Friends,

Let me begin by thanking every one of you for the support you have given my family and I the last several months off my campaign. Thank you to all the hard working people of our great city, the College Students, Police Officers, Fire Fighters/EMS workers, elementary and high school teachers and their families. Your efforts have been extraordinary, and made my campaign possible!

To all my supporters, I need your help to carry us to victory today, August 3rd. If we work hard and get our family members, friends, co-workers and neighbors to vote, we can protect what many of us have worked so hard for. We will also help make OUR City a much better place to live, work and raise our children!

As promised, I will:

• Work hard to create badly needed jobs for our city.

• Work to provide quality education for children.

• Work to ensure our streets are safe and necessary funding is available for Public Safety.

• Work hard to make sure health care is affordable for all families in Missouri.

Finally, and most important, I will work hard for YOU and not special interest groups and wealthy individuals like Rex Sinqefield. I will never forget that my support has come from working families and people who truly care about OUR City.

Sincerely,

James Long

KEAVENY TAKES THE LOW ROAD

     As a candidate to be your next state senator, it has been my intention to avoid the kind of toxic, negative campaigning we so often see in national politics.  By walking the neighborhoods and visiting constituents door to door, I tried to share my vision for our city and state as one citizen to another without denigrating my opponent. 

     Apparently my strategy must be working because Joe Keaveny has now resorted to an eleventh-hour smear campaign to hold onto the nomination he was appointed to after his predecessor went to prison.  Small wonder decent people get turned off by politics as usual!

     Fact:  The Keaveny campaign claims that I neglected to pay my City Earnings Tax.  This is a blatant lie.  As a St. Louis Police Officer, my earnings tax was deducted from my pay check before I ever saw it.  I couldn’t have been delinquent if I’d wanted to be.

     Trying to raise a family on a cop’s salary there were times during the 1990’s when I was a month or two late on my Personal Property Tax.  Perhaps Keaveny—a former corporate attorney for a large bank—doesn’t know what it’s like to get hit with an extra tax bill at Christmas time, but I suspect many working families do.

     At any rate, my tax obligations were always paid in full.  You may verify that fact by going to: www.courts.mo.gov/casenet

     Fact:  The right-wing “Club for Growth” has mailed expensive fliers to voters claiming that I want to raise your taxes by 50%.  This is a ridiculous distortion of the truth. 

     I merely quoted an article I’d read in the St. Louis Beacon which suggested that by raising the Earnings Tax by one-half of one percent for two years,  we could weather the city’s budget emergency without cutting vital police, fire and ambulance services.  This was nothing more than an idea to be considered to help us get through a crisis.

     Many of my supporters have suggested that I take legal action against Keaveny.  That’s an idea that I haven’t ruled out.  But in the end, the verdict that matters is the one that you, the voters, will deliver on August 3rd.  I hope that I can count on your support.

                                                                              Thank you for your consideration,

Jim Long, Candidate for State Senate    

Jim Long for Missouri Senate

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Hello and thank you  for visiting my website to learn more about my campaign to be your next Missouri Senator in District 4.

I am committed to maintaining the quality of life in Saint Louis and our State with a special emphasis on public safety.  I am deeply concerned about the lack of fiscal responsibility at all levels of government.

As a lifelong resident of Saint Louis City , I’ve seen police and fire-fighting forces reduced by nearly half while calls for these vital services increase!  Now, discussions are being made to privatize our ambulance service and turning our professional paramedics into employees of for-profit middlemen corporations. These corporations would not answer to you, a citizen of this city, but only to their bottom line. The lack of focus and care in the public safety of our city must stop!

I am shocked by the current state of our public schools.  I take pride in having graduated from Cleveland High School and it is my intention to help restore the credibility and integrity of public education in Saint Louis .

We need jobs to revitalize our city; an educated well trained workforce is the surest way to attract them.  As your State Senator, I will work endlessly to see that our region receives its fair share of assistance from efferson City to accomplish this.

My wife and I have made Saint Louis our home for over forty years.  As a police officer for 35 years, I dedicated my life to the people of Saint Louis and I am proud to have my sons serving you in the same capacity. 

My family and I are deeply rooted in this community and I ask for your support to extend these roots to the State Capital.

Thank you for all your support,

Jim Long

What I will fight For...

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By providing tools and incentives to attract new business.

✔ QUALITY EDUCATION… For all our children, which is critical for our economic future.

✔ SAFE STREETS… By providing resources needed by our public safety agencies.

✔ AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE… Regardless of pre-existing conditions, while reducing costs for business and government.

✔ A STRONGER MISSOURI… Policies that lead to stronger cities and regions, which will create a stronger Missouri.