Posted on 08/25/2006 3:36:45 PM PDT by churchillbuff
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill has been trying to connect with Missouri's country voters. Tuesday, she got the endorsement of a country music legend.
In town for an evening concert, Willie Nelson also was lending his support to McCaskill in her quest to unseat Republican Sen. Jim Talent in the Nov. 7 election.
"I have been all across this beautiful land and I have seen how the big corporations are squeezing out our family farms," Nelson said in a statement distributed by McCaskill's campaign. "I know she'll do what's right to protect this long-standing way of life."
McCaskill has been trying to tie Talent to corporate agriculture while portraying herself as the true friend of family farmers. The two candidates have engaged in a battle for agricultural endorsements -- with Talent touting the support of the Missouri Farm Bureau and various state commodity associations and McCaskill touting the support of the National Farmers Union.
Nelson co-founded the Farm Aid concert series two decades ago. The organization has since raised more than $29 million to help family farms, fight corporate agriculture and encourage people to buy locally grown food.
Claire McCaskill
Nelson also has supported stem cell research efforts and renewable fuels, marketing a "Biowillie" fuel that contains a 20 percent biodiesel blend with 80 percent petroleum diesel.
"A few years ago, it wasn't that easy to find anyone who was into biodiesel ethanol, but Clair was," Nelson said. That, along with (being) against the war and (support for) stem cells, make her a very good candidate."
Talent also has touted his Senate efforts to boost the production of renewable fuels.
Talent spokesman Rich Chrismer declined to characterize the importance of Nelson's endorsement of McCaskill, but added: "Senator Talent's content to put his endorsements up against anyone's endorsements in this campaign."
Is this part of his deal with the KLINTON IRS to let him off the hook for back taxes?
That must have been a long time ago. Love his music but don't want to hear his political views.
From Redstate: http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/did_claire_mccaskill_obstruct_justice
Claire McCaskill just can't escape questions about her drug use and issues related thereto while in office.
An article from the June 29, 2004, edition of the Kansas City Star has recently come to light. The article by Mike McGraw raises questions "about how then Jackson County Prosecutor Claire McCaskill treated her office manager and friend who was caught up in [the] 1994 drug probe."
Unfortunately, I don't have a weblink to the article, but I have read it. The article discusses a 33 page report by a special prosecutor about what are considered "unresolved allegations" that "McCaskill told police not to arrest Anna Wiggins. Wiggins was connected to Ruth Carter, a methamphetamine dealer employed in the prosecutor's Independence, MO office."
According to the report:
"McCaskill told me that it would not be necessary to pick up Wiggins because she did not have any knowledge of Carter's involvement with drugs," Jensen stated in the Crane report.
Jensen said he asked McCaskill how she knew this. She allegedly replied that "she ran into Wiggins one day in the break room while at work and she had a discussion with Wiggins about Carter and she told Wiggins that Carter may not be the person she thought she was and she might want to stay clear of her."
Wiggins told The Starthat McCaskill never told her to stay clear of Carter.
Jensen was the "acting officer in charge of the Jackson County Drug Task Force. At the very least it seems McCaskill might have revealed too much to Wiggins during the course of the investigation.
What was he like before his lobotomy?
He's been drinking the bong water for a couple decades.
Doggone it; there goes the inbred, Red Neck vote.
But, I must admit, I like his music.
This inspires a song parody:
"I was going to campaign today but then I got high,
I was going to door to door but then I got high,
I forgot to vote for Claire and I know why,
'Cuz I got high, 'cuz I got high, 'cuz I got high.
Makes me glad I didn't go to the concert. Ugh!! Shut up and sing indeed.
Willie was REAL big on Carter, too
The article makes a misleading claim that Farm Aid has aided family farms. The 29 million has gone to lobbyists and organizational efforts to "raise awareness". It hasn't helped pay off the mortage of a single family farm.
Nah -- Nelly.
Willie, the "red headed stranger."
Let's update that moniker to "dyed red and just strange."
Willie, when I see you hoeing weeds out of beans, detassling corn, picking cotton, plowing a mule, or sharing the time in your life where you prayed for rain to save your farm, I might give you another glance.
You've been swilling hooch, riding on a bus, flying on jets and grinning like you're sincere.
I don't give a rats' ass about the callouses on your finger tips, show me evidence you've worked the land.
Imagine anti-terrorist Nicole Kidman endorsing Talent.
Yeah, we love dim witted dope smokers who don't pay their bills or taxes.
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