Kay Barnes today marked the one year campaign anniversary of her entry into 6th Congressional District race by renewing her pledge to bring change to a Washington that is broken. Last year on May 14 Kay Barnes, standing with her family in front of her mother's home in St. Joseph, announced her candidacy for the seat now held by four-term incumbent Republican Sam Graves.
"On that day a year ago, I asked voters if they believed they and their families were better off than they were in January 2001 when Sam Graves and President Bush were sworn into office. I knew then that the answer was no. What I could not anticipate that day was how much worse things would get - an economy now in crisis, skyrocketing gasoline prices, home foreclosures on a steep rise, health care costs continuing to escalate, and a war with no end in sight. More than ever, Missourians need a representative who will stand with them, and not with the special interests who are benefiting from their hard times," Barnes said in her remarks this evening to supporters assembled at Finnegan's restaurant in Clay County.
With six months still remaining until the November election, Barnes has already made more than 100 visits to communities throughout the 26 counties of the District. Barnes has the support of more than 4,300 individual contributors, and thousands more who have signed up to work in their local communities to build a substantial grassroots organization.
Barnes concluded, "If voters want a change in the direction of our country, they must send new leaders to Washington - leaders who will work across party lines, as I have done in my years of public service, to seek real solutions to the real problems facing our nation. Sam Graves cannot be trusted to fix the very problems he helped create in the last 8 years."
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