Mark Memoly

State Sen. Chuck Purgason is asking his fellow candidates in the GOP primary for Senate -- Rep. Roy Blunt, Robert Praprotnik and Mark Memoly -- to sign his "Contract with Missouri." Here are Purgason's promises, as outlined in the News-Leader:

1. Balanced Budget
2. No Earmarks
3. No member of my family will be a lobbyist
4. No TARP or other so-called Stimulus Package programs
5. No Campaign Funds from Bailed Out Companies
6. I will have no fundraisers outside the State of Missouri
7. Self-Imposed Term Limit of Two Terms

Of course, Roy Blunt can't promise to do any of these things. 

The Missourian has the story this weekend of another challenge from the right in the contest for the U.S. Senate -- Robert Praprotnik, a veteran and businessman from St. Louis. As the paper notes, Praprotnik sells himself as a "Reagan conservative," and vows to reduce taxes and "re-establish the Constitution as the law of the Land."

From Praprotnik's website:

We are in a situation where the two parties, Democrats and Republicans, simply vote the party line and not the people want. I want to change that. It's time to vote out of office all of these incumbent politicians. We live in the Greatest Country in the world. Let us start acting that way.

I look forward to all TRUE Conservatives, Republican, Democrat, or Independent, and anyone else who believes in preserving our freedoms and re-building our economy unite and support my candidacy for the Senate of the United States for the Great State of Missouri.

The good folks at St. Louis Pushes Back don't think so.