“…I’m sorry, this is a political mailer. You could send me a little postcard and ask for the same information you get here…”

The Statement of Disbursements of the House of Representatives is released every quarter.

Statement of Disbursements

[….]

The Statement of Disbursements (SOD) is a quarterly public report of all receipts and expenditures for U.S. House of Representatives Members, Committees, Leadership, Officers and Offices. The House has been required by law to publish the SOD since 1964.

The Chief Administrative Officer of the House publishes the SOD within 60 days of the end of each calendar year quarter (January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December)….

After seeing a press release from Teresa Hensley’s (D) campaign we thought we’d take a look:

….Since January 2011, Congresswoman Hartzler has spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on taxpayer-funded communications, totaling $362,094 over five quarters.

Sure enough, in the latest quarter:

Summary Tabulation of Mass Mailings [pdf]

Distributed by Each Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

January 1, 2012 – March 31, 2012

U.S. Representative – Honorable Akin, W. Todd

Total No. Distibuted – 22,526

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0.0768

Total Cost – [$]6,906.35

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0.0236

U.S. Representative – Honorable Carnahan, Russ

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Clay, Wm. Lacy

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Cleaver, Emanuel

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Emerson, Jo Ann

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 00

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Graves, Sam

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Hartzler, Vicky

Total No. Distibuted – 206,897

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0.6679

Total Cost – [$]59,561.11

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0.1923

U.S. Representative – Honorable Long, Billy

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

U.S. Representative – Honorable Luetkemeyer, Blaine

Total No. Distibuted – 0

Average No. Distributed Per Household Address – 0

Total Cost – [$]0

Average Cost Per Household Address – 0

[emphasis added]

Well, that’s interesting. Those big city liberal Missouri Democrats in the House of Representatives didn’t spend a dime on taxpayer funded franked mass mailings in their districts. Fancy that.

And what did Representative Hartzler (r) say at a Missouri town hall when questioned about the expense of those taxpayer funded franked campaign style mailings?:

….Representative Hartzler (r):….What other questions do you have? [pause] Everybody bashful now, now?

Question: Congresswoman, I, I came today with an agenda item. I received your flyer and I see this young man over here. Who paid for this flyer?

Voice: We did. [Voices: “We did.” “We did.”]

Question: Taxpayers. [Voice: “We did.”]

Representative Hartzler (r): Yeah [inaudible].

Voice: We did.

Question: Yeah. [Voice: “We did.”] How much did we pay for mailing privileges since January, July one of two, twenty eleven? Do you know?

Representative Hartzler (r): I don’t know, but I bet you do.

Question: Over two hundred thousand dollars [crosstalk] to send stuff.

Representative Hartzler (r): I knew you would know. I could tell. [laugh]

Question: It, it’s in the Congressional Record.

Representative Hartzler (r): I know. I know, it’s open record. Anybody can get it.

Question: And I’ve asked to take my name off the list ’cause we’re gonna save thirty point oh three six cents next time this mailer comes out.  [Representative Hartzler ( r): “Okay.”] If we did that with every member of Congress how much money would we save? I didn’t do that math. But if we’re gonna look for cuts why don’t we cut this type of stuff. I’m sorry, this is a political mailer. You could send me a little postcard and ask for the same information you get here.

Representative Hartzler (r): I, I hear you. And, um, we’ll certainly consider that, you know….

“…I, I hear you…” If he had only asked a week earlier.

Previously:

Teresa Hensley (D): ad – Vicky Hartzler (r) has a few issues (June 13, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): We’ve got mail (May 4, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Clinton town hall – April 5, 2012 – part 2 (April 6, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, the importance of being Vicky (December 11, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, it’s all about wedge issues (November 22, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Who needs the NRA… (September 17, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): franking right wingnut propaganda on Medicare (August 27, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, it looks like a campaign mailing (July 7, 2011)

Teresa Hensley’s (D) campaign has released a new video pointing out a few of Vicky Hartzler’s (r) issues:

Announcer: Washington’s not working. It’s time we send some Missouri common sense problem solving to Washington. It’s time for Teresa Hensley.

Teresa grew up in Missouri and she’s raised her family in Missouri. She know that the families, the next generation, and our seniors need a voice in Congress.

Teresa has served as Cass County Prosecutor for the past eight years where she’s been a common sense fighter for justice for Missouri families.

Teresa Hensley believes in doing the right thing. Her experience, dedication and fairness will serve us well in Congress.

Teresa Hensley (D): I care about the Fourth District and I want to take our Missouri values to Washington.      

Announcer: But, Vicky Hartzler? Her votes are hurting Missouri families.

She voted for the Paul Ryan which would eliminate Medicare as we know it.

[Vicky Hartzler: Cuts Medicare, H.Con.Res. 34, Vote #277, 4/15/11]

She says we need to decrease the spending, but she took almost eight hundred thousand dollars in federal subsidies.

[Vicky Hartzler: $800,000 in Federal Subsidies, 1995-2010, C-SPAN, Environmental Working Group]

She also spent more than a quarter of a million taxpayer dollars on campaign style mailings. That’s more than every other Missouri representative – make’s her one of the top spenders in the country.

[Vicky Hartzler: Wasting Taxpayer dollars, Statement of Disbursements of the House, 2011]

That’s Washington politics, not Missouri values.

[Vicky Hartzler: Politics as Usual]

It’s time for common sense in Washington again.

Teresa Hensley: As the Cass County Prosecutor I have sought justice and sought fairness. My ideology will never get in the way of my job.

I can make a difference for the people of the Fourth District when I’m in Congress.  

[Paid for by Hensley for Congress]

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): maybe Medicare isn’t so sacred (May 25, 2012)

What is it about Vicky Hartzler and government giveaways? (May 16, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): We’ve got mail (May 4, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Clinton town hall – April 5, 2012 – part 2 (April 6, 2012)

….Question: Congresswoman, I, I came today with an agenda item. I received your flyer and I see this young man over here. Who paid for this flyer?

Voice: We did. [Voices: “We did.” “We did.”]

Question: Taxpayers. [Voice: “We did.”]

Representative Hartzler (r): Yeah [inaudible].

Voice: We did.

Question: Yeah. [Voice: “We did.”] How much did we pay for mailing privileges since January, July one of two, twenty eleven? Do you know?

Representative Hartzler (r): I don’t know, but I bet you do….

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, the importance of being Vicky (December 11, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, it’s all about wedge issues (November 22, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Who needs the NRA… (September 17, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): franking right wingnut propaganda on Medicare (August 27, 2011)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): cognitive dissonance (July 20, 2011)

“…You know, who I am and, uh, the reasons I align myself with the Republican Party is a reflection of my background and experiences that I’ve had over the years…”

….Hartzler Farm Subsidies — $774,489

Hartzler Farms Inc received payments totaling $774,489 from 1995 through 2009

Year Total USDA Subsidies

1995-2009

1995 $16,606, 1996 $28,070, 1997 $18,449, 1998 $32,765, 1999 $89,330, 2000 $89,261, 2001 $135,482, 2002 $24,517, 2003 $41,910, 2004 $61,708, 2005 $105,698, 2006 $38,598, 2007 $29,579, 2008 $39,878, 2009 $22,639

Total $774,489

“…my parents in January, would sit down and take several days, cash flowing the, uh, the year, projecting forward what they thought the yields on the crops were gonna be. The prices on the crops, looking at the expenses, the payments that we had, seeing if we’d be able to make it all work. And after a few years my mom and dad called my sister and I over and said, you need to sit here with us and learn this process…”….

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): frankly, it looks like a campaign mailing (July 7, 2011)

Just a few issues.

That would have to be the only believable excuse.

Today, via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Sad state or country under Obamanomics–the average American has lost 40% of their net worth. It’s time to embrace the House’s jobs plan. 3:56 PM – 12 Jun 12

Why, that’s terrible. Let’s look at the details:

Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says

By Ylan Q. Mui, Published: June 11

The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with ­middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline.

The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. That puts Americans roughly on par with where they were in 1992….

Yep, read that headline again. Remind me, who was president from January 2001 to January 2009?

It’s not a good thing when you think your constituents are too stupid to notice.

Continuing:

…The recession caused the greatest upheaval among the middle class. Only roughly half of middle­-class Americans remained on the same economic rung during the downturn, the Fed found. Their median net worth – the value of assets such as homes, automobiles and stocks minus any debt – suffered the biggest drops. By contrast, the wealthiest families’ median net worth rose slightly….

[rmphasis added]

Evidently there’s been a class war and now we know who’s been winning.

On Saturday, June 9th, we had the opportunity to speak with Democratic Party candidates and office holders at the Missouri Democratic Convention. Cass County Associate Commissioner (and former state representative) Luke Scavuzzo took some time to speak with us at the convention.

Over the years as we’ve been in Jefferson City to cover the General Assembly we became acquainted with Luke Scavuzzo, one of the smart, thoughtful public servants in Jefferson City who, at the time, represented the 124th Legislative District for the people of Cass County. Luke Scavuzzo lost his seat in the General Assembly in the 2010 “teabagger wave” general election. He now serves as a Cass County Associate Commissioner.

To sum up the political scene in Cass County since 2010:

A long time presiding commissioner (a Democrat) was defeated in the 2010 election by a perennial republican candidate, who subsequently was ousted from office for not being qualified to file for office. The office remained vacant for over a year as the case worked its way through the state court system.

Vicky Hartzler, a former state representative from Cass County was elected to Congress in the 2010 “teabagger wave” general election, benefiting substantially from her base in Cass County.

Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley (D) announced she was running for Congress in the 4th Congressional District, challenging Vicky Hartzler.

Herschel Walker, the republican presiding commissioner who was ousted from office filed to run as a Libertarian in the 4th Congressional District.

A republican associate commissioner resigned from office. Governor Jay Nixon (D) appointed former representative Luke Scavuzzo (D) to fill the position.  

In May Governor Jay Nixon appointed Pleasant Hill Mayor Terry Wison (D) to fill the position of Cass County Presiding Commissioner.

Think about that for a minute. The “teabagger wave” election of 2010 created a giant mess in Cass County and now public service minded Democrats have started in to the process of making local government function again.

Do you suppose that example of competence over ideology, set by individuals like Cass County Prosecuting Attorney Teresa Hensley (D), will have an impact on the voters of Cass County?

And to think, Vicky Hartzler (r) only got 50.4% of the vote district wide in 2010, when Boone County and Columbia weren’t in the district. Her teabagger base is much smaller now. And there are probably a few more voters in Cass County who are tired of teabagger ideology and crave thoughtful and practical governance from their elected officials.

Previously:

Finally, resolution in Cass County (May 3, 2012)

Gov. Jay Nixon (D) appoints Luke Scavuzzo (D) to the Cass County Commission (January 11, 2012)

“…Respondent is ousted from the office of Presiding Commissioner, Cass County, Missouri.” (February 18, 2011)

It must really suck when objective reality intrudes on the timing of your delusional ideology.

An epilogue of sorts.

The retail price of gasoline in small town west central Missouri at noon on June 6, 2012. It remains much less expensive than beer.

That’s a drop of eleven cents a gallon in ten days.

Previously: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): let’s pass the gas (May 27, 2012)

[….]

With the Memorial Day weekend comes the traditional start of the summer travel season. And the fact is gas prices are too high for many Missourians who cannot afford to take the family on vacation. It is time for the elected representatives of the people to take definitive actions to help seriously lower pump prices to allow Americans to spend more of their hard-earned money on paying the mortgage, putting food on the table, and – yes – enjoying that road trip with the family.

[….]

Vicky Hartzler

Member of Congress

I’m waiting for President-elect Mitt Romney (r) to take credit.

The retail price of gasoline in small town west central Missouri at noon on May 27, 2012. Still, it’s less expensive than beer.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) sent out a Memorial Day weekend e-mail to some constituents:

From: Representative Vicky Hartzler [….]

Date: Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Subject: View From the Capitol – Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler’s Newsletter for the Week of May 21-25, 2012

To: [xxxxxxxxxx]

[….]

With the Memorial Day weekend comes the traditional start of the summer travel season. And the fact is gas prices are too high for many Missourians who cannot afford to take the family on vacation. It is time for the elected representatives of the people to take definitive actions to help seriously lower pump prices to allow Americans to spend more of their hard-earned money on paying the mortgage, putting food on the table, and – yes – enjoying that road trip with the family.

Gas prices are impacting the family budget. They have doubled since President Obama moved into the White House. Most economists agree that the price we pay at the pump is tied directly to supply and demand, meaning greater supply of gasoline would bring about much lower prices. Yet, President Obama has consistently stood in the way of efforts to increase supply. He has discouraged the use of American energy, put a moratorium on off-shore drilling, and delayed the issuing of drilling permits. His rejection of the Keystone pipeline project that would bring much-needed oil from Canada is the latest in a series of poor decisions to appease environmental extremists while increasing our dependency on Middle Eastern oil.

[….]

Americans are fed up with high gas prices. Common sense approaches from the House will develop more energy from all of our available resources and reduce energy prices. It is time America used the natural resources with which we have been blessed and stopped relying heavily on foreign dictatorships for our energy needs. Without this action, prices will most assuredly stay high. By embracing a proactive energy policy we could not only become energy independent as a nation, but also create jobs and preserve a cherished American tradition – the family vacation.

It is truly an honor to represent you in Congress.

Have a great week.

Vicky Hartzler

Member of Congress

Interesting. Let’s look at the current information on gas prices from the United States Energy Information Administration:

Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update

Gasoline Release Date: May 21, 2012

U.S. Regular Gasoline Prices*  (dollars per gallon)

Midwest (PADD2) 3.721 (05/07/12) 3.641 (05/14/12) 3.626 (05/21/12) values are down – 0.015 (week ago) values are down – 0.191 (year ago)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the gas prices in the photo over forty cents a gallon less than the Midwest price from almost a week ago? Could that mean that gas prices are going down? Does President Obama get credit for that, too? Just asking.

From March 2012:

Oil war: the ad battle between ‘Big Oil’ and DNC, Part 1

Posted by Josh Hicks at 01:39 PM ET, 03/30/2012

….The Post created a graphic a while back to show how perception about gas prices doesn’t quite match the reality. Despite the way prices look, they are roughly average after adjusting for inflation. A rate of $1.38 per gallon in 1981 sounds amazing until it’s converted to $3.35 in today’s dollars – better than the current price, but still much higher than when Obama took office.

Inflation-adjusted gas prices have indeed doubled during Obama’s time in the White House, but they were unusually low when he took office because of the massive economic downturn. Rates have gradually increased back to normal levels as the economy has improved. As we said in a previous column, it’s doubtful that anyone wants to return to those conditions for the sake of cheap gas….

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t $3.20 less than $3.35? Just asking.

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): we don’t need no stinkin’ objective reality (January 21, 2012)

Teresa Hensley (D): Vicky Hartzler <3 Big Oil (April 13, 2012)

Via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Defense $ is 20% of the budget but faces 50% of total cuts. RT if you think Congress isn’t doing enough to provide for the common defense. 2:16 PM – 25 May 12

And a reaction:

American Spring ‏@AmericanSpring

@RepHartzler You must be kidding. End all occupations and no domestic drones. You voted to cut food stamps $33 Bil.2:20 PM – 25 May 12

Is Social Security figured in that percentage, too?:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): town hall in Warrensburg, part 1 (August 11, 2011)

….Representative Hartzler:….Uh, Social Security, of course, money comes in for that. So, we got that. Medicare, Medicaid, net interest, and, as you can see, it’s rather small right now, that’s the interest on the debt. I have some concerns with that though if our interest rates go up, what that could do to our national budget. It could eat up a lot more of it. And the other mandatory program, uh, they lumped a bunch of programs there where Congress has approved in years past and we don’t vote on every year. They just say if you qualify for xyz then you get x dollar benefit. So, they put in there everything from Pell Grants to unemployment, uh, food stamps, welfare programs, farm subsidies, all of those type of programs that  are mandatory they lumped them together. So, you can kind of see where the money is going. Now, here’s the problem, though. The next slide shows here’s how much is coming in. The green is our total amount of tax revenue that you and I send in every April fifteenth and businesses send in. Only makes up part of what we’re spending so the rest is borrowed. That’s why we’re now borrowing forty-two cents on the dollar at the federal level just to keep all those programs going that you just saw. That’s why we’re in the problem that we are, I mean, you and I don’t do that at home. I mean, we can’t keep borrowing forty-two cents out of every dollar. It’s unsustainable [crosstalk] and…

Voice: Is Social Security in that two point two trillion?

Representative Hartzler: Uh, that’s a good question. I’ll have to check on that. I think it is.  [crosstalk] Anyway, no.

Voice: I don’t think so. You said [inaudible] our tax money by April fifteenth.

Representative Hartzler: Anyway. Well [crosstalk], yeah…

Voice: Taxes are April fifteenth [crosstalk]. Social Security’s not a tax, right. But it is our money. So, where’s that flow in the flow?

Representative Hartzler: It is part of the revenue that’s in there. So, I may have misspoke as far as April fifteenth. But, anyway, you can see we got a deficit. That’s the bottom line, bottom line….

Just asking.

Welcome to the party late:

….Hartzler does stumble occasionally. At a town hall meeting last month, she initially expressed doubts about President Obama’s birth certificate.

“You know, I have a lot of doubts about all that,” she said.

She also said something curious about China embedding microchips with detection or tracking capabilities in products sold in the United States.

“We need to have a new 007 James Bond movie with China as the bad guys,” she said, according to The Sedalia Democrat….

Yep, really late to the party.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the black helicopters will be dropping microchip infested toasters on us (April 8, 2012)

The stenographer continues:

….But Hensley will have to demonstrate that she stands with gun owners….

Done.

So much for stenographers doing their homework.

….or has major problems with Obama’s health plan….

And that worked so well for Ike Skelton (D) in 2010?

Never take political advice from a stenographer.

….Hartzler is a hustler. Something tells me she won’t be caught off guard.

Did a republican operative spin that to you? Just asking.

“…those folks who have the single issues of guns, or abortion, or same sex marriage, those folks who have a problem with those, being only single issue voters, well, look around. We’re all single issue voters as well. And our single issue is middle class families. And we have to start fighting for that single issue…”

Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley, the Democratic Party candidate in the 4th Congressional District,

at the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee and Democratic Club meeting in Warrensburg.

Teresa Hensley, Cass County Prosecutor and the Democratic Party candidate in the 4th Congressional District, attended a meet and greet event in the afternoon and then later spoke at the monthly dinner meeting of the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee and Democratic Club in Warrensburg this evening.

Teresa Hensley (D): ….When we look at what the House Republicans and Vicky Hartzler have done just this year, not to mention last year, but just this year, still passing again the [Republican House Budget Committee Chairman] Paul Ryan budget. And every time I say, the Paul Ryan budget you should feel free to boo. [voices: “Boo!”] Because it is just a terrible, terrible thing for them to think that they could be proud of it. And they are. Have you noticed that they’re not ashamed at all about the Paul Ryan budget? They don’t hang their head, they don’t walk around acknowledging that they would rather give more tax breaks, more federal subsidies to billionaires and big oil companies and still make cuts in things like Medicare, and Social Security, and food stamps, and Pell Grants, the very things that mean everything to us as a middle class…

…You know, I grew up with a dad who’s a plumber, my brother’s an ironworker, I understand what the middle class means. That’s how I grew up. My parents are seventy-six years old. They can’t possibly survive without Medicare and Social Security, the very things that they earned their whole life, the very guarantees that we had made to them.

And so, to have young people right now who can’t see a future of going to school because there may not be Pell Grants, there may not be money available to them, to see Head Start one of the preschool programs that we tend, say is one of the best programs, really that has come out for years, to be watching those things be cut, to be watching them not care that those are important issues, and then not hang their head about it, not be ashamed that they would rather help billionaires? And so, the Paul Ryan budget [voices: “Boo!”][laughter] is something we have talk about.

We have to tell our neighbors. You know, we have lots of friends and family and neighbors who are listening to the wrong things. They listen to the wrong news. And it is our responsibility to get out and talk to them about how mean the Paul Ryan budget is. [voices: “Boo!”] [laughter]  And so, I would encourage you very much to really start talking to your friends and talking to folks. You know, I know it’s difficult because we seem to always get the brunt of the labeling. And so what I’ve been talking about, you know, they, the folks who have single issues, those folks who have the single issues of guns, or abortion, or same sex marriage, those folks who have a problem with those being only single issue voters, well, look around. We’re all single issue voters as well. And our single issue is middle class families. And we have to start fighting for that single issue. Just like they have mislabeled us, we need to not mislabel them, we need to remind them that they are mean. When you’ll pass the Paul Ryan budget [voices: “Boo!”] and you’ll take billionaires over middle class families there’s something wrong. And we need to make them hang their head. We need to address that with everyone we talk to and everyone we see.

That’s what we are. You know, as Democrats we are about the middle class. We’ve always been about the middle class. That’s how we got Social security, that’s how we got labor unions, that’s how we got the middle class. It is because of us as Democrats and the labor unions that there is a middle class, that there is a forty hour work week, that there is a decent wage, although it is a good argument right now, we haven’t had a decent wage in thirty-eight years. [voice: “They should have to live on minimum wage.”][voice: “That’s right.”] Absolutely. [voice: “They won’t, that’s all they’ve earned, actually.”]  In fact folks can’t live on right now on minimum wage. [voice: “Not right now.”] Minimum wage doesn’t pay the mortgage and the gasoline in their car and food on the table.

And so, again, it is about us starting to talk the talk that they’ve been talking for a long time. They’ve talked about how all that we are, for the issues that we stand for as Democrats, but we need to make them hang their head on Paul Ryan’s budget. [Voice: “Yes.”] [voices: “Boo!”]

I really appreciate getting to be here tonight….so let’s, one more time talk about how mean and how awful the Paul Ryan budget is [voices: “Boo!”]  Thank you very much. I’ll take that over applause any day. [laughter] [applause]

Today, from EMILY’s List:

EMILY’s List Puts Teresa Hensley, Sharen Neuhardt, and Gloria Romero Roses “On the List”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, announced today that it is placing the following candidates “On the List:”

   Teresa Hensley (MO-4)

   Sharen Neuhardt (OH- 10)

   Gloria Romero Roses (FL- 26)

The EMILY’s List community now stands at more than one million members strong. These supporters are getting their information earlier, quicker, and on the web and they’re ready to take action now. “On the List” is a new way for EMILY’s List members to engage with and support promising candidates early in an election cycle. By putting Hensley, Neuhardt and Romero Roses “On the List,” EMILY’s List is ensuring that she has access to this powerful network of supporters.

“Teresa, Sharen and Gloria are prime examples of what strong women leaders can accomplish in their communities” said Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY’s List. “We can take back the House and make government work for America’s working families again if we elect women like Teresa, Sharen and Gloria. These three women are the kind of coalition builders and problem solvers that Americans are looking to send to Washington.

Hensley currently serves as the Prosecuting Attorney for Cass County, where she has been a lifelong resident. She has a record of convicting child abusers, domestic violence offenders, drunk drivers, and murderers. Hensley recently received the Missouri Attorney General’s Justice Award for Domestic Violence Prevention….

[emphasis added]

Early money is like yeast…