Yesterday the President defended the Affordable Health Care Act – Obamacare to most Missourians – noting that one of the biggest problems with the program’s implementation was the unreasoning, mad-dog bile of the GOP, although he didn’t use those exact words – he’s far more gracious than I. He did, however deplore the ugly GOP political games in terms of what they will cost an American populace less interested in right or left partisanship than in pragmatic solutions to their problems:

… anyone defending the remnants of the old, broken system as if it was working for people, anybody who thinks we shouldn’t finish the job of making the health care system work for everybody — especially when these folks offer no plan for the uninsured or the underinsured, or folks who lose their insurance each year — those folks should have to explain themselves.

Ironically, while the President was calling on the obstructionists to explain themselves, they were putting on a little show in a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing , trying to pretend that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had to explain herself to the very folks who had done everything in their power to hinder her Obamacare sign-up efforts.

Mixing it up with the bully-boys was Missouri’s Rep. Billy Long (R-7). As Dave Weigel describes Long’s ham-fisted effort to help his GOP colleagues hammer home what seems – inexplicably given it’s inanity – one of their favorite talking points:

But they did try to bring back the “fairness” attack. Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner started a wave of questions to Sebelius about why she didn’t have the integrity to get on the exchange herself, if she was so great.*

Missouri Rep. Billy Long, a former auctioneer who’s built like a kettlebell, did the same, with less aplomb. “If you can, will you?” he asked. “Yes or no? Yes or no?”

Sebelius, looking bored, explained that she couldn’t get on the exchange as she had insurance already (not quite true, she simply couldn’t get the subsidies that other enrollees would get) and that D.C. had its own exchange, anyway.

That Sebelius found this line of questioning tiresome and time-wasting was indicated by a comment overheard on a “hot” mic” at the end of Billy’s star turn. “Don’t do this to me,” she muttered to an aide, a response that reminded me of my own soto-voce, eye-rolling “save me” pleas to my husband after having been cornered by particularly obtuse bores in the past.

As for the substance of the issues with which Billy tried to skewer Sebilius, Duane Graham has very aptly demonstrated over at The Erstwhile Conservative that Billy’s anti-Obamacare cupboard was all too bare: Contrary to Billy’s assertion that everyone other than Sebelius will have to get healthcare through the exchanges, only those Americans who lack employer-supplied insurance and who are ineligible for Medicare will need to use the exchanges; Sebelius isn’t eligible for healthcare through the exchanges since she not only has employer supplied insurance, she is enrolled in Medicare Part A; nor is she, as Long asserted, the “architect” of Obamacare – that honor goes to the conservative Heritage Foundation via Mitt Romney with a little input from several months of congressional wrangling in 2009.

Facts don’t fly with Billy Long, however. He has, after all, just announced that he has signed on to legislation that he says is intended “to ensure those already hurt by the president’s health care law are given a one year break from the law’s individual mandate.” This in spite of the fact that folks “hurt” by Obamacare are kind of thin on the ground – but then, this rhetoric actually pertains to another GOP fantasy talking point du jour,  and involves what they depict as the “millions” who, in Billy’s words, “are beginning to receive notices from their health insurance carriers that the coverage they currently enjoy will be terminated at the end of their current plan year because of the president’s health care law. These same people will be penalized if they do not find new coverage.”

If Billy had not been too busy badgering Secretary Sebelius to listen to the President’s speech yesterday, he might have learned that the situation is far from dire enough to require his legislative intervention:

So anyone peddling the notion that insurers are cancelling people’s plan without mentioning that almost all the insurers are encouraging people to join better plans with the same carrier, and stronger benefits and stronger protections, while others will be able to get better plans with new carriers through the marketplace, and that many will get new help to pay for these better plans and make them actually cheaper — if you leave that stuff out, you’re being grossly misleading, to say the least.

Of course, if Billy had been trying to do the right thing and act in concert with facts, he might not have gotten his name in the headlines for his little performance yesterday and pulled in all the associated Tea Party points – which I am sure that he hopes will prove potent when he comes up for election and has to compete again against  Democratic hopeful Jim Evans, who makes no bones about his  support for Obamacare.

King Louis XVI: You said it! They stink on ice!

A few of the responses to Representative Vicky Hartzler’s (r) Facebook post on the passing of former Representative Ike Skelton (D):

[….] And likewise you could learn a lot from Ms. Hartzler if you would only wake up and smell the coffee on liberals and the demonrat party!!!

[a response from a commenter to a previous comment]

And that same commenter later continued:

[….] He never once represented me! AND he voted yes on cloture after Ted Cruz’s marathon speech last month. All I ever asked of any elected official — Blunt, McCaskill, Hartzler, or Skelton — is that they vote no on cloture that one time, and Hartzler was the only one who did that.

Almost too stupid to remember to breathe. Ike Skelton (D) left office in January 2011 after 34 years in the House. He was defeated in the 2010 election and replaced by Vicky Hartzler (r). Members of the House do not vote on cloture in the U.S. Senate, since they are not members of the U.S. Senate. In case you were wondering.

Another commenter:

[…] I voted for Ike Skelton for years until he voted for ObamaCare. Sympathy for his family and friends.

As someone pointed out later:

[….]Ike was one of the few democrats who voted against Obamacare. It’s in the congressional record. [….]

Someone else added:

[….] it was a symbolic vote because Ike knew the bill would pass without him. Just politics. Overall, he went hard left when Obama came in office.

The Obamacare opponent added:

He was an Obama follower and that’s why he lost his seat.

Just the facts, right?

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C031159 10/30/2013 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Gregory Wendt 1 Market Street San Francisco CA 94105 Capital Group Finance 10/28/2013 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

C111150 10/30/2013 FRIENDS OF TOM SCHWEICH Jesse Bodine 50 Creekwood Lane St Louis MO 63124 Retired Engineer 10/30/2013 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

More of that here and more of that there, pretty soon you’re talking some serious money.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: hoist a few brews (September 24, 2013)

Campaign Finance: one of these things is not like the other (September 27, 2013)

Campaign Finance: keep on keeping on (September 30, 2013)

More money for the campaign promoting the health research tax on the November ballot in Jackson County. The last few days, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131107 10/30/2013 COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH TREATMENTS AND CURES Barnett Helzberg Jr Rev Trust 4520 Main Suite 1050 Kansas City MO 64111 Helzberg 10/30/2013 $25,000.00

C131107 10/30/2013 COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH TREATMENTS AND CURES James B Nutter & Company 4153 Broadway Kansas City MO 64111 10/30/2013 $17,000.00

[emphasis added]

Time’s running out.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: not quite plural (August 22, 2013)

Campaign Finance: make it an even $50,000.00 (August 28, 2013)

Campaign Finance: counter volley (August 30, 2012)

Campaign Finance: a citizen keeps contributing (September 3, 2013)

We’re big enough to take care of ourselves (September 4, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! (September 4, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! again (September 6, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! and again (September 7, 2013)

Campaign Finance: it looks like a contribution, only smaller (September 11, 2013)

Campaign Finance: trying to do something (September 17, 2013)

Campaign Finance: and still (September 19, 2013)

Campaign Finance: now that’s what you call research money (September 27, 2013)

Campaign Finance: definitely not holding anything back (October 2, 2013)

Campaign Finance: dueling interests (October 13, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch (October 19, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 2 (October 20, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 3 (October 20, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 4 (October 22, 2013)

Campaign Finance: a last minute, big money player (October 23, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 5 (October 24, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 6 (October 25, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 7 (October 29, 2013)

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Twitter trolling Obamacare (October 22, 2013)

Today, via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

Share your #ObamacareFail stories here: [….] 7:31 AM – 30 Oct 13

Some responses:

KCLiveMusicBlog ‏@KCLiveMusicBlog

@RepHartzler Can we share our #GOPFail stories too? How about some jobs? No, I’m not talking about $9/hr service jobs either. 7:34 AM – 30 Oct 13

Josh Nichol-Caddy ‏@jnicholcaddy

@RepHartzler rather than chumming the water, why not take some action to make government effective? 7:37 AM – 30 Oct 13

In addition, almost every time Representative Hartzler (r) posts something on Twitter these days she gets right wingnut Benghazi truther responses asking her to sign on to a House resolution.

It’s her world and she gets to live in it, too.  

The money is still coming in for the campaign promoting the health research tax on the November ballot in Jackson County. The last few days, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131107 10/28/2013 COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH TREATMENTS AND CURES UMKC Foundation 5100 Rockhill Road 333 Administrative Center Kansas City MO 64110 10/28/2013 $96,000.00

C131107 10/29/2013 COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH TREATMENTS AND CURES Sprint 6300 Sprint Parkway Overland Park KS 66251 10/29/2013 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

In a week.

One of the Kansas City area broadcast news outlets ran a story stating that the turnout for this issue will probably be around fifteen percent.

A lot of money has been spent for that fifteen percent.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: not quite plural (August 22, 2013)

Campaign Finance: make it an even $50,000.00 (August 28, 2013)

Campaign Finance: counter volley (August 30, 2012)

Campaign Finance: a citizen keeps contributing (September 3, 2013)

We’re big enough to take care of ourselves (September 4, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! (September 4, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! again (September 6, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Wham! and again (September 7, 2013)

Campaign Finance: it looks like a contribution, only smaller (September 11, 2013)

Campaign Finance: trying to do something (September 17, 2013)

Campaign Finance: and still (September 19, 2013)

Campaign Finance: now that’s what you call research money (September 27, 2013)

Campaign Finance: definitely not holding anything back (October 2, 2013)

Campaign Finance: dueling interests (October 13, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch (October 19, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 2 (October 20, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 3 (October 20, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 4 (October 22, 2013)

Campaign Finance: a last minute, big money player (October 23, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 5 (October 24, 2013)

Campaign Finance: Jackson County health care tax home stretch, part 6 (October 25, 2013)

When I recently wrote about the Missouri GOP’s stubborn attempt to render unto Rex Sinquefield what – by virtue of his checkbook – is Rex Sinquefield’s, namely one more dreary iteration of their efforts to reduce or eliminate taxes for the wealthy, I also noted that a similar experiment seemed to be tanking in Kansas – even to such an extent that the popularity of Kansas GOP Governor Sam Brownbeck was in the pits.

Imagine, then, my amazement, when I learned via an opinion piece in The Kansas City Star that there are folks that think Kansas is in exemplary shape. None other than Missouri’s ever-generous billionaire, Rex Sinquefield, seems to have informed readers of Forbes Magazine that “a close look at the data backs up the economic projections of Brownback’s visionary leadership.”

So who’s right? Me? Or Rex Snquefield? The Star‘s contributing author, I’m happy to say, backs up my contentions about the state of Kansas, pointing out that, contrary to Sinquefield’s claims, the state’s economy is “tracking most of the rest of the nation” with “no discernable jolt upward.”

What interests me, though, is the way that Mr. Sinquefield, borrowing a tactic from so many movers and shakers on the right, takes a kernel of truth and by either twisting it or ignoring other equally relevant facts, begins to run a premature victory lap  – with a view to taking a similar lope around the track in Missouri once his pets in the legislature enact his long-sought after rich-man’s tax cut. Not for nothing was his Forbes article titled “How Kansas Governor Brownback Schooled Missouri On Tax Cuts, And Showed The Region How To Grow.”

Mr. Sinquefield asserts that “lower income tax rates have in fact stimulated the economy by reducing the price both of work and conducting business in the state.” Half true. The cost of work – what people get paid – did decrease. A Center for Tax Policy report cites “Bureau of Labor statistics that showed Kansas was one of 20 states where inflation-adjusted average weekly earnings of private employees decreased between May 2012 and last May.” This fact fits well with other reports that document conistent increases during Brownback’s tenure in the number of Kansans living in poverty.

What’s not so true is the part about lower income tax rates stimulating the economy. While some business organizations have upped Kansas “business-friendly” type of rating, based mostly on government policies rather than results, recent economic reports aren’t so glowing:

… another report shows Kansas lagging most states in economic growth from February to May and predicted it will trail in the next six months.

“Most states improved over the past quarter; only Alaska, Kansas, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Wyoming experienced declines,” said the State Economic Monitor report by the Tax Policy Center, which provides independent analyses of tax issues.

The report cited an economic growth measure produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia that combines non-farm employment, average manufacturing hours worked, the state’s unemployment rate and real wages.

The Philadelphia Fed also produces an index that measures future economic activity for six months, and again Kansas was among the bottom states.

If  you’re interested in going into Mr. Sinquefield’s claims in greater detail, you might be enlightened by what he fails to tell us, for instance, about the unemployment rate in Kansas. He reports correctly that Kansas unemployment fell from 7% in 2011 when Brownback took office to 5.8%, a decline of 1.2 percentage points. Not so spectacular, however, when you consider that during the same period, Missouri’s unemployment rate fell 2.1 percentage points. Apart from the fact that the Kansas jobless rate is actually currently 5.9%, what Sinquefield also fails to tell us is that the Kansas number reflects an increase in unemployment, from 5.5% in January. This loss of jobs occurred during a time that saw national unemployment numbers decreasing from 7.9% to 7.3%.

I don’t know about you, but when I took a closer look at Mr. Sinquefield’s claims and did a little research, I still wasn’t too impressed with Kansas’ economic growth record over the past couple of years. I will admit, though, that if I were naively reading Sinquefield’s Forbes encomium to Governor Brownback, I might think that he was on to something. Which takes us back to those polls that show Brownback tanking in Kansas. One lesson that one can draw from Mr. Brownback’s fall from popular grace is that folks learn from experience. Another lesson, though, seeks to account for the 30-some percent who still approve of his performance – and goes to show that if you jigger the numbers skillfully enough, you actually can fool some of the people all of the time.

Former Congressman Ike Skelton (D) in Marshall, Missouri in 2012.

Multiple news outlets are reporting that former Representative Ike Skelton (D), who represented Missouri’s 4th Congressional District from 1977 to 2011, died in Washington, D.C. this evening.

Representatives Ike Skelton (D) and Emanuel Cleaver (D) in Independence, Missouri

for then presidential candidate Barack Obama’s speech on patriotism – June 30, 2008.

With Jim Jackson and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) in Warrensburg, Missouri – 2008.

With Congressman Kenny Hulshof (r) at the Governor’s Ham Breakfast

at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia – 2008.

Then Representative Skelton’s last Twitter post as a member of Congress:

Ike Skelton ‏@IkeSkelton 2 Dec 10

Last night, I gave my final address to the House. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your many years of support. [….] 2:37 PM – 2 Dec 10

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) filed an amended Form 3 (quarterly campaign finance report) with the Federal Election Commission today:

FEC FORM 3

REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS

For An Authorized Committee

FILING FEC-893748

1. Vicky Hartzler for Congress

   P.O. Box 30080

   Columbia, Missouri 652053080

   NOTE: Address IS Different than previously reported

   State is __ in District: 4

2. FEC Committee ID #: C00464602

3. This report IS an AMENDMENT

4. Report Type = OCT QUARTERLY

Filed 10/28/2013

[emphasis added]

The summary:

SUMMARY PAGE

Of Receipts And Disbursements

5. Covering Period 07/01/2013 Through 09/30/2013

6. Net Contributions (other than loans)

   (a) Total Contributions (other than loans) [$]132030.00

   (b) Total Contribution Refunds [$]6000.00

   (c) Net Contributions (6(a) – 6(b)) [$]126030.00

7. Net Operating Expenditures

   (a) Total Operating Expenditures [$]29894.36

   (b) Total Offsets to Operating Expenditures [$]50.59

   (c) Net Operating Expenditures [$]29843.77

[emphasis added]

$132,030.00 ain’t particularly stellar. It’s nothing to sneeze at, but it’s not stellar.

The contributions (Schedule A):

SCHEDULE A

ITEMIZED RECEIPTS

Committee: VICKY HARTZLER FOR CONGRESS

Milt Harper

1004 Lagrange Ct

Columbia, Missouri 652033500 Harper, Evans, Et. Al 07/01/2013

Attorney

$250.00

Carol Bohl

1002 Mission Rd

Harrisonville, Missouri 647012959 Cass Co. Historical Society 08/13/2013

Retired

$1000.00

Sanford Perl

300 North LaSalle

Chicago, Illinois 606543406 Kirkland & Ellis, LLP 08/14/2013

Attorney

$1000.00

John Scofield

227 C St SE

Washington, DC 200031910 Podesta Group 09/30/2013

Principal

$500.00

Thomas Dresser

3904 Frontenac Pl

Columbia, Missouri 652035810 Self-employed 09/30/2013

Radiologist

$500.00

Daniel Minkoff

6272 Virgo Rd.

Oakland, California 946111936 Minkoff Group 08/14/2013

Real State Investor

$1000.00

Steve Ritchie

300 North LaSalle

Chicago, Illinois 606543406 Kirkland & Ellis 09/24/2013

Attorney

$1000.00

Robert Wolfberg

800 Grove St.

Highland Park, Illinois 60035 Self Employed 08/14/2013

Financial Consultant

$1000.00

Douglas Gessner

300 North LaSalle

Chicago, Illinois 606543406 Kirkland & Ellis, LLP 08/14/2013

Attorney

$1000.00

Alan Engel

333 W. Maude Ave Suite 218

Sunnyvale, California 940854373 S-101 Management Co. 08/14/2013

President

$1000.00

Jack Bragg

5800 Thornbrook Pkwy

Columbia, Missouri 652039784 Self-employed 08/13/2013

Physician

$650.00

Morris Silverman

765 Sheridan Rd

Winnetka, Illinois 600932309 Morris Silverman Mgmt. Group 08/13/2013

President

$2500.00

Thomas Dresser

3904 Frontenac Pl

Columbia, Missouri 652035810 Self-employed 09/17/2013

Radiologist

$250.00

Virginia Darr

2951 S White Oak Dr

Springfield, Missouri 658093739 N/a 08/13/2013

Retired

$2600.00

William Moore

10801 Mastin St Ste 920

Overland Park, Kansas 662101673 Continental Coal 09/30/2013

Executive

$2600.00

Thomas Fitzpatrick

275 NE 875th Rd

Warrensburg, Missouri 640938224 N/a 07/30/2013

Retired

$100.00

Fortunee Massuda

181 Sheridan Rd.

Winnetka, Illinois 600931570 Self Employed 08/13/2013

Physician

$1000.00

Bob Hayworth

5205 W 166th St

Overland Park, Kansas 660858119 Lockton Companies 09/30/2013 500.00

Coo

$500.00

Beth Orscheln

4016 Glen Eagle Dr.

Columbia, Missouri 652034801 N/a 09/17/2013

Homemaker

$2600.00

David Marinoff

3020 Holyrood Dr.

Oakland, California 946112542 East Bay Perinatal 08/14/2013

Physician

$1000.00

Mary Knaebel

2233 Highway M

Moberly, Missouri 652704431 Midam Building Supply 08/13/2013

Executive

$1500.00

Rob Barrett

13814 E. Parade Rd.

Nevada, Missouri 647728032 Heritage State Bank 09/17/2013

Banker

$2000.00

Joan Fitzpatrick

276 NE 875th Rd

Warrensburg, Missouri 640938224 Liberty University 09/30/2013

Educator

$500.00

William Orscheln

2000 S Highway 63

Moberly, Missouri 652704532 Orscheln Mgmt. 09/17/2013

President

$2600.00

Rosana Privitera Biondo

909 Troost Ave

Kansas City, Missouri 641063048 Mark One Electric 08/06/2013

President

$1000.00

Thomas Fitzpatrick

275 NE 875th Rd

Warrensburg, Missouri 640938224 N/a 09/30/2013

Retired

$100.00

Samuel Richardson, II

816 Gilman St

Moberly, Missouri 652701734 Self-employed 07/01/2013

Writer

$250.00

David Gibson

3505 W. 64th St.

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081707 Self-employed 09/17/2013

Commodity Trading

$1000.00

Lori Ann Komisar

765 Sheridan Rd.

Winnetka, Illinois 600932309 N/a 08/13/2013

Philanthropist

$2500.00

Robert Orscheln

4016 Glen Eagle Dr

Columbia, Missouri 652034801 Orscheln Products 09/17/2013

CEO

$2600.00

Thomas Dresser

3904 Frontenac Pl

Columbia, Missouri 652035810 Self-employed 08/21/2013

Radiologist

$250.00

Ann Wilhelm

4309 Azeal St.

Columbia, Missouri 652017243 3 Interactive 08/27/2013

Coo

$250.00

Thomas Fitzpatrick

275 NE 875th Rd

Warrensburg, Missouri 640938224 N/a 08/27/2013

Retired

$100.00

David Kiachko

103 Galewood Cir

San Francisco, California 941311131 Self Employed 08/14/2013

Investor

$1000.00

Kathy Baker

6814 Fountain Lane

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 708091045 Crowne Plaza 09/04/2013

General Manager

$1000.00

Douglas Hall

11212 Delmar St

Leawood, Kansas 662111332 Musselman & Hall, Llc 09/30/2013

Executive

$250.00

Mary Orscheln

5711 Bridlewood Ct

Columbia, Missouri 652039292 N/a 09/17/2013

Homemaker

$2600.00

Rivka Zell

194 Cedar Ave

Highland Park, Illinois 600354136 N/a 09/24/2013

Homemaker

$1000.00

Robert Gray

6354 Alderman Dr.

Alexandria, Virginia 223153731 International Dairy Foods 09/30/2013

Senior Policy Advisor

$300.00

R. Lee Harris

3815 W 84th Ter

Prairie Village, Kansas 662061346 Cohen-esry Real Estate Service 09/30/2013

President/ceo

$1000.00

R. Lee Harris

3815 W 84th Ter

Prairie Village, Kansas 662061346 Cohen-esry Real Estate Service 09/30/2013 -$400.00

President/ceo MEMO

Reattribution from Memo

LIMITS

Barbara Harris

3815 W 84th Ter.

Prairie Village, Kansas 662061346 N/a 09/30/2013

Homemaker MEMO $400.00

Reattribution to Memo

LIMITS

Eugene Lerner

1831 Mission Hills Rd. Apt 510

Northbrook, Illinois 600625746 The Eugene and Janet Lerner Foundation 08/13/2013

Owner

$5000.00

Eugene Lerner

1831 Mission Hills Rd. Apt 510

Northbrook, Illinois 600625746 The Eugene and Janet Lerner Foundation 08/13/2013

Owner MEMO -$2400.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Eugene Lerner

1831 Mission Hills Rd. Apt 510

Northbrook, Illinois 600625746 The Eugene and Janet Lerner Foundation 08/13/2013

Owner MEMO $2400.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Marilyn Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 N/a 09/30/2013

Homemaker

$5000.00

Marilyn Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 N/a 09/30/2013

Homemaker MEMO -$2400.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Marilyn Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 N/a 09/30/2013

Homemaker MEMO $2400.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Michael Cook

PO Box 379

Garden City, Missouri 647470379 Neeco Seeds 08/20/2013

Owner

$5000.00

Michael Cook

PO Box 379

Garden City, Missouri 647470379 Neeco Seeds 08/20/2013

Owner MEMO -$2400.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Michael Cook

PO Box 379

Garden City, Missouri 647470379 Neeco Seeds 08/20/2013

Owner MEMO $2400.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

James Davis

8749 Akinsville Rd

Fortuna, Missouri 650342111 Self Employed 09/30/2013

Farrmer

$5000.00

James Davis

8749 Akinsville Rd

Fortuna, Missouri 650342111 Self Employed 09/30/2013

Farrmer MEMO -$2400.00

Reattribution from Memo

LIMITS

Jeri Davis

8749 Akinsville Rd

Fortuna, Missouri 650342111 N/a 09/30/2013

Homemaker MEMO $2400.00

Reattribution to Memo

LIMITS

Robert Campbell

5706 S. Sundance

Columbia, Missouri 652039293 Grant Anthony And Marie Llc 08/27/2013

Principal

$3000.00

Robert Campbell

5706 S. Sundance

Columbia, Missouri 652039293 Grant Anthony And Marie Llc 08/27/2013

Principal MEMO -$400.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Robert Campbell

5706 S. Sundance

Columbia, Missouri 652039293 Grant Anthony And Marie Llc 08/27/2013

Principal MEMO $400.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Stephen Notestine

1825 S Mason Rd

Saint Louis, Missouri 631311520 Quadrant Properties 09/17/2013

Developer

$2600.00

Stephen Notestine

1825 S Mason Rd

Saint Louis, Missouri 631311520 Quadrant Properties 09/17/2013

Developer

$2600.00

Greg Hoberock

1 Oak Ridge Dr Miss

Washington, Missouri 630905611 Self Employed 08/21/2013

Contractor

$5200.00

Greg Hoberock

1 Oak Ridge Dr Miss

Washington, Missouri 630905611 Self Employed 08/21/2013

Contractor MEMO -$2600.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Greg Hoberock

1 Oak Ridge Dr Miss

Washington, Missouri 630905611 Self Employed 08/21/2013

Contractor MEMO $2600.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Thomas Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 Russell Stover 09/30/2013

President/ceo

$10400.00

Deborah Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 N/a 09/30/2013

Housewife MEMO -$2600.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Thomas Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 Russell Stover 09/30/2013

President/ceo MEMO -$2600.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

Thomas Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 Russell Stover 09/30/2013

President/ceo MEMO $2600.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Deborah Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 N/a 09/30/2013

Housewife MEMO $2600.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Thomas Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 Russell Stover 09/30/2013

President/ceo MEMO -$5200.00

Reattribution from Memo

LIMITS

Deborah Ward

4900 Oak St

Kansas City, Missouri 641122702 N/a 09/30/2013

Housewife MEMO $5200.00

Reattribution to Memo

LIMITS

James Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 Bartlett And Company 09/30/2013

President

$5000.00

James Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 Bartlett And Company 09/30/2013

President MEMO -$2400.00

Redesignation from Memo

LIMITS

James Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081148 Bartlett And Company 09/30/2013

President MEMO $2400.00

Redesignation to Memo

LIMITS

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assc. PAC

421 Aviation Way

Frederick, Maryland 21701

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. PAC

300 M Street, SE

Washington, DC 20003

09/25/2013 $1000.00

BNSF RailPAC

PO Box 961039

Fort Worth, Texas 76161

09/24/2013 $2500.00

American Hospital Association PAC

325 Seventh Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. DEPAC

10220 N Ambassador Dr

Kansas City, Missouri 641531367

09/25/2013 $2000.00

Agri-Mark Legislation and Education Com

PO Box 5800

Lawrence, Massachusetts 018425800

09/30/2013 $300.00

Lockheed Martin Employees Pac

1550 Crystal Drive

Arlington, Virginia 22202

08/27/2013 $1000.00

BAE Systems USA PAC

1101 Wilson Blvd.

Arlington, Virginia 222092211

09/25/2013 $2000.00

Alliant Techsystems Inc. PAC

1300 Wilson Blvd. STE. 400

Arlington, Virginia 22209

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Blockpac

One H&R Block Way

Kansas City, Missouri 64105

09/25/2013 $1000.00

General Dynamics Corporation PAC

2941 Fairview Park Dr. #100

Falls Church, Virginia 22042

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Emerson Electric Co. Government Fund

8000 W. Florrissant Ave

Saint Louis, Missouri 63136

09/30/2013 $1000.00

Koch Industries, Inc. PAC

600 14th St NW Ste 800

Washington, DC 200052099

09/30/2013 $1000.00

Natl Milk Producers Federation PAC

2101 Wilson Blvd. Ste. 400

Arlington, Virginia 22201

09/30/2013 $1000.00

LMA Pac

10510 NW Ambassador Drive

Kansas City, Missouri 64153

09/30/2013 $1000.00

DairyLEA Cooperative

PO Box 4844

Syracuse, New York 132214844

09/30/2013 $1000.00

Verizon Good Government Club

1300 I ST NW 4th Floor

Washington, DC 20005

09/30/2013 $1000.00

Lockheed Martin Employees Pac

1550 Crystal Drive

Arlington, Virginia 22202

09/30/2013 $1000.00

Prosperity PAC

1006 Pendleton St

Alexandria, Virginia 223141837

09/25/2013 $5000.00

CME Group, Inc. Pac

20 South Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Land OLakes Pac

PO Box 64101

ST Paul, Minnesota 55164

09/30/2013 $2500.00

Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. DEPAC

10220 N Ambassador Dr

Kansas City, Missouri 641531367

09/30/2013 $2000.00

Boeing Company PAC

1200 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, Virginia 22209

08/07/2013 $1000.00

Investment Company Institute PAC

1401 H. Street NW #1200

Washington, DC 200052110

09/30/2013 $1000.00

General Electric Pac

1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

09/25/2013 $1000.00

Koch Industries, Inc. PAC

600 14th St NW Ste 800

Washington, DC 200052099

09/30/2013 $1000.00

General Electric Pac

1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

09/25/2013 $1000.00

UPSPAC

55 Glenlake PKWY NE

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

08/27/2013 $500.00

Boeing Company PAC

1200 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, Virginia 22209

09/24/2013 $1000.00

United Technologies Corporation PAC

1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW 10th Floor

Washington, DC 20004

09/25/2013 $1000.00

[emphasis added]

So many people from outside of the district write such big checks. And Defense PACs. And Agriculture PACs. And Koch.

Some of the disbursements (Schedule B):

SCHEDULE B

ITEMIZED DISBURSEMENTS

Committee: VICKY HARTZLER FOR CONGRESS

Epic Strategies

4208 Oak Haven Dr

Nixa, Missouri 657149814

07/22/2013

Operational & Organizational Consulting $2000.00

Alien Media

PO Box 586

Nixa, Missouri 657140586

07/31/2013

IT Support and Website Maintenance $1000.00

Dublin Group

PO Box 25631

Overland Park, Kansas 662255631

08/27/2013

Fundraising Consulting Fee $1249.29

Capital Enhancement, Inc.

150 Long Rd

Chesterfield, Missouri 630051235

09/03/2013

Fundraising Consulting Fee $2000.00

Epic Strategies

4208 Oak Haven Dr

Nixa, Missouri 657149814

09/05/2013

Operational & Organizational Consulting $2000.00

Epic Strategies

4208 Oak Haven Dr

Nixa, Missouri 657149814

09/17/2013

Operational & Organizational Consulting $2000.00

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

09/17/2013

Political Meals $123.33

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

09/17/2013

Political Meals $26.61

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

08/20/2013

Split Transaction: See Below $763.55

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

08/20/2013

Food & Beverage for July Event $331.65

MEMO

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

08/20/2013

Dues for Capitol Hill Club $83.00

MEMO

Capitol Hill Club

300 1st St SE

Washington, DC 200031801

08/20/2013

Dues $348.90

MEMO

Tricia Pridemore for Congress

270 Cobb Parkway S # 140-304

Marietta, Georgia 300609320

07/01/2013

Contribution $1000.00

Wendy Rogers for Congress

3030 S. Rural Road, Suite 120

Tempe, Arizona 852823800

07/22/2013

Contribution $1000.00

Ah, contributions for like minded individuals we presume.

Previously:

Vicky Hartzler (r): FEC Pre-General Report (October 31, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Vicky Hartzler (r) – October quarterly report – farms (October 21, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) – FEC January 31 Year-End Report (February 4, 2012)

Fall in west central Missouri.