Friday, May 14, 2010

Nodler: Thank you for the opportunity to serve

In his latest report, issued on the final day of the 2010 legislative session, Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, thanks his constituents for eight years in the Senate:



The close of the 2010 legislative session brings with it the end of my final term as your state senator.  For eight years, I have been honored to serve the 32nd Senatorial District and I feel proud of the accomplishments that have been made.  The Senate has been an enjoyable place to work, and I have truly appreciated this chance to continue my time as a public servant.  

I was first elected to the Missouri Senate in 2002.  This was a particularly important time for the state Legislature due to the advent of term limits.  Voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution in 1992 limiting the years a legislator may serve in the General Assembly.  The amendment excluded from term-limit calculations any legislative service initiated before the amendment’s effective date.  During my first two years in the Missouri Senate, I had the privilege of being able to serve with some of these experienced legislators.  This experience of working with and learning from some of Missouri’s best lawmakers truly enriched me as a senator.

The pace and attitude of the Legislature today is certainly different than when I began my service, but the strength of the Missouri Senate continues to lie in the people who make it function.  This includes my 33 current colleagues as well as the many senators who have worked with me throughout the past eight years. Of particular mention, I would like to thank Barbara Mustoe, who has been a part of my staff since I began in the Senate and remains a stabilizing force in my Capitol office.  Jake Heisten, who began in my office in 2006, has done a great job in the district during the past year.  There are also the many Senate departments and staff to highlight, including research, appropriations, communications, caucus staff, and so many more who have made serving in the Missouri Senate a joy.   
Most of all, the people to thank for my years of service are you—the people of the 32nd District.  You are the ones who have motivated and inspired my work.  There were so many times during my Senate career when I have been proud of the many generous, dedicated, and accomplished constituents in our communities.  The 32nd District is my childhood home, and I believe it includes some of the best citizens in this state.  Thank you, my neighbors and fellow citizens, for giving me the opportunity to serve you. 
As I pass the torch on to the next senator for the 32nd District in 2011, my office in Jefferson City remains open to take your phone calls and respond to your correspondence.  During the interim, I will continue these weekly columns and will issue news releases as events and items of interest arise. 

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank goodness you are gone you arrogant man!

May we never have to bow to you again.

Anonymous said...

thanks, Gary, for your service and dedication to duty...thanks for the help you have given to projects and ideas that were important to me.

Anonymous said...

Finally. let's get Ronnie Richard in there. quick!

Anonymous said...

Why is it that under-achievers can only find fault in the efforts of people who serve on school boards; as mayor or aldermen; on fire-protection boards and law enforcment officials; on booster clubs; as PTA leaders; university presidents; as appointees to boards and commissions; as elected legislators by a voting majority in free elections?

Maybe I answered the question.

I do not always agree with the positions of Randy Turner and Gary Nodler but I bet if you got them together to solve a problem they could and would work together to get the job done.

Thanks Gary for your life-long work with others for good government and for our community.

Anonymous said...

To the 8 AM poster...you answered your own question. They are typically underachievers who rather than try to work hard, accept occasional defeat and dedicate themselves to the common good just tear away at those who are out there slugging away...winning some, losing some, but staying on course.

Criticizing and being negative is the way out when you can't do things by and for yourself or you can't even be part of a group effort to achieve something.

Rather than make a small achieve for good and know it is important, these people just attack out of envy and jealously...I'll take the guy who is just grinding it out every day on something that is good for the common cause.

Sorry, Randy. I've known you for a long, long time but I have lost any respect I ever had...there are so many good things you could be doing, but you don't.

Anonymous said...

all Turner has done here is post Gary's letter of goodbye. And goodbye it is. Good riddance.
Now let's get there a politician with some integrity...
That's an oxymoron, isn't it.

Anonymous said...

Politics in SW MO is corrupt beyond belief. You can't get elected to any important office unless you are GOP, and no moderates need apply. The power is in that one party, and the fix is in. As for Gary Nodler, he is a very flawed human being who was propelled by his puppeteers into the job. If he gets elected to any higher office, it will be the same deal. He's not really that smart, either. Anyone who uses government email services to push his campaigns and then gets pissed off when he is told to stop, is pretty stupid. He and the other people from the region who go to Jefferson City only go to advance the agendas of a few. I can't think of one thing he has done for the underclass, not one thing he has done for anyone other than his true constituents, the powerful. Good riddance! May he never hold office again.
As for the posters who state that complainers are just jealous, please be real. I have served on my share of boards….but they weren't positions that propelled me into office. Those who do serve on public boards with the goal of pushing themselves forward are selfish, only thinking of themselves, and are blights on humanity.

Anonymous said...

Nodler has never sent a campaign Email from a government Email system. That is simply a lie, and all of his campaign Emails have an unsubscribe option. I have received his Emails both as a federal candidate and a state candidate and none have ever come from a government source. I am sure his campaign receives Email addresses from all kinds of people that suggest other addresses. If the recipient doesn’t desire to receive that kind of Email, or believes it is not appropriate for the Email system they are using they should unsubscribe, but that is the responsibility of the recipient. I defy you to produce one Email that senator Nodler ever sent out with a campaign message from a government Email address. This is just another one of those dirty campaign lies that lowlifes tell.

Anonymous said...

Well, Mr. 12:25 PM, I'll bet you were a real joy to work with on all them there boards you served on with others.

I've got a pretty good idea who you are and you are not smarter than a 5th grader.

Anonymous said...

To 7:48 -- I'm not afraid of you. I don't think you would ever know who I am, because I'm sure I'm beneath your radar. But I actually do have a copy of an email sent by his campaign, using the listerv of a very local institution of higher learning.
And I have served, gladly, on several local boards. Unpaid service with no desires of my own or of my peers on the board with self-promotion. We aren't politicians and we aren't power brokers. So you wouldn't know me.
However, I do know you and I know what you are. You are responsible for a lot of human pain. But you don't care; you just call the people you have harmed greedy, lazy, and spoiled. I hope you are satisfied and I hope you sleep well at night. I hope you can feel that we all hate you, and I hope it eats you up inside.
You, know me? Hah. You don't know I'm alive.

Anonymous said...

To 11:55 PM, You do not have any Email from Nodler's campaign sent from an Email address at any government agency or school. You are a liar. If you have such an Email, file a complaint with the proper authorities, if not quit these lies from the dark, get into the sunshine, crawl out from under the rock. Nodler's campaign has never sent an Email from the listerv of any local institution. Put up or shut up.

Anonymous said...

To the 11:55 5th Grader,

You should file your allegations with the Missouri Ethics Commission or the Federal Election Commission. That would allow the proper authorities to approve or disprove your allegations.
Otherwise 5:02 AM has you trumped.


Or send it to Turner. He loves to post negatives about Senators, State Representatives,Republicans, University Administrators and governing bodies, and straight and crooked people

Did you get a forwarded email from another person? Duh! A 5th Grader would know this.

And, thank you for your service on local boards. That's what make our society work.

Anonymous said...

Once again, Gary is helped by lies that are challenged...the more his opponent and haters (including Randy) attack the better his chances.

As someone here said, Put up or shut up!

Anonymous said...

7:48- I was told of this string and even a fifth-grader knows you can copy the original, alleged, email from your reported official source into this comment area and send it to this blog site.

That's Easy.

As the preacher's wife said, "put up or shut up."

Anonymous said...

I'm saving it for a more opportune moment - let's see how the primary goes, first.

Anonymous said...

The primary is the election, there is no more opportune moment, you were caught in your lie, end of story.

Anonymous said...

You are such a dummy. I realize the primary is the true election. But if Nodler loses, it is a moot point. And I'm not lying. I have the email. You are certainly worried about it, Gary. I can tell by the way you squirm.

Anonymous said...

You have no Email from a Nodler campaign state or federal that was sent from a government Email address, if you did you would have filed a complaint with the proper authorities. You are lying and no one but you is squirming. You don't produce it because it does not exist, by the way "Dummy" everyone that gets MSSU's Email already knows you are lying because no one else ever received any campaign Email from Nodler from a government Email address. I for one won't respond to you again, you have proven you are a liar with no proof of your claims.

Anonymous said...

Wow. The exchange here proves, beyond a doubt, that Gary Nodler is unfit for public service. He can't even discuss his campaign foibles without losing his cool. I remember some emails also, sent by a campaign worker through the MSSU emails, not necessarily by Nodler. I believe the gist was, be sure to vote for Nodler, he has done so much for MSSU we owe him. It offended me, too.
I would think that he would be able to discuss this without being churlish and petty. But then, he was similar in his reaction to the theater fiasco.

Anonymous said...

Interesting aside -- Nodler's statement made me think of John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech -- but instead of unity, the message of Kennedy's speech, Nodler seems to only find division. Compare Nodler, if you dare, to Kennedy:
"We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge--and more."
More at http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03Inaugural01201961.htm

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I don't think JFK would ever have spoken about his opponents as being "lowlifes," and "underachievers."

Anonymous said...

This is nothing new for Nodler. Read back over anything that has been written about Nodler. He, or someone close to him always overreacts and always begins slinging attacks usually at Turner and most of the time far out of proportion to what it has been written. Nodler has earned his reputation as a bully and a coward.

Anonymous said...

Nothing in Nodler's statement makes any reference to his opponents. Once again his critics lie. Senator Nodler has never ever called any opponents lowlifes or liars. You cannot produce one statement from Nodler to that effect, in fact he rarely mentions his opponents. Also no campaign employee of Gary Nodler has ever been employed by or had access to the MSSU's Email system. If you are saying that someone who works at the school sent an Email to fellow workers supporting Nodler, then you are admitting that the attack on Nodler is false. He has also not reacted to any of these comments. Senator Nodler does respond to Turner from time to time and always signs his name.

Anonymous said...

Dear 5:37 am -- If you are not Gary Nodler, and are just working either for him or are a loyal constituent, here's some advice: You are hurting him with your tone and the word choice you employ.
Do you realize that? I'm not a Nodler fan, but I hate to see anyone be misrepresented so horribly. You need to mend your speech a little, Cordelia.

Anonymous said...

liars don't like to be called liars they just like to have people believe their lies. When they are caught in the lies they don't like the "tone" of truth. You don't like the tone of the truth teller, but you have no problem with the lies of the liars. lay down with dogs and get up with flees.
Cordelia