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Over the past year, Republicans across the state have been campaigning hard—knocking on doors, marching in parades, making phone calls, and meeting voters. Each of these men and women deserves our gratitude for their willingness to serve their neighbors and fellow Missourians.

But in less than a week, Missourians will go to the polls and determine those who will best represent our conservative values at the local, state, and federal levels. While many of these battles have been hard-fought, on August 4 th, we must all come together as a party. Make no mistake about it: to successfully take back our country and restrain the reckless liberal agenda, Republicans must move into November as a united party.

Next Tuesday, you will also have the opportunity to send Washington a message that enough is enough. The Missouri Republican Party strongly supports Proposition C, the Health Care Freedom Act, which will block the federal government from forcing Washington’s health care mandates on Missourians and ban punishment for people who make individual health insurance choices. Find out how you can help ensure passage of Proposition C below.

Thank you for your hard work over the past several months, and I look forward to sustaining our party’s energy and enthusiasm through November!

2010 Campaign Update

by Lloyd Smith, Executive Director, Missouri Republican Party

Conservatives and independents are less than 100 days from taking back our country. But in the next three months, national Democrats are going to pull out all the stops to buy Missouri’s U.S. Senate race. They’re going to embellish, distort, and misrepresent their disastrous liberal records, flood the airwaves with false attack ads, and bring in President Obama to rake in campaign cash for Robin Carnahan.

Democrats are so terrified of losing their iron grip on power that Nancy Pelosi’s political arm has already purchased television ad time in Missouri on behalf of Congressman Ike Skelton. And earlier this month, President Obama came to Missouri begging his biggest donors to send Robin Carnahan back to Washington because, as he said, he “need[s] another vote.”

We need your help to put the focus on the reckless Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda of wasteful spending, soaring debt, and government takeovers. Helping is easy! Sign up to volunteer or donate today to help us spread our message of real hope and change across Missouri!

Spotlight

In less than one week, Missouri can send Washington a message by passing Proposition C, the Health Care Freedom Act. We need your help to get out the vote!

Join a local phone bank and help us contact as many Missourians as possible!

We are calling as many Missouri households as possible to urge them to vote YES on Proposition C, and we need volunteers every day from now until the August 3 election! To get started, please contact your local Victory field staff member:

Remember, Missourians have a unique and historic opportunity to reject the overbearing and unconstitutional federal health care bill. It is up to us to make sure every Missourian knows why going to the polls on August 3 is so important!

Thank you in advance for your help, and of course, don’t forget to vote YES on Proposition C!

Celebrity Call Day

Earlier this month, the Missouri Republican Party held our first-ever Celebrity Call Day—bringing Republican luminaries together to help raise money for our 2010 election efforts. Among our celebrity callers were Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, Ambassador Ann Wagner, MOGOP Vice Chairman Susie Eckelkamp, former Sen. Mike Gibbons, Sen. Eric Schmitt, Reps. Walt Bivins, Mike Leara, Cole McNary, and Tim Jones, as well as County Councilmen Greg Quinn and Colleen Wasinger.

These dollars come at a crucial time for the Party. With less than 100 days remaining until the 2010 election, it is imperative that we raise the resources necessary to get out the vote for our conservative candidates across the state.

If you would like to help the Missouri Republican Party achieve historic victories in November, please click here to donate!

Democrat Watch

Another day, another rubberstamp: Robin Carnahan defers to Obama on Kagan appointment

‘Rubberstamp’ Robin Carnahan is at it again. This time, she has come out in favor of Elena Kagan’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court—just the latest in a series of revelations proving that Carnahan would vote lockstep with the radical Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.

Carnahan recently announced that she would support Kagan’s appointment because “the president… get[s] to chose Supreme Court appointees.” And despite the fact that the Senate is charged by the U.S. Constitution to provide “advice and consent,” Carnahan also claims that we should “just get on with it and move on to the next thing.”

Carnahan’s support of Elena Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court is just the latest example of Carnahan’s blind deference to Obama’s liberal agenda. From the federal health care takeover to the failed stimulus bill to the job-killing cap-and-tax and now the Kagan nomination, Robin Carnahan has repeatedly demonstrated that she would rubberstamp every major component of the Obama agenda.

VIDEO: Robin Carnahan’s ‘Bull’ Tour Continues

Robin Carnahan is piling up the ‘bull’ in an attempt to obscure her own dismal record. Now, the Missouri Republican Party released a web video in response to her hypocritical claims. The video, entitled “Robin Carnahan: The Bull Continues,” highlights several examples of her latest hypocrisy on ethics issues.

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Stop the lobbyist revolving door.
FACT: Robin Carnahan knows something about the lobbyist revolving door. Two of Robin Carnahan’s brothers were lobbyists in Missouri when her father was governor. (Source: Missouri Ethics Commission)

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Prohibit lobbyist war rooms/Publish details of meetings online.
FACT: Robin Carnahan opened her office and staff to radical special interest group ACORN and worked with a host of liberal lobbying groups to defeat photo ID. The only reason any of this is public is because your Missouri Republican Party released thousands of documents showing that Carnahan gave ACORN special access to her office. (Documents available at www.acorncarnahan.com)

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Abolish leadership PACs.
FACT: According to OpenSecrets.org, Carnahan has accepted more than $260,000 from leadership PACs, including Harry Reid’s Searchlight Leadership Fund and Claire McCaskill’s PAC, Missourians for Accountability and Change. Also, from 2001-2009, Robin’s mother operated the Jean A. Carnahan Political Action Committee. (Source: Opensecrets.org)

Pelosi brings Democrat campaign apparatus to Missouri on behalf of vulnerable Democrats

Ike Skelton and Russ Carnahan voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House four times—now she is repaying the favor by using her political operation in a vain attempt to save their political careers. The DCCC has already purchased television ad time on behalf of Skelton, and it’s only a matter of time before they have to bail out Carnahan as well.

But Pelosi’s efforts in Missouri will be in vain, because in return for her support, Nancy Pelosi expects Skelton and Carnahan to come back to Missouri and act as “salesmen” for the national Democrats’ liberal agenda—an agenda that Skelton voted for 94% of the time and Carnahan supported an astonishing 99% of the time. Said Pelosi: “I feel very confident about the ability of my members, who are the greatest salespersons in America, to go into their districts and make the case for what we did.”

But Missourians aren’t buying what they’re selling, and now it’s time to send someone new to Washington to clean up the mess that Pelosi, Skelton, and Carnahan are leaving behind.

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Note from Chairman David Cole

2010 Campaign Update

by Lloyd Smith, Executive Director, Missouri Republican Party

Spotlight

Celebrity Call Day

Democrat Watch

Another day, another rubberstamp: Robin Carnahan defers to Obama on Kagan appointment

VIDEO: Robin Carnahan’s ‘Bull’ Tour Continues

Pelosi brings Democrat campaign apparatus to Missouri on behalf of vulnerable Democrats

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