Fraternal Order of Police Endorse McCaskill

The McCaskill campaign will hold a press conference at 2:15 tomorrow, Wednesday July 26th, to announce that she has picked up the support of the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.

It will be held at the Eagelton Federal Court House, 111 S. 10th Street, downtown St. Louis.

The FOP shouldn't be too surprising, the FOP and Sen. Talent have not been very close. Yet Talent's efforts in enacting stricter laws on methamphetamine have won him praise for law enforcement.

The FOP endorsed Sen. Jean Carnahan over Sen. Jim Talent in the 2002 election. In that race, Talent received the endorsement of the National Association of Police Organizations and their local affiliate, the St. Louis Police Fraternal Organization (not affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Police), which is now known as the St. Louis Police Leadership Organization.

In the 2000 Governor's race, the Post's Jerry Berger reported that FOP's attorney ordered Talent to remove a claim from his website that said the St. Louis FOP had endorsed him when in fact the St. Louis lodge had not. In fact, the FOP endorsed Bob Holden's (successful) run for governor that year.