Four candidates for Missouri governor battle in tight GOP primary

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Source: Kansas City Star

There aren’t many policy differences between the four Republican candidates running for governor.

Each wants tougher regulations on labor unions and fewer regulations on business. They believe Missouri’s taxes should be lower and the state’s public workforce should be smaller. They’re anti-abortion and pro-gun.

And each paints a picture of a lawless state, pointing to the 2014 unrest in Ferguson and campus protests last year at Mizzou as prime examples.

The real difference between the candidates seeking to replace Gov. Jay Nixon, who can’t seek re-election because of term limits, is their biographies.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article92004777.html

[lastlib]

1. I kinda suspect that the Star endorsed Hanaway......

solely because its endorsement would be a kiss of death to a lot of reich-wingers, and strip away a lot of votes she would otherwise get. Seems she might be the most challenging opponent for Chris Koster (the (so-called) Dem candidate), so the hope is that she would be diminished enough that one of the other (presumably weaker) candidates would get the nomination, and make Koster's run easier. Could that happen?

[PatrickforO]

2. More Republican trickle down crap that will

hurt families and children and workers in Missouri at the expense of corporate greed, the environment and the common good.

Think of this:

When was the last time Republicans did ANYTHING that helped you and your family?

If you cannot answer that, THEN VOTE DEMOCRATIC!!!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. All the Missouri republicans are running teevee ads...

In which they try to prove that they are more anti-Obama than their opponent. And not just the candidates for governor...all of them.

Why would you pay to run an ad that attempts to prove that you are a one-dimensional person? They just seem small minded and desperate.