At the 2010 Lincoln Days event, House Speaker Ron Richard declared and then denied a desire to be on a "short list" of Republican candidates for Governor in 2016. Such plans were obviously not welcomed by Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, who still fancies himself a viable challenger to Jay Nixon in 2012.
To refresh you memory, here's a first-person account of what happened from the Post-Dispatch's Tony Messenger, who first broke the news of Richard's too-honest opinion of Kinder's 2012 viability.
