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On a crisp and cool Thursday morning in early October, A. E. Newman (5' 8") stepped up on a large tree stump on the outskirts of his hometown, Bland, and he delivered his third campaign speech since announcing his candidacy for Southern District Associate Commissioner. Approximately 25 Bland residents and three coonhounds were in attendance. Here is the text of Newman's stump speech:
Friends and Neighbors,
Thanks for coming out on this beautiful sunny October morning! I hope you've helped yourself to a complimentary cup of coffee. If you haven't, please see my assistant, Freida Dunderbak, over there under that big hickory tree.
Friends and Neighbors, I have been working on my campaign platform since I announced my candidacy for the office of Southern District Associate Commissioner. It is coming together nicely, and I plan to unveil it before the month is up.
Rather than outline all the planks in my campaign platform today, I would like to tell you in a general way why I am running to unseat Jerry Lairmore of Owensville.
Number 1: LEADERSHIP! We need a change in the county's leadership. We need someone who can work effectively and harmoniously with Northern District Associate Commissioner Matt Penning. Mr. Lairmore (and Mr. Jost for that matter) seem incapable of doing that! I spoke about this problem the other day up in Hermann. Mr. Lairmore made a statement in last week's open session of the County Commission that he didn't have Matt Penning's telephone number and therefore had "no way to contact" him about an important county matter! Folks, that's just ridiculous! In plain talk out here in the country, we call it "BULLSHIT"! Either Lairmore is totally incompetent and NOT resourceful OR he is just flat out lieing! Lairmore plays his little "games", but we don't need "game playing" in county government! We have pressing problems to address!
Number 2: REPRESENTATION! We need someone who will represent your interests and not just the interests of a few influential families in Owensville. Jerry Lairmore is NOT representing your best interests. He is doing the bidding of a few people in Owensville. That has to STOP!
Number 3: COUNTY SEAT LOCATION! We need someone who will discourage misguided citizens from wasting time on the periodic ballot petition drives to relocate the county seat. Let's quit fighting about the county seat, folks! We all lose if we spend our time fighting with our neighbors in the northern district. Instead, let's accept the fact that the county seat is in Hermann. Let's work together to preserve OUR historical courthouse building in Hermann, and let's expand the county's government center if it is indeed necessary. If we work with the folks in Hermann to preserve and renovate the courthouse, they will work with us to upgrade some of our infrastructure here in the southern part of the county. I pledge that I will work to improve our county roads and bridges in the southern district, and I will work to upgrade facilities at the county fairgrounds in Owensville. But I will not spend any of my time working to relocate the county seat.
Number 4: JOBS! Jerry Lairmore is doing absolutely NOTHING to attract good-paying jobs to this area. To the contrary, his puppet masters don't want him to bring progressive industry which would
offer better wages, salaries and benefits to the hard-working people of our local area. Lairmore and his bosses are all about preserving the STATUS QUO! I will shake thinks up! I will go out and invite industry representatives to come and see all the good things our local area has to offer. And I will do it whether or not I get any help from the Owensville Board of Aldermen or the Owensville Chamber of Commerce!
Number 5: FINANCIAL CONTROLS! The county's financial systems, procedures and controls are OUT OF CONTROL! We've had major deficiencies noted in the Missouri State Auditor's reports of 2002, 2006 and 2010. NOTHING is being done to improve our systems, procedures and controls! I will work with Commissioner Penning to focus attention on these matters!
In closing, let me just say that I appreciate all of you coming out early this morning to support my candidacy. Some have asked if they can donate money to my campaign. I appreciate that, but my campaign is 100% self-funded. Why should I ask you for money? The position of associate commissioner pays well, and I have done well with my cattle operation. What I do ask of you is to help me get my message out and to get out to the polls on election day of November 2012. Please help me in that way! I will be forever grateful!
One, So if you don't do what Matt wants, you're just wrong huh? Also, I find it funny, you quoting Lairmore, yet you weren't there.... what I hear was said, isn't what you wrote!
ReplyDeleteTwo, you're from Hermann, what do you know about who represents what in Owensville?? You do a lot of accusing, why don't you name names if you know these things to be true??
Three, There was a vote, and that issue lost. You sound like a broken record, DICK! I read where Lairmore is on record saying that issue is dead and gone, why do you insist on beating this dead horse??? Keep the hate you and your friends have alive? You guys are not right..... see a Psychiatrist!!
Four, Who pulls your strings DICK??? Matt Penning? Sharon Meyer? Ray Jacquin?? Who?
Five, ZZZZZZZZZ!! Have you done a comparative look at Audits from other counties?? All the same little errors and mistakes are found. Some more, some less, some the same. Big deal, you fix em, and move on.
Unless you're a local politicians puppet, trying to make mountains out of molehills..... like you are, right, DICK??
Hey, Dick, why don't you go after John Penning, and ask him why, in an open Commission meeting, he basically said that the stuff the city of Hermann was being sued for, was RIGHT???? And saying that Hermann supercedes state law?? You want to go after someone doing something really STUPID?? There's your guy! Waiting to see you investigate and report on that story, after all, it does concern Hermann's future!! Not worthy of your time? Or do you now report truthful stories about your friends, and puppetmasters??? See ya...DICK! Oh, and don't forget to tell your Shrink about your multi personalites!!
Yo, MADman! Am I getting under your thin, sensitive skin?! Ha ha ha!
ReplyDeleteA. E. Newman is planning many more "stump speeches" and Hermann Hearsay will be there to cover them all!
Dick Schaefer