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Barack Obama's Speech
Independence Mo.
June 30th 2008
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Help Win Back the House

June 27th, 2008 by Jessica Podhola

Friends,

I am writing to you today to ask for your help in a very important house race here in Jackson County.

In the Missouri House of Representatives we need to only win 11 seats to take the majority.

Just 11 seats to make a real difference in the lives of every day Missourians.

Just 11 seats to restore the devastating cuts to Medicaid by this administration.

Just 11 seats to make the promise of achieving the American Dream in Missouri a reality.

Joe Volpe can win the 48th District. But he can’t do it without your support.

He has been out knocking on more doors and identifying more voters than almost any house candidate in the state. He has been meeting with democratic organizations and gathering endorsements. He is strongly pro-labor, an educator and will fight against the Republican attacks on our justice system. He is ready to win this race, but we need your help.
Can you help me raise some money for Joe?

We can win back the Missouri House in this state, but we can’t do it without taking back a Democratic district right here in Jackson County. The numbers are there for us to win, and with Barack Obama as our nominee, Democratic turnout will be higher than ever in his district.

Will you help take back the Missouri House by supporting Joe Volpe?

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Jeff City Report from State Representative John Burnett

BLUNT QUIETLY SIGNS VILLAGE LAW REPEAL

With no public pronouncement or ceremony, Gov. Matt Blunt on June 19 quietly signed a bill repealing a controversial 2007 law that sought to allow a landowner to establish his or her property a village in order to avoid local land use restrictions.. The low-key signing was in sharp contract to the high-profile fight to pass the bill that virtually shut down the General Assembly during the final days of the 2008 legislative session.

Unbeknownst to most lawmakers, House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, slipped the village provision into an omnibus local government bill the General Assembly approved last year. The existence of the provision didn't become known until several months later on the day the bill took effect when agents of Lebanon businessman Robert Plaster, a friend and political supporter of Jetton's, filed paperwork to incorporate Plaster-owned land in Stone County. Villages created under the 2007 law could have existed on paper only with no obligation to offer standard municipal services or meet normal minimum population requirements.

Legislative support for repealing the law was widespread, and the Senate passed SB 765 to do so in February. Jetton stalled the bill for months and then engaged in a series of political maneuvers to kill the measure, which angered many of Jetton's fellow Republicans who for a time considered ousting him as speaker. The repeal bill ultimately cleared the General Assembly on the session's final day.

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