The Fulton Sun provided some really good front page coverage of the debate conducted by Democracy for Missouri last evening between David Moen and Don Salcedo. These two excellent candidates are running to be the Democratic nominee for 20th District MO House of Representatives. Check out the Fulton Sun article:
http://www.fultonsun.com/articles/2008/07/31/news/153news02debate.txt
The Primary election this Tuesday will decide. Whoever is nominated will need our help to take back Callaway County for the Democratic Party.
Missouri Democrats must win back the House and Senate to start the healing process under our new Governor Jay Nixon. We need 11 new House seats...lets do it!

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http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07112008/watch.html
This is a great Moyers interview of leading Conservatives. The Republican Party has left their principles in the dust.

This is a great local website in Central Missouri which has as its audacious goal, taking back the White House this Nobvember.
http://www.midmobama.com/
Check it out...get involved!

Stephen Webber is impressive as a dedicated strong campaigner with a knowledge and grasp of the issues facing the 23rd District and Missouri. He will serve the District well and be a strong advocate for education and health care, and will carry on the work of Jeff Harris healing the State after four years of the folly guided by Matt Blunt.

On May 23rd Cande Iveson and Stephen Webber met with the public in a well attended Democracy for Missouri sponsored candidate forum at the Carpenters Hall. Both of these candidates are good progressive Democrats. Stephen Webber won the endorsement vote taken at the next full membership meeting garnering 62% of the vote which was conducted using an Instant Runoff process with "No endorsement", Cande Iveson, and Stephen Webber on the ballot.

Webber is the second local candidate to receive Democracy for Missouri's endorsement. Last month, Sean Spence, running for 25th District Representative received this endorsement.

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This November...vote for the Clean energy Initiative!
The Missouri Clean Energy intitiative will make it so that 15% of Missouri's major electricity comes from clean sources by the year 2020.
Check out the website:
http://www.MissouriCleanEnergy.org

Returning to Chicago just after winning the Democratic Primary, Obama has thoughts and inspirations for his supporters:

Truly a wonderful expression of his grassroots campaign.

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With many DFA members serving as Delegates to the State Convention and with a very popular booth in the vendor area, DFA Missouri was well represented at the Missouri Democratic Party Convention held in Columbia on May 10th.
Here is the convention reported by yours truly on the Boone County Democrats site:
http://www.boonecountydems.net/node/1064

Staffing the DFA Missouri table, Loree Monroe greets delegates Greg Ahrens and Kathleen Weinshenk. Kathleen was instrumental in the court case which overtuned Missouri's voter ID law last year and has testified against the Republican's latest even more draconian version of the law. Our booth featured lots of DFA gear but more importantly sales of "Why my Mommy is a Democrat". These great children's books attracted a lot of interest and allowed us to promote the DFA Training coming up in Kansas City in June.

Many DFA members were already elected Delegtates to the State Convention and several were able to move up from Alternate to Delegate to fill the spots of Delegates who did not show up. In politics, showing up is half the battle (and fun!).

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In a well attended and highly charged meeting last night, Sean Spence won the endorsement of Columbia DFA in the race to fill Judy Baker's 25th District seat. There are three very excellent Democrats with progressive bona fides running, so the choice was difficult.
The voting was conducted by President Wayne Brekhus using IRV ballots, and after 3 minute speeches by Bob Pund, Mary Still and Sean,(and a bit of explanation on how instant runoff voting works), the balloting of the 47 present went most smoothly.

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Our own Lily Tinker Fortel is currently out in Iran on a peace mission with Fellowship of Reconciliation...reaching out to ordinary Iranians in the name of peace. She is blogging her adventure here:
http://www.midmopeaceworks.org/lilyiniran.php
We are so proud and pleased that an active member of Columbia DFA is demonstrating such committment to Peace. Thank you Lily from all of us. We wish you and your mission well! We look forward to seeing back home in time to campaign with us to take back our Country, this summer.

Earth Day this year was beautiful and DFA was there!

More pics and story here!