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Veterans and Military Families for Progress Endorses Tommy Sowers
August 23, 2010Veterans and Military Families for Progress endorses Tommy Sowers: "Sowers’ strong commitment to the issues that are critical to veterans, those serving now, and their families is unsurpassed." Read More »
CNN: Howard Dean Highlights Tommy Sowers on State of the Union with Candy Crowley
August 22, 2010Howard Dean highlights Tommy on CNN's State of the Union: "We simply have better candidates... There's a young guy named Tommy Sowers... who's going to knock off Jo Ann Emerson in Southeast Missouri, Rush Limbaugh's home district. He's just running a tremendous campaign." Read More »
Southeast Missourian: Time to get tough, Fire Congress
August 16, 2010Incumbent members of Congress, bent on their own re-election, seem unable and unwilling to do their fiscal duty. This isn't a party problem -- it's an incumbent problem. Read More »
Made Possible: It’s Debatable—interview with Tommy Sowers and Joel Pollak
August 14, 2010Tommy talks renewable energy, job creation, immigration, net neutrality, and foreign policy with another candidate for Congress in Made Possible Magazine. Read More »
McClatchy: Commentary: America will lose when we win in Afghanistan
August 14, 2010An old military maxim states, "Amateurs think about strategy and professionals think about logistics." The U.S. Constitution clearly empowers Congress to be active in logistic questions of war. After the release of documents questioning current and past operations in Afghanistan, Congress faces a tough logistical question about the future — who will pay for the Afghan military once America leaves? That the answer is not the Afghans, nor America, nor our allies, which means that America will lose in Afghanistan even if the current training mission succeeds. Read More »
Miami Herald: America will lose when we win in Afghanistan
August 13, 2010Tommy's recent op-ed on the issues we face in Afghanistan was published in the Miami Herald. Read More »
POLITICO: Sowers: I voted for Proposition C
August 06, 2010Tommy Sowers, the Democratic nominee in Missouri's 8th Congressional District, is one of the estimated thousands of Democrats who voted in favor of a ballot initiative Tuesday that rejects a prominent provision in the federal health care overhaul. "I voted for Prop. C because I was never in favor of the individual mandate aspect of the health insurance reform," Sowers told POLITICO Friday. "Its constitutionality and frankly, the constitutionality of Prop. C, will be debated in the courts, but I think it will, and should be, in Congress, where this will be ultimately fixed." Read More »
Press release: Sowers Campaign Looks Forward to Debates
August 05, 2010Jonathan Feifs, Sowers for Congress Campaign Manager, released the following statement: “We are pleased that Jo Ann Emerson has finally accepted the invitation – an invitation we extended 50 days ago – to do a series of debates, and we look forward to the discussion." Read More »
