Presidential primary candidates for President of the United States of America welcome
to the great state of Missouri!
We welcome each of you. We want you to know we anxiously await what you have to say.
We want to learn where you stand on issues that will affect the quality of our lives.
For too long this lovely State has been seen as out of the main stream of this Country's
laws and politics, sometimes bringing that reputation on ourselves.
We should tell you that we know the differences between blarney, emmes and the high sales
pitch exerted by traveling salespeople. In our history, we have had many traveling salespeople
come here, stay and establishd many of our fine institutions, yet were less than truthful.
Some even tried, unsuccessfully, to convince us that Federal Laws that helped bring about
equitable justice for all of us did not apply beyond state borders.
With the help of a handful of journalists, county and slender, once great
newspapers exposed the discrepancy in systems which became enamoured
of their own importance and now will be covering each of you as well.
As voters, we know the process of representation is not an easy one. We know too that
none of government, with all of its foibles, happens overnight. We are prepared to hear you
out but we urge you to be mindful of our intelligence and life experience.
We are voters living in a great State through which one of he world's greatest rivers
runs sometimes respected by us and other times abused by us.
We are all too familiar with voices that tell us there is no such thing as climate change
even as historical floods and winds have destroyed all we hold dear.
We are a State filled with immigrants, racial, religious and non-believers who know
the benefits that can be accrued from learning and working together.
Above all else, we know that we are living in a time of great change. We may not
fully comprehend what this means to each of us.
But we recognize our responsibility as voters to honor calls for equitable fairness
and justice by using the ballot not by using strong-armed bullies.
So, welcome to Missouri candidates. We will see you at the polls!
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Hi Beverly, back in January you wrote, "The last time a total Solar-Eclipse crossed the land we now call America was on June 13, 1257. If you miss this one in 2017, you will have to wait three more Centuries for the next one to go by."
ReplyDeleteMaybe you meant St. Louis instead of America. There's a total solar eclipse that will be visible in the Southeastern corner of Missouri on 08 April 2024, though it looks like the track will be a little south of St. Louis. It will also pass through Lake Placid, NY, where we spent our honeymoon. I've already booked reservations at the same Inn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024
Thanks Howard. You are right. I was referring to MO.
ReplyDeleteand should have so indicated. Believe the eclipse I wrote about would have crossed the USA from west to east. Thanks for the lovely recollection.