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Voters in 8th Congressional District have third-party choicesSunday, October 26, 2008
On Nov. 4, voters in the Eighth Congressional District will have four choices on the ballot. Along with incumbent U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson on the Republican ticket and attorney Joe Allen on the Democratic slate, the Libertarian Party again has nominated a candidate and the Constitution Party is making its second appearance. If Branden McCullough, the Cape Girardeau native running as a Libertarian, or Richard Smith, the Mansfield, Mo., truck driver carrying the Constitution Party banner, were to win, it would represent their party's best showing ever in a Congressional race. And while each said that is their ultimate goal, they are also realistic about their chances and use other measures, such as raising awareness that they offer alternatives, to gauge success. "For my campaign, success is alerting people to the hypocrisy in politics," Smith said. "The Constitution Party needs 2 percent to maintain ballot access, but the object should not just be to maintain ballot access, it should be to win." And McCullough said he wants voters to know there is a party dedicated to protecting all the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. "If you like freedom, less taxes and less government, the Libertarian Party is the party for you." Both minor parties present themselves as proponents of small government, low taxes and adherence to the constitution. But the Constitution Party also strongly advocates socially conservative views grounded in Christian values. The Libertarian Party platform is the opposite on most social issues, arguing that people should have maximum freedom to choose their lifestyle without government interference. "The difference between the Constitution Party and the Republican Party, to the best of my understanding from members of the party and candidates, is that they do not compromise their integrity or political positions," Smith said. Emerson likes to be portrayed as a moderate, he said, but her support for farm programs that provide big payments to farmers shows she is unwilling to buck big donors to keep spending under control. "There is too much money coming in the form of subsidies and corporate welfare," Smith said. "People need to be independent and stop relying on government." McCullough said he doesn't agree with all of the planks of the Libertarian platform, especially on abortion. He said he is pro-life, an issue that is the source of a split in the party. He also said he's reluctant to go all the way on another issue — drug legalization. He supports decriminalizing marijuana, but draws the line at harder drugs. But he's enthusiastic about the basic principle of the party, which is personal freedom. "I want to raise awareness among the people of Southeast Missouri that what we need are constitutional conservatives who want limited government and don't just say they do." rkeller@semissourian.com 388-3642 Have a comment? Log on to semissourian.com/today Related Links
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A personal word from Joe Allen, who, with your help, will be our congressman.
"Recently there seem to be three issues that continue to come up in conversation as I drive through the 8th District. I felt that these issues are worthy of discussion and my beliefs should be stated on my website.
I do believe that life begins at conception and I am pro life.
I do not support any further gun control and I have an A rating from the NRA.
I also, define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Thank you for your continued support and I hope to see or hear from you soon,"
Joe Allen
www.allen4congress.com
A personal word from Joe Allen, who, with your help, will be our congressman.
"Recently there seem to be three issues that continue to come up in conversation as I drive through the 8th District. I felt that these issues are worthy of discussion and my beliefs should be stated on my website.
I do believe that life begins at conception and I am pro life.
I do not support any further gun control and I have an A rating from the NRA.
I also, define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Thank you for your continued support and I hope to see or hear from you soon,"
Joe Allen
www.allen4congress.com
Jo Ann Emerson's VOTES THAT KILLED JOBS IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
(now, blackshadow, have you seen this before?)
Representative Jo Ann Emerson voted for the bailout of WALL STREET & FOREIGN BANKERS, and she voted for job killing “Free Trade” Policies.
Voted YES on promoting Free Trade with Peru (November 2007)
Voted NO on assisting workers who lose jobs due to outsourcing of jobs (October 2007)
Voted YES on implementing Central America Free Trade Act (July 2005)
Voted YES on implementing Free Trade Agreement with Singapore (July 2003)
Voted YES on implementing Free Trade Agreement with Chile (July 2003)
Voted NO on withdrawing from the World Trade Organization (June 2000)
Voted YES on PERMENANT Most Favored Nation Trade Status for Communist China (2000)
Noted YES on 'Fast Track' authority for Trade Agreements (September 1998)
Then, on Monday, September 29th, and again on Friday, October 3rd, Jo Ann Emerson voted against 90% of the people in southern Missouri who told her not to vote for the Bailout of Wall Street's greedy, gambling bankers and Foreign Banks. Jo Ann Emerson is Wall Street's and the insurance industry's best friend. (She was an insurance lobbyist before she met Bill Emerson, while he was still married.) Once a lobbyist, always a lobbyist. That is why she is such a great meet and greeter... the insurance industry trained her well so she could lobby for them.
Meet a new face.. such an honest face... Pro-Life, Pro-Property Rights, Pro-Gun with an ("A") from the NRA... JOE ALLEN ... www.allen4congress.com
Jo Ann Emerson's VOTES THAT KILLED JOBS IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
(now, blackshadow, have you seen this before?)
Representative Jo Ann Emerson voted for the bailout of WALL STREET & FOREIGN BANKERS, and she voted for job killing “Free Trade” Policies.
Voted YES on promoting Free Trade with Peru (November 2007)
Voted NO on assisting workers who lose jobs due to outsourcing of jobs (October 2007)
Voted YES on implementing Central America Free Trade Act (July 2005)
Voted YES on implementing Free Trade Agreement with Singapore (July 2003)
Voted YES on implementing Free Trade Agreement with Chile (July 2003)
Voted NO on withdrawing from the World Trade Organization (June 2000)
Voted YES on PERMENANT Most Favored Nation Trade Status for Communist China (2000)
Noted YES on 'Fast Track' authority for Trade Agreements (September 1998)
Then, on Monday, September 29th, and again on Friday, October 3rd, Jo Ann Emerson voted against 90% of the people in southern Missouri who told her not to vote for the Bailout of Wall Street's greedy, gambling bankers and Foreign Banks. Jo Ann Emerson is Wall Street's and the insurance industry's best friend. (She was an insurance lobbyist before she met Bill Emerson, while he was still married.) Once a lobbyist, always a lobbyist. That is why she is such a great meet and greeter... the insurance industry trained her well so she could lobby for them.
Meet a new face.. such an honest face... Pro-Life, Pro-Property Rights, Pro-Gun with an ("A") from the NRA... JOE ALLEN ... www.allen4congress.com
Here is a list of factories which have closed during the last ten years, or, so. Most of them closed under Jo Ann Emerson's remote representation of us from her mansion in Washington, DC, and, since 2000, in St. Louis with her hubby, Ron Gladney.
Please pardon the length of this post. I could not find another way to format the list.
Please focus on all those people who have lost good paying jobs, and why then, does Jo Ann Emerson want them to pay off the gambling debts of the Wall Street greedy gambling bankers and foreign banks, with their lower wage jobs, if they found a job at all?
Advance
Inland Shoe
Bernie
IXL closed south plant
Caruthersville
Box Factory
Bridge Wheel
Colson
Gates Rubber,
Missouri Fabrication
RT Friction
Chaffee
Columbia Sportswear
Box Factory
Cape Girardeau
Bunny Bread
Dana Corporation
Emerson Electric
Nuth Rubber
Tri-Con Seat Covers
Thorngate - 250 jobs
Charleston
Gates Rubber
Dexter
Arvin (Downsized > ˝ )
Elders Manufacturing
Paramount Cap
Prestige Printing
Purolator
Doniphan
Lignetics
FEDCO
A windmill factory
Katie’s Needle
East Prairie
Story's Popcorn
Farmington
Tyco?
Huffy Bike
Kennett
Emerson Electric
UARCO
Malden
Circle D
Federal Mogul
Sterling Piston
Yakel
C.B. Forms
A garment factory
RTW cutting tools
Marquand
The Crayon factory
Morehouse
Rowe Furniture
Mountain View
Angelica Garment
Conaway Winter
A boat factory
Mountain Grove
Arlee Home Fashions
Fordick
Steel Company
Poplar Bluff
Dalton Adding Machines
Essex (Dow Chemical)
Rowe Furniture Company
Smiley Container
Mopek Plastics
Portageville
PLASTENE (370 jobs lost when they closed)
Puxico
A uniform plant
Rolla
Briggs and Stratton
Sikeston
Bunny Bread
Canvas Products
Coca Cola
Cotts Bev. layoffs
Essex Wire
Fleming Foods
Growe's Sportswear
Heritage Homes
Inman Trucking
National Lock
Trans-o-gram toys
Triangle Wire
A wallet factory
A brass company
C&F Foods
Steele
Milwaukee Tool
Steele Manufacturing
Thayer
Arlee Home Fashions
Van Buren
Paramount Cap
West Plains
AMYX
Arlee Home Fashions
Gardner's Shoe
Joy Dog Food
These Corning, Arkansas plants, which closed, employed many Ripley and Butler Countians.
BASLER
HARTS
Factories with several locations that closed in southern Missouri.
Paramount Cap, Arlee Home Fashions, Elders Manufacturing, H.D. Lee, Inland Shoe, Brown Shoe, International Shoe.
In 1980, there were FIFTY shoe factories in the 8th Congressional District. Today there are none
Vote JOE ALLEN .... www.allen4congress.com
Here is a list of factories which have closed during the last ten years, or, so. Most of them closed under Jo Ann Emerson's remote representation of us from her mansion in Washington, DC, and, since 2000, in St. Louis with her hubby, Ron Gladney.
Please pardon the length of this post. I could not find another way to format the list.
Please focus on all those people who have lost good paying jobs, and why then, does Jo Ann Emerson want them to pay off the gambling debts of the Wall Street greedy gambling bankers and foreign banks, with their lower wage jobs, if they found a job at all?
Advance
Inland Shoe
Bernie
IXL closed south plant
Caruthersville
Box Factory
Bridge Wheel
Colson
Gates Rubber,
Missouri Fabrication
RT Friction
Chaffee
Columbia Sportswear
Box Factory
Cape Girardeau
Bunny Bread
Dana Corporation
Emerson Electric
Nuth Rubber
Tri-Con Seat Covers
Thorngate - 250 jobs
Charleston
Gates Rubber
Dexter
Arvin (Downsized > ˝ )
Elders Manufacturing
Paramount Cap
Prestige Printing
Purolator
Doniphan
Lignetics
FEDCO
A windmill factory
Katie’s Needle
East Prairie
Story's Popcorn
Farmington
Tyco?
Huffy Bike
Kennett
Emerson Electric
UARCO
Malden
Circle D
Federal Mogul
Sterling Piston
Yakel
C.B. Forms
A garment factory
RTW cutting tools
Marquand
The Crayon factory
Morehouse
Rowe Furniture
Mountain View
Angelica Garment
Conaway Winter
A boat factory
Mountain Grove
Arlee Home Fashions
Fordick
Steel Company
Poplar Bluff
Dalton Adding Machines
Essex (Dow Chemical)
Rowe Furniture Company
Smiley Container
Mopek Plastics
Portageville
PLASTENE (370 jobs lost when they closed)
Puxico
A uniform plant
Rolla
Briggs and Stratton
Sikeston
Bunny Bread
Canvas Products
Coca Cola
Cotts Bev. layoffs
Essex Wire
Fleming Foods
Growe's Sportswear
Heritage Homes
Inman Trucking
National Lock
Trans-o-gram toys
Triangle Wire
A wallet factory
A brass company
C&F Foods
Steele
Milwaukee Tool
Steele Manufacturing
Thayer
Arlee Home Fashions
Van Buren
Paramount Cap
West Plains
AMYX
Arlee Home Fashions
Gardner's Shoe
Joy Dog Food
These Corning, Arkansas plants, which closed, employed many Ripley and Butler Countians.
BASLER
HARTS
Factories with several locations that closed in southern Missouri.
Paramount Cap, Arlee Home Fashions, Elders Manufacturing, H.D. Lee, Inland Shoe, Brown Shoe, International Shoe.
In 1980, there were FIFTY shoe factories in the 8th Congressional District. Today there are none
VOTE JOE ALLEN... www.allen4congress.com
Brandon, and Richard are good choices, but my vote and support goes to a true conservative, a hardworking man who worked his way though a Christan college, the College of the Ozarks, where you WORK for your TUTION, and then got his law degree and lived here ever since.
Joe Allen is ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO THE BAILOUT OF WALL STREET AND FOREIGN BANKERS, WHICH JO ANN EMERSON VOTED FOR....TWICE...
Joe Allen is for Traditioinal Marriage. He is Pro-Life, Pro-Property Rights, and he got an "A" from the NRA, for his no compromise 100% support of our gun rights. You have not seen a candidate like this before in many years... take a look at Joe Allen.. such an honest face.
www.allen4congress.com
Jo Ann Emerson is married to Ron Gladney, a St Louis labor attorney and one of the biggest democrats in the state who controls money paid to labor unions.
He actually attends republican fundraisers with her and works the room to convince people in attendance to vote for Barack Obama.
Emerson herself, even made it a requirement that her staff watch Obama’s acceptance speech!
Given that, and her voting record of late, her husband has converted her as well.
If she is seeking office it should be on the democrat ticket and be voted out Nov 4th.
I will not be supporting her again.
The Constitution Party candidate seems to be the only choice in the Eight Congressional District. Mrs Emerson voted a $700 billion socialist package for friends on Wall Street at the expense of the American taxpayer. The Libertarian is running on a party ticket that is no longer libertarian (Bob Barr). The Gun Owners of America rated the Democrat Candidate an F on firearms.