Timothy Birdnow

Rusell Cook and I were chatting about the victory of Kim Gardner as prosecutor for the City of St. Louis and I thought it worth reproducing here.

Russell stated:

Don't know what to make of the GOP primary winner's website, but I did drop in a message there to say this is his race to win if he is relentless about the yes-or-no question on whether Ms Bush approves of increased spending for police that would protect all lives in her district, including those of women and minorities.

I replied to Russell:

Russell Cook I'm glad you did and I don't have the foggiest idea of even who the Republican candidate is; it's a mute point. The City of St. Louis is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Democcrats and there isn't even a remote chance this guy could win. If he gets ten percent of the vote he will be lucky. The last Republican mayor of St. Louis was in 1949, and there hasn't been a single Republican in office in the city since I don't know when. Republican is a dirty word here; I had to endure dirty looks when I asked for my ballot the other day, and in the last primary an election judge openly scowled at me. BUT it may be bad money after good, but somebody really ought to come in with a lot of cash to support this guy. I wish we had donors like the Democrats; Gardner is being funded by Soros and probably some others, like the Ford Foundation. For once we need to make this a real election and not accept the Democratic primary as the actual coronation.

Oh, and Russell, Here's an example of what I mean; Gardner got 43.425 votes. beating her closest rival Mary Pat Carl who received 28,031 votes. Republican Daniel Zdrodowski - running unopposed - received just 2694 votes (including one from me).So Gardner got close to twenty times the votes Zdrodowski received, and that was with a split electorate. Even if he gets a big boost in the general he's still almost for sure going to receive less then 10% of the vote. I don't know why the GOP even bothers to run candidates. BTW I had no Committee Chairman running in my precinct so I wrote myself in on the ballot. I could wind up being the Republican Committee Chairman here! With ONE vote!

I should have taken a Democrat ballot, I suppose, so I could have supported Gardner's opponent. But I wanted to vote for a primary candidate against Gov. Parsons, who is rather like the guy driving the Titanic and about to hit an iceberg; he's not at all up to the challenge of the times. I think he's going to lose in the general election in November. The man is clueless and shows no leadership. Sadly he won his primary challenge and we're stuck with him. The GOP owns Missouri at the state level, but they are a bunch of cowardly weaklings, and if there is a Democrat tide this year they are going to suffer.

Russell replied:

I was pleased to receive a personal email reply from the GOP opponent to Cori Bush yesterday (https:// www.anthonyroger s2020.com/), only one of a tiny handful of GOP candidates who've done so with me (e.g. Chuck DeVore) over the years. Don't know what Rogers' other positions are, but he assured me he is pro-police, and that is one litmus test that should be firmly applied to all Democrat candidates, including Joe Biden, by their GOP opponents in order to show the public what the overall hazard on letting the U.S. House and large swaths of city councils remain in Democrat-led majorities.

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