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TRUMP CAPTURES MAJOR STATES IN WHITE HOUSE QUEST — 3A CASSVILLE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Democrat Cassville-DemoCrat.Com | 75 Cents results As of 11:30 p.m. Tuesday DAVIS ELECTED SHERIFF Barry County Sheriff Justin “Dave” Ruark, D 29% Republican earns BARRY COUNTY SHERIFF ELECTION Gary Davis, R 71% Gary Davis, R-Cassville 71 percent of 71 percent Barry County Barry County vote Dave Ruark, D-Cassville 29 percent Southern Commissioner BY KYLE TROUTMAN Wayne Hendrix, D 56% [email protected] Final unofficial election results. Source: Barry County Clerk’s office. Matt Cupps, R 44% After months of campaign- ing and winning a six-man deputy with the Barry County them,” he said. “I look forward United States President Republican primary, Gary Sheriff’s Office, received 4,195 to getting started, and [current Hillary Rodham Clinton, D 215 Davis of Cassville won the votes, or 29 percent. Sheriff] Mick [Epperly] has Donald J. Trump, R 244 Barry County sheriff post Davis said he was pleased already told me he will help me over Democrat Justin “Dave” with how the race turned out. out all that he can to show me United States Senate Ruark. “I want to thank God and where everything is. Jason Kander, D 43% Davis, a retired FBI special the citizens of Barry County for “I think it will be a smooth Roy Blunt, R 52% agent, received 10,218 votes, honoring me with this post, and and orderly transition.” GARY DAVIS Jonathan Dine, L 2% or 71 percent, and Ruark, a I will try to do a good job for CONTINUED ON PAGE 3A BARRY COUNTY SHERIFF-ELECT Fred Ryman, C 1% United States House District 7 representative Genevieve (Gen) Williams, D 27% Billy Long, R 68% Cassville voters cast general election ballots Benjamin T. Brixey, L 5% Missouri Governor Chris Koster, D 43% Eric Greitens, R 54% Cisse W. Sprgins, L 1% Don Fritz, G 1% Lester Benton (Les) Turilli Jr., I 1% Lieutenant Governor Russ Carnahan, D 39% Mike Parson, R 56% Steven J. Hedrick, L 2% Jennifer Leach, G 2% Secretary of State Robin Smith, D 35% John (Jay) Ashcroft, R 61% Chris Morrill, L 4% State Treasurer Judy Baker, D 36% Eric Schmitt, R 60% Sean O’Toole, L 3% Carol Hexem, G 1% Attorney General Teresa Hensley, D 38% Josh Hawley, R 62% Missouri Supreme Court Richard B. Teitelman Yes 64% No 36% State Amendment 1 Sales tax renewal Cassville voter Kayla Quinlan, left, receives her “I Voted in Barry County” sticker from Cassville High School junior Megan Sloan Yes 80% Tuesday morning at the Family Life Center. Kyle Troutman/[email protected] No 20% State Amendment 2 Campaign contributions Yes 70% Republicans win big in Missouri on Tuesday No 30% BY JIM SALTER lenger Jason Kander, though Missouri backed Republican State Amendment 3 The Associated Press thousands of votes were still John McCain, who lost to Cigarette tax KANSAS CITY — out in Democratic strongholds Democrat Barack Obama. Yes 40% Republicans who already dom- St. Louis city and St. Louis and Republican Mitt Romney car- 60% No inate the Missouri Legislature Jackson counties. Lieutenant ried Missouri over Obama in expanded their influence in governor candidate Mike 2012. State Amendment 4 state government on Tuesday, Parson also had a big lead over Here is a look at other key Sales/use tax winning races for governor and Republican Eric Greitens Democrat Russ Carnahan. races and issues facing Missouri Yes 58% other top offices after Donald defeated Democrat Chris Until recently, Missouri’s voters: No 42% Trump continued the GOP’s Koster to win the governor’s presidential vote was a solid State Amendment 6 winning streak in the state’s race. Other Republicans won predictor of the nation’s sen- presidential contests. statewide office too: attorney timents. From 1904 through Governor Government-issued photo ID Missouri’s contentious cam- Trump defeated Democrat general candidate Josh Hawley, 2004, Missouri voters sided Yes 65% paign for governor was the Hillary Clinton to carry secretary of state candidate Jay with the winning candidate No 35% most expensive in the nation. Missouri, the fifth straight pres- Ashcroft and treasurer candi- every time but once, choosing Greitens, a political newcom- idential election that has gone date Eric Schmitt. Democrat Adlai Stevenson over State Proposition A er and a former Navy SEAL to the Republican candidate in Meanwhile, GOP incumbent Republican incumbent Dwight Tobacco tax officer, focused his campaign the Show-Me State. And he had Sen. Roy Blunt held a substan- Eisenhower in 1956. Yes 45% tial lead over Democratic chal- No 55% plenty of company. The run ended in 2008 when CONTINUED ON PAGE 3A Former Navy Seal Greitens defeats Koster for governor BY SUMMER BALLENTINE ship skills. Once courted by Democrats eligibility to low-income adults in The Associated Press In the Kansas City suburb of to run for office, Greitens now Missouri under the terms of the KANSAS CITY — Republican Grandview, 66-year-old Richard describes himself as anti-abortion, Affordable Care Act, but says there former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens Ornce sided with Chris Koster in opposes President Barack Obama’s are flaws with the law. He also defeated Democratic the state’s governor’s race, citing health care law, supports gun rights wants to increase the minimum Attorney General his experience. Ornce, an Army air- and pledges to enact a right-to-work wage, opposes right to work, sup- Chris Koster Tuesday borne ranger during the Vietnam law barring mandatory union fees. ported a Republican-backed income in a Missouri gover- War, said Greitens has “been push- Greitens broke with tradition tax cut passed in 2014 and earned nor’s race that gave ing his Navy SEAL stuff but having this election and refused to dis- endorsements from the National voters a vivid choice little to say about the issues.” close his tax records. The Missouri Rifle Association and Missouri between experience Koster and Greitens each had Democratic Party chairman last Farm Bureau — groups that typical- and a fresh start. raised about $27 million as of Oct. month filed an ethics complaint ly back Republicans. The first-time can- 27, according to the most recent against his campaign after The Koster’s time in elected office didate had touted GREITENS campaign finance reports. When Associated Press reported that a includes a decade as Cass County himself as an outsider combined with fundraising from political consultant had access to prosecutor and a four-year term as and pledged to tackle corruption in three other unsuccessful Republican a spreadsheet of donors to The a state senator. He switched parties the state Capitol. Koster took the candidates, this year’s gubernatorial Mission Continues while working in 2007 before running a successful opposite approach, emphasizing field already has raised more than for Greitens’ gubernatorial explor- campaign for attorney general. that his nearly 22 years in elected $72 million — two and a half times atory committee, arguing the list He’s won over some skeptics office make him qualified to run the previous record of more than should have been reported as an since then, but Koster’s party change state government. $28 million set in the 2008 guber- in-kind contribution. didn’t sit well with Grandview voter Greitens will succeed Democratic natorial campaign. Greitens’ ads slam Koster as a Spencer Warren. He described him- Gov. Jay Nixon, who was barred by Without a voting record, Greitens career politician and attempt to self as an independent and voted for term limits from running again. is running on his time as a Navy tie him to Obama, the president’s the Constitution Party’s candidate Sixty-one-year-old Mary Beck, SEAL officer and founder of a charity health care law and Democratic for president Tuesday. an assistant nursing professor for veterans, The Mission Continues. presidential candidate Hillary “I don’t trust a man who switch- from Columbia, said she voted for Greitens’ lengthy resume also Clinton. es political parties,” said Warren, Greitens because he has “fresh eyes.” includes stints as a Rhodes scholar A former Republican, Koster a 48-year-old magazine writer and The Republican also was impressed and White House fellow, champion now calls himself a conservative former newspaperman who rolled 7 39292 00068 8 with Greitens’ military experience, boxer and martial artist, a best-sell- Democrat, and he ran a centrist up at the polling place on a Harley, Vol. 146, No. 42 ©2016 Cassville Democrat saying it provided him with leader- ing author and motivational speaker. campaign. 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