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Bob Parker, candidate for Congress in Missouri’s 8th district speaks about the importance of the Second Amendment and our right to keep and bear arms in Salem, Missouri on September 21, 2009.

This is why we have to elect people that have clue about how socialism and capitalism works.

Let’s see, give the bankers and insurance companies 700 BILLION DOLLARS because they failed!?! Thousands send faxes, emails, and make phone calls to try to stop Congress from doing it… We need to vote them ALL OUT — each and every one that voted FOR the wall street bailout, if we can. These are not the people we need to rebuild this country and take it back from the socialists!

My opponent, Representative JoAnn Emerson VOTED FOR THE BAILOUT, CASH FOR CLUNKERS, unbalanced budgets, NAIS FUNDING has all come through her AG Committee, TAX INCREASES, JOB DESTROYING TRADE AGREEMENTS, funding out of control regulatory agencies, and on and on!

Don’t be fooled again!

Most people are not aware of these facts, please pass this on to your friends. In my meetings around the district, I am finding even Republican committee people are not aware of these votes…

– Bob Parker

Dave Eberhart wrote an interesting article about Sen. John McCain’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” this weekend and revealed that he now regrets the Wall Street bailout.

McCain dropped a bombshell when revealing his thoughts on the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) that, among other things, green-lighted the federal government to bailout the floundering financial sector.

“What we’ve done, unfortunately, is we bailed out Wall Street, now they’re making billions, they’re making the deals, they’re giving the bonuses, and because they were too big to fail, we pumped – I don’t know, we still haven’t had a full accounting – into those major financial corporations and told financial institutions.”

In 2008 McCain voted for the TARP bailout, but now revealed his disappointment in how the bailout went down.

“We told them they were too big to fail,” McCain told King. “We told the guy on Central Avenue that just shut down his storefront that he’s too small to save. There’s something terribly wrong with that picture, and we were off on the wrong foot by bailing out these financial institutions instead of addressing the housing crisis. And Americans have figured it out and they’re very, very unhappy.”

For the full article: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/mccain_bailout_vote_obama/2009/10/12/271235.html?s=al&promo_code=8BAC-1

This is obvious from the comment posted in response to The Daily Journal’s article: “Another challenger enters 8th District race” by g’s thoughts:

“Congresswoman Emerson DID NOT vote in favor of the Wall St. bailout. I would hope a congressional candidate would have their facts straight and not base their campain on half truths in an attempt to get the uninformed vote.”

– g’s thoughts

Emerson’s “YEA” vote for the Bailout is posted for all to see right here:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

RELATED:

• Final Vote Results for Roll Call 681
  H R 1424 YEA-AND-NAY 3-Oct-2008 1:22 PM
  QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments
  BILL TITLE: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll681.xml

• VOTES on H.R.1424 – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  October 03, 2008 Roll call number 681 in the House
  Question On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments:
  H R 1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/5099

• House Vote On Passage: H.R. 1424 [110th]:
  Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-101

• Another challenger enters 8th District race
  http://www.dailyjournalonline.com/articles/2009/10/12/news/doc4ad1011ba1731189896891.txt

Texas County farmer announces intent to run for US Representative

By PAULA BARR
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:08 AM CDT

A Texas County farmer will challenge U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson next year for the 8th District Seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Republican Bob Parker, 52, is a cattle farmer from Raymondville. Once a dairy farmer, he now raises beef cattle and sells real estate. He and his wife, Karen, have four children, four granddaughters and a grandson.

Parker was a Wichita, Kansas, native who moved to Missouri at age 19. He has served in elected positions on the school board and other local boards and is part of the Republican Central Committee in Texas County.

Although he has always been politically involved on a local level, Parker believes it is time for him to be a voice for conservatives in Congress.

“I’m very concerned about our country and the loss of freedoms,” Parker said. “When I heard about their proposal to bail out Wall Street and the insurance companies, I was outraged.”

Parker has been active in opposing animal identification legislation that would require livestock to have identifying chips imbedded in order to track individual animals in the event of a disease outbreak. He fears Missouri will soon make the program mandatory.

“This is one of the most intrusive programs for livestock that we’ve ever had,” Parker said. “I’m an old-fashioned conservative Constitutionalist. I believe in our Constitution and I don’t find the authority in the Constitution for the programs the government is coming up with.”

Parker said the influence multi-national and international corporations have on Congress concerns him. He decided he would campaign against Emerson because of her votes in favor of bailing out Wall Street financial firms. (Emerson voted in favor of the bailout in the fall, but voted against the second half of the plan in February.)

“I think our founding fathers would probably have picked up arms by now, given what’s going on in Washington right now,” Parker said.

Paula Barr is a reporter for the Daily Journal and can be reached at 573-431-2010, ext. 172 or at pbarr@dailyjournalonline.com.

Source: http://www.dailyjournalonline.com/articles/2009/10/12/news/doc4ad1011ba1731189896891.txt