2008
Missouri LP
Candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 11, 2004
POC Thomas L. Knapp
thomaslknapp@earthlink.net
314-721-3960

LIBERTARIAN MILLAY DECLARES FOR 9TH DISTRICT HOUSE SEAT

Tamara Millay is a candidate for public office ... again. Millay filed 
paperwork Thursday with the Secretary of State, becoming the 
Libertarian candidate for Missouri's 9th District US House seat. With 
the nomination of a party committee in hand, she replaced Andrew 
Giesen, who withdrew from the race in May, on the August primary 
ballot.

It's been an up-and-down year for Millay. In April, she became the 
first Libertarian elected to office in the St. Louis metro area when 
Greendale voters made her that city's elected marshal. In May, 
however, Millay placed second in her bid for the LP's 
vice-presidential nomination.

"I hadn't made it out of the convention hall before a Columbia 
Libertarian approached me about the congressional race," she says, 
"and it seems like a good fit." Millay lives in the 1st District, but 
has longstanding personal and political ties to the Columbia area, 
which anchors the western end of the district, and in the rural areas 
to Columbia's east.

"Columbia's been like a second home for the last 15 years or so, 
personally and politically," says Millay, who addressed the Missouri 
LP's Jefferson Days celebration at the city's Cosmo Park in April.

After filing, Millay returned to Columbia to do retail politics at the 
city's Twilight Festival downtown. She intends to campaign at the 
Columbia PrideFest event on Saturday at Cosmo Park, and to spend a 
day or two each week in the city between now and November.

"This won't be a Columbia-only campaign," Millay promises. Kirksville 
and Hannibal are also slated for frequent visits, as are the small 
towns dotting the sprawling district. "Most of the district is closer 
to my home in St. Louis County than it is to Columbia," she says. 
"And all of it is closer to my house than it is to Washington, DC."

Can a Libertarian make headway in the Republican-dominated district? 
Millay thinks so. "This is Mark Twain country," she says, referring 
to Hannibal's most famous native. Millay intends to campaign on a 
Twain-like platform of fiscal responsibility, social tolerance, gun 
rights and a non-interventionist foreign policy.

Millay faces incumbent Kenny Hulshof [R-Columbia] and Democrat Linda 
Jacobsen of St. Charles in the November election. None of the 
parties' primaries are contested.

The Libertarian Party is America's third largest, with more than 600 
Libertarians serving in public office.

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