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It’s been almost two years since we met. At the time, I had no idea where this was going. Or what I was doing.

I still don’t know what I’m doing, but we all know where America is headed.

Beginning Tuesday, because of your passionate, tireless efforts, America is returning to the right course to meet the destiny our founders envisioned.

On Tuesday, your vote, joined with millions of others, will turn the country around.  Or at least arrest the dangers drift we’ve been on.

We will elect national candidates like Ed Martin and Roy Blunt.  We’ll replace the pro-Obama Auditor with Tom Schweich.  And we’ll elect countless qualified State legislators like Paul Curtman, Gary Fuhr, Brian Nieves, and others.

Join us Tuesday evening for a watch party and celebration at 4512 Hampton Avenue, just south of Hampton Village.  We’ll have trolley service to Ed Martin’s and Gary Fuhr’s celebrations.

Thank you for the most amazing journey of my life.  And thank God it’s only the beginning.

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A town in England has reduced traffic congestion, pollution, and accidents.  One year after the experiment began, the townspeople gushed over the change in the people and the way they drive. One woman’s commute went from twenty minutes to five. 

How did this happen? 

The town did the opposite of what had always been done.  Instead of adding more traffic lights or signs or spy cameras, they went the other direction. 

They turned off the traffic lights.

Why did turning off the lights make life and traffic better?  Because people had to think.  People had to learn to drive.  People had to pay attention. They had to become and remain aware of what’s happening around them.

“I can’t believe the difference; it’s simply astounding,” says one local woman.

“This is an absolute, absolute pleasure,” said another.

And the women were skeptics.

When we put up signs and signals, people tend to stop thinking.  We surrender our safety to politicians and engineers. We let others decide where we go, when, and how fast. 

We tell ourselves, “this is something the government should do, protecting us from dangerous drivers.”  But the fact is that people drive dangerously with or without signs and signals. When the signals are turned off, driving and walking become safer because drivers and walkers pay more attention to the task at hand.

Watch this video and decide for yourself: would we all be better off with less external control?

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In 47BC, Julius Caesar assumed dictatorial power in Rome.  He instituted “reforms” that transformed the Republic into the Empire. In the process, he became a dictator.  Rome’s decent into oblivion began. In 44BC, seeing the damage Caesar’s tyranny and reforms, three men removed Caesar from power by the method of the day.

History moves faster now than it did 2,000 years ago. A megalomaniacal leaders bent on fundamentally transforming a nation can do remarkable damage in the blink of an eye. It’s not just the economy and institutions that rot from Obama’s sort of transformation, but the people themselves.  Their souls erode, leaving hollow, bitter creatures that scratch at each others eyes.

Peggy Noonan wrote about the effects of Obama’s dreams on the small country of Greece.  She included this long quote from Michael Lewis from his article in Vanity Fair:

The Greek state was not just corrupt but also corrupting. Once you saw how it worked you could understand a phenomenon which otherwise made no sense at all: the difficulty Greek people have saying a kind word about one another. . . . Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible.

Wretched. 

Yet it’s where America and Americans now aim: the shoals of soulless dissipation, turned by government handouts (stolen from us first) into angry, cynical vipers. Free isn’t free when it costs you your humanity.

November 2 is your chance to stop the erosion.  We’re at 4512 Hampton Ave. in St. Louis Hills through the election.  We’re there to stop Greece from happening in America.  We offer no guarantees except your rightful place in history.

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Political candidates want to meet everyone. “If people would just meet me,” they say, “they’ll realize I’m a regular  . . .” guy/gal/tea partier/whatever.  This seems a good thing—willing to stand before the voters and be judged.

Missouri’s State Auditor, Susan Montee might want to keep her name, her history, and her record out of the spotlight.   That’s because Susan Montee is about as hard left as you get.

Here’ just a sample:

Questionable Ethics

Montee shocked an AP reporter by stating she intended to “front-load” audits before the election.  Apparently, Ms. Montee feels political intimidation will help her campaign against Republican Tom Schweich.  But David Lieb, the AP reporter, points out Montee’s blatant ethics problem:

Did Montee really line up audits for release in the final few weeks before the election?

No, Montee responded when asked about Friday if the public should expect a burst of audits before the Nov. 2 election in which she faces Republican Tom Schweich.

So why did she suggest she did during the Obama fundraiser?

"Why not?" she responded. "I was just saying I’m trying" to work hard in the job.

"If I could actually control it in the way that could make political sense, I’d look at it," Montee said. "But I can’t actually do that."

Loves Obama

Susan Montee was Missouri first state-wide office holder to endorse Barack Obama in 2007. In fact, Montee abandoned Missouri for months campaigning for Obama against Hillary Clinton.

Montee also led the Obama Truth Squad in Missouri—a dangerous and corrupt operation in which Democrat law enforcement officers vowed to target Obama’s opponents, including private citizens, for speaking out against Obama’s plans to “fundamentally transform” American society.

Cronyism

Montee’s relatives were awarded two license fee offices.  Has she audited that transaction?

And there’s more.  But that’s enough for now.

Susan Montee is an entrenched, hard-left liberal who is willing to abuse her office to shut down opposition voices.  That’s called tyranny, and that’s what the United States was formed to prevent.

While many conservatives supported Allen Icet in the primary, the choice on November 2 is clear to me.  You have a pro-life fiscal conservative in Tom Schweich or the woman who claimed Barack Obama is the best representative of Missouri values. 

Wait . . . that’s a not a choice after all.  Tom Schweich is the only viable candidate who represents Missouri values. His qualifications for auditor are impeccable.  With billions of stimulus dollars floating around and countless Jay Nixon and Susan Montee cronies to gobble them up, don’t you want a solid Republican auditor keeping them in check?

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It seems impossible that nearly nineteen months have passed since I met Dana Loesch for the first time. 

It was on the sidewalk on Leonor K. Sullivan Blvd, 27 February 2010.  Snow flurries drifted and bounced like little kids playing around at a wedding reception.  Two-hundred or so people had already arrived, and Dana brought the cutest little megaphone you’ve ever seen.  With that megaphone, we announced the first St. Louis Tea Party, and 20 people standing directly in front of us hear ever word.  (The rest cheered politely, anyway.)

Today, Dana announced a new step in her meteoric career: Editor-in-Chief at BigJournalism.com.

The rise of Andrew Breitbart’s “Bigs” and the rise of Dana Loesch are good news—mark that, Great News—for movement conservatism and for America.  Hell, it’s great news for liberty and justice, too.  Mostly, though, it’s good new for journalism in America, which has been teetering on the cusp of irrelevancy since Walther Cronkite became a leftist filter of inconvenient facts. 

Dana’s brand of fearless reporting now receives greater, and much deserved, amplification. Bretibart has plugged in the amp on a voice that liberals hate and conservative cheer.  But most importantly, Dana’s voice grasps the hearts and minds of those who’ve felt left out of 21st century—the tea party people. 

Fox News, Al Gore’s Internets, talk radio, and Breitbart’s Bigs had already accelerated the demise of Old Journalism.  Adding Dana Loesch to national scene stamps a firm expiration date on canned liberal news. The Grey Lady is dead . . . long live Dana.

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