Missourians for Personal Safety (MPS) is a non-partisan organization dedicated to educating citizens on issues related to their right to personal defense and the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Listed below are the grades given to State and Federal level candidates within the St. Louis MetroVoice readership area by MPS for the November 5th General Election 2002. Candidate grades were determined from compound sources including: survey results, past survey results, voting records while in office (incumbents), public statements, and other available information.

For more information about MPS go to their web site at www.moccw.org.

A = Solidly pro-gun candidate. Expected to agree with

conservative gun owners on at least 90% of gun issues.

B = A generally pro-gun candidate. Expected to agree with

conservative gun owners on at least 80% of gun issues.

C = Not necessarily a passing grade. Expected to agree with

conservative gun owners on at least 70% of gun issues.

D = An anti-gun candidate who is not expected to agree

with conservative gun owners.

F = A true enemy of gun owners' rights.

? = Failed to Return survey. Not enough information available.

i = Incumbent candidate.

Note: For informational purposes, candidates without opposition from another party in the November General Election (which means they have automatically won their races) have been included in this listing.

REP Jim Talent A

DEM Jean Carnahan F

LIB Tamara A. Millay ?

REP Richard Schwandon B

DEM William L. Clay i F

LIB Jim Higgins ?

MO U.S. Representative - District 2

REP Todd Akin i A

DEM John Hogan ?

LIB Darla R. Maloney ?

REP Catherine S. Enz A

DEM Richard A. Gephardt i F

LIB Daniel Byington ?

REP Jo Ann Emerson i A

DEM Gene Curtis ?

LIB Eric Van Oostrom ?

REP Kenny C. Hulshof i A

DEM Donald M. Deichman ?

LIB John Mruzik ?

REP Al Hanson ?

DEM Claire McCaskill i ?

LIB Arnold J. Trembley ?

REP Jon Dolan A

DEM Edward L. Schieffer A

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Pat Dougherty i F

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Rita H. Days ?

REP George Engelbach A

DEM Steve Stoll i A

REP John B. Lewis B

DEM Joan Bray F

LIB Dick Illyes ?

REP John E. Griesheimer A

DEM Donald D. Meyer ?

REP Carol J. Wessel A

DEM Wayne J. Henke A

NO OPPOSITION - REP Sherman Parker A

REP Scott T. Rupp A

DEM Tom Stephens ?

REP Joe Smith A

DEM Judy Davidson ?

REP Lennie Miller A-

DEM Thomas S. Green i B

NO OPPOSITION - REP Carl L. Bearden i A-

REP Vicki Schneider A

DEM Aaron M. Staebell B

REP Tom Dempsey B+

LIB Kurt C. Trachte ?

NO OPPOSITION - REP Cynthia L. Davis A-

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Yaphet El-Amin ?

REP Isaiah Hair ?

DEM Rodney R. Hubbard A

DEM Russ Carnahan i F

LIB Kevin Babcock ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Amber Holly Boykins i ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Connie LaJoyce Johnson i F

REP Sandra Chance D-

DEM Robin Wright Jones i ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Bob Hilgemann i F

REP Judy A. Zakibe ?

DEM Fred Kratky ?

REP Charles McCloskey A-

DEM Michael Vogt ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Mike Daus i ?

DEM Gina Walsh ?

IND Arnie C. Dienoff ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Matt Muckler ?

DEM Esther Haywood i F

LIB Thomas L. Knapp ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Betty L. Thompson i F

REP Michael J. Howard B

DEM Margaret Donnelly ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Thomas George i F

REP Paul Espinoza ?

DEM Bruce David Darrough ?

REP Kent Miller A

DEM Michael Spreng ?

REP Pamela Barry ?

DEM Michael G. Corcoran C+

REP Michael J. Reid i B

DEM Clint Zweifel ?

REP Kathryn S. Fitzgerald A

DEM Albert J. Liese A

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Theodore Hoskins B-

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Juanita Head Walton F

REP Diann Bomkamp A

DEM Sam Page ?

LIB Chris Schuster ?

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Barbara Fraser i F

REP Allen Icet A

DEM Stella Ann Madison ?

LIB Anthony S. Gianino ?

REP Jim Lembke A

DEM Michael R. Allen C

REP Jane Cunningham i B

DEM Shirley Garhart ?

REP Catherine Hanaway i D

DEM Marilyn Morton ?

REP Neal C. St. Onge i F

DEM Elizabeth Theiss ?

REP Jack Jackson B+

DEM George D. Weber B-

REP Richard Bronson A

DEM Richard K. Johnson i C-

REP Kathlyn Fares i D

DEM Scott Sifton ?

REP Charles Portwood i B+

DEM M. Julie Maguire ?

REP Jodi A. Stefanick A-

DEM William J. Konecnik ?

NO OPPOSITION - REP Richard G. Byrd i D

REP Jim Avery A

DEM Joseph A. Rathert ?

REP Jim Stonebraker A

DEM Patricia Yaeger ?

LIB Ronald E. Levy ?

REP Walt Bivins A

DEM Jane E. Koeller D

LIB Allen Glosson ?

REP Brian D. Nieves A

DEM Tom Herbst B+

REP Mike Sutherland ?

DEM Fred W. Haase A

REP Michael Rohrbacker A-

DEM Sue Schoemehl ?

REP Don Wieland B

DEM Ray Adams B

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Ryan Glennon McKenna i A

REP John F. Weir ?

DEM Mark C. Able i B

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Wes Wagner i A

District 105 - NO OPPOSITION - DEM Harold R. Selby i A

REP Kevin Engler A

DEM Dennis W. Smith B+

NO OPPOSITION - DEM Thomas Albert Villa i F

REP Kevin Threlkeld A

DEM Gene Scott B-

REP Connie Sayers A

DEM Belinda Harris A

Federal, state and county level candidates in Missouri and Illinois were all presented with a statement/question related to the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Candidates were asked to choose which statement best described their position/opinion. The following are those statements/questions.

[a] The control of firearms to reduce or eliminate crime and protect our children is extremely important. The Second Amendment only applies to the National Guard, not to the general population. Missouri law should stay as it is and not allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.

[b] The Second Amendment broadly protects the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms. Gun control laws infringe upon those rights and are a violation of the Constitution and the original intent of the Second Amendment. Missouri should allow law-abiding citizens the right to carry concealed weapons.

The Second Amendment broadly protects the rights of individual Americans to keep and bear arms. Gun control infringes upon those rights and violates the original intent of the Second Amendment.

I agree (A)______ I disagree (D)______ I am undecided (U)______

In the opinion of the St. Louis MetroVoice, the correct choice/answer to our State and County level question was, [b]. The correct choice/answer to our Federal level statement/question was, I Agree (A).

Any candidate who chose [a] at the State and County level, or disagreed or was undecided at the Federal level, is either ignorant of the real reason why our Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment in our Constitution or has no regard for freedom and liberty.