Andria Simckes, a Democratic candidate for Missouri Treasurer, wants the other Democratic Treasurer candidates to agree to support the winner of the Primary, “regardless of which one of us prevails.”
From the press release:
Simckes vows that she will support whoever wins the Democratic Primary.
Simckes also believes that democratic primaries should not be focused on attacking one another. “We need to move beyond the type of politics that only hurts the party and focus instead on the serious issues that matter to every Missourian. The Treasurer’s office needs professionalism, not mudslinging.” Simckes agrees not to attack her fellow Democratic primary opponents. Simckes requests her two Democratic opponents to sign on to run positive campaigns and not attack one another.
Will her two Democratic opponents agree with these two positions?
This race comes down to three points: who has been a life long Democrat and worked in Governor Carnahan’s administration? Who has the most experience of handling money with integrity and know how? Who has the most experience for creating jobs on Main Street, Missouri, as opposed to Wall Street?
Simckes who earned degrees from Brown University and Washington University School of Law, served as a legal aide to Governor Mel Carnahan in the mid 1990’s. She then went on to serve as Executive Director of the St. Louis Regional Empowerment Zone, where she was responsible for $18.9 million in available funds and $130 million in bonding authority.
Simckes was the Comptroller of Win ‘96-Missouri’s Democratic Coordinated Campaign and oversaw the $1.6 million budget for that successful election year. She worked in the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) as the statewide coordinator for the Caring Communities Initiative.
Andria currently resides in Creve Coeur, MO with her husband, Elan, a physician specializing in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Fertility, and their children Liam, Naava, and Ayden. Their oldest, Maayan, attends Tufts University. Andria Danine is affiliated with Kodner Watkins Muchnick Weigley, L.C. in Clayton, MO.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am
Who is she worried about doing negative campaigning? Powell did not campaign negatively in the last general election against Steelman, plus he won’t have the money to do so, so she must be starting to worry about Zweifel and his previous campaign experiences.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I hope that there is no negativity, and I’m not sure who she is concerned about. Zweifel just hired the young wunderkind operative Keith Tubbs, but he doesn’t have a history of negative campaigning.
Simckes was treated unfairly in the St. Louis American’s Public EYE last week. There was really no need to mention who she is married to, or what religion she practices.