The folks who are opposed to the continuation of the earnings tax on Tuesday’s ballot in Kansas City filed a curious string of amended 24 Hour Expenditure Reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission:
POLITICAL ACTION Date Established: 11/4/2009
COMMITTEE: MECID:C091269
FREEDOM PACElectronically Filed Reports
I.D. Report Date Received
4815 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4807 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4806 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4804 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4799 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4798 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4796 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
4753 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011
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What’s the explanation?
For 4796:
Updating amounts spent in opposition to specific ballot initiative.
For 4798:
Updating direct expenditures.
For 4799:
Updating direct expenditures report.
For 4804:
Correct direct expenditure report.
For 4806:
Update direct expenditure totals.
For 4807:
Correct math error on total direct expenditures.
Okay. Seventh time is the charm?
Let’s take a look at the latest summary:
REPORT SUMMARY
FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/20118. Total All Receipts This Election $476,025.01
14. Total Expenditures This Election $532,812.54
27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $32,167.40
34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $116,045.00
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Uh, oh. Those numbers don’t look good. I wonder if their bankroller’s bankroller(s) will bail them out? We’d ask them, but we can’t figure out who it is.
Let’s take a look at those last minute expenditures:
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/2011B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100
Wilson Research Stragegies, LLC
1319 Classen Drive
Oklahoma City OK 73103
4/2/2011
Polling
$6,000.00Advantage, Inc.
2300 Clarendon Blvd
Suite 1004
Arlington VA 22201
4/2/2011
Voter ID
$4,509.00
Hmm. Low turnout elections are notoriously difficult to poll.
Then, there’s this from the first April 2, 2011 24 Hour Expenditure Report (4753):
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/2011B. NON-ITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED
13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $25.00
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It looks kind of lost, especially after all those previous $100,000.00 contributions. By our calculation it’ll take 3,355 more of those $25.00 contributions to make up the total indebtedness. What are the odds of that happening?
Previously:
Campaign Finance: opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax – another 24 hour report (March 31, 2011)
Campaign Finance: throwing bad money after bad – opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax (March 30, 2011)
Kansas City Earnings Tax: ad in support of yes vote on April 5th (March 30, 2011)
That’s a question a lot of people have been asking (March 29, 2011)
Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC’s spending against the earnings tax in Kansas City (March 28, 2011)
Uh, we already knew about that (March 24, 2011)
Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC funded by the usual suspect(s) (March 18, 2011)
Campaign Finance: Who is bankrolling the bankrollers? (March 10, 2011)
Campaign Finance: your Friday big bucks contribution dump (March 4, 2011)
Campaign Finance: opponents of the earnings tax in Kansas City get a lot of help (February 26, 2011)