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Johnson, Lafayette, and Saline Counties, Missouri

13 Friday Aug 2021

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Tonight, from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS):

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services posted a local alert for Johnson County and 2 other counties.

JOHNSON, LAFAYETTE & SALINE COUNTIES: COVID-19 cases in Johnson (299), Lafayette (256) and Saline (165) have increased in the past 14 days.

Hospitals in the region are seeing resource strain from dramatically increased numbers of COVID-19 patients and hospitalizations. As a result, several hospitals in the region are at or near capacity. Continued disease spread into Northwest Missouri is expected.

The Delta variant, which spreads more easily and poses higher risk of hospitalization than prior variants, is believed to be contributing to the increase. Vaccination continues to be our best tool to move past this pandemic.

Vaccination rates:
– Johnson County: 23.4%
– Lafayette County: 34.5%
– Saline County: 35.8%
Experts say at least 70% – 80% of people need immunity to minimize spread within a community.

COVID-19 Resources
– Vaccines: MOStopsCovid.com
– At Home & Community Testing: Health.Mo.Gov/CommunityTest

Those who choose not to get vaccinated should continue these important public health steps:
– Maintain at least six feet distance from others;
– Wear a mask when appropriate;
– Avoid others that appear to be sick;
– Avoid others if you have COVID symptoms;
– Cough or sneeze into your elbow or a tissue; and
– Wash your hands.
[….]

The DHSS Advisory – August 13, 2021:

A vaccination rate of 23.4%. What could go wrong?

“…You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight…?”

Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and Saline Counties, Missouri – COVID-19 Outbreak – Statistics – May 13, 2020

13 Wednesday May 2020

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A tale of plague in four counties.

Johnson County:

Johnson County, Missouri – COVID-19 Statistics – Johns Hopkins – May 13, 2020

Johnson County
Confirmed by 100k Population: 121.15
Confirmed Cases: 65
New Cases Since the Previous Day: 2

Lafayette County:

Lafayette County, Missouri – COVID-19 Statistics – Johns Hopkins – May 13, 2020

Lafayette County
Confirmed by 100k Population: 190.20
Confirmed Cases: 62
Deaths: 3
Fatality rate: 4.84%

Pettis County:

Pettis County, Missouri – COVID-19 Statistics – Johns Hopkins – May 13, 2020

Pettis County
Confirmed by 100k Population: 159.84
Confirmed Cases: 68
New Cases Since the Previous Day: 1

Saline County:

Saline County, Missouri – COVID-19 Statistics – Johns Hopkins – May 13, 2020

Saline County
Confirmed by 100k Population: 956.54
Confirmed Cases: 219

It’s still here.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Previously:

Missouri DHSS – COVID-19 Outbreak Statistics – May 12, 2020 – 2:00 p.m. (May 12, 2020)

Are you smarter than Missouri’s governor?

31 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r) has not issued a “stay at home” order for the state. Because, we don’t know, “rural, something, something.”

The Lafayette County, Missouri Commission, on the other hand:

Lafayette County, Missouri Signed COVID-19 Stay At Home ordinance [pdf]

Statistics from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services released yesterday indicate 17 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one resulting death in Lafayette County.

Well, Governor Parson (r)?

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].

Teresa Hensley (D) with Lafayette County Democrats in Odessa, Missouri – September 10, 2016

12 Monday Sep 2016

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On Saturday afternoon Teresa Hensley, the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General, spoke in Odessa, Missouri before a crowd of Lafayette County Democrats and organized labor at an event sponsored by Laborers’ Local 663.

Teresa Hensley, the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General, speaking in at an event in Odessa, Missouri sponsored by Laborers' Local 663 - September 10, 2016.

Teresa Hensley, the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General, speaking in at an event in Odessa, Missouri sponsored by Laborers’ Local 663 – September 10, 2016.

Teresa Hensley (D): ….I do want to talk for just a minute about what the Attorney General’s office does. Because the Attorney General’s office truly is the top prosecutor of the State of Missouri, with over a hundred and eighty attorneys in that office. In the last sixty days the Attorney General’s office has handled besides consumer fraud and tax fraud, it handled four murder cases, two child abuse cases and a child endangerment case. All cases that I did as a prosecutor. So, for over twenty-four years I’ve been an attorney, practicing law. For fourteen years I was in private practice representing real people in real courtrooms. And then I became the Prosecutor in two thousand five. So as the Prosecutor in Cass County, Chris Koster was the Prosecutor there for ten years, he became a state senator, Governor Holden appointed me to take that position and I filled Chris’s two years that he had remaining. And I was elected in two thousand six and two thousand ten in what’s pretty much a Republican county at this point. I’m very proud of my service in Cass County. Uh, we had over twenty, we had twenty-one murder convictions over, in twenty-one cases. And I had over five hundred sexual assault, domestic violence, and child sex abuse convictions. Ninety-three of that over five hundred was just child sex abuse convictions.

Those are the types of cases that are he said, she said cases. They’re difficult for prosecutors to make because there’s very little evidence. But we were able to file those and make those over five hundred times.

I’m very proud of the work that I did with respect to those who are the most vulnerable in our state, and in our county, especially in Cass County, where I was on the Hope Haven board, the abuse shelter board, we had domestic violence, uh, task force, and we had a child abuse response task force. So, as Prosecutor I didn’t just sit in my office and prosecute folks. In fact, we had a lot of task forces. We had some prevention programs. I went out over five hundred times and talked about women’s safety, and keeping kids and teens safe in the real world, and doing merchant’s programs.

As Attorney General I will be that person who will roll up her sleeves and be ready on the first day to start talking about the tensions that we have around our state, about looking at best practices and how we can do things better and differently. That’s what I did with respect to child sex abuse convictions, that’s what I did with respect to sexual assault cases. It’s important that we have someone in the Attorney General’s office who’s actually practiced law, has actually been a prosecutor.

Let me talk about my opponent for just a moment. My opponent actually got in the primary almost two million dollars from David Humphreys. David Humphreys is that guy who would have us as right to work tomorrow if it were up to him. And so this is an important election. My opponent has been a law clerk and he’s been a law professor, but he’s never actually rolled up his sleeves and done any work. And in a public statement during the primary, this is a guy who said that as Attorney General he will work to undermine and overturn Roe versus Wade. This is a fellow who is really, really far right. And the good news for us is that as we go through the general [election] it will be impossible for him to bring himself back to the middle. He truly, truly believes his far right attitudes and ideology. And being a true believer, he’s not gonna work too hard in the middle because he believes he doesn’t have to.

And what that also means for us is that we can talk about the things that are important to us as Democrats. We all know that Planned Parenthood provides the health services, the reproductive health services to women that need to, to be there for those who can’t afford to do so otherwise.

And so this is an important office, it’s an important race. It’s an important year. Every year we say this election’s more important than any election. But truly, this election is. We know that right to work will be here if we don’t keep Democrats in office. We know that for a fact. We know that Planned Parenthood won’t be able to stand if we don’t keep Democrats in office.

So let me talk for just a minute longer about what we do know historically is that we have unions, we have collective bargaining because of blood, sweat, and tears of those who came before us. My dad is a retired Local 8 plumber, my brother is an Ironworker, my cousins, UAW. I grew up in a strong union household. My dad had a tremendous standard of living and his hard work was rewarded by having good pay, and benefits, and a pension. Those are things that we want to make sure are strong for our middle class. And we got collective bargaining by sometimes folks being brutally beat as they were in nineteen thirty-seven in, in Detroit at the Ford plant there when they went to unionize. We know that coal miners were gunned down in the nineteen twenties in West Virginia. We know that for a fact. We know how unions came about and that they had to, simply, fight their way here.

And so all we have to do is vote the right way. All that we have to do is make sure that our friends and our families aren’t voting for a Republican legislature. All we need to do is make sure that they’re voting for Democrats from the Governor’s office to the Attorney General’s office to the Secretary of State, and the Treasurer. We’ve got to get out and work for that. And so we don’t have to give blood, sweat and tears. We don’t have to risk our lives. We don’t have to be brutally beat to hold on to unions. All we have to do is make sure that we’re getting folks out to vote and that they’re voting for Democrats. And that we’re protecting those folks that we care about, our middle class, our children, and our seniors. Because it’s the Democratic Party who has protected that. [….] And so unions and Democrats have walked hand in hand year after year after year and all we have to do is make sure people get out to vote.
I want to be your next Attorney General. I would appreciate your support, your vote, and your help in getting us elected this year. Thank you for having me. [applause]

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Lafayette County Democrats – retail politics and pie

06 Monday Aug 2012

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Lafayette County Democrats held a dinner and pie auction fundraiser in Higginsville this evening. It was also an opportunity for Democratic Party officeholders and statewide and local candidates to visit and speak to those in attendance before Tuesday’s primary election. Close to one hundred individuals attended the dinner and auction.

Jackson County Executive and Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Mike Sanders

addressed the gathering of Lafayette County Democrats in Higginsville.

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D).

Jason Kander (right) a Democratic Party candidate for Secretary of State.

Former State Auditor – and a Democratic Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor – Susan Montee.

Holmes Osborne, the Democratic Party candidate in the 53rd Legislative District.

One of the auction pies.

Auctioning a cherry pie.

Rep. Jason Kander (D) in Higginsville

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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“…I think that there are two competing visions for the state right now. I think one of those visions is one that says, let’s throw up our hands, just kind of get everything we can on the way down. It’s sort of that old race to the bottom…. And then the other side is sort of let’s do the tough things and this will be a great state….”

Representative Jason Kander (D) is an announced candidate for Secretary of State. On Sunday evening Representative Kander spoke to Lafayette County Democrats at their meeting in Higginsville.  

Previously:

Lafayette County Democrats: Emanuel Cleaver, Jason Kander and Holmes Osborne in Higginsville (January 9, 2012)

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) in Higginsville (January 9, 2012)

Representative Jason Kander (D) speaking to Lafayette County Democrats in Higginsville on Sunday evening.

Representative Jason Kinder (D): ….And in Afghanistan I was, um, a political military intelligence officer, which is a fancy way of saying my job was to investigate corruption, uh, within the Afghan government, find the bad guys who were pretending to be good guys. Uh, and then, so, I came back and I ran for the legislature, got to Jefferson City and, and found out that, uh, there was plenty of corruption there as well. [laughter] So, so, that’s been the real focus of my work in, in the Missouri House of Representatives. I, I, as a minority member of the, of the, as a minority member of the House I’ve worked with, with Republicans to pass, uh, the first real ethics bill in about a generation. Um, and that’s just kind of been my focus….

….The Secretary of State’s office does a few things, but, in, in short, it is the office that protects Democracy, protects free enterprise, uh, and protects our seniors from fraud. So, on that Democracy part, and Holmes [Osborne], when you get to Jeff City, as I believe you will, you’ll see that after a while what happens is it kind of just becomes a place where you work. Like any other place does, right, even though we work in this chamber that’s built for reverence. It’s, it’s much like a church, it’s got stained glass and, and you feel when you first get there like this is clearly a place where you are a participant in Democracy. And you can feel the reverence of the place. And then after a while that just kind of becomes your office. And people forget what their responsibilities are.  I’ve never really forgotten that largely because of the time that I’ve spent overseas.

And I’ll tell you a, a brief story about what I’m talking about. Um, when I was overseas for a, for a short period it was my job and two other guys’ job to protect a woman who was a member of the Afghan Parliament.  And the reason she needed guys with guns to protect her was because she was a woman who served in the Afghan Parliament.  It wasn’t, it wasn’t that she had a specific stand on an issue or anything like that. It was just that, the way I drive home on Thursdays from Jefferson City, when she would drive back to Jalalabad from, from Kabul she had to have protection or she could be killed. And her predecessor had been killed because her predecessor was a woman, uh, who served in the Afghan Parliament. I think about her a lot and I think about the fact that she was just trying to preserve a Democracy. That’s what she believed in. And I guarantee you, that when she went to vote or when she went to take positions on issues she wasn’t thinking about what this interest or that interest wanted or what political pressure was being applied. She understood the idea of preserving Democracy.

The Secretary of State runs elections. The other party in this state has a vision for the state that says simply that they want to put their thumbs on, on the scales of Democracy and tip it over to their side. They want to have ballot language that is slanted in, in a way I think that, uh, loads the question, uh, unfairly. My vision for it is, is really simple. We should put the information in front of you and let you make the decision. That doesn’t mean that our side will win every time. But I think it’s the right thing to do.

We should make sure that we continue to stand up to Wall Street and folks who would prey on our seniors. Uh, and continue to do that regardless of whether it’s the good political thing to do. Because it’s the right thing.

So that’s what the Secretary of State’s office does. It’s what I intend to do. I think that there are two competing visions for the state right now. I think one of those visions is one that says, let’s throw up our hands, just kind of get everything we can on the way down. It’s sort of that old race to the bottom…. And then the other side is sort of let’s do the tough things and this will be a great state.

And I think that’s what you do when you say, well, we’re not gonna load the question in a way that makes it where our appellate judges have to be elected one day. You know, I don’t want to see the day where, uh, if you want to be on the appellate court or the Supreme Court in this state you gotta go and you gotta have fundraisers. And you’ve got to make sure you get the right interests on your side. I don’t think that’s the right way in this state to go. I don’t think that we should make it more difficult to organize the workplace or make it easier to discriminate against you based on your gender or, or your race. I don’t think that’s the right way to go.

Uh, one of the big issues they’ve tried to make, one of the big issues in this in this race is photo ID. My rule is real simple, photo ID, going to vote – if it, if a policy makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat, then I’ll be for it. If it doesn’t, then I won’t.

I’ve served on the Missouri Veterans Commission. I’ve been to a lot of veterans homes where you go in and you’ll talk to a veteran and you’ll find out that this is a person who was in Normandy. But, they haven’t driven in a long time, they don’t have a license. I think that if you were at, on the beach at Normandy you’ve earned the right to vote.  I don’t think we should put the [inaudible] that right….

Representative Jason Kander (D).

Update:

For those of you brought here by Representative Shane Schoeller’s (r) campaign web site you’ll want to follow up with this:

Rep. Shane Schoeller (r): reading comprehension isn’t a strong point (January 12, 2012)

Here’s a tip – cutting and pasting a quote out of context may help you with your right wingnut base, but it isn’t going to make you look very good to everyone else….

Words.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) in Higginsville

10 Tuesday Jan 2012

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On Sunday evening Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) spoke at a meeting of Lafayette County Democrats in Higginsville. With redistricting the Fifth Congressional District will include Lafayette and Saline Counties to the east of Jackson County.

Previously: Lafayette County Democrats: Emanuel Cleaver, Jason Kander and Holmes Osborne in Higginsville (January 9, 2012)

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) speaking at a meeting of Lafayette County Democrats in Higginsville on Sunday evening.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D): ….And I do think that we have a chance to take the General Assembly. Uh, I, I think we can pick up some seats this year. What I want everybody to remember is that, uh, we talk about the great Republican wave two, uh, last November [inaudible] a great Republican wave. I know that’s what the newspapers told you. I know, I know that’s what you think. That, but it wasn’t. It was the great Democratic sit down. [laughter] Uh, the outvoted us by twenty percent. Twenty percent. We were, we were angry and disgusted and whatever, disappointed and we didn’t vote. And so, uh, they came out and voted. They came. They voted, this is the good news, this is the good news, they voted, uh, in presidential numbers. They voted, uh, about the same level that they do in the presidential election. We didn’t. So the good news is that this is the presidential election and we will probably come out in much, uh, greater numbers and they’ve already hit their ceiling. They’re, they’re already, they’ve already gone as high as they can go. And they did it, uh, this past, uh, November, uh, two Novembers ago. And so, uh, that, that’s the good news I think for us, uh, here in Missouri. And so we, we are, uh, I think poised to, to do some, some significant, uh, things for this country, uh, for, for Missouri….

….The amount of enthusiasm at the beginning of the task is disproportionate to the amount of enthusiasm remaining at the conclusion of the task. It just happened to us in politics. We had enormous enthusiasm almost four years ago. And we were all set to change this nation for the better. And I think that most of us believed that we were finally, finally headed in the direction that would allow this nation to be for our children and their children what we envisioned. And it has not, uh, taken place. And a lot of the problems we face today, uh, are problems, uh, based on the fact that our country, uh, is becoming mean spirited….

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D).

….And it’s becoming mean spirited, I think, with a lot of direction from, from Washington. Uh, and, and so we can’t get anything done in Congress. And, and the reason we can’t, get, get anything done – nobody even talks to each other. Members, I, I come home and people say, I know you guys are sitting around trying to work on this payroll tax that’s. We are? There, there are no meetings on payroll taxes. There are no meetings on Social Security. Social Security’s okay, it’s not in trouble, that’s not a problem. Medicare is in serious trouble, friends. So how many times you think we meet and talk about Medicare [inaudible]? How ’bout zero. How many times you think we dealt with Medicare over the last three years? How ’bout zero. How ’bout zero.

You name a problem, raise it, lift it up to me and I’ll tell you whether or not there’s even been a meeting dealing with those issues. I’m talking about the most significant issues facing the United States. And they’re not being dealt with. They’re not even being talked about. We are ignoring the major problems that are, that impacts the lives of Americans.

We’ve got veterans coming home from Iraq that can’t find jobs. And, believe it or not, large numbers of them are walking around, in this district, homeless. Many of them need psychological help and they can’t get it.

And the problems that we should be dealing with in Washington never, ever surface – we don’t even talk about it. You probably think we sit around and try to figure out how to deal with the problem of immigration. I’m sure you probably think that’s taken place. I can say without fear of contradiction that there’s not been a single meeting in the House of Representatives over the last three years where men and women in Congress sat around with the intentionality of trying to deal with or solve the problem with immigration. Not one.

So what do we do? Well, we try to figure out who can be the nastiest. Why? Because nasty pays off. Nasty wins. Joe Wilson, I go to prayer breakfast with him on Thursdays, he yells out, the only time in the history of the Republic that we’ve had a President interrupted by Americans in the delivery of the State of the Union speech. He says, you lie. Within eight days he raises two million dollars for his campaign. So, if you want, if you want to become powerful and popular, be nasty. The record is clear. Go ahead and Google it. Joe Wilson. South Carolina. The same thing hold true with Anthony Weiner from our side. I mean, Anthony would go out and ran, uh, every day, you probably saw him on, on the evening news. I mean, he’s screaming and, and calling names. And he was raising a lot of money for his reelection. And so people figured it out. If you can just make the evening news saying something nasty about somebody you can raise a lot of money in the United States of America.

Why? We have forgotten who we are. We’ve forgotten the Republic that was founded on basic liberty for all of the people. The amount of enthusiasm at the beginning of the task is disproportionate to the amount of enthusiasm remaining at the conclusion of the task. We have moved a long way from the ideals of the founders. And so we are turning American against American. If you read volume, actually, volume two is better, but volume one and two of Edward Gibbon’s The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire [The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]. I dare you to read it and not tremble at the parallels.

Every great empire has collapsed. The Ottoman Empire, the Chinese, the British Empire, it didn’t matter, they all collapsed. And not one of them was defeated. The collapsed from within, including the Soviet Union. And we’re setting ourselves up for that with all of this fighting among ourselves. That’s all we do is fight among ourselves. And it’s getting worse and worse. And people believe that it’s, that, that, that, that’s what we’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to be nasty, uh, to each other.

And we demonize things that we feel are opposed to us, for example, federal workers. I mean, you’re, there’s an all out assault on federal workers and union workers for, for, in, in general. I mean, if you listen to people whose speeches about, I mean, you want to get a cheer from people you go out and say, we’ve got to get rid of all these federal workers. And see, it’s more rhetoric than reality. And so most people don’t know it, so they’re thinking, yeah, that’s right, let’s get rid of all of these bureaucrats in the federal government. Those people in the federal government are not from some planetary system. [laughter] They live next door. But if you’re not careful you’ll come to the conclusion that these people, all the federal workers, are in Washington, D.C. We have two point six million federal workers. Only fifteen percent of them are in Washington. And so when people start talking, we need to cut the, cut all of these federal programs. Okay. You cutting the people who prepare the Social Security checks? You cut the people who protect the borders, the people who sit up in towers to guide p
lanes in and plane, help planes take off safely, the people who test the milk and the food at the, uh, FDA.

I mean, the, the nation that we all live in has a government and we are they. And we, we have come to the conclusion there that we fight against ourselves. Our own, our own best interests. And the rest of the world is killing us. I mean, the, and, and, this is so amazing, the twenty-five, uh, the twenty five largest hedge fund managers, I’m, I’m, uh, I’m gonna take two, I’m gonna take two guesses from somebody. What do you think the twenty-five top, these twenty-five human beings, and Americans, the twenty-five top hedge fund managers, what do you think they earned last year? Just, I’ll take two, two guesses. [voice: “Um, twenty. Minimum of twenty million.”]  Twenty million. Anybody else? [voice: “Hundred million.”] Hundred million. Okay. Both of them are way off. [voice: “Five hundred million.”] Twenty-five human beings who put their pants on, or get into a tub like we do, earn twenty-two billion dollars. And anybody who believes that is right doesn’t understand what this country is all about. Twenty-two [voice: “Amen.”] billion dollars for twenty-five human beings. Not only that, they pay a fifteen percent tax rate because the money, the money that they brought in was for, was capital gains tax. So you’re paying twenty-five percent, thirty percent, they’re paying fifteen. It’s not right. It’s not right.

And that’s why I’m a Democrat. Let me tell you why I’m a Democrat. [inaudible] [laughter] I’m a Democrat. And I’m proud to be a Democrat. My mother was a Democrat and my father was a Democrat. That’s not why I’m a Democrat. My mother, my father was a Church of God in Christ Holiness, my mother was Baptist. I’m United Methodist. [laughter] So I don’t follow well. [laughter] But I’m a Democrat and I will always embrace this, because if a Democrat is somebody who believes that we need to protect American workers so they won’t be exploited, color me Democrat. If Democrat means that we need to protect our seniors who helped build this country and need the help of the nation in their sunset years, then color me Democrat. If Democrat means that I’m concerned about children and their education and that I’m not willing to attack school teachers because I understand that in this country right now we’re willing to pay our worst wide receiver more than we’re willing to pay our best teacher. And if I’m going to stand up for the teachers and that means I’m a Democrat or a liberal, color me Democrat, color me liberal. If Democrat means that I’m upset because we have one thousand military bases, one thousand, outside the United States. One thousand. And our military budget exceeds the budget, military budget, of all the nations on the planet combined. And that many of the votes we take are to keep plants open to manufacture weapons for the military and Dwight Eisenhower, the great liberal Republican, said, beware. Beware. Eisenhower. And we have not listened to Eisenhower.

In fact, Eisenhower couldn’t get the Republican nomination. Reagan couldn’t get it. And, believe it or not, the old liberal Richard Nixon couldn’t get it. Richard Nixon signed the EPA into existence. Richard Nixon started the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He couldn’t even make it out of the first primary.

I’m a Democrat because I believe that what FDR stood for and stood against is what I hope to always stand for and stand against. As, none of us were alive when, when FDR died. But, you know, they took, put his body on a train and rolled it around a part of the country and people stood out by the tens of thousands when the train came by. A reporter for the New York Times stopped a guy in New Jersey who was weeping and the man said, the reporter said to the man, did you know President Roosevelt? And he said, no, but he knew me. He knew me. He knew I was out here struggling, trying to raise a family and send my children to school. He knew me.

That’s why I’m a Democrat. I will never be embarrassed about being a Democrat. You can put any label on it you want, bleeding heart liberal, I don’t care, call it whatever you want to call it. We are the men and women who helped build this country. We’ve got Democrats right now poised in November two thousand and twelve to get into positions so that we can again set the ship of state, uh, correctly….

….I’m sure you’re like the rest of the country, you look at that, those debates in, and it’s, and it’s like Laugh In. [laughter] I mean, even Republican columnists are writing about how horrible it is.  But it doesn’t matter. Once they coalesce behind somebody, which is probably going to be Mitt Romney, it’s gonna be tough. It’s gonna be very, very tough. And so we’re gonna have to get out and work, we’re gonna have to people, uh, in positions, uh, to campaign, uh, everywhere. I’m gonna campaign all over, everywhere. Everywhere.

I, I brought the Secretary of Agriculture out to Odessa to meet with farmers, uh, last month. Uh, it’s not even in my district yet. But I want to make sure people understand that I understand. And if I am elected I, I represent everybody. Every single body. Until two years ago I represented the one district in Congress where an African American served in a minority, uh, with a minority black population. My district, almost eighteen percent black, and so people in Washington, what, what, what’s going on, I mean, how, what’s going on?

Well, I am convinced that we go and present and expect the best from people. The people will rise to the level of the expectation. And I think people are basically good and decent. And, yeah, I’ve run into some bad people, but they are, they’re the minority. And I have to tell myself this. I don’t care what anybody says or does, I have to think, yeah, but the rest, the rest of the people are not like that.

Look, the country is with us. All of the polls show that the public believes in the policies that we embrace. The only issue is whether or not we’re gonna get out and work and convince people to be with us on Election Day. And it’s not over until it’s over. Remember, the amount of enthusiasm at the beginning of a task is disproportionate to the amount of enthusiasm remaining at the conclusion of a task, called Cleaver’s Law. And we’ve got to hold on no matter what. ‘Cause if there is no Democratic Party there, there, this country is in trouble….

….There are a lot of things in this country that are lost right now. I am absolutely convinced that the Democrats have the light. [applause]

Lafayette County Democrats: Emanuel Cleaver, Jason Kander and Holmes Osborne in Higginsville

09 Monday Jan 2012

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On Sunday evening Lafayette County Democrats held a potluck dinner and meeting, hearing from candidates and getting the opportunity to speak one on one with them. There were over fifty individuals in attendance.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) – the Fifth Congressional District

now includes Lafayette and Saline Counties to the east of Jackson County and south of the Missouri River.

Holmes Osborne (D), an announced candidate for the 53rd Legislative District encompassing Lafayette County.

State Representative Jason Kander (D), an announced candidate for Secretary of State.

At this stage in the political year office holders and candidates are engaging in the retail politics of meeting, listening to, and speaking with their constituents and the electorate. Statewide candidates obviously travel all over the state to do so. Congressional and state legislative redistricting changes the geography for office holders and candidates – so they travel throughout their new districts to meet voters and party activists.  

The Republican Party's steady descent into madness, Vol. 2

20 Friday Nov 2009

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(soon-to-be infamous image is from Fired Up! Missouri, and the billboard is located near Grain Valley Lafayette County, Missouri)

Don’t waste your time waiting for Roy Blunt, Chris Roepe (MOGOP Political Director and LafCo native) or Bill Stouffer to condemn this lunacy. It won’t happen. This is their base.

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