Parades are a fixture of Missouri politics. In an election year college homecoming parades are a magnet for political parties and local candidates looking to engage a large number of voters (who may or may not be voters and who may or may not live in their district). This morning in Warrensburg at the University of Central Missouri Homecoming parade the political entries were placed by party at the end of the parade.
Johnson County Democrats.
While the Democratic Party vehicles were lining up in the parade staging area a smirking twenty something, driving a truck and towing a float, yelled out, “Trump!” as he drove past. This was on the back window of his truck:
The current (and long time) state of erudite public policy discourse in west central Missouri.
Back to the parade. Vehicles and floats representing the respective party presidential candidates and statewide candidates were also in the mix, though none of those candidates, as far as we can tell, attended the parade. The University of Missouri, ninety miles away, with bigger crowds also held their homecoming parade this morning. A number of statewide candidates reportedly walked in that parade.
Patty Johnson, chair of the Cass County Democratic Committee, walking in the parade.
Candidates in the 21st Senate District:
ElGene VerDught, the Democratic Party nominee in the 21st Senate District.
Denny Hoskins, the republican party nominee in the 21st Senate District.
Family and supporters of Kyle Garner, the Democratic Party nominee in the 52nd Legislative District (the candidate is in the background, working the crowd).
Robert Simmons, the Democratic Party nominee for Eastern Commissioner in Johnson County.
After the parade was done:
Proud to be a Democrat.
Previously:
What true believers spend their time on when your campaign doesn’t have a field operation and it doesn’t believe in GOTV (October 22, 2016)
