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Brad's father, Jim Campbell, left Warsaw forcollege and found a teaching job in an affluentsuburb of St. Louis where he met another teacher,Joan Polmantier. Joan grew up in the college townof Columbia, where her father was an educationalpsychologist at the University of Missouri...
...Joan stayed home until Brad was old enough togo to school, but she had a passion for politicsthat would be passed on to her son. so the firstcandidate Brad Campbell ever campaigned for was aDemocrat. When brad turned 3, his mother becamethe local campaign chair for Jerry Litton, aconservative Democrat running against RepublicanJohn Danforth. Joan took Brad on the road, as sheput up signs and knocked on doors around thecounty...
After a victory in the Democratic primary, thecampaign ended tragically when Litton was killedin a plane crash. With him died some of Joan'spassion for politics. "The crash is the onlyreason Danforth won," Joan says...
...Campbells taught their only child torespect other people's values while alwaysstanding up for his own. To give her son her fullattention, Joan didn't return to work until Bradwas ready for elementary school...
...look at people like me who grewup in the '60s in two ways," Joan Campbell says."We are willing to change and do thingsdifferently. But I still prefer that peoplebelieve in God, believe in family and believe intraditional values. I don't want them to believein Jane Fonda...