The republicans will always have all the money the need for their campaigns. Fundraising can be a catch up enterprise for Democrats, so it’s a good sign for them in this environment when they appear to be ahead of the game.

So far there don’t appear to be any republican candidates for Attorney General in 2012 lining up. Don’t fret too much, there will be. And whoever it is will have all the money they need.

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

C031159 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER [pdf] 6/26/2011

Langdon & Emison

911 Main St.

Lexington, MO 64067

6/25/2011

$25,000.00

[emphasis added]

…we think.

Earlier today:

…Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000525 06/24/2011 UAW REGION 5 PAC Jay Nixon for Missouri PO Box 11418 St Louis MO 63105 6/24/2011 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s Jay Nixon for Missouri to the UAW Region 5 PAC. At least it went to political advocates for working people. It’s interesting, Jay Nixon’s (D) campaign has enough on hand to make a contribution like that. You don’t see republican campaigns doing that, do you?…

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

C001135 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 6/25/2011

UAW Region 5 PAC

721 Dunn Road

Hazelwood, MO 63042

6/24/2011

$100,000.00

[emphasis added]

Okay, this probably means that yesterday’s report was a clerical error. Otherwise, the two reports don’t make sense, right?

There’s more:

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Edward Dowd Jr 805 S Warson Rd Saint Louis MO 63124 Dowd Bennett LLC Attorney 6/23/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Laura Lumaghi 20 Lindworth Ln Saint Louis MO 63124 Dowd & Dowd, PC Attorney 6/23/2011 $750.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Paul Lane 18 Briarbrook Trl Des Peres MO 63131 Dowd & Dowd, PC Attorney 6/23/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Ruth Kim 49 Park Pl Saint Peters MO 63376 Fleishman-Hillard General Counsel 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Telephone Contact, Inc. 3800 Hampton Ave. Saint Louis MO 63109 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI The James M. Dowd Law Firm 15 North Gore Avenue Suite 210 Saint Louis MO 63119 6/23/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Newman Bronson & Wallis 2300 West Port Plaza Drive Saint Louis MO 63146 6/23/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Dowd & Dowd PC 100 N. Broadway Suite 1600 Saint Louis MO 63102 6/23/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI DFC Group, Inc. 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1210 Saint Louis MO 63105 6/24/2011 $4,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Missouri ATU COPE 1611 South Broadway Saint Louis MO 63104 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Berry Laws III 1044 Main Suite 900 Kansas City MO 64105 Martin, Leigh, Laws & Fritzlen PC Attorney 6/24/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/25/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Teamsters Local Union No. 682 PAC 5730 Elizabeth Ave Saint Louis MO 63110 6/24/2011 $3,000.00

Attorneys and organized labor (working people). There’s got to be some reason for that enthusiastic support. You think?

Missouri Lieutenant Governor Accuses Labor Professors Of “Terrorism”

April 29, 2011 2:54 pm ET – Media Matters Action Network

Conservative smear artist Andrew Breitbart has found his latest target in labor professors at the University of Missouri who, according to him, advocated union violence in their lectures. Like previous efforts to tarnish his political opponents, Breitbart’s allegations are based on “choppy, heavily edited videos” that take the speakers’ words out of context. As Media Matters notes, the videos were released a week after Breitbart announced his intention to “go after the teachers.”

Now, one of Missouri’s highest-ranking officials is embracing Breitbart’s campaign. During a radio interview yesterday, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (R) complained that the story isn’t getting more attention in the “lamestream media” and agreed with host Dana Loesch, editor of the Breitbart-owned website BigJournalism.com, that the context of the quotes didn’t matter. Going a step further, Kinder exclaimed, “This is terrorism. Let’s call this what it is. Industrial sabotage tactics are a form of terrorism….”

Nah, I don’t think working people are gonna write big contribution checks for Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r). That’d be like a chicken writing checks to Colonel Sanders.

We wrote it yesterday:

You’re gonna get whiplash if you’re watching the contributions come in over the last week of the campaign finance reporting quarter…

Yep.

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000525 06/24/2011 UAW REGION 5 PAC Jay Nixon for Missouri PO Box 11418 St Louis MO 63105 6/24/2011 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s Jay Nixon for Missouri to the UAW Region 5 PAC. At least it went to political advocates for working people. It’s interesting, Jay Nixon’s (D) campaign has enough on hand to make a contribution like that. You don’t see republican campaigns doing that, do you?

And the republican probably sort of candidate for governor keeps raking in the cash. You’d think if the republican establishment was so disappointed in his candidacy the money spigot would dry up. It hasn’t at this point:

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER John Tlapek 14 S. Dexter Street Denver CO 80246 Summit Equity Group Principal 6/24/2011 $10,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER David Farr 1 Fair Oaks Drive St Louis MO 63124 Emerson Chairman/CEO 6/24/2011 $25,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Emerson Electric Co. 8000 West Florissant Avenue PO Box 4100 St Louis MO 63136 6/24/2011 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

On Wednesday:

…Your move, Rex.

Lo and behold:

C031159 06/24/2011 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 6/24/2011 $75,000.00

[emphasis added]

Just not exactly where we expected.

There’s more:

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Thompson Coburn LLP One US Bank Plaza St Louis MO 63101 6/22/2011 $2,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Ameren UE PAC PO Box 780 Jefferson City MO 65102 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Miller O’Reilly Company, Inc 431 S. Jefferson Suite 120 Springfield MO 65806 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Husch Blackwell LLP 190 Carondelet Plaza Suite 600 St Louis MO 63105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters PAC 115 McMenamy Rd St Peters MO 63376 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Central Bancompany PAC 238 Madison St Jefferson City MO 65101 6/22/2011 $5,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Sam Cook 238 Madison St Jefferson City MO 65101 Central Bank 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Express Scripts, Inc. One Express Way St Louis MO 63121 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Milton and Helaine Goldenberg 401 N. Lindbergh Blvd Suite 330 St Louis MO 63141 Self Real Estate 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Supporters of Health Research & Treatments PO Box 220073 St Louis MO 63122 6/22/2011 $1,250.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Teamsters Local 688 PAC 4349 Woodson Road Suite 200 St Louis MO 63134 6/22/2011 $15,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI The Pasta House Co. Catering 2200 59th Street St Louis MO 63110 6/22/2011 $4,897.60

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Telephone Contact, Inc 3800 Hampton Ave St Louis MO 63109 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C081066 06/24/2011 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Missouri AFL-CIO COPE 227 Jefferson Street Jefferson City MO 65101 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

Competence certainly helps.

There are exceptions (r):

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER John Armstrong III 7733 Forsyth Blvd Suite 1625 St Louis MO 63105 Armstrong Coal Co. CEO 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Commerce Bankshares, Inc. 1000 Walnut Street Kansas City MO 64106 6/24/2011 $1,500.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Don Musick III 254 Hanley Ind. Ct. St Louis MO 63144 Musick Construction Co. General Contractor 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Stephen Hamilton 13050 Thornhill Dr. St Louis MO 63131 CSI Leasing Inc. President 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Neal Ethridge 5346 S Applecross Way Springfield MO 65809 Retired Retired 6/24/2011 $2,500.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Custom Metal Craft Inc. PO Box 10587-65808 2332 East Division Springfield MO 65803 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Graves Bartle Marcus & Garrett LLC 1100 Main Street Suite 2700 Kansas City MO 64105 6/24/2011 $2,000.00

C091145 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Jerry Hunter 245 Union Blvd Apt 902 St Louis MO 63108 Bryan Attoney 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

The republican Speaker of the House and candidate for Lieutenant Governor:

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY SHOOTERS SHACK LLC 200 S WESTWOOD BLVD POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY POPLAR BLUFF MEDICAL PARTNERS 221 PHYSICIAN PARK DR POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY HEARTLAND FURNITURE & APPLIANCES LLC 5040 NELLIE SUE CIRCLE POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY WESTWOOD HILLS HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER PO BOX 1328 POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY INTERNAL MEDICINE ASSOC OF SEMO LLC PO BOX 360 POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 6/24/2011 $600.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY MO OPTOMETRIC PAC 100 E HIGH ST JEFFERSON CITY MO 65101 6/24/2011 $2,500.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY ROBERT WHELAN PO BOX 4178 POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 CPA 6/24/2011 $600.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY DEVIN STEPHENSON 255 SHELLY LN POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

C031160 06/24/2011 FRIENDS OF TILLEY STEVE BOYERS 3467 TOWNSHIP LINE RD POPLAR BLUFF MO 63901 SELF EMPLOYED 6/24/2011 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

More for Governor Jay Nixon (D):

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI J.E. Dunn Construction Company 1001 Locust Street Kansas City MO 64106 6/23/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI James Sievers Jr 1177 Lockett Saint Louis MO 63131 Self Attorney 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sievers & Associates 7730 Carondelet Ste 400 Clayton MO 63105 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lynn D. Barnett, PC 906 Olive Street Suite 400 Saint Louis MO 63101 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Thomas Gregory 3 Kingsbury Pl Saint Louis MO 63112 Mogab & Hughes Attorney 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Susan Miller 1215 W 59th St Kansas City MO 64113 J Crew Retail Associate 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI 5th Congressional Democratic Committee 308 W Maple Ave Ste 101 Independence MO 64050 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/24/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Gerson Smoger 3175 Monterey Blvd Oakland CA 94602 Smoger & Associates Attorney 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

And, our incumbent Attorney General, Chris Koster (D), had a couple of other contributions come in:

C031159 06/24/2011 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Missouri Pharmacy PAC P.O. Box 1145 Jefferson City MO 65102 6/24/2011 $1,000.00 [emphasis added]

C031159 06/24/2011 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER James A. Montee 5735 N.W. Union Chapel Rd. Parkville MO 64152 Montee Law Firm, PC Attorney 6/24/2011 $5,000.00

[emphasis added]

We’ll keep watching.

A necessary prelude, especially for members of Congress who apparently don’t bother to read or pay attention to, you know, our actual past:

United States Constitution

Article VI

…but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

The Pledge of Allegiance

Why we’re not one nation “under God.”

By David Greenberg

Updated Friday, June 28, 2002, at 4:39 PM ET

…the original Pledge of Allegiance – meant as an expression of patriotism, not religious faith – also made no mention of God. The pledge was written in 1892 by the socialist Francis Bellamy, a cousin of the famous radical writer Edward Bellamy. He devised it for the popular magazine Youth’s Companion on the occasion of the nation’s first celebration of Columbus Day. Its wording omitted reference not only to God but also, interestingly, to the United States:

“I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Today, via People for the American Way:

Akin: “At The Heart Of Liberalism Really Is A Hatred For God”

Submitted by Brian on June 24, 2011 – 11:14am

Missouri congressman and Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin joined Family Research Council president Tony Perkins to discuss their shared outrage at NBC for omitting the phrase “under God” from a clip of the Pledge of Allegiance in its coverage of the US Open this week…

….Representative Todd Akin (r): This was something that was done systematically, it was done intentionally, and is tremendously corrosive, uh, in terms of all of the values and everything that’s made America such a unique and special nation.

Tony Perkins: Why would NBC do this?

Rep. Akin: Well, I think NBC has a long record of being very liberal and at the heart of liberalism it really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. And, um, so they’ve had a long history of, uh, not being at all, uh, favorable toward, uh, many of things that have been such a blessing to our country.

Rep. Akin: This is a systematic effort to try to separate, uh, our faith and God, which is a source of our belief in individual liberties, uh, from our country. And when you do that you tear the heart out of our country….

Oh, brother:

Those who ignore history are, well….stupid (October 27, 2007)

WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v. BARNETTE ET AL., 319 U.S. 624

Justice Jackson wrote:

…The Board of Education on January 9, 1942, adopted a resolution containing recitals taken largely from the Court’s Gobitis opinion and ordering that the salute to the flag become ‘a regular part of the program of activities in the public schools,’ that all teachers and pupils ‘shall be required to participate in the salute honoring the Nation represented by the Flag; provided, however, that refusal to salute the Flag be regarded as an Act of insubordination, and shall be dealt with accordingly.’ 2 [319 U.S. 624, 627] The resolution originally required the ‘commonly accepted salute to the Flag’ which it defined. Objections to the salute as ‘being too much like Hitler’s’ were raised by the Parent and Teachers Association, the Boy and Girl [319 U.S. 624, 628]  Scouts, the Red Cross, and the Federation of Women’s Clubs. Some modification appears to have been made in deference to these objections, but no concession was made to Jehovah’s Witnesses. What is now required is the ‘stiff-arm’ salute, the saluter to keep the right hand raised with palm turned up while the following is repeated: ‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of [319 U.S. 624, 629] America and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’…

The approved gesture was alarmingly similar to fascist salutes. In 1943. Note the “approved” text of the pledge.

…Symbols of State often convey political ideas just as religious symbols come to convey theological ones. Associated with many of these symbols are appropriate gestures of acceptance or respect: a salute, a bowed or bared head, a bended knee. A person gets from a [319 U.S. 624, 633] symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn….

…Whether the First Amendment to the Constitution will permit officials to order observance of ritual of this nature does not depend upon whether as a voluntary exercise we would think it to be good, bad or merely innocuous. Any credo of nationalism is likely to include what some disapprove or to omit what others think essential, and to give off different overtones as it takes on different accents or interpretations. If official power exists to coerce acceptance of any patriotic creed, what it shall contain cannot be decided by courts, but must be largely discretionary with the ordaining authority, whose power to prescribe would no doubt include power to amend. Hence validity of the asserted power to force an American citizen publicly to profess any statement of belief or to engage in any ceremony of assent to one presents questions of power that must be considered independently of any idea we may have as to the utility of the ceremony in question….

….National unity as an end which officials may foster by persuasion and example is not in question. The problem is whether under our Constitution compulsion as here employed is a permissible means for its achievement.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. [319 U.S. 624, 641]  As governmental pressure toward unity becomes greater, so strife becomes more bitter as to whose unity it shall be. Probably no deeper division of our people could proceed from any provocation than from finding it necessary to choose what doctrine and whose program public educational officials shall compel youth to unite in embracing. Ultimate futility of such attempts to compel coherence is the lesson of every such effort from the Roman drive to stamp out Christianity as a disturber of its pagan unity, the Inquisition, as a means to religious and dynastic unity, the Siberian exiles as a means to Russian unity, down to the fast failing efforts of our present totalitarian enemies. Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

It seems trite but necessary to say that the Fir
st Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.

Justice Jackson reminds us of what the Constitution means, even in a time of war:

…If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us….

“…If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us….” In a time of war, no less. In 1943.

“…no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion…” Powerful words. To believe otherwise would be, well….un-American.

Some of that text Representative Akin (r) is so concerned about wasn’t there in 1892 nor in 1943. And it was written by a socialist? Apparently, the heart was not in our nation until it was put there back in 1954.  

The Constitution is on who’s side?

This bears repeating:

“‘…no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion…’ Powerful words. To believe otherwise would be, well….un-American.”

You’re gonna get whiplash if you’re watching the contributions come in over the last week of the campaign finance reporting quarter.

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER IESI Corporation 2301 Eagle Parkway Suite 200 Fort Worth TX 76177 6/23/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER MOSFA PAC Inc. 221 Bolivar St. Suite 300 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/20/2011 $2,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Linda Tracy 12326 Wedgeton Lane Des Peres MO 63131 None Housewife 6/23/2011 $2,500.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER John Tracy 12326 Wedgeton Lane Des Peres MO 63131 Dot Foods, Inc Business 6/23/2011 $2,500.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER John Ricketts 2921 E Avalon Dr. Springfield MO 65804 Retired Retired 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Meyer Group Inc. 9201 Watson Rd. Suite 300 St Louis MO 63126 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Herzog Contracting Corp. PO Box 1089 St Joseph MO 64502 6/23/2011 $50,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Matthew Darrah 2424 Oak Springs Ln. St Louis MO 63131 Enterprise Executive 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Pamela Nicholson 29 Brentmoor Park St Louis MO 63105 Nicholson Jones Wines Founder 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Andrew Taylor 1147 Log Cabin Lane St Louis MO 63124 Enterprise CEO 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Enterprise Holdings, Inc. Political Action Committee 600 Corporate Park Drive St Louis MO 63105 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Jack Taylor 35 Hunter Avenue St Louis MO 63124 Enterprise Executive 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Gregory Stubblefield 5 Huntleigh Woods St Louis MO 63131 Enterprise Executive 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Andrew Taylor 1147 Log Cabin Lane St Louis MO 63124 Enterprise CEO 6/21/2011 $1,750.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Raymond Wagner Jr 313 Saint Andrews Ct. Ballwin MO 63011 Enterprise Vice President 6/21/2011 $1,500.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Kathy Maupin 567 N Spoede Rd. Creve Coeur MO 63141 Self Physician 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Landmark Capital LLC 1227 Fern Ridge Pkwy STE 202 St Louis MO 63141 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Gershman Mortgage 7 North Bemiston St Louis MO 63105 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER James Coyle 42 Pacland Estates Chesterfield MO 63005 Self Physician 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Gene McNary 3 Watch Hill St Louis MO 63124 Paule, Camazine, & Blumenthal A Professional Corporation Attorney 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Thomas Applewhite MD 13074 StarBuck rd. St Louis MO 63141 West County Radiology Group Doctor 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Committee to Elect Steven E. Ehlmann 300 Washington St Charles MO 63301 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Joseph Stieven 4 Lochinvar Drive St Louis MO 63131 Stieven Capital Advisors President 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Caryn Lamping No. 2 Warson Hills St Louis MO 63124 None Housewife 6/21/2011 $2,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Forest Hills Properties, LLC 1 Oak Ridge Drive Washington MO 63090 6/21/2011 $25,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER PJM Consulting, Inc 7733 Forsyth Blvd. Ste. 1375 St Louis MO 63105 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER David Schlafly 2 Upper Dromara Ln. St Louis MO 63124 Schlafly Corporation Owner 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Optimus, LLC 1001 Boardwalk Springs Place, Suite 240 O Fallon MO 63368 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Schmitt For Senate PO Box 220722 Kirkwood MO 63122 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Paric Corporation 1001 Boardwalk Springs Place, Suite 220 O Fallon MO 63368 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C091145 06/23/2011 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Jack Pohrer 150 Overbrook Dr. St Louis MO 63124 St. Louis Parking CEO 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

For Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) reelection campaign:

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI AT&T One AT&T Center Saint Louis MO 63101 6/21/2011 $25,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Ameren UE PAC PO Box 780 Jefferson City MO 65102 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Local 610 Political Action Committee Fund 11472 Schenk Drive Maryland Heights MO 63043 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI The Henning Law Firm, PC 1044 Main Ste 500 Kansas City MO 64105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI The Law Offices of Stephen R. Bough 917 W. 43rd St. Kansas City MO 64111 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Universal Asset Management, LLC 801 Westchester Avenue Harrisonville MO 64701 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Martin Meyers 415 West 55th St Kansas City MO 64113 Self Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Jerry Riffel 3701 Valentine Rd Kansas City MO 64111 Lathrop & Gage Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI The Redfearn Law Firm 1125 Grand Blvd Suite 1805 Kansas City MO 64106 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Teamsters Local Union No. 41 Political Action Fund 4501 Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd Kansas City MO 64130 6/22/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lathrop & Gage LLP 2345 Grand Boulevard Kansas City MO 64108 6/22/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Richard Rhyne 2345 Grand Blvd Ste 2200 Kansas City MO 64108 Lathrop & Gage Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Robert Burnett 404 W. 58th Street Kansas City MO 64113 Jackson County Tax Assessor 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Slough Connealy Irwin & Madden LLC 1627 Main St. Ste 900 Kansas City MO 64108 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Richard Martin 9829 Sagamore Rd. Leawood KS 66206 Husch Blackwell Sanders Managing Director 6/22/2011 $750.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Gregory Smith 51 Clermont Ln Saint Louis MO 63124 Husch Blackwell Sanders Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Douglas Schmidt 1204 West 59 Street Kansas City MO 64113 Husch Blackwell Sanders Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI David Fenley 1020 W 60th Terrace Kansas City MO 64113 Husch Blackwell Sanders Partner 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Edwin Hood 647 W 58th Terr Kansas City MO 64113 University of Missouri – Kansas City Professor 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI M James Van Dyke 6129 Summit St Kansas City MO 64113 SNR Denton Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI R Lawrence Ward 907 W 125th Terrace Kansas City MO 64145 Polsinelli Shughart PC Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Stephen B. Millin, Jr., PC 1100 Main Street Suite 2800 Kansas City MO 64105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/
23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI McDaniel Hazley Group, Inc. 1100 Main Street Ste 1850 Kansas City MO 64105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Behr, McCarter & Potter, PC 7777 Bonhomme Ave. Suite 1400 Clayton MO 63105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Armstrong Teasdale 7700 Forsyth Boulevard Suite 1800 Saint Louis MO 63105 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI McQuain, Dehardt & Rosenbloom, PC 4505 Madison Avenue Kansas City MO 64111 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Shaffer Lombardo Shurin 911 Main Suite 2000 Kansas City MO 64105 6/22/2011 $3,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Albert Riederer 5401 Wyandotte St. Kansas City MO 64112 Riederer Law Firm Attorney 6/22/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Whitney Kerr 41 Compton Ct Prairie Village KS 66208 Cassidy Turley Senior Vice President 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Connie Martin 5915 NW 96th Terrace Kansas City MO 64154 Self Mortgage Banker 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Phil Snowden 4642 N Holly Court Kansas City MO 64116 Snowden & Decuyper Attorney 6/22/2011 $2,200.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Argo Development Company, Inc. 7902 NW Scenic Drive Kansas City MO 64152 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI USA 800 Inc. 9808 E. 66th Terrace PO Box 16795 Raytown MO 64133 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Charles Myers 505 NW 43rd Ter Kansas City MO 64116 Lathrop & Gage Attorney 6/22/2011 $1,500.00

C001135 06/23/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lathrop & Gage LLP 2345 Grand Boulevard Kansas City MO 64108 6/22/2011 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $133,000.00 for Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) and $81,450.00 for Governor Jay Nixon (D).

A t-shirt at the Johnson County Democratic Club meeting in Warrensburg this evening:

the latest in Obama campaign wear, front and back (the long form birth certificate).

Today, via Twitter:

@RepHartzler Rep. Vicky Hartzler

Muggy day in Washington. Not deterring me in the fight #4jobs! The American people are ready to get our country back on track! 6 hours ago

We’re doomed.

“Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me meither… Pass it on”

What If Everyone Saw This Facebook Status?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Angie

…recently, we noticed a new contender: a feisty political point that’s spreading like wildfire.

We think there’s a real opportunity for it to go viral and introduce millions of people to this cheeky, spot-on reframing of the economic crisis we’re in…

Originally submitted by Emi K. Found on Being Liberal’s Facebook page.

This is making the rounds on the Internets.

We’re doing our part here to keep it going.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: June is bustin’ out all over for Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r), part 5 (June 21, 2011)

Campaign Finance: The Governor (D) Strikes Back (June 21, 2011)

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Anheuser Busch Companies 1 Busch Pl Saint Louis MO 63118 6/21/2011 $25,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Express Scripts, Inc. One Express Way Saint Louis MO 63121 6/21/2011 $50,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kielty Law, LLC 60 Hill Pointe Ct Ste 202 Saint Charles MO 63303 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Carpenters Local Union 110 310 S. Belt HWY. Saint Joseph MO 64506 6/21/2011 $3,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Law Offices of David C Knieriem 7711 Bonhomme Avenue Suite 850 Clayton MO 63105 6/21/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Larry Chapman 1600 S. Brentwood Blvd. Suite 770 Saint Louis MO 63144 Chapman Ventures, LLC President 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sigma-Aldrich 3050 Spruce St Saint Louis MO 63103 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Centene Management Company LLC 7711 Carondelet Ave Saint Louis MO 63105 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI UniGroup, Inc One United Drive Fenton MO 63026 6/21/2011 $5,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI IESI Corporation 2301 Eagle Parkway Suite 200 Fort Worth TX 76177 6/21/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI EFM PAC 221 Bolivar St Suite 300 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/21/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sedey Harper PC 2711 Clifton Ave Suite 200 Saint Louis MO 63139 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sowers & Wolf, LLC 530 Maryville Centre Dr Suite 460 Saint Louis MO 63141 6/21/2011 $2,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Meyerkord & Meyerkord, LLC 1717 Park Avenue Saint Louis MO 63104 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Charles Lampin 5 Whitmoor Court Saint Charles MO 63304 Kell Lampin, LLC Attorney 6/21/2011 $600.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI David Westbrook 5226 Mercier St Kansas City MO 64112 Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Senior Vice President 6/21/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Laclede Political Action Committee 720 Olive St Ste 1524 Saint Louis MO 63101 6/22/2011 $2,500.00

C001135 06/22/2011 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Milton Goldenberg 401 N Lindbergh Blvd #330 Saint Louis MO 63141 Golden Management, Inc Real Estate Developer 6/21/2011 $1,000.00

That’s $117,100.00.

Your move, Rex.