The Post-Dispatch is reporting what's been reported elsewhere: former North Carolina senator John Edwards will be in Springfield on Labor Day. He'll be at Fassnight Park for the Springfield Labor Council's annual picnic.
It will be Edwards' third visit to the Ozarks. He was here in January 2004 when he was running for president. His rally on the (Southwest) Missouri State campus packed Strong Hall.
He returned in August of that year, campaigning on the Kerry-Edwards ticket on the (S)MS campus and Willard.
In Arkansas, the current and former presidents are helping the candidates for governor:
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - President Bush's visit to Arkansas helped Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson raise more money in a day than Hutchinson has raised in a month so far.
About 850 people paid at least $500 dollars to attend a luncheon at the Little Rock home of former Arkansas and NBA basketball player Joe Kleine. Party officials say the event brought in more than $650,000 overall. About $400,000 of that will go toward Hutchinson's campaign and the rest to the state party.
Since the start of the year, when he had to begin filing campaign finance reports monthly, Hutchinson's best month was July.
That month he raised almost $263,000.
The Hutchinson fundraiser wasn't open to the public, but Bush praised Hutchinson to reporters outside a Little Rock restaurant after the event. Bush said Hutchinson is the kind of person who
gets results and gets the job done.
Democrat Mike Beebe has a heavy hitter coming in next month for his campaign. Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for Beebe in a September 7 "fish and frog leg" fundraiser in North Little Rock.
Independent Rod Bryan and Green Party nominee Jim Lendall also are seeking the governor's post.
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Great... another rich trial lawyer, telling us how to solve poverty by raising taxes. It hasn't worked for the many decades of the "war on poverty", and it still won't work.
"You can't tax your way to prosperity." And, believe me, I hate to quote Rush Limbaugh, but he was right at least once when he said that. And Reagan was right at least once, when he said "government is not the solution, it's the problem". Putting government ointment and Band-Aids on a wound won't make it heal.
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