Candidate Letters: Attorney General

By Phil Cobb | October 24, 2024 |

Andrew Bailey Missouri Attorney General

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Andrew Bailey, Republican

Serving as your Attorney General for the past two years has been the honor of a lifetime. We have accomplished a lot during this short period, but there is so much more to be done. I want our children and grandchildren to grow up with the same opportunities we had growing up in Missouri. I went to school here, began my career here, and after serving two tours in Iraq, I knew that rural Missouri was my home and where I wanted to raise a family. That led my wife, Jessica, and I to become foster parents and we are now blessed with four beautiful kids.

We are proud to have the endorsement of groups that I believe share the same values and vision as the residents of Nodaway County. We are the only candidate backed by agriculture groups, law enforcement, and 2nd Amendment organizations, including the Missouri Farm Bureau, the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, the Missouri State Troopers Association, Sheriffs United, the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, the Missouri State Council of Firefighters, the National Rifle Association, the Missouri Firearms Coalition, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Eric Schmitt, Governor Mike Parson, and President Donald J. Trump.

I aim to make Missouri the safest and most prosperous state in the country. That’s why my office immediately took action against violent criminals. We increased criminal prosecution by 133% in the first year alone. We ousted the Soros-backed prosecutor to restore law and order in St. Louis. And we’re leading the fight against human trafficking and fentanyl by putting criminals in jail and forcing President Biden to resume building the Border Wall.

But it’s not just violent crime. Since taking office, we’ve secured hundreds of millions of dollars for Missourians in consumer protection cases and handled over 100,000 consumer complaints. We are also protecting Missouri’s industries by fighting back against the federal government’s unconstitutional overreach and regulations made by unelected bureaucrats. Farmers and ranchers should manage their land and resources, not someone sitting in an office in Washington. I’ll fight relentlessly to protect the livelihoods of farmers and business owners from bureaucratic tyranny.

Thank you, Nodaway County, for your continued support and prayers. I humbly ask for your vote on November 5th. Together, let’s continue fighting and winning for Missouri!

Elad Gross, Democrat

We need to bring good government back to Missouri. As Attorney General, I will prosecute corruption, sue scammers, protect our families and our freedoms, and get Missouri working for Missourians again. It’s time we have an Attorney General on our side.

My name is Elad Gross. I am a lifelong Missourian. I previously served as an Assistant Attorney General of our state. For the last several years, I’ve sued corrupt government officials of both parties to protect our civil liberties, and I’ve defended our right to see what our government is doing with our money.

Our current Attorney General has been terrible for Missouri. He’s wasted so much of our money he can’t even tell us how much — just try to ask him. Those illegal gambling machines we’re seeing in so many gas stations throughout our state? Our Attorney General took money from illegal gaming companies and then dropped his representation of the state against them. He’s even spending taxpayer money fighting to keep innocent people in prison, like Sandra Hemme, who spent 43 years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. St. Joseph Police opposed our Attorney General on that case. On top of the corruption, our Attorney General has entirely mismanaged the office. We have record low staffing when we should be suing scammers and prosecuting violent crime.

There are so many crooks coming to our state to exploit our home, and we need an Attorney General who will stand up for us.

As Attorney General, I will start a Public Corruption Unit to make sure your tax dollars go exactly where they’re supposed to. We will make sure our roads, our schools, and our hospitals get the funding they need to work for us.

I will go after utilities raising rates on our families and making drinking water and electricity unaffordable.

I will enforce antitrust law and sue monopolies squeezing every dime they can out of Missourians. Family farmers won’t have to stand up alone when big foreign companies try to put them out of business.

I will stop scam calls and get our Consumer Protection Division working again. Missouri started America’s first No-Call list, but you sure wouldn’t know it today. I will sue scammers and launch a program to educate Missourians so we all can better avoid and prosecute scammers.

I will bring back Missouri’s Conservation, Agricultural, and Environmental Division that Jay Nixon started as Attorney General to protect our state’s natural resources.

And as Attorney General, I will be an advocate for you in Jefferson City. Our Attorney General shouldn’t be the attorney for the Governor, or for Big Government, or for his Big Donors.

Our Attorney General should be your attorney, and I will be the most accessible Attorney General in our state’s history. Congressman Jerry Litton had it right: Our government should listen to us.

Our Attorney General should be nonpartisan. We should just elect the best attorney for the job. I would be honored to have your vote this November.

Ryan Munro, Libertarian

Be proud — We live in the most beautiful state in America. When was the last time any of us considered ourselves truly lucky to be a Missourian? Hold that thought for a shameless introduction. My name is Ryan Munro, and I am running for Attorney General as a Libertarian.

A long line of gearheads and driving enthusiasts left their mark on my DNA, because I have wandered our “blue roads” most of my life, preferring to drive indirectly rather than the shortest path. It was under these circumstances that I was first introduced to Nodaway County. From Kansas City, I took 71 to 148 as far north as I-80 before I cut over to Lincoln, NE to pick up a friend, then farther north for work.

Not surprisingly, Nodaway shares a lot of similarities to other parts of Missouri. Similar in that the people of Nodaway are both notably inter-dependent on each other as neighbors, while fiercely independent from outside interference. Unfortunately, that means Nodaway has also been affected by many of the same problems that currently plague other parts of Missouri such as: loss of meaningful good paying jobs, loss of local resources like healthcare and stores, and the horrific impact from the drug crisis. And just like the out-of-town peddler selling this political season’s version of snake oil, here they come again … outside interests coming to tell us what we need.

I know. I’m a voter too. It is my same fears and concerns of what outsider politicians with no connection to Missouri will do to our state that led me to run for Attorney General. To protect not just my children, but all of Missouri, from parasitic outside influences.

I ask every Missouri voter to harness that independence now, because NOW is your chance to show your independence to the two parties that have failed to serve Missouri for too long. The Republicans failed to expel the extremists from their party, leaving honest, hardworking Americans like us behind. Having run Missouri for 20 years (as a super-majority for 12 years), what do we have to show for unchecked Republican infighting? And the Democrats, well, they too have their talking points managed from the “coasts”?

When I am elected AG, the office will stop being used as a de facto campaign office for MAGA, and a steppingstone to Washington, D.C. I will focus on being accessible, transparent, and accountable to the individual Missourian and Missouri’s small businesses. I will stop government from intruding into the private lives of Missourians, keep government out of our churches, our homes, and our doctors’ offices.

I am a zero-donation candidate — I will not play the money-game the Republicans and Democrats have thrived in for so long. We all know that those donations they take come with strings. As a true Missouri independent, I come with no strings attached — economically conservative, and socially independent, I have one focus and that is protecting Missourians.

It is long past time that we make OUR government in OUR image instead of the red and blue shades of the extremist coasts.

Both parties had their chance. Now you have yours. Vote Missouri First. Vote Ryan Munro for Attorney General.

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