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Chris Koster (D) in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016

06 Saturday Aug 2016

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Chris Koster (D) in Columbia, Missouri - August 5, 2016.

Chris Koster (D) in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016.

Chris Koster, the 2016 Democratic Party nominee for Governor, spoke to an overflow crowd at a campaign event at the local party headquarters in Columbia early yesterday evening. The event was part of his campaign’s general election kickoff bus tour across the state.

Chris Koster (D) (center left) and Stephen Webber (center right) in Columbia, Missouri - August 5, 2016. photo: Pablo Rodrigo Peres Lopes.

Chris Koster (D) (center left) and Stephen Webber (center right) in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016. photo: Pablo Rodrigo Peres Lopes.

In addition to campaign volunteers and candidates for the General Assembly, former Governors Bob Holden and Roger Wilson and Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer Judy Baker were in attendance.

Former Governor Bob Holden (D) in Columbia, Missouri - August 5, 2016.

Former Governor Bob Holden (D) in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016.

Former Governor Roger Wilson (D) in Columbia, Missouri - August 5, 2016.

Former Governor Roger Wilson (D) in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016.

Judy Baker, the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer, in Columbia, Missouri - August 5, 2016.

Judy Baker, the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer, in Columbia, Missouri – August 5, 2016.

Truman Days 2014 in Kansas City – Saturday night – photos

01 Sunday Jun 2014

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Previously: Truman Days 2014 in Kansas City – Friday night (May 31, 2014)

We’ve been covering the Jackson County Democratic Committee’s annual Truman Days celebration at the Holiday Inn Coco Key in Kansas City this weekend. Last night’s speakers at the Truman Days gala dinner included Representative Emanuel Cleaver, Attorney General Chris Koster, and keynote speaker, Representative Linda Sanchez.

State Senator Scott Sifton (left) and William Grimes, the Democratic Party candidate in the 57th Legislative District (right).

Former Governor Roger Wilson.

Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver.

Senator Harold Caskey and Kay Caskey at Truman Days in Kansas City. Senator Caskey and Senator Ed Quick

were awarded the Jackson County Democratic Committee’s 2014 Senator Ronnie DePasco Public Service Award.

Attorney General Chris Koster.

Representative Linda Chavez Sanchez, the keynote speaker for the evening.

Johnson County Democrats – James C. Kirpatrick Heritage Award Dinner – March 30, 2013

01 Monday Apr 2013

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Gov. Roger Wilson (D) – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 30, 2013 (March 30, 2013)

On Saturday evening Johnson County, Missouri Democrats  hosted their annual James C. Kirkpatrick Heritage Award Dinner, honoring former 17th Judicial Circuit Judge Jacqueline Cook for her twelve years of public service.

Former 17th Judicial Circuit Judge Jacqueline Cook after receiving the James C. Kirkpatrick Heritage Award.

Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley (D).

Doris Kirkpatrick and former state Senator Harold Caskey (D).

One of many items auctioned after dinner to raise funds for the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee.

Former Governor Roger Wilson (D).

Gov. Roger Wilson (D) – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 30, 2013

31 Sunday Mar 2013

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This evening former Governor Roger Wilson (D) spoke at the annual James C. Kirkpatrick Heritage Award Dinner sponsored by Johnson County Democrats.

Former Governor Roger Wilson (D) in Warrensburg, Missouri on March 30, 2013.

The excerpt transcript:

Governor Roger Wilson (D): ….Okay. And now I’m not gonna try to change the tone too much right now. But, for those of you that heard me speak before I’ll usually have one or two good rants in me. And there’s enough to rant about these days.

Before I get started, though, I want to thank the, uh, the group of labor people that are here. I… [voice: “We love you, too.”] [laugh] [applause] Well, I just…

I don’t understand why people don’t get it. What we were doing back in the, in the, in the twenties and in early nineteen hundreds to workers was, was awful. What has transpired has been tremendous. And maybe there’s been some imbalance. But you know what? That’s what, that’s what you have birthdays for. You, you work on those imbalances.

But the attacks that have, that have occurred, uh, in the recent past are just wrong. They’re just wrong. They’re, they’re, they’re part of the systematic unraveling of, of what has built this community. Those wages going up are what supply and fuel Main Street. And it’s that simple. And, and we need to watch out. It’s one of the things that I have on my check list to be careful about. Uh, you know, and if, if labor is wrong then they shouldn’t get it. If labor is right, and they have to fight for it, they should get it. But to, to attack a group or to attack people or to see racism raise its head again or to see all of this stuff that’s going on that it really has a base of hatred in our country, there is no room for it. Period, end of sentence. That’s, that’s not, you know, you’re on the cusp of Easter. And people wear bracelets that say, uh, WWJD. What would Jesus do? What would Jimmy [Kirkpatrick] do? What should we do? This room’s okay. This room’s okay. This community takes care of itself.

But I tell you what, when you fight about gay marriage, when you fight about guns, when you fight about abortion and you spend all of your fuel doing that, then what’s left to address poverty, what’s left to address crime, what’s left to address hunger, what’s left to address health care? If people can convince you to fight a wind mill and exhaust you then you can’t answer the bell when you have to attack those true problems. And we have got to start pinning people down to true problems.

I have a solution on crime, poverty, hunger, even health care. And that is, everybody works. I’m not talking about job creation that’s been kicked to death like a political football. I’m talking about reorganizing our nation so that we finally recognize and inculcate that all work is honorable. And whatever you do or whatever you receive from the government you actually pay for with work. I’m dead serious. I am deadly serious. The resentment that is caused and the political, uh, acrobatics that occur, and you saw this in Mitt Romney’s quote about the forty-seven percent. You know what? That crowbar of division that is being used so effectively politically has got to be ripped out of the hands of the people doing it. Thank goodness you have the Bill Clintons of the world, the Barack Obamas that come along that can enunciate some of the things we ought to do….

Roger Wilson in Johnson County

17 Thursday Jul 2008

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The Jimmy Kirkpatrick Heritage Celebration Dinner in Johnson County

Former Governor Roger Wilson’s remarks:

Thank you. Please have a seat. For those of you that know me, you should know better than to applaud. It only encourages me. Thank you Jim [Matthewson], very much.  We did have a wonderful time in the Missouri Senate and working for the people of the State of Missouri. And, I think, you can just tell a good public official, no matter what our quirks or idiosyncrasies, you know when you’ve been to the office, if we’re trying to help you or not, if we’re trying to help the State of Missouri or not, if we’re trying to help your kids or not….

…It’s real simple. That’s why Democracy has lasted as long as it has, because you can not fool the American public. It just can’t be done. You might pull the wool over their eyes once or twice. You may get away with something, but even the last eight years, this country is going to survive.

It’s been the most embarrassing time I’ve seen in my political life, to have someone as arrogant and as ill informed, time after time after time embarrass us in front of the world.  Now, we’ve got [applause], we’ve got a chance to improve things for the United States and its citizens. And we’re gonna do it…

…I’m not gonna pussy foot around about this because my son’s future  [he served three tours in Iraq], your children’s futures are on the line.  And you can’t have a third idiot in the White House. [applause] You’ve got to have somebody who can make a decision. [applause] If this was a poker game you’d be all in. I’m dead serious.

We’ve never seen our economy teetering on the brink of a cliff like this.  And someone who can not, I mean this guy is gonna make Hoover look like a piker. What he is doing is shoveling money to his friends in Halliburton and to his oil buddies is despicable. It may be criminal. I don’t care what Nancy Pelosi says, and I don’t care about impeachment, I want to find out who was cutting’ deals in private meetings in the Vice President’s office and the President’s office and I want to know why the American people weren’t put first. [applause]

I need these therapy sessions every now and then. [laughter] Now, Every elected official in here I’m sure has the sense and the obligation and the duty to work for everybody when they are elected. You better erase the battle lines. These constant political battle lines are what’s bankrupting this country right now politically. And it is wrong and it is to the detriment of the United States. So, the minute the election is over I’ll expect every Democrat elected official to make it abundantly and painfully clear to their entire community, the entire state, and the entire nation, that we are in this with everybody, no matter what they said about us, no matter what they did. However, this turning the other cheek has got to stop. If somebody accuses and abuses you, like I have seen Barack Obama, Jay Nixon, and other friends of mine abused, it’s time to rare back and dot both of their eyes. I don’t expect you to do it physically, ’cause I don’t want to go there, but I want you to do it verbally. I want you to tell ’em, “How’s that four dollar a gallon gas working for yah?” Or I want you to tell ’em, “You know what? I know you. And you’re a good person and I do business with you. And I go to church with your family. And I know you don’t abide crooks and criminals. So we’re gonna be glad to have you vote Democratic this year. And it’s really your only choice.” [applause]

There is a lot to do to run this state and to run this nation. And the next president and the next governor are going to inherit some very difficult messes to straighten up. I know Jay Nixon and you know Jay Nixon. Jay is capable of it, I expect Jay to surround himself with good people. I expect Jay to make good decisions and I expect him to make a good governor. And I think the State of Missouri is on much better footing than the nation is, if that could be possible.

The next president of these United States is gonna have the biggest mess to clean up any president has been faced with in fifty years. This next president is gonna have to be another FDR. You mark this down and you mark my words. Because I [garbled].  Nothing used to scare me. Nothing, Then I had kids. And after that, I thought, well, nothing but my own kids can scare me. Well I’m telling’ you right now the cuts that people are putting on, our kids, our handicapped, our elderly, are unfair and ungrateful. The cuts that have been made to the veteran’s programs, and the president who said, “I will veto the GI Bill,” are unpatriotic. Period, End of sentence. That’s all there is to it. [applause]

There’s a field hospital in Columbia, Missouri and those people work their head off. But there are people sitting in those waiting rooms constantly. And there’s a reason for that. That’s because the campaign rhetoric has not matched fact.

People who are saying, “I am for education,” and then vote for a voucher system that will undermine the productivity of a good education and the productivity of the country [applause] are unpatriotic. I just can’t have any truck with that. You can’t tell me that “Let’s give every kid a chance too go to Pembroke or Country Day.” What is it? Twelve thousand dollars? Eighteen thousand dollars? “Well, we’ll give them a twenty five hundred dollar voucher and then everybody will get that kind of education.” Do I look like I was born last night? That’s crazy. That nonsense didn’t go on in the Missouri Senate when Jim Matthewson was pro tem. That kind of nonsense didn’t go on until you got a group of people who were bought and paid for. And Jim Matthewson never walked off the dais of the Missouri Senate and got in somebody’s face and said, “I’m gonna take your chairmanship away from you.” Democrats don’t do it that way. Now let me tell you one, if you don’t goose step, the right wing, you’ll lose a chairmanship. Ask Bob Johnson from Lee’s Summit about that. He had avote for labor one time and “boom” he was off the committee. There’s Democracy for yah. Don’t get me started. [laughter]

I’m planning on going knee deep. I’m only going back here to protect you. I’m gonna be knee deep in this election and I’m gonna be one hundred per cent for Barack Obama. And we [applause]…

…Everyone of you is gonna have to stick your face right into the fire. You really are. I’m gonna have you do it…Let me tell you what, if you had a hundred Claire McCaskills in the U.S. Senate this country wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in right now, and I’m [applause], she could make up her own mind.

This guy came from modest beginnings. He’s worked his way up, now they’re trying to brand him as too ambitious. Hey, the re isn’t a dog catcher elected that didn’t start thinking about president the day after the election. So don’t give me that stuff about political ambition. You wouldn’t be a politician if you didn’t have ambition. Ambition is just like capitalism, it can be great, or it can be the ugliest thing on earth. It just depends on how you wear it. Well, let me tell you what, that guy wears it with style and grace. [applause] And I’m happy about it…

…Barack Obama is going to open thirty offices in the State of Missouri. You know he’s gonna hit the college towns. I think young people in this state have a chance to just rock the foundation of Missouri. There’s not a doubt in my mind, not since John Kennedy, that you and I have seen that kind of youthful response. And if they will follow through, and match their enthusiasm with their registration, and with showing up at the polls in November, a lot of people that didn’t think that that Missouri would necessarily be in play are going to be strongly, strongly surprised. This is gonna be a fun campaign. But it’s gonna be a
real serious campaign, too. This is for all the marbles.

If we think four more years of this kind of administration, I’m not sure what you’re gonna be looking at in America. And I don’t think, thankfully you’ve got a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate, and I think they’re gonna pick up some real strength there. I think Jay Nixon is going to run well around the state. I  think we’re gonna have a handsome slate of under ballot candidates. And that’s gonna help us pick up seats in the Missouri House and the Missouri Senate, because it is trending back that way now.

When this happens, when this happens, because Republicans were so organized, so effectively went after labor, and education, and critical things in the state like health care, we’re gonna have more work cut out for us than we’ve ever seen before…

…And there are two groups in this room tonight, three groups, excuse me, that have tremendous reach [garbled], educators, public safety, and labor unions. If the message emanates through all of the above, with strength, that these are goals that we expect to achieve…

…There is a lot of ground to recover. The quality of life has been diminished by the last eight years. I expect Missourians to be good enoughto get this done.[applause]…

…Let’s go out there and have some fun. It is fun to be among Democrats. It is fun to know that you’re a hundred per cent right. Every now and then they can throw an issue at you, and maybe, you know, a thoughtful person will say, “You know, I, I, at least I see their point. I don’t agree with it, but I see their point.” They’re just dead wrong. [laughter] They’re just dead wrong. They bring the ship of state into the mud and now you and I are tasked with pulling it out. We’re gonna do it. We’re gonna get it done. Our country deserves it, our country has given us so much that we can never repay it, all that we owe. I love this feeling of being a hundred per cent right. I love this feeling of helping our country.

And there’s one other thing that I’ll close my speech with, and that is, I love every one of you, and there’s not a thing you can do about it. You have a great evening and thank you very much for having me tonight. [applause]

The Jimmy Kirkpatrick Heritage Celebration Dinner in Johnson County

16 Wednesday Jul 2008

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The Johnson County Democratic Club presented former Governor Roger Wilson with an award for his public service, in the tradition of the the legendary public servant and Secretary of State Jimmy Kirkpatrick who had been a long time Warrensburg resident, at a dinner tonight in Johnson County. Approximately two hundred people were in attendance.

Doris Kirkpatrick and Charlie Wheeler, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer.

Chris Benjamin (right), Democratic candidate in the 31st Senate District, with members of the Missouri Educational Workers, Local #1.

Jim Jackson, Democratic candidate in the 121st Legislative District, with a young Democrat.

Former State Representative Jim Sigfried assisted with the dessert auction which raised funds for the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee. Several pies went for over one hundred dollars.

Former Governor Roger Wilson addresses the audience.

After the dinner Roger Wilson speaks with Mike Carey, from Robin Carnahan’s campaign.

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