Pro-Conservation Candidates are Winners!
An overwhelming majority of the state House and Senate candidates that MVC endorsed in the fall 2008 elections won their races, showing that conservation issues were the clear winner at the ballot box this year. Here's how our candidates fared on November 4th:
Eastern Missouri:
Joan Barry – State Senate District 2 -- lost
Kevin Engler – State Senate District 3 -- won
Tim Green – State Senate District 13 -- won
James Trout – State Senate District 15 -- lost
Kristy Manning – State Rep. District 16 -- lost
Jeanette Mott Oxford – State Rep. District 59 -- won
Rachel Storch – State Rep. District 64 -- won
Michael Vogt – State Rep. District 66 -- won
Maria Chappelle-Nadal – State Rep. District 72 -- won
Steve Brown – State Rep. District 73 -- won
Margo McNeil – State Rep. District 78 -- won
Jill Schupp – State Rep. District 82 -- won
Jake Zimmerman – State Rep. District 83 -- won
Vicki Lorenz Englund – State Rep. District 85 -- won
Jeanne Kirkton –State Rep. District 91 -- won
Deb Lavender – State Rep. District 94 -- lost
Mike Sutherland – State Rep. District 99 -- won
Joseph Fallert, Jr. – State Rep. District 104 -- won
Linda R. Fischer – State Rep. District 107 -- won
Belinda Harris – State Rep. District 110 -- won
Mid-Missouri: Chuck Graham – State Senate District 19 -- lost
Rebecca McClanahan – State Rep. District 2 -- won
Tom Shively – State Rep. District 8 -- won
Stephen Webber – State Rep. District 23 -- won
Chris Kelly – State Rep. District 24 -- won
Mary Still – State Rep. District 25 -- won
Tom Loehner – State Rep. District 112 -- won
Western Missouri:
Sandra Aust – State Senate 17 -- lost
Martin T. Rucker – State Rep. District 29 -- won
Jason Grill – State Rep. District 32 -- won
Beth Low – State Rep. District 39 -- won
Jason Kander – State Rep. District 44 -- won
Jason R. Holsman – State Rep. District 45 -- won
Southern Missouri: Dennis Wood – State Rep. District 62 -- won
Charles Dake – State Rep. District 132 -- lost
Another huge electoral victory for Missouri's environment on Nov. 4th was the passage of
Proposition C, the statewide initiative on clean energy. It passed easily, with a two-thirds majority.