We noted at yesterday morning’s Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair that a number of republican candidates and office holders (along with some campaign’s supporters) were outfitted in informal campaign wear. Not so much for the Democratic Party candidates and office holders we ran into.

This candidate was just making sure everyone knows where he stands:

We understand where, too:

Sen. Will Kraus (r): warming up the crowd about urban schools at the Santorum rally (February 4, 2012)

An oxymoron?:

Who?:

And, of course, a few candidates had their campaign volunteers outfitted in their latest campaign t-shirt fashions:

There’s a juvenile joke in their somewhere. We’re not above laughing at it.

That logo appears to be splitting the state in two.

Previously:

Unintentionally ironic… (August 20, 2015)

Missouri State Fair – Governor’s Ham Breakfast – August 20, 2015 (August 20, 2015)

This morning we attended the largest annual single gathering of politicians in Missouri, outside of the General Assembly, at the Governor’s Ham Breakfast on the grounds of the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. It makes for an interesting juxtaposition – potential political opponents for statewide and legislative office milling around and greeting each other, breakfast attendees, and the media.

It’s also an opportunity for us to get photographs of a number of public officials and political candidates in one place. Some of those results:  

Attorney General Chris Koster (D), a (probable) candidate for Governor in 2016.

Campaign Finance: inexorable (July 7, 2015)

Campaign Finance: I’ll see your managed care and raise you a home health service… (July 14, 2015)

Chris Koster (D) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: no surprise here (July 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a different constituency (July 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: no rest (August 3, 2015)

PPP Missouri Poll: 2016 U.S. Senate and Governor – August 11, 2015 (August 11, 2015)

Campaign Finance: rolling in (August 15, 2015)

Former Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley (D), a candidate for Attorney General in 2016.

Teresa Hensley (D) announces 2016 run for Attorney General (July 30, 2015)

Former Missouri House Speaker and U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway (r), a candidate for Governor in 2016.

Campaign Finance: a Florida populist? (June 3, 2015)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 is a popular amount (June 4, 2015)

Campaign Finance: still awake (June 17, 2015)

Campaign Finance: they have the power… (June 19, 2015)

Catherine Hanaway (r) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 17, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a familiar amount (July 22, 2015)

Bev Randles (r), a candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2016.

Campaign Finance: Oh, hell, just buy the state already (December 8, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Exploring something. (January 13, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a December to really remember (January 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a sense of proportion (April 22, 2015)

Bev Randles (r): officially in the 2016 Lieutenant Governor race (July 1, 2015)

Lieutenant Governor – July 2015 Campaign Finance Reports (July 19, 2015)

Jay Ashcroft (r), a candidate for Secretary of State in 2016.

The legacy will continue to try (January 14, 2015)

Campaign Finance: enabling the legacy (May 8, 2015)

The legacy demonstrates difficulty understanding concepts taught on a children’s television show (May 20, 2015)

Family ties (May 27, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a fistful of silver dollars (July 2, 2015)

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r), a candidate for reelection in the 4th Congressional District in 2016.

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): has a SCOTUScare! sad (June 25, 2015)

Rep Vicky Hartzler (r): has another U.S. Supreme Court sad – today it’s marriage equality (June 26, 2015)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): on the Iran nuclear deal – Harrisonville, MO – August 14, 2015 (August 15, 2015)

Previously:

Missouri State Fair – the Governor’s Ham Breakfast – photos (August 16, 2012)

The Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair – 2013 (August 15, 2013)

Tomorrow morning’s Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the State Fair is gonna be really interesting (August 13, 2014)

Gov. Jay Nixon will be in the St. Louis area today, not at the State Fair (August 14, 2014)

What if you had a ham breakfast and the Governor couldn’t be there? (August 14, 2015)

Unintentionally ironic… (August 20, 2015)

…on so many levels.

A Roy Blunt (r) U.S. Senate campaign sign crew at the back of a mini rally before

the start of the Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia – August 20, 2015.

Probably.

Previously:

Our world in three Tweets (April 21, 2015)

PPP polling results in Missouri: social media hints (August 11, 2015)

PPP Missouri Poll: 2016 U.S. Senate and Governor – August 11, 2015 (August 11, 2015)

Previously:

Tomorrow morning’s Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the State Fair is gonna be really interesting (August 13, 2014)

Gov. Jay Nixon will be in the St. Louis area today, not at the State Fair (August 14, 2014)

This morning’s Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the State Fair in Sedalia took place without Governor Jay Nixon. Governor Nixon was in Ferguson, Missouri as was/is Senator Claire McCaskill. No statewide Democratic Party office holders were in attendance at the breakfast.

Senator Roy Blunt (r), Representative Vicky Hartzler (r), Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (r), State Auditor Tom Schweich (r), House Speaker Tim Jones (r), and former Speaker Catherine Hanaway (r) were at the State Fair. We also covered a republican press conference at the Farm Bureau building going after the EPA on water regulation. Senator Blunt, Representative Hartzler and Representative Luetkemeyer spoke. Not a word about Ferguson, but the were all pleased about the “right to farm” amendment.

Serenading folks in the Home Economics Building.

The band also performed in the big tent for the ham breakfast crowd. They were quite good.

Senator Roy Blunt (r).

Politicians weren’t the only ones on display and being judged.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r).

The Democratic Party tent at the Missouri State Fair.

They were open and active long before the republican tent opened up.

Former House Speaker Catherine Hanaway (r).

State Auditor Tom Schweich (r).

Judging pie.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r).

Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer at the republican press conference in the Farm Bureau Building.

Interestingly, all three purported republican candidates for Governor in 2016 attended the breakfast. There was no tear gas.