Every Dollar Counts: Time for Kinder to do for taxpayers what he does for himself

Much has been written on Fired Up! about the Tour of Missouri bike race.

The enduring central question: with so many unmet needs in education, health care and public safety, why were taxpayers footing the bill for a bike race?

Now comes word that the state's darkening fiscal position may result in the elimination of $1.5 million in race funding.

It's time for race promoter and alleged fiscal hawk Peter "Every Dollar Counts" Kinder to do what he should have done from the beginning--- raise money for an "elite bike race" from elite private donors.

Last year, Kinder raised and spent over $3 million for personal political pursuits.  If he can do it for himself, why can't he do it for taxpayers?