Or, if one job doesn’t quite work out, there’ll be another.

Official Election Returns

State of Missouri Primary Election  – 2010 Primary Election

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

As announced by the Board of State Canvassers

on Tuesday, August 24, 2010

State Senator – District 6 – Summary

Precincts Reporting 111 of 111

Otto, Harry REP 3,282 10.6%

Deeken, Bill REP 5,133 16.6%

Jones, Kenny REP 10,201 33.0%

Kehoe, Mike REP 12,250 39.7%

Total Votes   30,866

[emphasis added]

Ouch, fourth out of four.

But, this being republican politics in the State of Missouri, something will work out:

New Deputy State Auditor brings 40+ years experience

by Ryan Famuliner on January 18, 2011

New State Auditor Tom Schweich says he made a concentrated effort to bring some people on his staff with some extensive private and public work experience.

Harry Otto worked for the Department of Revenue before moving into the private sector early in his 40-year career. He eventually became the president of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants….

[emphasis added]

Oh, the irony!:

A $10,000 campaign contribution and irony impairment in the 6th Senate District (June 25, 2010)

….The irony impairment? From a September 22, 2009 article in the Jefferson City News Tribune, reproduced at Harry Otto’s campaign web site:

“….I do expect to be outspent in this campaign,” Otto said, “but I don’t expect to be outworked.

“I don’t think this office ought to be purchased.  I think it ought to be earned.”  He said he’s not afraid of a fiveman primary race….

….

[emphasis added]

Uh, Harry, you might want to check with your new boss about that. Though it appears that you both get the $10,000.00 increment thing.

Uh, that’s an understatement.

The past few days at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

A101430 SAVE KANSAS CITY COMMITTEE [pdf] 1/15/2011

International Association of Fire Fighters

Local 42

6320 Manchester Ave suite 42A

Kansas City , MO 64133

1/15/2011

$150,000.00

Polsinelli Shughart

700 West 47th ST Suite 1000

Kansas City , MO 64112

1/15/2011

$20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Nope. That first one is not a typo. This is probably what people mean when the say they’re “going all in.”

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

A101430 SAVE KANSAS CITY COMMITTEE [pdf] 1/16/2011

George K. Baum & Company

4801 Main Street

Kansas City , MO 64131

1/16/2011

$7,500.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Kansas City antes up to support the earnings tax vote in 2011, part 4 (January 13, 2011)

Kansas City antes up to support the earnings tax vote in 2011, part 3 (January 9, 2011)

Kansas City antes up to support the earnings tax vote in 2011, part 2 (January 4, 2011)

Kansas City antes up to support the earnings tax vote in 2011 (January 3, 2011)

Finally, part 2 (December 20, 2010)

Finally (December 14, 2010)

HB 26: an attempt to fix some of the mess of Proposition A (December 3, 2010)

Where’s Kansas City on fundraising for the 2011 earnings tax vote? (November 27, 2010)

St. Louis leads the fundraising way on the April 2011 earnings tax vote (November 16, 2010)

Any bets that the Royals follow through for Kansas City? (November 13, 2010)

Very rich Rex Sinquefield is getting ready for an unholy war against the poor and middle class; his objective: the unFair Tax. Right now he’s busily deploying his proxies, among them Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley who, along with sundry other foot-soldiers in the Missouri legislature, is seriously in hock to Sinquefield for big chunks of campaign funding. The brute force brigade, known locally as the Let Voters Decide Campaign Committee, is simultaneously taking its place on the battlefield with the filing of not one, but nine versions of a petition for a proposed constitutional amendment that would abolish the income tax and substitute one or another version of a regressive sales tax, deceptively labeled a “fair” tax, to be applied to a vastly expanded body of goods and services. (The differences between the nine versions are summarized in this St. Louis Beacon article.) King Rex is a strategist; he knows to cover his rear flank should the legislative gambit fail to pay off.

I’ve written about why the unFair Tax is such a bad idea here and here; now that it’s coming down the pike and we are dealing with the particulars of Sinquefield’s proposal, mainstream outlets are also piping up (see, for instance this editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Essentially the arguments against Sinquefield’s unFair Tax proposal boil down to the following:

1. The unFair Tax is not revenue neutral and the state would lose money. To make a sales tax/income tax swap an even-steven proposition would entail prohibitively high sales taxes.

2. Revenue from Missouri’s already low income taxes is currently inadequate to meet the needs of the state. If the unFair Tax is enacted as proposed by Sinquefield et al., it would truly decimate state services – and things are already pretty grim on that front.  There’s a reason why CNBC’s Top States for Business Survey ranks Missouri 49th for quality of life.

3. The unFair Tax will create a toxic environment. It’s  obvious that higher sales taxes would seriously impact those with lower incomes. Businesses in border areas could suffer since those of us who can do so will most likely travel out of state when it comes time to make major purchases. To move into the realm of the anecdotal and personal, I would imagine that when it comes time for my husband to retire, should the unFair Tax prevail, we probably won’t be staying in Missouri  – heck, we might even look for a new house on the Illinois side of the river long before retirement. And I bet we won’t be alone; plenty of those who have the option to do so may just head for those nearby hills outside Missouri.

4. Since the proposal envisions exemptions from sales tax for some selected set of services, it doesn’t take a genius to see an opening for some very happy lobbyists and the concomitant nasty corruption.

5. There is no upside – the claim that eliminating state income tax translates into prosperity has been discredited over and over. Take for instance the much touted example of Texas. Unfortunately, it seems that those stories about streets paved with gold in the Lone Star State were fictional; Texas, with a looming $18 billion deficit, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. And even worse for the anti-tax clique, Texas’ governor and big-time hypocrite, Rick Perry, has been busy for the past couple of years plugging holes in the state budget with the federal stimulus money against which he so loudly harangued – making things look a lot rosier less thorny than they actually were among the yellow roses of Texas.

6. The most important reason to reject the unfair sales tax is that it is so – wait for it – unfair. Rex Sinquefield wants the working people of Missouri to carry rich men on their backs. There are few cases where one can create wealth without leveraging the educational and physical infrastructure that our taxes provide. Those who make money do so because they have access to an educated workforce, transportation systems, and other elements of publicly provided infrastructure. It is not fair for those who have parlayed those tools into big bucks to weasel out of paying for their use – which is just what Sinquefield’s unfair sales tax would permit. Take a look at the following chart* which gives one a picture of how state and local taxes are actually apportioned:

It’s clear who’s carrying the weight of sales taxes here – and it isn’t the likes of Daddy Warbucks Sinquefield. Now imagine what the chart would look like if income taxes were eliminated and the sales taxes were increased across the board. Did you say regressive? Just before you fainted? All I know is that I’m sure as hell not going to sit idly by while King Rex and his pals try to get a free ride at my expense. And if you want to call this class war, well go ahead. As far as I’m concerned, I know who fired the first volley.

*Chart from “Who Pays?” (PDF), prepared by Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

 

HR 39 was passed last week by the House. The resolution calls for Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster (D) to join in the frivolous anti-health care reform lawsuits getting smacked down in federal courtrooms across the country.

With apologies to Atrios

From Representative Denny Hoskins’ (r-noun, verb, CPA) January 13, 2011 “Capitol Report”:

….The full House already voted on some bills this week.  I’m pleased to report on a resolution to urge Missouri to join 20 other state attorneys general in a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of the federal health care requirement.  I voted for HCR 39 and am hopeful Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster will enter into this lawsuit to make health insurance a personal choice….

There were a few amendments. A personal favorite (from the Journal of the House [pdf] for January 11, 2011):

….Representative Kelly (24) offered House Amendment No. 4.

House Amendment No. 4

AMEND House Resolution No. 39, Page 1, Line 29, by deleting the following:

“Missouri Lieutenant Governor”, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “private citizen”….

Heh.

That amendment was further amended. And then:

….On motion of Representative Franz, House Resolution No. 39, as amended, was adopted by the following vote:

AYES: 115

Allen Asbury Bahr Barnes Bernskoetter Berry Black Brandom Brattin Brown 85 Brown 116 Burlison Casey Cauthorn Cierpiot Conway 14 Conway 27 Cookson Cox Crawford Cross Curtman Davis Day Denison Dieckhaus Diehl Dugger Elmer Entlicher Faith Fallert Fisher Fitzwater Flanigan Fraker Franklin Franz Frederick Fuhr Gatschenberger Gosen Grisamore Guernsey Haefner Hampton Harris Higdon Hinson Hodges Hoskins Hough Houghton Johnson Jones 89 Jones 117 Keeney Kelley 126 Klippenstein Koenig Korman Lair Lant Largent Lasater Lauer Leach Leara Lichtenegger Loehner Long Marshall McCaherty McGhee McNary Molendorp Nance Neth Nolte Parkinson Phillips Pollock Quinn Redmon Reiboldt Richardson Riddle Rowland Ruzicka Sater Schad Scharnhorst Schatz Schieber Schieffer Schneider Schoeller Shively Shumake Silvey Smith 150 Solon Stream Swinger Thomson Torpey Wallingford Wells Weter White Wieland Wright Wyatt Zerr Mr Speaker

NOES: 046

Anders Atkins Aull Brown 50 Carlson Carter Colona Curls Ellinger Holsman Hubbard Hummel Jones 63 Kander Kelly 24 Kirkton Kratky Lampe May McCann Beatty McDonald McGeoghegan McManus McNeil Meadows Montecillo Nasheed Newman Nichols Oxford Pace Peters-Baker Pierson Rizzo Schupp Sifton Smith 71 Spreng Still Swearingen Talboy Taylor Walton Gray Webb Webber Zimmerman

PRESENT: 000

ABSENT WITH LEAVE: 002

Funderburk Hughes

[emphasis added]

As for the frivolous part:

Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Health Care Reform Law

Doug Mataconis Wednesday, December 1, 2010

….If nothing else, this case points out just how difficult it will be for any of the Plaintiffs involved in the lawsuits against the health care reform bill to convince any Court of Appeals of the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate, not to mention the Supreme Court. In order for the Courts to do so, they are going to have to find more than 60 years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence to have been wrongly decided, and the odds of that happening seem to be slim indeed…

Uh, that’s legal talk for the lawsuits being a colossal waste of time.

And, according to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing health care reform would add significantly to the deficit:

CBO’s Preliminary Analysis of H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act

….Because CBO and JCT estimated that the March 2010 health care legislation would reduce budget deficits over the 2010-2019 period and in subsequent years, we expect that repealing that legislation would increase budget deficits. The resulting increase in deficits projected for fiscal years 2012 through 2019 is likely to be similar in size to-but not exactly the same as-the reduction in deficits that was originally estimated to result from the enacted legislation….

Impact on the Federal Budget in the First Decade

As a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, CBO expects that enacting H.R. 2 would probably increase federal budget deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion (on the basis of the original estimate), plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes that CBO and JCT will include in the forthcoming estimate. Adding two more years (through 2021) brings the projected increase in deficits to something in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes….

There you have it. The federal lawsuits are a waste of time and repeal of health care reform would significantly increase the deficit. For republicans, what’s not to like?

Here in Missouri, we’ve sent a group of GOPers to Washington who all have in common the fact that they demonstrate considerable spleen when it comes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Billy Long (R-7th), for example, has bizarrely characterized the ACA as a “purely socialist single-payer healthcare system unlike anything the nation has ever experienced before.” Nor is Billy alone. Next Tuesday it is probably safe to assume that all of our Missouri GOP House members will stand with the rest of their party and vote to repeal the “job-killing” ACA.

Of course this vote amounts to nothing more than political theater, meant to assuage the GOP Tea Party foot soldiers. The bill will go nowhere in the Senate and, if by some fluke it did, it’s a sure bet that the President would veto it. Nevertheless, no matter what else you may think of them, Grand Old Partiers are no fools; they can see as well as anyone else that the anti-Obamacare ruckus they ignited could get out of hand if they don’t follow-up on the fire-and-brimstone they served up to susceptible Tea Partiers. They may soon, however, find themselves between a rock and hard place when it comes time to take credit for this sad piece of performance art.

It’s that “job-killing” part, particularly as it pertains to small businesses, that could trip them up. GOP pols and fellow-traveling lobbyists have been loudly proclaiming that the ACA will be poison for small businesses. Just do a search on “small business” and “Obamacare” and you’ll encounter a plethora of articles replete with doomsday predictions. Roy Blunt actually promised to repeal the ACA as one of the lynch pins of his putative jobs-plan during his Senate campaign last fall. Ultimately, though, the proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

Which is why it is interesting to note that small businesses are rushing to take advantage of the provisions of the ACA.  The Los Angeles Times reports that:

Major insurers around the country are reporting that a growing number of small businesses are signing up to give their workers health benefits, a sign of potential progress for the nation’s battered healthcare system. …

An important selling point has been a tax credit that the nation’s new healthcare law provides to companies with fewer than 25 employees and moderate-to-low pay scales to help offset the cost of providing benefits. The tax credit is one of the first few provisions to kick in; much of the law rolls out over the next few years

To take an example close to home, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Kansas City, Mo. reports a 58% increase in small businesses buying insurance for their employees. Thirty-eight percent of those businesses had never offered their workers insurance before. As for those mandates and reporting requirements that many deplore, Rick Ungar of Forbes’ The Policy Page nails it:

If these small businesses found the new law to be so onerous, why have so many of them voluntarily taken advantage of the benefits provided in the law to give their employees these benefits? They were not mandated to do so. And to the extent that the coming mandate obligations might figure into their thinking, would you not imagine they would wait until 2014 to make a move as the rules do not go into effect until that time?

Nor, with apologies to Billy Long, is the ACA proving to be especially “socialistic.” Actually, the folks who might be contributing most to an anti-business climate may be the Republicans with their constant posturing on the topic of the ACA.  As Ezra Klein puts it:

… the health-care industry is having to balance investments that it wants to make against the concern that Republicans will repeal the bill and yank away those opportunities. Before the election, John Boehner said employers “are afraid to invest and hire in an economy stalled by ‘stimulus’ spending and hamstrung by uncertainty.” Now he’s the guy stringing the hams

I wouldn’t be too surprised, as long as Democrats play their cards right, if next Tuesday might be remembered as the day when the GOP tried to effect the job-killing repeal of the Health Care Act, rather than a vote to repeal the job-killing health care act.

MORE:  Steve Benen has a similar take  on the Republican ACA repeal effort. Interesting quotes he includes:

As Kevin Drum noted a couple of weeks ago, “[I]t really is possible that both the healthcare sector and the business community in general, after they take a look at what kind of chaos might ensue from ad hoc partial defunding, will put some real pressure on Republicans to stand down on this. That would be an interesting turn of events, no?”

The WSJ report added, “Talking about repeal of the health law may be a winning political strategy for Republicans, a rare way to please both workers and business executives. As long as they don’t actually succeed in doing it.”

The typical republican expects everyone else to have a short memory:

Journal; The Mother Next Door

By FRANK RICH

Published: November 13, 1994

….But once Ms. Smith confessed, a new villain had to be found to keep our own internal demons at bay. Enter Newt Gingrich, who rushed into action on election eve with another reliable generic culprit: society. He said the double murder “vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things,” expediently adding that “the only way you get change is to vote Republican.”

Hmmm, that sounds suspiciously like someone was exploiting a tragedy for political purposes, right before an election, even. And the real story got even worse when the facts came out long after that election:

Defending Smith, Stepfather Says He Also Bears Blame

By RICK BRAGG

Published: July 28, 1995

…Susan Smith’s stepfather, who admitted that he had molested her when she was a teen-ager and had consensual sex with her as an adult, told her and his town that he shared her guilt in the drowning deaths of her young sons….

….Mr. Russell, a former member of the executive committee of the South Carolina Republican Party and a member of the Christian Coalition, read aloud from a letter he had written to Mrs. Smith in jail in which he said that his “heart breaks for what I have done to you….”

[emphasis added]

Can you believe that the inside the beltway cocktail weenie circuit continues to have Newt Gingrich appear on our televisions?

Now, we have a political environment where one group consistently uses violent imagery and eliminationist rhetoric, all while continuing to say, “what, who me?”

Previously:

It does happen here : “…can you out run a nine millimeter…” (January 10, 2011)

It does happen here : “…can you out run a nine millimeter…”, part 2 (January 12, 2011)

So, as near as we can tell Courtney Cole’s op-ed about threats of violence directed at individuals running for office has appeared here, at Fired Up!, PoliticMo, in the Kansas City Star, and now, in the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal. Interestingly, the versions in the Star and the Star-Journal don’t mention the name of the individual in the police report.

But, of course, we do get the typical right wing republican knee jerk reaction when anyone points out the obvious. This, from a long comment in the Star-Journal from someone with the same name as an unsuccessful republican candidate [pdf] in the 2010 primary for Presiding Commissioner of Johnson County:

As always, someone has to make a tragedy into a political argument, when, as the evidence comes to light, this incident in Tucson was clearly non-political.

I can’t grant much credence to Courtney Cole’s claims of threats made during the last election. I’m not saying they’re untrue, just a bit over blown as were many of her statements in her campaign literature. I doubt that she was every in any real physical danger as the election results indicate that only a few thought she was a viable candidate. She seems to still taste the sour grapes of her recent defeat.

Since Ms. Cole threw herself wholeheartedly into the politics of personal destruction during the campaign (referencing the seemingly unending deluge of vitriolic literature that was sent to me daily by her campaign), for her to be chastising the rest of us for any lack of civility seems a little out of place….

….If we’re all to practice more civility, perhaps Courtney Cole should take her own advice and in her next campaign lead us all….

“…I’m not saying they’re untrue, just a bit over blown as were many of her statements in her campaign literature…”

Untrue? Uh, Courtney Cole quotes the offender from the police report in his conversation with the investigating officer as reported by that officer. And, of course, pointing out that the republican incumbent failed to pay his taxes (a fact) is definitely “over blown”. Ah, the “they all do it” defense. Yes, because a threat of violence is a “bit over blown” and equivalent to campaign literature which points out the actual record of the incumbent.

“…referencing the seemingly unending deluge of vitriolic literature that was sent to me daily by her campaign…”

Project much? Unending deluge? Who outspent who? You mean like this, this, or this? Yeah, stating that someone is “guilty by association”, a preeminent American value, in a mailing is so much better than an actual discussion of important issues or the public record.

The commenter evidently thinks everyone else is an idiot.

Are threats of violence like “can you outrun a nine millimeter” acceptable political discourse? Is pointing out the verifiable public record of a candidate the same? Just asking.

I wonder if the commenter spoke up when Newt Gingrich exploited those murders in South Carolina for political purposes. Nah. *IOKIYAR. Being self righteous goes with the territory.

* it’s okay if you’re a republican

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C091068 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE INC [pdf] 1/14/2011

Missouri Leadership Committee

222 W Columbia St

Farmington, MO 63640

1/14/2011

$100,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s no typo.

The Missouri Leadership Committee is a PAC. They filed a 30 Day After General Election – Limited Activity Report on November 30, 2010. So far they haven’t filed any reports (including 48 hour reports) in 2011. The last comprehensive campaign finance report from them was an 8 Day Before General Election Report filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission on October 25, 2010:  

Detailed Summary of Committee Disclosure Report

Committe: MO LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

ReportDate: 11/30/2010

1. TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THIS ELECTION PREVIOUSLY REPORTED $142,079.28

2. ALL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED THIS PERIOD $0.00

28. MONEY ON HAND AT THE CLOSE OF THIS REPORTING PERIOD (SUM 25 + 26 – 27) $357,519.49

[emphasis added]

They’re flush with cash – $357,519.49.

Since no contributions were received for that report we’ll have to look further back, to the October Committee Quarterly Report filed on October 15, 2010.

Nope, no contributions listed there, either. Nor for the 30 Day After Primary Election report filed on September 1, 2010.

But, wait, there was a single big contribution reported in a 24 Hour report on July 26, 2010:

Detailed Summary of Contributions And Loans Received

Committee: MO LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

Report Date: 7/26/2010

A. ITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM COMMITTEES REGARDLESS OF THE AMOUNT, OR FROM PERSONS GIVING MORE THAN $100 TO A COMMITTEE.

FRIENDS OF TILLEY 100 S JACKSON PERRYVILLE MO 63775 07/26/2010 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

No other reports list contributions until January 15, 2010:

Detailed Summary of Contributions And Loans Received

Committee: MO LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

Report Date: 1/15/2010

A. ITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM COMMITTEES REGARDLESS OF THE AMOUNT, OR FROM PERSONS GIVING MORE THAN $100 TO A COMMITTEE.

CHAD WHEELER 168 PCR 712 PERRYVILLE MO 63775 12/14/2010 $500.00

LIFE SCIENCES FUND OF THE GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 911 MAIN ST STE 2600 KANSAS CITY MO 64105-5303 12/30/2009 $1,000.00

SUPPORTERS OF HEALTH RESEARCH & TREATMENTS PO BOX 220954 ST LOUIS MO 63122 12/28/2009 $1,000.00

Let’s take a look at the Friends of Tilley, in their quarterly report filed on January 4, 2011:

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED – SUPPLEMENTAL

FRIENDS OF TILLEY [pdf] 1/4/2011

MHA

PO BOX 60

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102

12/2/2010

$2,000.00

MISSOURI FREEDOM

PO BOX 1792

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102

12/2/2010

$1,500.00

WYNDHAM VACATION OWNERSHIP

22 SYLVAN WAY

PARSIPPANY NJ 07054

12/15/2010

$1,000.00

US TOOL GRINDING INC

701 SOUTH DESLOGE DR

DESLOGE MO 63601

12/15/2010

$5,000.00

DEAN OPERATIONS INC PAC

PO BOX 419176

KANSAS CITY MO 64141

12/15/2010

$500.00

LEE MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS INC

PO BOX 663

PARK HILLS MO 63601

12/15/2010

$15,000.00

MISSOURI LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

222 WEST COLUMBIA

FARMINGTON MO 63640

12/21/2010

$100,000.00

HOWARD WOOD

203 N E MAIN ST

BONNE TERRE MO 63628

SELF EMPLOYED

12/20/2010

$10,000.00

CARE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES INC

21 BLOOMINGDALE RD

WHITE PLAINS NY 10605

12/20/2010

$2,000.00

LAFARGE MISSOURI PAC

PO BOX 1543

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102

12/20/2010

$500.00

WINDSTREAM PAC

4001 RODNEY PARHAM RD

LITTLE ROCK AR 72212

12/20/2010

$500.00

SIX STATES RENTAL INC

10276 HWY YY

NEW HAVEN MO 63068

12/23/2010

$10,000.00

CLEARVIEW ENTERPRISES OF THE MIDWEST INC

239 ROCK INDUSTRIAL BLVD

UNION MO 63084

12/23/2010

$10,000.00

THERMALTECH INC

239 ROCK INDUSTRIAL BLVD STE 100

UNION MO 63084

12/23/2010

$5,000.00

MACO DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

PO BOX 68

CLARKTON MO 63837

12/23/2010

$10,000.00

BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM USA CORPORATION

PO BOX 2874

CLINTON IA 52732

12/26/2010

$1,000.00

JOYCE WOOD

PO BOX 18

BONNE TERRE MO 63628

SELF EMPLOYED

12/29/2010

$10,000.00

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

950 F STREET NW

WASHINGTON DC 20004

12/30/2010

$3,000.00

EVERGREEN INVESTMENTS LLC

PO BOX 1600

LEBANON MO 65536

12/30/2010

$1,000.00

PYRAMID HOME HEALTH SERVICES

PO BOX 1927

CAPE GIRARDEAU MO 63702

12/29/2010

$10,000.00

ABBOTT LABORATORIES EMPLOYEE PAC

100 ABBOTT PARK RD

ABBOTT PARK IL 60064

12/30/2010

$500.00

MEDICAP PHARMACY

800 VALLEY CREEK DR

FARMINGTON MO 63640

12/30/2010

$30.00

[emphasis added]

Well, that’s interesting. Giveth and receive.

That last one was just for fun.

Back to July 26, 2010 and that $100,000.00 in the Friends of Tilley 30 Day After Primary Election report filed on September 1, 2010 with the Missouri Ethics Commission:

Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made

Committe: FRIENDS OF TILLEY

ReportDate: 9/2/2010

C. MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS MADE (REGARDLESS OF AMOUNT)

MO LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE 222 WEST COLUMBIA FARMINGTON MO 63640 07/26/2010 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

So, to recap, the Missouri House HRCC received $100,000.00 (for more outrageous robocalls?) from the Missouri Leadership Committee, a PAC, on January 14, 2011. Flush with cash, the Missouri Leadership Committee from January 2010 had only one contribution, $100,000.00 from the Friends of Tilley on July 26, 2010. On December 21, 2010 the Friends of Tilley received a $100,000.00 contribution from the Missouri Leadership Committee.

What, they just held the money for five months and gave it back?

I bet Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) would like a piece of that action. Oh, wait…