Somebody spent an awful lot of money on David Pearce’s (r – advocate of automotive deer hunting) senate primary campaign and it wasn’t his campaign (well, yeah, he spent some money, too).
Okay, what’s with the baby photo? Is that supposed to be subtly catering to the right wingnut anti-choice republican base?
So who paid for this, and what did they spend?
Uh, where did these folks get those charming high quality family photos? Public domain?
Okay, let’s take a look at the Majority Fund’s 8 day before the election campaign finance filing with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 28th:
Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made
Committe: MAJORITY FUND INC
ReportDate: 07/27/2008Axiom Strategies LLC Kansas City, MO 07/15/2008 mail production and posta $74,901.90
[emphasis added]
Axiom Strategies. Axiom Strategies. Where have I seen that before? Oh, yeah, around the same time David Pearce spent some money on whatever Axiom Strategies does. They must have a lot of people in their offices. Nah.:
Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made
Committe: PEARCE 08
ReportDate: 7/28/2008Axiom Strategies Kansas City MO 07/20/2008 Campaign Mail $44,839.76
What did all those expenditures get David Pearce (r)?:
The county by county primary results, courtesy of the Missouri Secretary of State:
Bates County
State Senator – District 31 Precincts Reporting 16 of 16Rector, Rex REP 733 59.1%
Pearce, David REP 507 40.9% [loss]Benjamin, Chris DEM 1,686 100.0%
Total Votes 2,926
Cass County
State Senator – District 31 Precincts Reporting 48 of 48Rector, Rex REP 3,416 54.3%
Pearce, David REP 2,876 45.7% [loss]Benjamin, Chris DEM 5,071 100.0%
Total Votes 11,363
Johnson County
State Senator – District 31 Precincts Reporting 11 of 11Rector, Rex REP 431 15.5%
Pearce, David REP 2,348 84.5% [win]Benjamin, Chris DEM 2,092 100.0%
Total Votes 4,871
Vernon County
State Senator – District 31 Precincts Reporting 17 of 17Rector, Rex REP 491 47.9%
Pearce, David REP 533 52.1% [win]Benjamin, Chris DEM 1,873 100.0%
Total Votes 2,897
Counting in the chunk of change Pearce spent on Kansas City radio I figure Bates and Cass Counties cost him about $40.00 a vote. Holy cow. It would have been easier and cheaper to buy everyone in each county a steak dinner.
Maybe some people should ask for their money back.
The word on the ground in Bates and Cass Counties was that they were inundated with mailings in support of David Pearce. I have yet to hear about similar mailings in Johnson County. Probably because the texts were so, well, you know, right wingnutty. And that probably wouldn’t go over very well in Johnson County because, you know, David Pearce is a moderate. Yeah, and I have a bridge I could sell you in Brooklyn.
Here’s some of the details from a mailing:
That one won’t go over very well in Johnson County, David.
Johnson County
Constitutional Amendment No. 2 – 2006 Precincts Reporting 21 of 21
Stem Cell Initiative
Yes 8,544 55.7%
No 6,796 44.3%Total Votes 15,340
[emphasis added]
I wonder if David Pearce is telling us how he voted in 2006. Is that why you didn’t send that mailing to Johnson County voters?
Uh, that’s already the law in the State of Missouri. Talk about pandering to the right wingnut base.
That “agenda” is probably news to Planned Parenthood.
So much for a so-called republican moderate. It’s just so creepily unseemly isn’t it? This blatant brown nosing of the republican right wingnut base.
And so, the republican money flows.
You all know what to do. Chris Benjamin (D).