FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
03/25/08
POC Thomas L. Knapp
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JEFFERSON CITY -- The race to represent Missouri's 9th US House District gained a candidate -- and a party -- yesterday as Tamara A. Millay filed on the Libertarian Party's ticket.

After visiting the Secretary of State's office to file the required paperwork, Millay proceeded to Columbia for an informal campaign "walk and talk," discussing the campaign with voters in the downtown area.

Millay previously sought election to the 9th District seat in 2004. "In 2004, I was asked to run after another candidate withdrew," says Millay, who lives outside the district in suburban St. Louis, but spends a good deal of time in Columbia and elsewhere in the district. "This year, the seat is open and I see the election as an opportunity to expand the Libertarian Party's voter base and bring its message to a district which that message fits very well."

Running on a platform that includes ending the war in Iraq, dramatically reducing the size and cost of the federal government, protecting the right to keep and bear arms, and reducing the horrific impact of the "war on drugs," Millay hopes to be the "balance of power" in the election. "After decades of Republican and Democratic misrule, people are looking for an alternative. I'm here to offer them that alternative, and without the power of incumbency to tie the seat down, I believe that they'll respond to it."

Millay, 41, lives in Greendale -- where she previously served as city marshal -- with her husband, Tom, and their two sons, Daniel and Liam. She works in the Department of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Washington University School of Medicine.

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