Previously: Should Democrat Tracy McCreery run as an Independent? (October 7, 2011)
There’s a special election for the 83rd Legislative District seat on November 8th. At the Missouri Ethics Commission for Jeff O’Connell (D), the nominee of the legislative district Democratic Committee:
REPORT SUMMARY
FRIENDS TO ELECT JEFF OCONNELL [pdf] 10/31/20111. Total Receipts For This Election Previously Reported $3,875.00
2. All Monetary Contributions Received This Period $23,353.00
10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $13,165.49
27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $13,264.46
34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $0.00
[emphasis added]
For Tracy McCreery (D), who is not the nominee of the legislative district Democratic committee:
REPORT SUMMARY
MCCREERY FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 10/31/20111. Total Receipts For This Election Previously Reported $25,892.00
2. All Monetary Contributions Received This Period $10,678.00
10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $4,604.94
27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $24,147.81
34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $5,000.00
[emphasis added]
Well, that’s a rough parity, or mutually assured destruction, depending on how you look at it.
For the republican nominee, Patrick Brennan:
REPORT SUMMARY
VOTE BRENNAN [pdf] 10/31/20111. Total Receipts For This Election Previously Reported $0.00
2. All Monetary Contributions Received This Period $2,132.70
10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $908.53
27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $1,324.17
34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $0.00
[emphasis added]
It would be ironic indeed if the republican in this race won with those kind of fundraising and expenditure numbers.
Where did some of the money come from?:
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
FRIENDS TO ELECT JEFF OCONNELL [pdf] 10/31/201111. TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED AT FUND-RAISERS AS REPORTED INLINE 8 ON FORM CD1A $58.00
12. TOTAL ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSON GIVING $25 OR LESS $50.00
13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $2,145.00
Eastern Missouri Laborers Educatioal & Benevolent Fund Bridgeton MO 63044 10/4/2011 $500.00
PAC of Laborers Local 42 Voluntary Fund St Louis MO 63108 10/5/2011 $1,000.00
Heat and Frost Insulators & Allied Wkrs. Local #1 Political Fund Account #1 Bridgeton MO 63044 10/6/2011 $250.00
Bricklayer Union #1 of Missouri Truth Committee St Louis MO 63103 10/6/2011 $100.00
Sprinklefitters Local 268 Political Ed. and Legislative Committee St Louis MO 63104 10/6/2011 $100.00
Internation Union of Elevators Constructors Local #3 PAC Fund St Louis MO 63110 10/6/2011 $350.00
St. Louis AFL-CIO Project 2000 Bridgeton MO 63044 10/11/2011 $250.00
Aerospace Lodge 837 IAMAW State PAC Hazelwood MO 63042 10/13/2011 $100.00
Labores Int. of North America Local 53 PAC Bridgeton MO 63044 10/13/2011 $100.00
North County Labor Legislative Club St Louis MO 63121 10/13/2011 $300.00
Friends for Tim Green Ballwin MO 63021 10/13/2011 $400.00
Citizens for Jake Zimmerman Olivette MO 63132 10/21/2011 $250.00
Union Labor Life Silver Springs MD 20910 10/24/2011 $5,000.00
Missouri Democratic State Committee Jefferson City MO 65102 10/21/2011 $5,878.58
Maria Chapelle-Nadal St Louis MO 63101 State Senator 10/26/2011 $864.67
[emphasis added]
Organized labor (working people!) and the Democratic Party establishment.
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
MCCREERY FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 10/31/2011Heidi Miller Saint Louis MO 63105 Family Care Health Centers — Doctor 10/7/2011 $50.00
Barbara Woodruff O’Fallon MO 63368 None — Retired 10/7/2011 $25.00
Michael Cole St Louis MO 63116 Thompson Coburn LLP — Attorney 10/7/2011 $50.00
David Margolis Brooklyn NY 11201 Handel Architects LLP — Architect 10/7/2011 $100.00
Gayle Hammer Solon OH 44139 University School — teacher 10/7/2011 $50.00
Arlene Zarembka 7500 Trenton Avenue St. Louis MO 63130 Self — Attorney 10/7/2011 $100.00
Rebecca Cook Cape Girardeau MO 63701 self — lawyer 10/7/2011 $200.00
Lynn Lyss St Louis MO 63105 none 10/7/2011 $50.00
Wendy Knudsen Defiance MO 63341 Cequel III LLC — Lawyer 10/7/2011 $150.00
Jamie Spencer St. Louis MO 63131 St. Louis Comm. College — Professor of English 10/8/2011 $50.00
Marilyn and Bill Morton St. Louis MO 63122 retired — teacher 10/23/2011 $25.00
Missouri NEA-PAC Jefferson City MO 65101 10/21/2011 $325.00
NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri PAC 1210 S. Vandeventer St. Louis MO 63110 10/27/2011 $250.00
[emphasis added]
A lot of small dollar contributors.
And the republican candidate?:
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
VOTE BRENNAN [pdf] 10/31/2011Replican Central Committee Of St. Louis st louis MO 63144 10/13/2011 $300.00
11. TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED AT FUND-RAISERS AS REPORTED INLINE 8 ON FORM CD1A $288.94
12. TOTAL ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSON GIVING $25 OR LESS $191.06
13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $1,352.70
That’s frightening.
Some of the expenditures:
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
FRIENDS TO ELECT JEFF OCONNELL [pdf] 10/31/2011A. Expenditures of $100 or Less by Category
Map and cd from St. Louis County Election Board $60.00
ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES ALL OVER $100
SEIU St Louis MO 63105 10/12/2011 Phone Bank $520.00
Mad Dog Mail Fernandina Beach FL 32034 10/13/2011 Mailings/Literature $10,000.00
Mueller Signs St Louis MO 63310 10/17/2011 Signs $1,500.03
Janet Dietrich Overland MO 63114 10/27/2011 Ink, walk supplies $149.31
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Phones, mail, signs, and door to door.
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
MCCREERY FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 10/31/2011Mueller Sign Sho
p Saint Louis MO 63110 10/12/2011 signs $1,026.48Specialty Mailing Saint Louis MO 63110 10/21/2011 mailing $2,295.17
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Mail and signs and $24,147.81 cash on hand. You think someone is planning on hitting the mail and phones hard in the last week?
And the republican candidate’s expenditures?:
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
VOTE BRENNAN [pdf] 10/31/2011A. Expenditures of $100 or Less by Category
Supplies $558.53
B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100
Yard Signs Orlando FL 32803 10/19/2011 Yard Signs For Campaign $350.00
Signs, sigh.
Given the resources and the expenditures, this race is between the two Democrats.
I cannot understand why Tracy McCreery thinks she has to barge in and split the progressive vote. OK, she’s pro-choice. So am I. Frankly, it makes no difference for a year in the Missouri House. What would make a difference would be if the Republican won this because of her machinations.
People have long memories. I still think McCaskill shouldn’t have done this years ago.
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