This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

January 22, 2008

Blunt won’t seek re-election

JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Matt Blunt, facing a tough re-election fight and a slowing economy, bowed out of the race Tuesday, declaring that he had accomplished all he set out to do.
In a video posted on the YouTube Internet site, Blunt said he decided not to seek re-election because he had little left to achieve. . . . “You could have knocked me over with a feather,” said Rep. Margaret Donnelly, a St. Louis County Democrat who is running for attorney general.
The announcement came just a week after Blunt’s campaign filed a quarterly fundraising report showing he had raised $9.88 million for his re-election bid.

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