St. Louis Democrat Mark Osmack won his party’s nomination for state treasurer in Missouri’s primary election. Osmack, who ran unopposed, now has his sights set on the Republican nominee, current state treasurer, Vivek Malek.
Osmack wants voters to know that he wants to keep Missouri money in Missouri.
“Not sending it to a wall in Texas,” he said. “To reevaluate and to stop frivolous spending, sending the Missouri Highway Patrol and the Army National Guard to Texas to stare in the night. Those are just some of the things, ending school vouchers, those are processed through the treasurer’s office.”
Osmack is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. After his service, he used the GI Bill to go to graduate school in Washington D.C. where he worked for then-Missouri U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Now we know who we face. Missouri is going forward. I’m ready…let’s go. pic.twitter.com/7gNyJMOIz5
— Mark Osmack (@mark_osmack) August 7, 2024
Osmack laid out his priorities, if elected, which include ending school vouchers, and making sure that unions “get a fair shake” at state contracts.
“Ending the childcare desert. I have two kids. One is one, one is four,” he explained. “Childcare is insanely expensive and prohibitive and unfortunately all the things I just mentioned are direct results of having 20 years of Republican rule. So, my opponent’s not a bad person, he’s just bad at his job. So, I look forward to making that change.”
Osmack previously ran to unseat Congresswoman Ann Wagner in Missouri’s Second Congressional District in 2018 but lost in the primary.
He accused the Republican Party of trying to end a so-called woke agenda because “all the failures of Missouri are their own.” He said that their messaging is “out of touch” with what every day Missourians deal with.
“We’re on the right path. Our messaging works. The things that we focus on work,” Osmack said. “Farmers don’t care about what Republicans are talking about. They want two things – they want insurance for themselves for farmers and their families, and they need people to work on their farms. I don’t think any of the Republicans that are running on any level of this ballot have worked those farms.”
He takes on Republican Vivek Malek and Libertarian John Hartwig, Jr. in November.
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