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Missouri Senate Candidate Tony Monetti Has Unusual Background
The Sentinel ^ | May 5, 2017

Posted on 08/25/2017 7:34:40 PM PDT by T Ruth

On Monday, May 8, Tony Monetti, a Republican from Warrensburg, will be announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on the steps of the historic Truman Courthouse in Independence at 7 p.m. He will do the same earlier in the day in St. Louis and in Jefferson City.

Monetti’s road to Independence is a testament to the living reality of the American dream and the underrated accessibility of the Republican Party. Raffaele Antonio “Tony” Monetti was born in Brooklyn to Italian immigrant parents 51 years ago. His father was an electrician and his mother a stay-at-home mom. From as early as he could remember, Tony wanted to be a pilot. Knowing his parents could never afford flight lessons, he joined the Civil Air Patrol at 14. He took his first airplane flight in a in a Cessna 172.

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After flying a B-52 in the Gulf War,  Monetti volunteered to join the B-2 program and was accepted into its initial cadre. It was this program that brought him to Warrensburg where he served for fifteen years. “I was living a dream,” said Monetti.

Monetti retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel with a Distiguished Flying Cross. Upon retiring, he opened an Italian restaurant in Warrensburg, but the Air Force came calling again, and he returned for three more years. In July 2012, he retired once again, this time for good. Since then he and his wife Penny have written several books that capture their love of God and and their desire to help other military people adapt to the world, especially those suffering from PTSD. He also serves as executive director of University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport and Aviation program.

“Career politicians are on notice,” says Monetti. “The people, patriots, veterans and constitutional conservatives are taking America back.” ***

(Excerpt) Read more at sentinelksmo.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; gopprimary; hawley; mccaskill; missouri; mo2018; monetti; veterans
Apparently, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is a shoo-in candidate but is dithering about deciding whether to run. Hawley sounds like a GOPe candidate, with a Yale Law degree and backing by never-Trumper John Danforth.

Meanwhile, Monetti is in the race and sounds like a good candidate.

1 posted on 08/25/2017 7:34:40 PM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

I wish him well.


2 posted on 08/25/2017 7:42:54 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Never heard of him. That settles it. You need name recognition to start. Let Trump deal with the RINOS.


3 posted on 08/25/2017 7:46:03 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: T Ruth

He’s going to have to beat this guy:

https://www.austinpetersen.com/


4 posted on 08/25/2017 7:48:05 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: T Ruth

Great resume......hope if elected he is a conservative and not a Rino. Bad things happen in DC


5 posted on 08/25/2017 8:00:37 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: T Ruth

Oh, no, the Show-Me State follows John C. Danforth religiously. Even when he stepped down, they could never get enough of his mushy moderation.


6 posted on 08/25/2017 8:23:14 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: T Ruth

This is from a Monetti Facebook post:
“Proud of my President of the United States of America as he stays determined to Make America Great Again. #MAGA #USA”
So it looks like he’ll back Trump if elected.


7 posted on 08/25/2017 9:51:21 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: TBP

Ahh...a LOSERTARIAN.


8 posted on 08/25/2017 9:58:16 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: MCF

He’s from Brooklyn. Gets my vote!!


9 posted on 08/26/2017 2:27:29 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: T Ruth

If hr gets it,he’d be running against what’s her name Mccaskill?


10 posted on 08/26/2017 4:34:40 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: taildragger

Yes. She’s as popular as genital warts in Missouri. Any Republican nominee would beat her.


11 posted on 08/26/2017 4:52:56 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: taildragger

Right. He would take on McCaskill.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 5:15:45 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: T Ruth

Thanks to you and field-marshall, she didn’t seem very bright and took over for her deceased husband if my memory is correct, more aligned with Susan Collins if you will, I’ll take your word on it that she is beatable, the B2 pilot works for me, I can see him so great work on an armed services committee.


13 posted on 08/26/2017 5:43:47 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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