Jean Carnahan rips RoveCo a new one....

I knew the Carnahans personally. We used to live across the street from them. Does my heart good to read this. From buzzflash...

http://www.firedupmissouri.com/node/2608

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Well, I don't mean to be throwing cold water on the rebuilding effort. Dat gummit, we are Americans and we can overcome anything. Fix anything. Make everything better. That's always been our attitude. But usually we’ve had leaders willing to level with us, lay out the plan, and call for the shared sacrifice needed for a solution. That's what we're missing here. We hope that our government—the one tasked with the "welfare of the people" and the one that Bush, Inc. has spent nearly five years dismembering—will miraculously reconnect, come to life, like the proverbial dry bones.

I met her a few years ago when she came to my school.

Her husband did more to improve education in MO than any governor in the history of the state.

I am glad she is still speaking out.

when my club was doing candidate screenings.

One of the things I notice about politicians is that they seem to have an on and off switch that you can almost see get turned on when they are talking to groups.

That's not the case with Jean. She is always "on" and engaged and genuine.