go about and when you spend the rest of the day here and either this evening or tomorrow you’ll read about this rally. And you’re gonna read some great things about how tons of people showed up. But you’re gonna read in at least one blog and perhaps one newspaper where it was a very poorly attended rally…”
It was a very poorly attended rally. Happy to oblige.
Carl Bearden’s lobbying principal’s list:
LOBID:L002591 Received Date:7/17/2007
Lobbyist’s Name Carl BeardenAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION
1350 I STREET NW, SUITE 870
WASHINGTON DC 0
A 8/2/2007ASTELLAS PHARMA US INC.
THREE PARKWAY NORTH
DEERFIELD IL 60015-2537
A 1/22/2009AT&T INC, AND ITS AFFILIATES
ONE SBC CENTER, SUITE 3542
ST. LOUIS MO 63101
A 8/2/2007CARL BEARDEN
PO BOX 561
ST. CHARLES MO 63302
A 7/19/2007HEYLTEX
925 SOUTH MASON ROAD, PMB #242
KATY TX 77450
A 8/2/2007LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY
209 S KINGSHIGHWAY
ST. CHARLES MO 63301
A 10/6/2008METRO HEART GROUP OF ST. LOUIS, INC
11475 OLDE CABIN ROAD, SUITE 200
ST. LOUIS MO 63141
A 8/2/2007MID AMERICA MEDICAL AFFILIATES
1600 GENESSEE STREET, STE 423
KANSAS CITY MO 64102
A 8/2/2007MISSOURI AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ASSOCIATION
P.O. BOX 6966
LEES SUMMIT MO 64064
A 8/2/2007MISSOURI SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS (MSA)
113 MADISON ST
JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102
A 8/2/2007MISSOURIANS FOR A BETTER ECONOMY (MBE)
503 EAST NIFONG #272
COLUMBIA MO 65201
A 8/2/2007PELOPIDAS, LLC
912 EAST BROADWAY, SUITE 207
COLUMBIA MO 65201
A 7/19/2007REX AND JEANNE SINQUEFIELD
NINE HORTENSE PLACE
ST. LOUIS MO 63108
A 8/2/2007SIGNATURE HEALTH SERVICES
633 EMERSON DRIVE, SUITE 50
ST. LOUIS MO 63141
A 8/2/2007ST. LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
5050 OAKLAND AVENUE
ST. LOUIS MO 63110
A 1/9/2009SUJVL INC, DBA CHEAP CHEAP
10201 ST. CHARLES ROCK ROAD
SAINT ANN MO 63074
A 8/2/2007THE BROWN LOBBY FIRM, LLC
912 EAST BROADWAY, SUITE 208
COLUMBIA MO 65201
A 8/2/2007UNITED FOR MISSOURI
PO BOX 11466
SPRINGFIELD MO 65808
A 7/30/2010UNITED FOR MISSOURI’S FUTURE
PO BOX 11466
SPRINGFIELD MO 65808
A 7/30/2010
Do you think the teabaggers at the rally knew?
Do you really think they care?
Obviously has never worked as a union organizer.
I dunno, is this unintentionally ironic?
If you’re gonna do the Gadsden flag thing at a teabagger rally at least do more than one.
There were about two hundred people in attendance. The organizers had sign up tables for those attending the rally. The emcee was somewhat disorganized. There were speeches from teabagger activists, republican members of the General Assembly, and, of course, an astroturfing lobbyist. A representative of Missouri Right to life spoke on his primary wedge issue. Let’s see, tentherism, nullification, American exceptionalism, the flat tax, and a wedge issue here or there. That about sums it up.
Follow the links (literally):
Video Shows Carl Bearden Reporting to Billionaire David Koch (October 13, 2010)
Hat tip to Brian Matthews.