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Parker announces candidacy for Congress in Missouri’s 8th Congressional District

At the September meeting of the Texas county Republican party, Bob Parker, the rancher from Raymondville, announced he is again a candidate for Congress in Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, a seat that has been held by Rep. Jo Ann Emerson for the last 15 years. Parker, who ran against Emerson in the 2010 race, received 35% of the vote in the primary race, 4 times more votes than any other Republican challenger for this seat in the past. Parker has spoken at many tea party events and property rights meetings across the district in the past year. He was virtually unknown in many parts of the district before his campaign two years ago, but that is changing. Parker states, ”While I have been politically active locally for years, it is time to join the battle in Washington. We need someone who has run a business and actually lives in the 8th district to represent us in Congress. Wall Street bailouts, Cash for Clunkers, Union Pension bailouts, and raising the national debt limit even higher do not address the real problems of unemployment and our rampant national debt. Our current representative has voted for all of these. Washington is totally out of touch with rural America. Our businesses are being regulated and taxed to death. Our farmers and ranchers struggle under higher costs and thinner margins. President Obama’s tax, regulate, and spend policies continue to hurt the working class and are killing jobs in America. Enough is enough! ”

For more information about Bob Parker’s campaign log on to his website at www.electbobparker.com

I wanted to again show this article I wrote in 2008 about mercantilism and the National Animal Identification Program. Now, here in 2011 because of the passage of the Food Safety bill animal tracing and food safety will implement the destructive program that we have been fighting for years. Our farms, businesses, and way of life are being destroyed by the massive new regulations that continue to pour out of Washington at the rate of about 10 per day or about 3,500 per year! Why doesn’t business get going again and we get the jobs back? Take a wild guess. We are being taxed and regulated to death, just ask any business person.

Mercantilism and the National Animal Identification System