Famed West Plains Native Endorses Kamala

 

by Pa Rock

Missouri Voter

It's not all doom and gloom here in southern Missouri on Election Day.  Well yes, the weather is still gloomy and the rain continues to fall, but that actually could be good news in a county that has given Trump 80% of the vote in the last two presidential elections - because for every voter that decides not to go to the polls in this wet, nasty weather, there is an 80% chance that it is one of Trump's!  That, and the fact that there is a popular Abortion Rights amendment on the ballot, could conceivably skew the county total more to the left than it has been in the recent past.

Hope abounds.

Also today I noted on the internet that one of West Plains, Missouri's, most famous offspring, comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, has endorsed Kamala Harris for President.  Mr. Van Dyke, who was born in West Plains on December 13, 1925,  after his poor pregnant and unmarried mother had been packed off to live with relatives during her pregnancy, left our community as an infant, something which likely impacted his political leanings.

Dick Van Dyke is currently 98-years-old - and still voting.  He, like centenarian Jimmy Carter, understands the importance of voting in the preservation of our democracy.

If you haven't already been to the polls, GO VOTE!  (And if you live in southern Missouri, take an umbrella!)