Another Missouri Republican Running For Rep. Blunt's Seat

By Greg Giroux | November 25, 2009 11:05 AM | | Comments (0)

Add another candidate to the bulging roster of Republican candidates running for the southwestern Missouri district Rep. Roy Blunt (R) is leaving open to run for the Senate.

Michael Wardell, a businessman and retired Marine, has filed candidacy paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to formally organize a campaign in Missouri's 7th district, which includes Springfield and Joplin.

Wardell's campaign Web page says that national security "is my foremost concern" and that he supports a beefed-up presence in Afghanistan. He supports cutting taxes across the board and eliminating capital gains taxes.

The Republican nominee will be determined in a primary next August that probably will include a half-dozen or more candidates. The winner surely will succeed Blunt in what is Missouri's most rock-ribbed Republican district. The GOP field includes auctioneer Billy Long, who was the best-funded candidate through the end of September; state Sens. Jack Goodman and Gary Nodler; and Darrell Moore, the top prosecutor in Greene County (Springfield).

CQ Politics rates the Missouri 7 race as Safe Republican.

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Categories: House, Missouri

Tags: Blunt, Goodman, Long, Missouri, Moore, Nodler, Wardell

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