Remarks by the President at a Fundraiser for Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan

1:36 P.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you, everybody.  Thank you.  Thank you so much.  Thank you.  Everybody have a seat.  Everybody have a seat.  Everybody enjoy themselves.  How’s lunch? All right, good.

Hello, Kansas City.  It is good to be back in the Midwest, even better to be back in the Midwest with Robin Carnahan.  (Applause.) 

You all have had a long tradition of sending tough, independent, no-nonsense leaders to Washington — from Harry Truman, to my great friend Claire McCaskill, to some wonderful Missourians who go by the name of Carnahan.  (Applause.) 

Nobody fits this mold better than Robin.  She’s not going to Washington to represent the oil industry or the insurance industry or the banks on Wall Street.  She’s not even going there to represent every aspect of either party’s agenda or my agenda.  She’s going to Washington to represent one constituency, and that’s you, the people of Missouri.  She’s going to call them like she sees them, and she sees them the same way that most of you do, the same way that most of the people of Missouri do.

Robin is a small business owner, still runs her family farm.  That’s why as your Secretary of State, she cut red tape for small businesses and saved small business owners millions of dollars, so they can focus on growing their companies and creating jobs right here in this state.  That’s why she spent her time in office standing up for consumers — got $10 billion back for Missourians who were being taken advantage of by big institutions.  That’s worth applauding — $10 billion is real money.  (Applause.)  That’s why she worked with Democrats and Republicans to pass one of the strictest laws in the nation protecting seniors from fraud