JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- It's happened in other states. Conservative Republican candidates appealing to tea party activists have defeated party-establishment candidates. But can it happen in Missouri?
State Sen. Chuck Purgason believes it can. Yet so far, there is little evidence to suggest it will.
Purgason, a Republican state lawmaker from southern Missouri, is the best-known of the eight lesser-known candidates running against the party establishment pick, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, in the Aug. 3 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
Purgason seems to be a favorite among participants in the tea party, the populist movement against the Washington political establishment, big government and big spending...
If Purgason is to make a move in Missouri's U.S. Senate race, now is the time.
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