Previously:
Campaign Finance: trying to get a statewide road tax on the ballot for 2014 (November 6, 2013)
Why would such interests campaign for us to invest in public infrastructure? Just asking.
Since the beginning of the year, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C131133 01/02/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Burns and McDonnell 9400 Ward Parkway Kansas City MO 64114 1/2/2014 $25,000.00
C131133 01/02/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Crawford, Murphy, & Tilly, Inc. 2750 West Washington St. Springfield IL 62702 1/2/2014 $20,000.00
C131133 01/11/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Missouri Construction Industry Advancement Fund PO Box 94 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/10/2014 $22,464.99
C131133 01/11/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Pace Construction Company 1620 Woodson Road St Louis MO 63114 1/10/2014 $57,500.00
C131133 01/13/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Associated General Contractors of Missouri Inc. PO Box 94 Jefferson City MO 65102 1/11/2014 $10,266.66
C131133 01/22/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Industry Advancement Fund Heavy Constructors 3101 Broadway Suite 780 Kansas City MO 64111 1/21/2014 $10,266.67
C131133 01/22/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Emery Sapp & Sons Inc. 2602 N Stadium Blvd Columbia MO 65202 1/21/2014 $75,000.00
C131133 02/07/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Site Advancement Foundation (SAF) 2705 Dougherty Ferry Road Suite 203 St Louis MO 63122 2/7/2014 $7,093.34
C131133 02/07/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Kiewit Infrastructure Co 7926 S Platte Canyon Road Littleton CO 80128 2/7/2014 $50,000.00
C131133 02/10/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR SAFE TRANSPORTATION & NEW JOBS INC Missouri Construction Industry Advancement Fund PO Box 94 Jefferson City MO 65102 2/10/2014 $10,000.00
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Alas, it looks like we’re doomed to subsist in a socialist hellhole where people pool their resources for the greater good toward construction of public projects which also allow large corporations to make money. We could just walk cross country and pay ferry tolls to intrepid pure capitalist entrepreneurs at private river crossings. Will we ever come to realize the gross inefficiencies of the state? Just asking.