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Missouri Democrats in transition: Who's their leader?
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Nov 15, 2004 10:52am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Kansas City Star |
| News Date | Monday, November 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kansas City Star article.
An excerpt..."They met privately at party headquarters - the two surviving Democratic statewide officeholders and the lone new one after the Nov. 2 elections.
The topic: The future of the Missouri Democratic Party, particularly because the present is very Republican.
The meeting last week of Attorney General Jay Nixon, State Auditor Claire McCaskill and Secretary of State-elect Robin Carnahan produced no immediate master plan, no public pronouncement about their party's course after some humbling defeats.
In fact, the message may have been in the meeting itself.
A state Democratic Party that for more than a decade has had a clearly defined leader no longer does. At best, it has a triumvirate of middle-level leaders.
The de-facing of the Democratic Party is both literal and figurative.
Through two terms and much of a decade, Gov. Mel Carnahan was the state Democratic Party's leader, working with veteran Democratic state legislators who held a firm majority under the likes of House Speaker Bob Griffin and Senate President Pro Tem Jim Mathewson. In Congress, Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt was the state's power broker." |
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