Background for 2012

Now that filing for the 2012 election—except for President—in Missouri has passed, and because I am not a candidate for President, but am for the Second Congressional District as a Representative for that area, I submit this on that behalf.

I was born in the district March 2, 1925, and have made it my home. I offer this to show why I believe I have a unique background to earn the 2nd Congressional District post. I was baptized at on Central Avenue back in the old days, and have access to everything that has happened there in that 87-year period.
 
As a senior in , I listened to President Roosevelt make his Day of Infamy speech there on December 8, 1941, and after EHS attended Missouri University College of Engineering during the next fall semester of 1942-43 in the ROTC program. But there was a war going on, so I dropped out to go into a productive program at our farm until going into the U.S. Marine Corps in l944. I was selected to attend Marine Corps in Combat Intelligence and was on my way to be a part of the invasion of Japan and spent VJ Day in the Marine Transit Center in Oahu. So I was spared the trauma of the invasion.
 
After being a part of the interesting separation of most of the FMF-Pac forces after the Armistice, suddenly I received a message from President Truman to report back to the mainland for immediate discharge to go home to farm and continue my service to the country in that manner. So I, in fact, became a part of the Greatest Generation, and 1947 married Robert Harrison and raised a family of six, who are now beginning to retire also.
 
In Eureka, my father was a charter member of the Missouri Farm Bureau and I also joined. Between the two of us having had FB membership from the beginning, where I served on the Missouri FB Board of Directors from 1951 to 1961 and where I helped start several FB companies, we brought the Service Company Feed Mill facility to Eureka; the remaining buildings are still there.  Recently I had outlived my Endowment at 85 Charter Policy in our new MO FB Life Insurance Company, which I helped start while on the board. That is part of my 65 years as a Bureau member.
 
I also have 68 years as an Knights of Columbus member, with 40 years as a member of the 4th Degree. I also have had 40 years as a VFW member and 66 years as an American Legion Member, representing a full life of service to the community.
 
I helped get Eureka incorporated, and was a member and president of the in its early days. I was a Missouri real estate broker for 50-plus years and brought in the first new subdivisio—Shaw's Garden—which led to the first sewer program here. Then I brought the first industrial park, including the new post office and first new store in Eureka, which was interrupted by Highway W being built over the remaining land.
 
I did become a State Representative in 1964, obtaining the new Highway W bridge over the Meramec south of the city and brought to Missouri with my House Bill 711, which we call a natural as the estate was transferred to the State. 

My success in becoming a representative developed my method of running without having fundraising, believing that voters will react by not having millions spent in elections.  

I was the nominee for Congress in this district in 2004 and 2006, and was the best loser in both efforts without fundraising and have watched the country go from the best in the world to one now having the greatest debt position with over $15 trillion debt and having unfunded liabilities of over $150 trillion to somehow meet. 

I think voters are ready to change my way.