Jacob Turk ran against incumbent Emmanuel Cleaver in last year's race, with Cleaver winning with 62% of the vote (and a 20-to-1 spending advantage).
This year, Jacob Turk gets out in front early, with his first official campaign interview with Mike Ferguson. It's a longshot campaign - Emmanuel Cleaver has been a fixture in Kansas City politics for the last thirty years, and the way the districts are gerrymandered, but Turk stands up for what he believes in, and his answers are well thought up and without pretense. In what's shaping up to be an anti-incumbent year, I think every race could end up being worth watching.
Turk: "The reason I am running a second time is the same as the first – to elect regular folks to Congress to change politics. No matter the party in power, until we change the kind of person we send to Washington, D.C., our country will continue to have debacles like the latest immigration bill where OUR representatives on both sides of the aisle attempted to step on the will of the people. They were indignant with the folks for demanding Congress do the right thing!
Now it's up to the voters to decide.
Right on, Mr. Turk! If we are truly sick of pork, career politicians lining their pockets and cowardice in the face of the tough social and foreign policy issues, let's get behind someone like Jacob Turk.
How about some Republicans put their money where their mouth is an donate to the Turk campaign on www.slatecard.com? I have!
Posted by: Donna Turk | 06/14/2008 at 12:08 PM