Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, said it would be more difficult to pin the Medicaid cuts, for example, on a candidate with political experience outside Jefferson City such as U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof.
“Nixon’s strategy for the last three years has been every morning you get up — if Matt Blunt says the sky is blue, then Nixon’s going to say it’s red,” said Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph. “That strategy’s gone.”
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One distinct possibility would be Hulshof, who nearly ran for governor in 2004. But a possible primary clash against Blunt never came to be after the six-term Congressman decided to run for re-election after the death of his father.
Hulshof interviewed to become President of the University of Missouri system late last year, but didn’t get the position. But a possibility of a vacancy sparked a long list of possible contenders on both sides of the aisle.
A spokesman for Hulshof didn’t confirm nor deny the possibility of a run for governor.
“Kenny is very surprised by the news,” said Hulshof spokesman Scott Baker. “No further comment.”
Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, said he would be ‘thrilled’ if Hulshof decided to jump into the governor’s race.
“I would hate to lose him as my congressman, but I think he’d be a fabulous governor,” Hobbs said. “And I was just talking with some people on the phone talking about that very thing. I think he’d be a fabulous governor.”
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