Northwest Missouri Rep. Sam Graves has announced several listening-tour stops around the 6th district as a part of his “Main Street Matters Listening Tour”.  According to a press release on his website, Rep. Graves will be discussing the issues that Congress has dealt with this session, including the Stimulus, Cap and Trade and Health Care Reform.  As Ranking Member on the House Small Business Committee Graves has a particular interest in how the Obama/Pelosi policies will affect small businesses in Northwest Missouri.

Graves town hall meetings will most likely prove to be less exciting than the townhalls that have dominated the news cycle lately.   This is mainly due to the fact the Sam Graves represents his constituents and their values and has consistently voted against the liberal policies that the citizens of his district strongly oppose. Graves has voted against all of the government bailouts, he voted against Cap and Trade and has vigerously opposed the Democrats healthcare and their “public option” that would lead to the end of private insurance.  The list of stops on the listening-tour can be found at http://www.house.gov/list/press/mo06_graves/cont.shtml.

Maybe Missouri’s Claire McCaskill could learn from Graves, if you actually represent your voters they don’t feel like they must yell at you in order to be heard.

The 6th District is very privileged to have a strong representative who stands up for them in Washington.  If you attend any of these listening-tour stops, please take time to thank Mr. Graves for his consistent support of Conservative values.

Below is a video showing Rep. Graves defending small business on House Floor last month.

The recent approval of a 12% rate increase for KCP&L is just the first hint of what our overbearing President and Democrat-run Congress are going to impose on us in the name of “saving the planet”. According to those involved in the rate negotiations, the increase, averaging $100 per year for the average customer, will “pay for environmental upgrades at its coal-fired power plants…the money will go directly toward pollution control equipment .”  Unfortunately, “Cap and Trade” legislation that is currently fast-tracking through Congress will impose a significantly higher additional cost not only for electricity, but every facet of our lives including heating, transportation, fuel, food, clothing, and housing.

Cap and Trade is the anti-global-warming concept that puts a CAP on the allowable emissions of “global warming pollutants” but then allows companies to TRADE (or sell) the balance of their unused allotment to companies that are at the limit of their allowed emissions. The ultimate result is that overall emissions don’t change, but the costs for some companies increase as they are forced to “buy permission”. This is the industrial version of Al Gore’s “carbon credits”, which was so lucrative for the “sellers” of nothing, who got the “producers” of everything to pay for something that is free.

To see how anti-global-warming Cap and Trade costs will impact you and your family, follow the link on the sidebar and calculate YOUR costs for this farcical homage to environmentalists, then contact congress to express your opinion.

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