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P R E S S R E L E A S E
For immediate release [September 23, 2009]
Contact: Pamela K. Grow
Address: P.O. Box 1171
Rolla, MO 65402-1171
(573) 465-0061
pam@electbobparker.com

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HEADLINE: Salem, MO – [September 23, 2009] – Bob Parker says “We Have the Unalienable Right to Protect Life”

While speaking Monday evening at the Gun Rights Rally organized by Salem’s Patriots For the Constitution, 8th District Congressional Candidate Bob Parker shared his personal perspective on the Second Amendment.

As he addressed a group gathered at the Indian Hills Archery Range in Salem, he held up his well-worn 3030. Referring to it as his “truck gun”, he said, “This gun and I could tell some stories.” Purchased new when he was 18 years old, the gun nearly always stayed in his pickup truck on the farm, because “as soon as I took it in the house, that’s when I was going to find a coyote, something ready to hurt my livestock,” Parker said. An Eighth District rancher and farmer since moving to Missouri from Kansas over 30 years ago, Mr. Parker spoke of the Second Amendment right to own and use firearms, and referred to the inherent right to protect life.

“Our Founders said that we have these unalienable rights,” Parker continued, “And we have the right to protect life.”

He then turned to more general topics. Parker, a Republican candidate for Congress in 2010 for Missouri’s Eighth District U.S. House seat, elaborated on his motivations for entering politics.

“I think about the world my little grandkids are going to face, and it really sets me off.” Recently having celebrated the birth of his first grandson, Mr. Parker also has four granddaughters. “I’m 52 years old… maybe I can coast out of this thing by myself, but I’ve got kids and grandkids. Folks, whether you like it or not, you’re involved in the political process.”

Mr. Parker explained that he wanted to go to Washington because, otherwise, Washington was going to come and knock on his door.

“There is no question in my mind that if this Socialist/Marxist agenda in Washington is not stopped, they are going to knock on your door.”

As he recounted his experience recently at the Sikeston, MO 9/12 Rally, he described anti-bailout signs carried by protesters unaware that the Eighth District Representative had voted for the October “Bailout” Bill, authorizing the creation of, and initial funding for, the TARP plan.

“The media is not telling you how your representative is voting.”

As a noisy downpour continued overhead, Parker held up his truck gun.

“I love Missouri… I’m going to live here the rest of my life, Lord willing. I have the sweetest little wife, and I will do anything, anything, to protect my wife.”

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I am finding out that most voters in the 8th district have no idea of these votes. As a matter of fact, I have discussed these votes with protesters carrying ”NO MORE BAILOUT” signs and they have no idea that these votes were cast and have said that Rep. Emerson would never have voted for a bailout.

Respectfully, they are wrong…

Sadly, the media is not reporting this and there have been no corrections from others that I have seen so far. I am forced to be the one to correct the record. Hopefully, many of you will help in the future to educate the voters of the truth.

Rep. Emerson has voted for the Banker Bailout [twice], Cash for Clunkers, Free trade deals that are destroying our JOBS here in America and on and on.

Please do everything you can to get this information out. If you can put a letter to the editor in your paper about it or send it to your email list that will be a huge help.

I consider these votes by anyone in either party to go against everything our country stands for. In America, we have a free market system and we should not shovel money to special interests, Big Bankers and Insurance companies!

These are not conservative or constitutional votes my friends!

You have a choice, a Representative that chooses to vote with the liberal agenda, or a person that will follow our constitution for a change…

Thanks for your help in setting the record straight!

Bob Parker for Congress, Missouri 8th district

P.S. If you would like to help with our campaign please contact me, we have a lot of work to do!

Letter sent September 2, 2009 by Republican Candidate Bob Parker in Missouri’s Eighth District to U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson.

Honorable Jo Ann Emerson
2440 Rayburn Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mrs. Emerson,

On Monday, August 31, 2009, an editorial piece by you titled, “The Government Just Keeps on Growing,” appeared in the Rolla Daily News. Some inaccuracies appeared in the article, and the good people of Missouri’s Eighth District deserve to know the truth.

In lamenting the large expenditures made by the new Congress, you mention that they voted to pass a stimulus bill ($787 billion), to approve more lending authority under TARP ($350 billion), and to pass an omnibus appropriations bill ($410 billion.) You go on to state:

“Each time I voted against these measures, I did so not just because the amounts of spending were so enormous, though that would have been a good enough reason in my book. I also opposed these measures because they represented an expansion of bureaucratic government which are [sic] very difficult, if not impossible, to reverse.”

The $410 billion in spending referred to would be the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year ending 9/30/09, H.R. 1105, which passed the house on 2/25/09 by a vote of 245 “Yeas” to 178 “Nays”. You voted yes, in company with only 15 other Republicans, and were the only Republican Missouri Representative to do so. These facts are irrefutable–they come from the Library of Congress website, roll call vote 86 on 2/25/09. Your vote is not a matter of debate.

Secondly, you lament the issuance of more lending authority to the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (another $350 billion). What you omitted was the fact that TARP, H.R. 1424, was passed into law on October 3, 2008, by a vote of 263 “Yeas” to 171 “Nays”. You voted to pass this bill, and this information, within roll call vote 681, is a matter of public record.

The good people of the Eighth District deserve an explanation for this vote, if, as you state in your article, you have an aversion to expanding the size of bureaucratic government, since that expansion is hard to reverse. Why did you create the program, then, in the first place?

Lastly, you mention that Treasury Secretary Geithner “is expected to ask” for an increase in the public debt limit, which now stands at $12.1 trillion. Examining recent history, roll call vote 536 on 11/18/04 shows that you voted to increase the public debt ceiling by $800 billion. Has something changed? Do you feel at this time that you can refrain from conceding to an increase in the debt limit?

The hard working citizens of this District do not want their history rewritten. It is time to correct the record.

Sincerely,

Bob Parker
Republican Candidate for Congress, Missouri 8th District

Bob Parker announces that he is running for Congress in Missouri’s 8th district at the Pink Slip Rally in Sullivan, MO.