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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (May 29, 2009) — Local Republicans at their Lincoln Day Dinner had a message for their national leaders: Missouri is working because its Republican-controlled legislature is showing fiscal prudence when the Democrat-controlled Congress isn’t. “I want this evening to be the first step in a long journey. We have some very liberal people in Washington D.C., and we’ve got some people here who know how to balance a budget and take care of tax dollars,” said Mike Rouse, chairman of the Pulaski County Republican Central Committee. Introducing Ron Richard, the speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, Rouse said it’s time to see more men like him elected at the national level. Richard said a clear commitment to fiscal discipline is a key part of what unites the state’s Republican Party, but that’s not the only issue. “In a time when you have to be watching your nickels and dimes, we should be doing the same thing in state government,” Richard said. “We believe that Republican ideas and values that we have transcend everything else, which is we are solid for the unborn, we are solid for the right to bear arms and keep arms, we are solid for job creation, we are solid for fiscal discipline, to make sure we get through the tough times and have the ability to train our workforce to keep people living in Missouri.” Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

By Darrell Todd Maurina