SLU study: Eric Greitens is the GOP frontrunner for Missouri Senate seat

r/StLouis • u/ReneDiscard Illinois commuter • Aug 10 '21

https://www.kmov.com/news/slu-study-eric-greitens-is-the-gop-frontrunner-for-missouri-senate-seat/article_a4e59042-fa2e-11eb-81b4-6b673b70295a.html?block_id=985911

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u/codextreme07 Aug 11 '21

The guy got selected for a prestigious White House fellowship. I wouldn’t call it bouncing out. It’s a big deal, and helpful if you want to get into politics. It’s very opportunistic, but I won’t blame a guy for being ambitious

What blows my mind about Grietans is he has the resume of a guy who would run as a Democrat. I even attended fundraisers for his charity that were largely him courting the democratic base in STL. I know they were trying to get him to run for Congress in the democratic side.

He very clearly flipped flopped Bc he knew with his background, and the states politics he’d have an easier time as a republican. He exposed himself as a person who was just interested in power.

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u/LyleLanley99 South City Aug 11 '21

he has the resume of a guy who would run as a Democrat

He was one.

Two years earlier, he got in the car with the state’s former Democratic governor, Bob Holden, and drove from St. Louis to Denver to see then-Sen. Barack Obama accept the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention

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u/stlkatherine Aug 11 '21

I am embarrassed to say that I voted for him. I heard him on "The Art of Manliness". How can we let downstate voters know that he is a POS? Not what is news worthy, but he is just thisclose to "stolen valor". I can't get past my disgust, I'm ate up with it. He is worse than Hawley IMO.