The Missouri GOP caucus will be held Saturday, March 17. Locations in all of Missouri's 114 counties will hold caucus meetings in the mid-morning or early afternoon. Ahead of those caucuses, two of the four mainstream Republican candidates for president will make campaign stops in Missouri. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and Rick Santorum will be campaigning in the Show-Me State on the same day as Kansas holds its caucus meetings March 10.
Here's a breakdown of when and where the candidates will be.
Ron Paul
Paul will start out in St. Charles, Mo., at Hyland Arena on the campus of Lindenwood University at 3 p.m. March 10. Admission is free and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Expect Paul to be there for about an hour. KMOX reports Paul spoke in Kansas City in February and this will be his second stop in Missouri.
The candidate then travels about 200 miles to the southwest for a stop in Springfield, Mo., at a town hall meeting at the Hillcrest High School gymnasium at 7:30 p.m. The Springfield News-Leader states Paul will speak for about 15 minutes and then have a 15-minute question and answer session with the public. After he speaks to those in attendance, Paul will be available for the media for about 15 minutes.
Rick Santorum
Santorum will also make two stops in Missouri March 10. At 2 p.m., Santorum will hold a rally at Digital Monitoring Products at the Partnership Industrial Center in northeast Springfield. Digital Monitoring Products has been headquartered in Springfield for 35 years and specializes in manufacturing central security monitoring devices.
Later in the day, Santorum will go to Cape Girardeau, Mo., at 6:30 as the keynote speaker of the Cape Girardeau County Lincoln Day banquet hosted by the local Republican Party. Tickets are $20 for the event if you want to attend. At 8 p.m., Santorum will hold a rally at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.
Venues
Paul's rally at Hyland Arena is on the campus of Lindenwood University. The basketball venue is capable of seating 3,000 people in seats around the floor. When Paul comes to Springfield, he will be at Hillcrest High School located on Grant Avenue just north of Kearney Street in Springfield.
Santorum will speak at Digital Monitoring Products, a factory in northeast Springfield off Kearney and U.S. 65. In Cape Girardeau, the Plaza Conference Center is capable of hosting 750 people at a banquet-style event. The airport in Cape Girardeau is located on Rush H. Limbaugh Jr. Memorial Dr. just west of Interstate 55 to the northwest of the city.
William Browning, a lifelong Missouri resident, writes about local and state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Born in St. Louis, Browning earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri. He currently resides in Branson.
