Jerry Beck
(660) 347-5221 or Jerry9688@att.net
www.ElectBeckUSSenate.com

Joseph Martellaro
(573) 732-4054 or MartellaroForSenate@gmail.com
www.MartellaroForSenate.com

Mike Simmons
(636) 432-9416 or mike@simmonsforussenate.com
www.SimmonsforUSSenate.com

Congressional District 4

Gregory Cowan
(417) 322-2859 or Greg@cowanforcongress.com
www.CowanForCongress.com

Congressional District 5

Dave Lay
(816) 224-2644 or Dave@lay4congress.com
www.Lay4Congress.com

Senatorial District 28

Bennie Hatfield
(660) 221-1717 or HatfieldStateSenator28@hotmail.com

Legislative district 48

Nathan Eaton
(816) 529-7661 or NathanTEaton@gmail.com

Legislative district 51

Mike Cogan
(816) 252-3179 or mcogan@acesos.com

Legislative district 64

Mark Opheim
(314) 809-1795 or upphouse@gmail.com

Legislative district 95

Charles Harter
(314) 821-1334 or harleycharter@sbcglobal.net

Legislative district 97

Dan Fitzhenry
(314) 269-4299 or FitzhenryDan@yahoo.com

Legislative district 102

Richard Blowers
(636)479-7333 or RickBlowers@aol.com
www.BlowersForMOHouse.com

Legislative district 116

Ray Herron
(660) 547-0077 or herron@socket.net

Legislative district 117

Jacob Luetkemeyer
(573) 796-0257 or J.Luetkemeyer@embarqmail.com

Legislative district 118

Curtis Shipman
(660) 851-0778 or ShipmanForRep118@hotmail.com

Legislative district 119

Raymond Kish
(417) 770-3407 or RayKish@constitutionpartymo.org

Legislative district 120

Richard Hoxsey
(660) 476-5542 or RichardHoxsey@yahoo.com

Legislative district 124

Kent Cogan
(816) 718-8715 or kjcogan@hotmail.com

Legislative district 153

Rory Calhoun
(573) 718-7746 or RoryCalhoun2010@yahoo.com

Recorder of Deeds
Rosalie Wells
(417) 745-6388 or WellsRosalie5@gmail.com

McDonald County

Presiding Commissioner
John Fitts
(417) 475-3841 or JohnDeloresFitts@yahoo.com

Committeemen and Committeewomen

Larry Wayne Addams
Jeff Brown
Carolyn Carson
Bill Gilmore
Daniel Jacobson
Paul Jaggars
Stanley Jaggars
Suzi Jaggars
Jennifer Jamieson
Ed Koob
Susan Koob
Karla Kuntze
Bob Leinbaugh
Teri Leinbaugh
Joy Marx
Richard McKie
Chester Moore
Shirley Moore
Keith Mueller
Henry Muse
Floyd Nunn
Marilyn Poythress
William Poythress
Alan Redburn
Cindy Redburn
Chris Tomlinson
Judi VanDuyn
Tom Young

February 24, 2010

Contact: Donna Ivanovich, State Chairman: (314) 956-6181
Chris Tomlinson, Communications Director: (417) 543-0808

Constitution Party candidates will participate in Missouri’s August primary for the first time since 2004. Declarations of Candidacy were filed in Jefferson City on the opening day, February 23, 2010, including multiple candidates for the office of U.S. Senate. Others filing included two U.S. Representative Districts, one State Senate, and multiple State Representatives.

“Unlike the other political parties, before they file their candidacy, our candidates are thoroughly vetted with a 25-page questionnaire to determine their knowledge of the proper role of government “, reported State Chairman, Donna Ivanovich. She went on to say that, “candidates, who are approved in this process are then supported and endorsed by the Party. These candidates have pledged to support the restoration of constitutional government and will legislate law that will defend our great American principles of individual liberty.”

“The Constitution Party is America ’s fastest growing political party, and while the Republicans and Democrats have been losing supporters, this Party is exploding in growth. As the discontent mounts in our nation and state, our opportunities to elect Constitutional Americans have never been greater,” concluded Ivanovich.

Candidate for State Representative in the 120th district Richard Hoxesy, Chairman Donna Ivanovich, Secretary Cindy Redburn and CPMO member Debbie Lay.

Chairman Donna Ivanovich, candidate for State Representative 119th district Raymond Kish and Secretary Cindy Redburn.

Candidates for U.S Congress Dave lay (5th district) and Greg Cowan (4th district)

Candidates Richard Blowers (State Representative 102nd district) Nathan Eaton (State Representative 48th district)

Candidates Mike Cogan (State Representative 51st district) and Kent Cogan (State Representative 124th district)

“The Tea Party needs to make a choice between an “R” or a “D”, or so says Sarah Palin. The GOP rock star told an audience full of Tea Party members in Arkansas on Tuesday night, Feb. 16, that the Independents, who make up the Tea Party movement, need to start thinking about picking a party.

I think she is right.  The Tea Party needs to make a choice, but not from within the two-party system that Palin claims we are stuck with. The Tea Party needs to decide right now whether they are going to let this movement be stolen by failed establishment candidates, or whether or not it is going to press forward and elect independent and third party candidates.

We do have choices, and they are not limited to Republicans and Democrats.

The Tea Party, from its beginning, was formed in response to the failure of both parties to listen to the will of the people.  For Sarah Palin to suggest that we should pick between those same two failed parties is an insult. The rank in file members of the Tea Party movement should throw their current leaders out on their ear for allowing a movement of independents and Constitutionalists to be highjacked by either party.

Palin rightly points out that the Tea Party is not a Political party and cannot run candidates, but she is wrong to say there are only two choices because there is another choice: The Constitution Party. The Constitution Party has candidates running for office all across the United States, and the Constitution Party platform fits the Tea Party like a glove.

The Republicans and Democrats share the blame for our current economic crisis, and neither party has any real solution on how to fix it. Both parties gave us bailouts and stimulus programs adding mountains of debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back. In spite of all that money being spent, we still had 473,000 people file for unemployment benefits in the second week of February and have lost over 8 million jobs since 2007. With a track record like that, there is no reason whatsoever that America should choose between either party currently in power.

To say we have to pick between two incompetent choices is absolute lunacy. What America needs to do right now is make the decision not to return either Party back to Washington or any State office for that matter. Vote in a party with American ideas; a Party who has an American view of how the government should be run; a party that realizes that the Constitution is more than a word you say at a rally to get some applause. They need to vote in The Constitution Party.

If Palin was a true tea party patriot, she would not be asking us to choose between a Marxist party and a Fascist party.  She would be leading her followers to a truly American party. . . . . The Constitution Party.

We are a nation, who is ruled by the consent of the governed.  It is time the people remove their consent from the two establishment parties and put a Constitution Party candidate into office. The only way for both establishment parties to get the message is for both establishment parties to lose. To vote for either a Republican or a Democrat is to give your consent to two political parties who have made a living out of betraying the American people, our Founding Fathers and our Constitution, which each one swears fidelity to upon taking office.

America, don’t be fooled.  Neither establishment party can be trusted. Send the hijackers packing, and let’s continue to build upon a truly great movement of the people.

As the mythical character Odysseus passed by the island known to be inhabited by the Sirens he ordered his men to plug their ears with wax. Odysseus knew that if his sailors heard the beautiful Sirens’ call they would be lured to their deaths.

Mike Simmons with Bronze Star

How fitting is that just last week the Republican National Committee met on a similar island in Hawaii and spoke of wooing and luring the votes of the tea party movement and patriot uprising?

The Constitution Party is putting out a call to all tea parties, patriots and America loving citizens to plug your ears! Do not be lured in by the Republican Party’s call for it will surely lead to the death of our country. Ignore the sweet sounding melody of moving back to the right and promises that if given just one more chance they will get it right.

Tea parties and patriot uprisings peppered the calendars last year and filled our nation’s capital on September 12, 2009, but just a few months later the GOP is delighted to have won the Ted Kennedy seat in Massachusetts despite the fact that they filled it with a pro-choice moderate who has admitted that he would support nationalized health care in a different form. The citizens of Massachusetts could not avoid the Sirens’ call.

A few months earlier in the NY 23 election the GOP chose to offer us Dede Scozzafava as their candidate and fought tooth and nail to stop the more conservative and better candidate Doug Hoffman from winning. It is clear that the GOP is more concerned with filling seats with warm bodies not quality constitutionalists. Why else would they refuse to consider requiring a “purity-test” for candidates in last weeks meeting?

The Republicans might have a conservative platform but what’s the point? They have clearly shown the propensity to ignore it and have yet to hold any of their leaders accountable to it. How have Olympia Snow and Arlen Specter been working out for the past few decades? Where was the accountability to the platform? When Bush and the GOP voted for “No Child Left Behind” the only thing that was left behind was their accountability to the platform.

I am asking and calling for all tea party patriots to ignore the call of the GOP and focus your efforts into a party that will hold candidates accountable. Not only do we have candidate accountability as a plank in our platform we actually deny candidates that do not support the platform. When you go to the polling booth and vote for a Constitution Party candidate you can rest assured that you will know exactly where he/she stands on the issues and that we will hold their feet to the fire.