Previously: Campaign Finance: big bucks for a payday loan PAC (August 20, 2011)
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
C111153 MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY [pdf] 8/24/2011
Missourians for Equal Credit Opportunity
4131 N Mulberry Drive Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64116
8/22/2011
$107,279.50
Deja vu all over again.
Wait a minute. Haven’t we seen that name before? Uh, yep, there is another:
Date Established: 7/18/2011
Date Terminated: 8/24/2011 11:17:05 AM
POLITICAL ACTION
COMMITTEE: MECID:C111137
MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY
4131 N MULBERRY DR STE 200
KANSAS CITY MO 64116
[emphasis added]
Five weeks? We hardly knew yah.
Let’s look at the termination report filed on August 24, 2011:
REPORT SUMMARY
MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY [C111137] [pdf]
8/24/20111. Total Receipts For This Election Previously Reported $0.00
2. All Monetary Contributions Received This Period $200,060.00
10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $92,780.50
19. Total All Contributions Made This
Election $107,279.5027. Money On Hand at the close of this
reporting period $0.00
[emphasis added]
Ah, the circle of life.
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY 8/24/2011Missourians for Responsible Government
P O Box 45571
Kansas City MO 64171
8/19/2011
$200,000.0013. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $60.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a jarring juxtaposition. Why bother contributing the sixty bucks?
DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT
MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY 8/24/2011Initiative Relating to Pay Day Lending
State-wide
11/6/2012
$92,780.50
Curiouser and curiouser.
ADDENDUM STATEMENT
M.E.C. ID NO. C111137 [pdf]General Addendum:
Invoice #808390-0010 from Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLC for Fiscal Note Expert (Joseph Haslag)General Addendum:
Axiom Strategies, LLC Invoice #1556: Strategic Campaign Oversight $15,000; Strategic Communications $16,000; Regional Operations Management $25,000; Travel Expenses $838.80; Grassroots Outreach $2,500; Issue Research $17,500; Issue Research ExpensesGeneral Addendum:
Axiom Strategies Invoice #1556 (cont.)(copies and travel) $208.05; Website Design/Build Deposit $9,500General Addendum:
TERMINATION EXPLANATION: The committee was formed as a political action committee, but sought to amend its Statement of Committee Organization to become a campaign committee after the Missouri Secretary of State certified an initiative petition regarding
Amount: 0.00General Addendum:
TERMINATION EXPLANATION (cont.): pay day lending for the collection of signatures. The MEC requested that instead of amending the committee’s Statement of Committee Organization that the committee instead terminate and form as a new campaign committee.
Amount: 0.00
“…The MEC requested that instead of amending the committee’s Statement of Committee Organization that the committee instead terminate and form as a new campaign committee…”
Aha. Missed it by that much.
This does give us a good look at the expenditures a little earlier than usual, though.
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
MISSOURIANS FOR EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY [C111137] [pdf] 8/24/2011Wire Transfer Fee $11.00
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
230 W McCarty St
Jefferson City MO 65101
8/22/2011
Reimb. for Fiscal Note Expert (Haslag)
$5,250.00Axiom Strategies LLC
1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy
Suite 85
Kansas City MO 64116
8/22/2011
Invoice #1556
$86,546.85Law Office of James C. Thomas III
4131 N Mulberry Drive
Suite 200
Kansas City MO 64116
8/22/2011
Legal Fees
$972.65Contributions Made (Regardless of Amount)
Missourians for Equal Credit Opportunity
4131 N Mulberry Drive
Suite 200
Kansas City MO 64116
8/22/2011
$107,279.50
[emphasis added]
$86,546.85? Must be nice work if you can get it.
They kept the name, the web site, and all of the leftover money.