The Good Old Boy System Strikes Again

Gag, I love Missouri’s political bosses, and by that I mean I thoroughly despise them. Barack Obama recently said his campaign would go after anyone who made false statements about him. This is not gestapo tactics as the conservatives would have you believe, but is actually something well within Obama’s rights. If one makes a libelous statement against someone -even a political candidate- then that person has opened himself open for civil lawsuits. That is just the law of the land. I say all of this because of the recent abuse of power of Missouri governor Matt Blunt. Blunt recently used my tax money to publish an anti Obama statement on a state owned website.

Now I am not against free speech, but it reeks of abuse of power for the governor to use tax payer funded websites to make political statements aimed to misrepresent the truth in order to swing the election in favor of his party. Now Blunt’s actions are nothing new as this state has been controlled by good old boy networks for generations and the only places where the good old boys don’t have influence are where the machines have held the day. In Missouri you have three families that control state politics. On the left you have the Carnahans and on the right you have the Blunts. In St. Louis City and Kansas City you have Democrat dominated political machines. To get anywhere in this state you have to have the endorsement of the city machines or the good old boy networks. I am quite tired of it.

Matt Blunt is abusing his power and he is spending my tax dollars to do so. If you live in Missouri you should be outraged and people should call for his head. The governor has no right to use his office to advance the agenda of his political party. Because I believe in being fair and impartial I will let you read the governor’s website http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem

Mr. Blunt you are a Republican hack and I thank God that in November we get to vote in somebody new. Quite frankly sir, you make me ashamed to be a Missourian and that is quite a feat as I am Missouri born and raised and I love my homestate, but you have hijacked it and you and your DNC counterparts in the good old boy system are continuing to drive this state into the ground. The GOP and DNC talk about having “Missouri Values”, but they really need to know that as long as our elected officials are controlled by the political machines in St. Louis and Kansas City and the Good Old Boys in the Rural areas that those values will remain permanently corrupted. Mr. Blunt I urge you to apologize and if not then I urge you to resign because you have abused your power and the public trust in you.