L to R - Tim Drury, Ed Martin, Gene McNary

Give Gene McNary a pat on his ego!  The yesteryear St. Louis county exec, INS chief and Missouri lottery czar told the columnist, “My wife has encouraged me to run for a statewide office.  Perhaps I might consider that.”  McNary appeared Wednesday night at Bartolino’s South for an Ed Martin for Congress fundraiser billed as, “Welcome Home, Gene McNary.” (Read that as a welcome to McNary’s roots in south county.)  Jabs by  McNary  toward incumbent Cong. Russ Carnahan prevailed.  “Maybe Jeff Smith’s friends will not be happy with Carnahan.  Ed is not going to get a Post-Dispatch endorsement, but he will get Bill McClellan’s (as Martin stared at the skilled P-D columnist). This is a Republican year. The coalition Obama put together will sit on their hands.”  Martin said free trade with China is not working.  Turning again to Carnahan, Martin noted, “He and his wife have traveled the world on tax payer-funded dollars to study climate change and watch fireworks in New Zealand as well as evidence of ocean acidification.”

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