We are doing BIG things in the Cynthia Davis for Lt. Governor campaign, and we would appreciate it so much if you will lend us a helping hand.

It’s time to jump on board and help take our state & nation back by electing a Constitution Party candidate at the state level. Cynthia is that person. Don’t be left in the dust.

As our Lt. Governor, she will preside over the Senate keeping an “Eagle Eye” on both parties and offer constitutional opinion. She also has the right to vote in the event of a tie. This is critical.

Here’s one way to help: Listen to the attached 30-second radio spot. Help Cynthia by getting it broadcast on your local radio station. Then send me the email address and contact name so I can build my media database for future press releases, interviews, etc.

Secondly, Cynthia is being invited to speak at events all over the state. Help us by either attending a nearby event, or call me to learn how to organize your own event —- anything from a “Coffee & Cookies” get-together in the comfort of your own home to a “Valentine Day Fundraising” event at your church or restaurant. Check locations on her campaign calendar at www.VoteCynthia.com

Remember, the anti-family industry is funding liberal candidates, including Republicans. Planned Parenthood and the pornography and cloning industries have lots of money to buy lots of air time for their candidate of choice. Don’t let an honorable, pro-family, constitutional candidate, like Cynthia, get washed down the drain due to lack of funds.

If you haven’t yet contributed, please do so today. Voter mailing, email and radio and newspaper advertising is not cheap. But all these are necessary to achieve victory.

Vote for your favorite version of the 30-second radio commercial below:

Radio Spot Version A:

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Radio Spot Version B:

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THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS. I look forward to hearing from you.

Blessings and

Together, for the cause of LIBERTY,

If you believe in the principles of the Constitution Party and want to help us change return to a Constitutional government then Become a Member. 

Constitution Party of Missouri Radio Ad

Ready to run some Radio Ads? Good! Everybody donate to buy one 30 second spot and we can kick this election season off in a big way. Lets start it off by donating $25.00 each spot. We need to run as many ads as we can from now until the election. Just click the donate button at the bottom of the sidebar. Please do not put this off, time is getting short.

Who Should Pay for Partisan Nominations?

By: Cynthia Davis, Constitution Party candidate for
Missouri Lt. Governor

The special session is now over and the taxpayers got hit with a tab of over 280,000 dollars just for the added expenses of bringing the legislators back to Jefferson City (food, gas, lodging and extra staff.) If anyone says the state is running out of money, we have just observed that the state has plenty of money for whatever the legislators deem worthy of funding. In this case, the legislators showed up in Jefferson City, authorized tax credits, fought among themselves, dug in their heels in a standoff over budgetary and philosophical issues, then adjourned.

One of the purposes of the special session was to deal with an intriguing party nomination question. In many respects, a political party is similar to a labor union. While any qualified candidate can run for any office, the power comes from the solidarity of the team effort which in many cases can become an unbeatable force by any opposition. Each political party is expected to nominate one person for each position.

The Governor allowed the legislators an opportunity to make a legislative change that would save the taxpayers around $8 million. However the legislators failed to pass the bill. It pertained to how political parties select their nominee. Up until five years before I was elected, the political parties selected their presidential nominees internally. In 1998, the Missouri legislature, made up of Republicans and Democrats voted to force taxpayers to bear the expense. This was designed to spare the parties of doing their own work. In 1998, this new law cost our state four million dollars. Since the expenditure was put onto our law books, the legislators alleviated the political parties of having to figure it out for themselves. This law was specifically designed to help the Democrats nominate Dick Gephart and the Republicans nominate John Ashcroft who were both considering running for President of the United States.

In 2008, this law cost the taxpayers $7,000,000 and in 2012, the projected cost will be over $8,000,000. This primary expenditure is bad public policy on at least three levels:

1. The inner party operations are separate and distinct from state laws. Therefore, national political parties can change their rules anytime they want, but the state laws are very hard to change. The National Republican Party told the Missouri Republican Party they don’t want to have a primary in Missouri before March, but because the state legislature put into law a requirement of taxpayer funded nomination in February, we don’t have any legal option but to spend eight million dollars to conduct this effort.
2. Since the legislature couldn’t agree on repealing or amending the law, the National Republican Party told the State Republican Party it will be punished by holding this nomination. To spare themselves of losing half of their delegates, the Missouri Republican Party told the National Republican Party they will disregard the outcome of whatever the people decide during the February primary. The effort will be utterly pointless. How can voters feel inspired to go to the polls when they know the outcome will be completely null and void?
3. The Missouri Republican Party will be selecting the presidential nominee on June 2nd. It appears obvious that Barack Obama will be the Democrat nominee, so this expenditure will only benefit one political party—a party that doesn’t want it.

This raises questions like: Why did the senate deadlock 16-16 on something that should have been an easy vote? Why didn’t the Lieutenant Governor break the tie as he is constitutionally authorized to do? It says in our State Constitution, “Lieutenant Governor…shall cast the deciding vote on equal division in the senate…”

To read more about it click here.

I have served for years as an election judge and can attest that during primary elections it was very common for people to ask me why they must select a ballot for one specific political party. This shows how many voters do not understand that this is only a nomination for who the party will put forth. The best solution is for political parties to do their own business within their own party. The public should not be forced to pay for any private corporation to make internal decisions. If you don’t like the way your party determines the outcome, get involved in making it better. If we are going to limit our government from enlarging to greater proportions, we must all engage in our own civic responsibility.

Need Calls to your State Representative
 

From Ron Calzone

Jefferson City, MO – October 5, 2011

This afternoon, the House Economic Development Committee Voted to “do pass” SB 8 (China Hub bill).

The bill now goes to the full House of Representatives for final votes on Thursday.

Your calls are needed now.
 

When the Senate passed SB 8 in that chamber, the controversial “China Hub” (Aerotropolis) subsidies had been replaced with something called “Compete Missouri“.
 

At first, opponents to taxpayer subsidies for private business and opponents of subsidies for Chinese manufactures viewed that as a positive move, but now we know better.
 

Compete Missouri may actually provide all the subsidies for the China Hub in the original bill PLUS make them easier to get and even expand them. Read this AP Story.
 

What’s more, the Compete Missouri program places those hundreds of millions of subsidy dollars under the control of the governor’s Dept.. of Economic Development. There is could be abused as a huge slush fund for the governor’s favorites.
 

Even if the Compete Missouri provision is removed, SB 8 is still an unconstitutional bad idea!
 

ACTION ITEM:

Call your state representative (and any others you have influence on) today and tomorrow.

Tell them not to be fooled, like some were on the MOSIRA bill. Tell them special laws providing special treatment for some are unconstitutional.

Tell them to vote “NO!” on SB 8 no matter how they try to “fix” it.

Also call Speaker Steve Tilley and Floor Leader Tim Jones with the same message. Also tell them no one promoting this sort of mercantilism deserves to serve in higher office.

Please forward this email to everyone you know who values constitutional governance and free market principles.

CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS

Today we launch an effort to take the second highest office in the State of Missouri. I am running for Lieutenant Governor because it is time to put principles ahead of politics.

Government is broken.

It no longer works for the people, but only for the big money special interests. And the problem isn’t just in Washington D.C., it is in Jefferson City as well.

For three weeks we have witnessed a circus in Jefferson City that has cost taxpayers over $175,000. All because some people think it would be a good idea for taxpayers to subsidize a so-called China Hub. Never mind that China is an unfair trading partner or that dumping more cheap goods on the market will only hasten the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Never mind that it is not the role of government to subsidize one business at the expense of another. The moneyed special interests want it, and the Speaker of the House and others, are doing everything in their power to appease their political benefactors.

This is exactly why 80% of the people disapprove of the way their government is being run and it is why the time is here for the voters of Missouri to send the failed leadership of both political parties a message.

In announcing, I want to specifically address three groups:

To the Republicans: We have spent many years together. Some of the Republicans I have known feel they are in an elite club where their loyalty to the insiders won’t allow them to see the truth of how far their candidates have strayed from it. However, the majority of you are Republican for other reasons. We were Republican because we believed in limited government, personal responsibility and sound economics. We hold these foundational values in common, but our leadership and the system let us down.

I am your only choice if you believe in the sanctity of life, limited government and fiscal responsibility. If the Speaker of the House prevails in the Republican Primary, neither he nor the Democratic candidate will stand for the principles you and I share. They simply offer MORE OF THE SAME, bigger government, wasted tax dollars, special interest favors, and folding when VALUES conflict with the first three.

One thing you have learned from me in eight years in the Missouri House is that I won’t fold and I won’t bend when it comes to our fundamental values.

I thought I was going to be a Republican all my life as well until I saw the truth of what they are doing to us. Stay with me and you will finally have an office holder who is brave enough to do the right thing and adhere to our core values.

To the Democrats: We have some common ground. We may disagree, but I have never discouraged honest debate nor questioned the sincerity of those with whom I disagree. There are Democrats who also care about honest government and long for candidates who have integrity. Even when I ran as a Republican, I had many Democrat supporters tell me they have never voted for a Republican in their lives, but they are supporting me now because they recognize me as someone who is sincere and can be trusted. You will be proud of your choice because you will have someone who is trustworthy, honest, has integrity and who will always keep my door open to you.

To those who are Independent, support the Constitution Party or consider yourself part of the TEA Party movement: You hold all the power. There are not enough Republicans or Democrats to take any office by themselves. The best part is that there are more of you every day!

Thank you for bringing our state back to reality and showing both major parties that it is not about them—-it is about “We the people”. You represent the hope for our future. No longer will we be duped by the status quo trying to manipulate us into falling in line just to make others happy. We are about to prove a point to both major parties that we are smarter than that. We are about to embark on a crusade that will create national attentions and forever re-define what is meant by “The Show Me State”. The people of Missouri are very freedom loving — more so than many states.

You represent the true American spirit. This is the spirit we had when our country had the courage to break away from England and declare our independence. This is the spirit that allowed our founders to pledge their live, their fortunes and their sacred honor. In that same spirit, I pledge to you today my life, fortune and sacred honor for the cause of liberty.

This election will be about our ability to move beyond complaining and actually solving problems. The future of our state and nation depends upon people who have the courage to ignore the partisan politics and start voting for people who are willing to get the job done. History will record with the greatest astonishment that when the voters were actually presented with a real choice they finally moved our state forward.

The reason I am running for Lieutenant Governor is because this office will allow me to continue communicating with our citizens the positive message of getting our government back on the tracks. The Lt. Gov. is the only member of both the legislative and the executive branch of government and our state would be best served by having a Lt. Governor who is independent of both major political parties. We are tired of the cronyism that has made government repugnant to the spirit of the people. We are tired of those who listen more to the lobbyists and highest bidders than to common sense. We are tired of pandering politicians who say one thing just to get elected and then do whatever they please after they get into office.

I am the one to hold the two parties accountable!

I am engaging in this race because I have looked at the leadership of this State and I am not impressed. You are here today because you are not impressed either. And if you are not impressed, don’t just sit there and be depressed…let’s roll up our sleeves and do something about it!

We are hearty, brave and tough. We care about doing what is right regardless of the cost. We are in this for the long haul. Thank you.

Cynthia Davis is available to speak at your meetings and events by contacting her Campaign Manager, Donna Ivanovich, at (314) 956-6181 or DonnaIvanovich@yahoo.com

Visit her website at: www.VoteCynthia.com

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Defiance, MO 63341-1636