Davis Conway

Davis Conway, the St. Peters businessman and one of the lesser-known candidates for Senate in the upcoming GOP primary, wants some of the attention Chuck Purgason is getting for taking on Roy Blunt.  From a June 1 blog post:

If you are reading this then you probably agree with me that Government has gone awry and Roy Blunt is part of the problem. He has had a 14+ year political run of being a yes man for the Republican Party and Oil Companies...

So what do we do? It seems that some people are just running to the next politician. Yes, I am talking about Chuck Purgason. These people are why we are stuck in this perpetual rut of politics. Hello, Chuck is a 14 year politician with a term limit looming...

Yesterday, St. Louis Tea Party Coalition leader Bill Hennessy announced the organization's support for the U.S. Senate Primary Candidate Forum spearheaded by the Franklin County Patriots.  In an email initiation to supporters, Campaign for Liberty activist Laura Hausladen explained that the March 20 event is intended to address the "great deal of restlessness and discord over the apparent anointment of [Roy] Blunt."

Each of the Republican Party candidates -- except for Blunt -- have confirmed that they will be attending.

Given his long record in Washington, Blunt has had a hard time warming up to the tea party crowd.  He was the #3 House leader in Washington as Republicans grew government spending and deficits, never figured out a way to pay for huge government programs like the Medicare Part D benefit, and was the leader of the House GOP efforts to pass the TARP legislation last year. And Blunt didn't just vote for the TARP legislation -- he was one of the key GOP leaders begging his colleagues to change their votes.