GOP gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence makes campaign stop in Sedalia | candidate, spence, gubernatorial - Sedalia Democrat

GOP gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence makes campaign stop in Sedalia | candidate, spence, gubernatorial - Sedalia Democrat

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St. Louis businessman and prospective Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence brought his largely self-financed campaign to Sedalia on Friday, accusing Gov. Jay Nixon of “cronyism” and decrying a number of state departments and regulations.


Spence, 53, served as president of plastics manufacturer Alpha Packaging for 27 years, a business he guided from 15 employees and $350,000 annual sales in 1985 to an 800-employee, $200 million company when he sold it last fall.


He told members of the Pettis County Pachyderm Club he is “a throwback guy,” whose has an outsider status as a first-time candidate for office.


“I love being the underdog. That’s where I am. I relish that role,” Spence said. “I am a believer that simple is better. Let s get rid of some of this clutter. Let’s get rid of some of these regulations. Let’s get rid of the people who make these regulations who have never been in the real world — who sit in a cubicle somewhere and tell us how to run our lives.”