Governor Eric Greitens is a Republican and former Democrat . He defeated Attorney General, Chris Koester, a Democrat, and former Republican, in Missouri's 2016 gubernatorial race.
If any proof were ever needed that political labels determine nothing in politics, this does. As former, long-term, St. Louis, Missouri, Congressman William Clay, Sr., is reputed to have said years ago in his book: "We have no permanent friends, nor permanent enemies, just permanent interests."