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It is true that a GOP-led Commission of Inquiry in the Missouri House Greitens’s ex-girlfriend, who also claimed she once felt she had to verbally pronounce him to escape his basement, was a “generally credible witness,” and was true to testifying under oath to the events , which Greitens never did. But no one ever produced the alleged *photo that was central to the criminal case against him. Greitens has used this to blame political rivals, including “RINOs” in the state legislature, many of whom really didn’t like the guyand the St. Louis prosecutor, who is that really? quite liberalfor chasing him away on unsubstantiated charges.
“He’s not a disgraced former governor,” said Jane Cunningham, a former Republican senator who served during Greitens’ governorship. “He is an acquitted former governor, is more correct.” (In a separate campaign finance case, the Missouri Ethics Commission fines its campaign for withholding from donors, but did not find Greitens had “personal knowledge” of the violations. He was never tried on the other charges.) Cunningham represented West St. Louis County when Greitens first entered the state political scene, and she recalled filling a Doubletree in Chesterfield with perhaps a thousand people for an event. “I knew very few people there,” she told me, “and this was my district.” She recalled thinking “this guy is making the Republican tent bigger than I’ve ever done before. … I’ve never seen anything like it.” Cunningham hasn’t approved anyone in the race yet; she said she’s watching and waiting.
Embarrassed or not, “he’s legally the most conservative governor we’ve ever had,” said John Lamping, a former Missouri state senator who helped Greitens prepare for his government career. Lamping said he will not support Greitens because he is a serious Catholic and finds the personal scandals disqualifying. But he likes the populist-nationalist message. lamps said that such a message on its own would probably get Greitens 10 or 20 percent in the primary. At the top, that could make the candidate a few points shy of enough to prevail in a crowded field. (Gretens won his 2016 gubernatorial primary by 35 percent.) “Missouri is poised for populism,” Lamping told me. “If you drive anywhere downtown Missouri, there were factories, there were softball fields and public schools, and now the population is declining and there are all kinds of problems.”
Greitens supporters I spoke to all shared a distaste for current political powers, not just the Democrats. One of Greitens’ biggest lines of applause at the Arnold event was a reiteration of his vow, if elected, not to vote for Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority group leader, to lead the party in the Senate. A vote for McConnell, he said, would be a vote for “politics as usual” and for the “lobbyist class.” “I was the first man in the country to say we’re going to record him,” Greitens said. “And you know what? They came after us. … And I say to them, ‘Guys, you’re going to have to get in line.’”
“We have a problem with RINOs especially here in Missouri,” said Roger Dix, 70, who lives in Missouri’s Ozarks and has retired from a healthcare career. Cunningham introduced me to him as a leading Republican. He quoted a Republican-dominated legislature that this session could not refund Planned Parenthood or ban transgender girls from female sports at state universities. ‘Will you let my wife go? It did.” Dix also feels that outgoing Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt has turned his back on people like him; Dix sent a letter to Blunt’s office asking for answers about his concerns that the 2020 election was fraudulent, but got no response and then saw Blunt chair Joe Biden’s inaugural committee with pride. “We have lost our democracy at this point, regarding fair and fair elections,” Dix said.