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Republican candidate for governor, Catherine Hanaway, visited the Harrison County Courthouse on Wednesday during a campaign tour across North Missouri. Hanaway, a resident of the St. Louis area, broke ground for women in Missouri politics when she was elected speaker of the Missouri House, the only woman to serve in that position. “We passed a lot of meaningful legislation” after Republicans took the majority in the House in 2002, Hanaway said. During her visit to Bethany, Hanaway called for more efficiency in transportation spending. She said MoDOT faces a challenge in maintaining 34,000 miles of highways but opposes turning the lettered highways over to the counties, as has been proposed in the Legislature.