Local campaigns

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

I'm in the middle of 1 competitive state race, and a House and Senate race with both sides doing ads

 

The Governor's race is between 33 year old Matt Blunt ®, who is the Secretary of State and Claire McCaskill (D), the State Auditor, who beat Governor Bob Holden back in August. There's ads for Blunt which talk about how McCaskill has done stuff that has sent jobs and people to Kansas while declaring "She should run for Governor of Kansas". The State Dems have an ad with a Matt Blunt 'job interview' (seen here: http://www.missouridems.org )

 

The Senate race is between Kit Bond ®, who is on his way to re-election and Nancy Farmer. Nancy's done two ads so far. One with a Kit Bond bobblehead doll.

 

The House Race is between Emanuel Cleaver (D), former Mayor of Kansas City, and Jeanne Patterson ®, who has money and is making her first run for office. Patterson was the CEO, I think, of a corporation named Cerner. She went negative on Cleaver, claiming he raised taxes (which technically he was unable to do as Mayor) and bringing up some other stuff. Cleaver had ads which claimed Cerner was outsourcing and claiming that "money can't buy experience". The Cleaver/Patterson debate had Cleaver ask Patterson how a bill becomes a law.

 

At one point during the one-hour forum, to be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. today on KCPT, Channel 19, Cleaver asked Patterson, who has never run for public office before, to explain how a bill is introduced and passed.

 

Responded Patterson: “OK, well, you basically start off with legislation and policy development. That goes within your team, then you have to look for sponsors around that. Then you have to get enough sponsors and people that work with you throughout that process.

 

“Then it goes to a conference committee. Then it goes on from the House. If it goes from the House, it goes to another committee to the Senate to potentially become a bill.”

 

When it was his turn to respond, Cleaver, the former two-term Kansas City mayor, sighed.

 

“That's not the way you take a bill through Congress,” he said. “The issue is experience. If you're going to do all these things for the people of the 5th Congressional District, you at least need to know you don't have to go get co-sponsors to introduce a bill. That's fundamental. I won't even go to the rest of it.”

 

So yes.. she is running for Congress, and she was unable to correctly explain how a bill becomes a law. I guess she expects "on the job training" in the House.

 

But Patterson/Cleaver won't be close.

 

Missouri politics: "It's not that exciting"

 

how about in your states?

[therealworldschampion 0]

In my district, New Jersey Congressional 3rd District, Jim Saxton is running again. The Democrat running against him, Herb Conaway, is nearly out of money and I haven't heard much of him at all. Saxton probably wins with about 75% of the vote(He won 83% in 2002.)

 

Governor's race should be interesting next year, probably going to be Corzine vs. Forrester.