Gubernatorial candidates reach for ‘conservative’ voters
BRANSON MO NEWS:
Eric Greitens and Chris Koster have one thing in common: Each identifies himself as a “conservative.”But that may be where similarities end for the two leading candidates to be Missouri’s next governor.Greitens, 42, the Republican who previously identified as a Democrat, has never held elective office. He is a former nonprofit CEO, author and Navy SEAL.
Koster, 52, the Democrat who previously was a Republican, has spent more than 20 years in elected positions, including the past eight years as Missouri attorney general.Candidate biosKoster is a 1991 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law who went on to work as an assistant attorney general under former Republican Attorney General Bill Webster.From 1993-1994, he worked as a private attorney in Kansas City for Blackwell Sanders. He made his first bid for public office in 1994 when voters elected him Cass County prosecutor. He served in that position for a decade before running as a Republican for the Missouri Senate in 2004.There he clashed with the GOP on labor and workers’ rights issues. Koster also cites a Republican-led push to ban stem cell research as the tipping point of his break with the party in 2007. He declared his candidacy for …
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