Anti-China MO candidate campaigning on bus owned by lobbyist of Chinese pork producer

In his campaign for governor, Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe has promised Republican voters he will stop China “from buying up our farmland.”

He’s doing so while traveling the state in a bus owned by Jewell Patek, a former legislator who is the only lobbyist employed by the only Chinese business that owns a significant chunk of agricultural land in the state.

The Republican primary for governor has nine candidates listed on the ballot, with three – Kehoe, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Sen.