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.
ÂOr 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?
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Okay. He wants to live, i.e., be in mid-Missouri. Perhaps his family insists that he get the heck out of Washington and get back here. Can we blame him (them/her)? Who wouldn't rather live here than D.C. (Okay, all you politicos who are chomping at the bit to return, just wait a couple years and Robin will join Claire.) So, why don't we save Missourians a lot of headache, if not money and lost opportunity, and just give Hulshof a job in mid-Mo, any job other than Governor or Rep or Senator. It would be cheaper for us to contribute to an annual stipend for him to stay at home than for us to contribute more to Jay to beat his butt in November. Kenny doesn't want to serve. Being Governor or President of MU is just a means to an end. He just wants to come home. Let's make it simpler for him and eaiser on us and start a "Bring Kenny Home" crusade. I think a few jars in gas stations would do it. He's easily bought, you know.
Hulshof not a bad choice
As a 9th Dist. resident of Kenny's, I hope he gets the Rep. nomination. He is only slightly to the left and more progressive than his north Missouri Amish constituents. He is more enigmatic, non-committal and secretive than any other Congressman who has ever represented me, IMO. Interestingly, he would reply to my letters with which he agreed, and ignore those with which he did not. In many things, he has been Kit Bond's operative cog in the US House -- but unlike Bond, who has never been afraid to put his opinion on the line, Hulshof reminds me of nothing so much as a chameleon, attempting to blend into the political background. Interestingly, he has had a strong, but falling showing in largely Democratic Boone County, with a 56% share of the vote in 2006 versus a 66% share in 2002.
His major failing, IMO, is, even though he is a blond, he has negative charisma. According to a poll by the American Conservative Union, Kenny gets a 90% conservative voting approval rating whereas that wild liberal Bond gets only an 82%, and Ms. Emerson only gets 86%. While no one would mistake Missouri for a liberal state, Hulshof outdoes even those who are are traditionally seen as being far to the right. If the Reps choose a more centrist candidate, that would take more of the independents, like me, who don't vote for whatever animal is on the yard sign.
Whatever happens in the governor's race, I will win, since this announcement ensures that we can finally get out from beneath KH's so called 'representation.'