Hulshof Announcing Governor Bid from Washington D.C.

In a reversal from the usual order of things, Kenny Hulshof is apparently staging his run for Missouri Governor by playing up his status as a Washington insider who shares no responsibility for the disaster that has festered in Jefferson City during Matt Blunt's term in the mansion. 

Hulshof is reportedly announcing his entry into the GOP primary by way of news release and a Q&A conference call session with the press.  The reporters will be here in Missouri, but Hulshof will participate in the call from the District of Columbia, his home for the last 11 years.

Things have gotten bad for Republicans when partisans from Washington helicopter in (figuratively, of course) promising to clean up the mess made by their in-state GOP predecessors.

­Or perhaps Hulshof is just expanding on the commuter theme introduced by Matt Blunt and plans to have the Highway Patrol taxi him back to DC from Jefferson City each evening?  Washington isn't that much further than Springfield, right?