Jackson County Democratic Committee

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enough said.

This video makes me sad.  God is not a Democrat or a Republican.  If you think God is always on your side of a political fight, then maybe you have made God into your image, not the other way around.  God does not strike down Republican or Democratic Senators for their votes on health care reform.  The efforts by Republicans to stir up people of faith may indeed “backfire,” as the caller referenced, but it won’t be from God.  As we near the celebration of Christmas, my faith tradition tells me to love my neighbor (Republican and Democrat).  It is my prayer that on this Christmas that we all can pause from trying to fit God into our politics and that the entire world (Jewish, Muslim or Christian) can experience a little more peace.

Stephen R. Bough

Congratulations to Kansas City’s own Representative Mike Talboy, who was elected by his peers to be the leader of the House Democrats, according to the KC Star.

The Jackson County Democratic Committee is committed to working to make Rep. Talboy the Speaker of the House rather than the minority leader. Rep. Talboy is doing a great job working to protect our Democratic incumbents and to take out the weak Republicans. Along with the great efforts by our Governor and the Missouri Democratic Party to get fabulous candidates for open seats (we have three term-limited Republicans right here in Jackson County), we have an excellent chance of making Rep. Talboy into Speaker Talboy.

Please join your Jackson County Democratic Committee right now in making a positive difference in our candidates’ campaigns.

Stephen R. Bough

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Remember the good old days?  You know, when Roy Blunt/Tom Delay/Jack Arbramoff ran D.C.  They ran off all the Democratic lobbyists off K-Street (K Street Project), screwed over Native American tribes and Abramoff pled guilty to committing lots of federal crimes.

Roy Blunt would love for moderate swing voters to forget he was buds with Abramoff and took his dirty money. Then Majority Leader Tom Delay used Roy Blunt as his hatchet man and had very close ties Abramoff. Delay became majority leader, he picked Blunt as his Whip. Abramoff raised the money and gave it to Delay and Blunt, and those two stooges traded the money around as needed. Abramoff is now in jail, Delay is in hiding in Texas and Roy Blunt is running for Senate.

I bet you the swing voters who decide Missouri’s elections won’t forget.

Jeff Roe is at it again.  On the Source, he pokes fun of Eastern Jackson County Democrats about our failure to win Matt Bartle’s senate seat (District 8).   Hey, Jeff, how come your Republicans are too scared to even run someone for Callahan (11), Justus (10) or Wilson (9) senate seats?  Let’s do our math – we get three and you got one.

Let’s be real honest, Jeff Roe is focusing on this senate race because the Republicans have a problem.  With the term limits, Senator Matt Bartle (Jeff Roe’s client) is  out.  Three Republican state reps are also term limited (Yates – 56, Pratt – 55 and Dusenberg – 54).  Pratt is in Republican leadership and wants to avoid a primary.  Pratt, with his bull in a china shop type of charm, has run over Yates (Jeff Roe’s client) and Dusenberg numerous times.  Dusenberg and Pratt are both from Blue Springs, Yates is from Lee’s Summit.  Pratt cannot win in a 3-way primary.  Pratt isn’t the religious right winger that Jeff likes to represent.

Here’s what I know – the Republicans took the Missouri House from the control of the Democrats by picking off one suburban House seat at a time.  We will take the House back from the Republicans by picking up one seat at a time.  2010 is a great year for Democrats to do that with term limits and about 90% of the incumbents are termed out.  Jeff Roe would love for Democrats to take their collective eye off the prize (taking back the Missouri House).  I understand that Jeff makes lots of money by having races for senate seats.  Jeff would love to be able to have his favorite candidate – Rep. Brian Yates –  have a primary and a general.  I think I would rather have Yates, Pratt and Dusenburg’s House seats.    I also can’t wait to see 3 Republicans carve each other up in Eastern Jackson County.

Jeff: have fun beating up on Rep. Bryan Pratt.  There’s lots of good ammo out there. Bryan Pratt has done big tobacco’s bidding in Jefferson City, just like Congressman Roy Blunt has done it in Washington.  Suburban moderate voters just love big tobacco.

As reported on Show-Me Progress, the anti-union folks in the Missouri legislature have sponsored HJR 31.  This is the “Save Our Secret Ballot” mis-named bill that attacks the federal legislation known as The Employee Free Choice Act.

Here’s my red-neck summary.  The current state of the law is that if a group of employees want a union, they have to collect a majority of folks who sign off that they want the union.  Then the employer hires a law firm to ensure it doesn’t happen through “education.”  Then there is a secret ballot which the National Labor Relations Board oversees.  The Employee Free Choice Act cuts out the two-step process.  The “Save Our Secret Ballot” crap in HJR 31 has nothing to do with secret ballots on election day and everything to do with preventing employees from unionizing.

Two thoughts: 

1) Federal Preemption.  The US Supreme Court is pretty clear that once the federal government speaks on the issue, every state can’t take a bite at the same issue.  Unions are the perfect example of why we can’t have 50 variations of state law.  The Chamber of Commerce needs to step back, talk to their lawyers and figure out that they can’t push for preemption of civil lawsuits on one hand and argue against preemption of unions on the other hand. 

2) The Sweet 16 are a group of allegedly moderate Republicans in the Missouri House who take money, support and votes from organized labor and are allegedly supportive of unions.  Well, we will see.  I know my labor friends.  They know who they have supported.  The Sweet 16 Republicans in the Missouri house now get the chance to prove if they are with labor or against labor.   Put it on the floor Speaker of the House – see what your members do.  Draw the line in the sand.

Who is Congressman Roy Blunt?

I know he is a Congressman from S.W.Missouri.  I know that his son is the widely popular ex-governor of Missouri who is known for kicking the poor off health insurance in order to give corporations a tax cut.  I know Roy left his wife to marry a tobacco lobbyist and that Congressman Blunt was Tom Delay’s hatchet man.  What I want to know is what kind of middle class Missouri values does this guy have?  What has he done to help moderate folks?

Who is this right-wing ultra conservative Roy Blunt?