Kansas City lawyer explores independent bid for U.S. Senate

[brooklynite]

Source: Kansas City Star

Kansas City lawyer could shake up one of the most competitive Senate races in the country as he seriously considers running as a centrist independent against U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and her eventual Republican challenger.

Craig O’Dear, a Kansas City attorney who has the backing of the national Centrist Project, has launched an exploratory campaign committee for a possible independent bid for the Senate.

The Missouri race promises to be one of the most expensive in the country and could determine which party controls the Senate.

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O’Dear, a 60-year-old Missouri native, is a partner with Bryan Cave LLP, an international law firm that has an office in Kansas City. He also is involved with the Midwest Innocence Project, a nonprofit that works to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article193817459.html

[DownriverDem]

1. Booooooooooo!

Way to go Craig. Go right ahead and split the left leaning vote so the repub wins. Maybe you need to take a class called Politics 101. What the hell is wrong with you?

[NBachers]

2. This was my first response to this news, too. Let the monolithic republican block prevail,

while splitting the votes that would normally go to McCaskill.

[dsc]

3. She is about as centrist

as it gets. I am just amazed at the utter stupidity of these people.

[DownriverDem]

4. Which people?

You don't split the vote for your side and then wonder why the other party wins.

[bronxiteforever]

5. He is a lawyer at Bryan Cave-check out their Eastern European practice

For over a decade, Bryan Cave lawyers have successfully represented clients from Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) business communities including Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Bulgaria, Montenegro and other Eastern Europe and former Eastern bloc countries on a wide variety of legal matters.

https://www.bryancave.com/en/practices/cee-and-cis-team.html

[kevink077]

6. Probably right wing funded

This stinks of a right wing ploy to split the liberal and ind. votes.

[brooklynite]

8. "He also is involved with the Midwest Innocence Project"...not really their type

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Not really whose type?

[cab67]

7. One word for people who think this is a good idea:

Maine.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Kansas City is in Missouri, correct?

Some of us on the Left Coast are really bad at geography. It's tricky.

[The Genealogist]

11. There is a Kansas City, Kansas

It is a suburb of and much smaller than KCMO.