A Republic city official says the G.O.P. primary race for state legislature in the #134 district will come down to Rep. Jim Viebrock and longtime educator Bob Bilyeu.
The government official says the other Republican contender, Mayor Jim Collins has acted like "a dictator," as leader of the city. "He downgrades fellow aldermen because they ask questions," says the official. "Collins is not a moderate," he says. "The mayor keeps shooting himself in the foot."
Yet the official, who has knowledge of the inner workings of the city government, says the Republican primary race will be close because Bilyeu is a good candidate. "He is a great man, even though I won't vote for him," says the official who is a Viebrock supporter.
"The thing about Jim is, people don't always agree with him, but he's always honest with you," says the official.
"Everyone's talking about who's going to fill Mark Wright's seat, but it's going to be nothing like this race. It's going to be highly contested, right until the end between Viebrock and Bilyeu. It's going to be very close," says the official.
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The fact that a race between Bilyeu and Viebrock will be close demostrates just how misguided our political system has become. Bilyeu has a lifetime of acheivements. He won the Liberty Bell Award, was national debate teacher of the year, is a great leader in his church etc. Viebrock is a do nothing legislator that has no real accomplishments in or out of office. I would think it would be hard for even Viebrock to claim he should be elected over Bilyeu and still keep a straght face.
I'm just glad, having grown up in Republic, that the Fred Phelps Freak Show didn't make it to the military funeral in question... shows what cowards they really are.
Thanks go out to the Patriot Guard for helping Phelps make his decision to chicken out. Got to love those guys. They do good work.
Gentleman, please refrain from personal attacks or innuendo. You may discuss policy all you wish, but tossing out accusations won't get you posted.
The more river otter and mythbuster make the case for their candidates and against the other the better Bilyeu looks. Every seems to agree he is a very fine man. He taught speech and debate for over 30 years so I am very confidant he would be a very capable, knowledgable and effective legislator.
If Ron Mark is the one making comments on this web page he shouldn't be taken seriously. He is a financial operator of a fee agent office and is primarily interested in protecting the $$$$. He also ran against Harpool and was defeated soundly. He ran for office several othr times but never did win.
Harpool was a student of Bilyeu. He was quoted in the paper as saying he gave him a contribution because he believed Bilyeu was an honest man and because he felt he owed him a lot for being such an inspiratonal teacher.
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