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Bob Parker, Republican candidate for Congress in Missouri’s 8th District, met with voters at the Senior Center in Farmington on Tuesday night. Parker, who received some of his best support from Farmington voters in the 2010 primary election, is back again seeking additional support. After a speech about issues of interest to voters, Parker fielded questions from the crowd. The questions ranged from concern about the spending and debt America now has, to how new regulations on business could affect our jobs.

Parker states, ”The massive debt being accumulated in Washington is out of control. I would not have voted to raise the debt limit or approved of the 2011 Obama budget that funds Obamacare — as our current Representative has done. Enough is enough, America can do better!”

Parker put over 26,000 miles on his F150 Ford truck in the 2010 election and plans on logging many more miles in the upcoming Republican primary against Rep. Jo Ann Emerson. Parker is a rancher from Texas County. His website is www.electbobparker.com and he can also be found on facebook.

Republican Traitors Fail Again – Forced Unionism Did Not Pass

Union bosses, through their cohorts in Congress, want to force airline and railway workers into unions. Luckily their amendment to the FAA bill (HR 658) failed to pass in the House on Friday by a 220 to 206 vote.

Every Democrat voted for the LaTourette/Costello amendment; no surprise there. However, 16 Republican Congressmen voted for the amendment. These Republicans stand against freedom and they stand with the fat-cat union bosses who want to eliminate freedom and choice for American workers.

Currently, American workers enjoy the freedom to form a union or join a union – it’s their choice. Democrats and these 16 Republicans want to take away their right to choose and force them to be in a union if they want the job.

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Bob Parker, the rancher from the small town of Raymondville, Missouri is throwing his hat in the 8th district congressional ring again. His 2010 bid for the seat earned him 35% of the Republican primary vote across the district against 15 year encumbent Rep. Jo Ann Emerson.

Republican Bob Parker standing by his Ford truck that he put 26,000 miles on during the 2010 campaign for Congess. He is getting ready to hit the campaign trail again in 2012.

Parker, who has been endorsed by the Tea Party, has spoken at many events across Southern Missouri with his message of cutting spending and restoring fiscal sanity back in Washington.

Parker explains “Enough is enough. America can do better. It seems the Washington professionals in both parties are just too ingrained with the special interests and refuse to listen to the people. As a businessman I know we are being regulated and trade dealed to death. It seems no one is really working for the little guy anymore. I want to stand up for what is good and right for America. We must have free markets. Let’s stop the bailouts and balance the budget and get to work putting America back to work.”

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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! ”

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By Bob Parker

A silent killer is strangling America. This killer has invaded every State, every county, every town and city. Every television set, radio network and yes, even your local newspaper office. Who is this killer? Greed… Power… Corruption… Influence. In a nutshell, it’s consolidated control of real information. This silent war is going on across the nation. It’s a war for your mind. Being a candidate for Congress has helped me understand this war on a personal level; but we all must understand it if we are to reclaim our freedom.

Problem number one… We have free speech, right? It’s guaranteed in the First Amendment. Yet where can we speak freely? In churches? No. In civic organizations? No. At political party events? No. We believe we have freedom of the press under the First Amendment. But the press is far from free, and very politically controlled. Do we get the full spectrum of truth through the evening news, national or local? No. How can a challenger to an incumbent expose voting records and facts about the incumbent when the political machine (described below) and media support the incumbent? How can you reach voters with the message that there is a viable alternative to the direction the country has been going? Problem number one has way more than one problem involved.

How can we solve the problem of getting accurate information into the hands of voters? We think it takes money and lots of it, right? That is definitely an issue, but those who want to control information want you to believe that the only cure is loads of cash. The cure is you.

The Political Machine Chews Up the Average Guy… and his lunch.

For the most part incumbents are tied into the vast financial resources of Political Action Committee’s called PACs. The incumbents are able to raise thousands of dollars for their campaigns by holding $1,000 per plate Washington D.C. dinners where they invite lobbyists to pay to be wined and dined by the candidate. It’s a win-win game for the participants. The candidate gets the money to use for re-election, and the lobbyists curry special favors from the candidate for supplying the funds to keep their powerful position. Congressmen then insert selected earmarks benefiting those the lobbyist represents thereby insuring they receive more money from unions, educators, financial investment firms and others. Also, the political parties invest large sums to purchase party loyalty and influence from the incumbents. The average voter is left out of the equation entirely.

Then the various media outlets profit from all these fund raising dinners and party funding mechanisms by selling ads to the chosen candidate. They are also accorded special favors from incumbents at times to help them with the federal agencies that oversee them.

This is the machine that is next to impossible for the average citizen to overcome. One who loves freedom, and wants accurate information so they can make wise decisions yet needs to work full time to keep food on the table and a roof over their head, is faced with a full time job just in trying to get accurate information.

This machine is why the system has become so corrupt. One hand washes the other and the money, lots of it taxpayer money, keeps changing hands within the same circle. Will it ever change? Can it ever change?

The upcoming 2010 elections are interesting because we have some new players on the field. There are thousands of fed up citizens with no loyalty to parties, just loyalty to principle. What’s happened is that there is a now a new avenue for a political message to be presented. Freedom candidates have been springing up across America like dandelions in a spring lawn, and many have been winning in the primaries. People are able to learn about candidates that represent their interests instead of the bought and paid for political machine. There should be some new faces taking the reins of power away from the politically entrenched dynasties we’ve become accustomed to in this country. However, should this movement allow itself to be divided or co-opted, we won’t see the candidates who will stand on principle be elected in November.

The attacks on the Tea Parties are growing. The establishment realizes that they must divide and silence the message, or face a serious threat to its power and control. Who will win? Only time will tell. But don’t expect to hear much from Tea Party style candidates on the TV. Amazingly, the largest populist movement in recent history just can’t get coverage.

Evidently demonstrating their loyalty to those revenue streams of the political machine, mainstream media does not cover Tea Parties. At least not if they can help it. Before I even became a candidate, I attended and spoke at many Tea Parties. I’d really have to strive to count the number of Tea Party events I’ve attended, but I have never seen a television report on a single one. There have been a few newspaper reports here and there, but for the most part, the media silence is deafening. There have even been reports by television stations in this district talking about how the Tea Party will affect the congressional race here. Yet they never mention who the “Tea Party” candidate is. They do mention the incumbent, who has never spoken at a Tea Party, even though invited, and they mention the other party’s candidate. From what I hear elsewhere in the nation this is typical. The establishment candidates benefit from “freedom of the press” and the freedom candidates remain a mystery to the voters that would support them. The machine works in support of those who support the machine.

When called and asked why they would do a report one week before a primary race and mention only the Republican incumbent and the Democratic nominee for the general election in November they said if the challenger won the Party nomination in the primary they would be sure to report it.

Fair and balanced? To whom?

The establishment Party (either one) and the Media are completely disrespectful of the voters in this country. Principles are nothing compared to profit.

So what can we do? We can use the tools available, like the internet, and spread information about candidates to others in our area by word of mouth. We still have the truth on our side. It’s the mightiest weapon of all, and it must be used. Use those tools, and vote in your primary for the candidate that stands for individual freedom, and against corporate larceny. The solution to the machine is in your hands at the polls — in the Primary!

Non-establishment candidates like myself have taken their message to the people. We’ve driven the districts on our own dime and attended every function humanly possible. Despite media black outs, establishment pressure, a wrecked economy, and the occasional headache, we’ve remained engaged in a fervent attempt to take our country back… To freedom.

- Bob Parker is running for Congress in Missouri’s 8th district. He is running against a 14 year incumbent that raised nearly 80% of her campaign funds outside her district in the last election.

by Bob McCarty

Jo Ann Emerson is back in the news today as one of nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives sponsoring H.R. 3936, a $165 billion union pension bailout bill. But why?

It could be that the seven-term Republican elected in the 8th Congressional District of Southeast Missouri simply loves bailouts. After all, she did vote for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and “Cash for Clunkers”. But I don’t think her love for bailouts is the main reason why she is behind the bill.

Instead, I think her sponsorship of the union bailout bill stems from the fact that she is married to Ron Gladney.

In a May 3 post, I pointed out that her second husband is both a Democrat and an labor union attorney for St. Louis-based Bartley Goffstein LLC and that, according to Federal Election Commission records, she has received campaign contributions from a variety of union entities, including the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). And that’s not all!

In a post one week later, I highlighted the fact that her husband represents 12 powerful labor unions, including the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers for whom he serves as general counsel.

Furthermore, I mentioned she backed funding for costly projects in her district — including the $170 million Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge and the $62 million Rush H. Limbaugh Federal Building — from which her husband’s union friends likely received great benefit.

So, the answer to the question is simple. Congressman Emerson believes in bringing home the bacon — err, uh, pork — and putting it straight into her own husband’s skillet.

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Jo Ann Emerson
http://bobmccarty.com/?s=%22jo+ann+emerson%22

Should Jo Ann Emerson Run as Independent?
http://bobmccarty.com/2010/05/03/should-jo-ann-emerson-run-as-independent/

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http://bobmccarty.com/2010/05/10/rino-congresswoman-thrives-in-the-boot-heel/