We may have to revise our forecast.

[….]

There will be a flurry of activity over the next two days.

[….]

Meh. Not so much. So far. At the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C071362 09/29/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER I.U.O.E. Local 513 Political & Educational Fund 3449 Hollenberg Dr. Bridgeton MO 63044 9/27/2014 $25,000.00

C051130 09/29/2014 CITIZENS FOR JAKE ZIMMERMAN Stone, Leyton & Gershman 7733 Forsyth Blvd. Suite 500 Clayton MO 63105 9/29/2014 $5,500.00

C000953 09/29/2014 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY Anheuser Busch Companies One Busch Place St Louis MO 63118 9/29/2014 $10,000.00

C141374 09/30/2014 FRIENDS FOR JENNIFER FLORIDA Citizens to Elect Jennifer Florida 3873 Hartford St St Louis MO 63116 8/16/2014 $5,419.86

[emphasis added]

Jennifer who?

Update, 6:00 p.m.:

Now we’re talkin’:

C071320 09/30/2014 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI Orville J Middendorf #29 Zinzer Ct St Louis MO 63123 Retired 9/30/2014 $5,001.00

A141307 09/30/2014 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT STEVE GRIDER Realtors Political Action Committee-MO P. O. Box 30635 Columbia MO 65205 9/29/2014 $6,648.25

C071362 09/30/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Chad Roberts 44 Charterview Ct. OFallon MO 63367 Lou Fusz 9/30/2014 $7,500.00

C071362 09/30/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Home Elements Design, LLC 17830 Chesterfield Airport Rd. Chesterfield MO 63005 9/30/2014 $7,500.00

C041029 09/30/2014 CITIZENS FOR WILL KRAUS Will and Carmen Kraus 612 SW Trailpark Circle Lees Summit MO 64081 Mo. State Senator 9/30/2014 $25,000.00

C131081 09/30/2014 SCHUPP FOR SENATE Missouri Democratic State Committee 208 Madison St Jefferson City MO 65101 9/29/2014 $14,299.02

C071012 09/30/2014 KANDER FOR MISSOURI Kenneth McClain 510 N Delaware Independence MO 64050 Humphrey Farrington & McClain Partner 9/30/2014 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Okay, it’s not in chess playing territory either.

Today, in west central Missouri:

The retail price of gasoline in west central Missouri – September 29, 2014.

The silence on Twitter is deafening. I wonder why?

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r) – in Warrensburg – August 22, 2014 (August 23, 2014)

The past few days, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C031159 09/24/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP 460 Nichols Road Suite 200 Kansas City MO 64112 9/22/2014 $10,000.00

C031159 09/27/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER National Health Corporation PAC State #1093 100 Vine Street Murfreesboro TN 37130 9/25/2014 $10,000.00

C031159 09/28/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Branson Hills Rental Management, LLC 153 S. Payne Stewart Drive Branson MO 65616 9/26/2014 $10,000.00

C031159 09/28/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Operating Engineers Local 101 Political Action Committee 6601 Winchester Suite 280 Kansas City MO 64133 9/26/2014 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

There will be a flurry of activity over the next two days.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: wachet auf (September 17, 2014)

Campaign Finance: wachet auf – part 2 (September 20, 2014)

Priorities:

We petition the Obama Administration to:

Make sure that Sony does not shut down Playstation Home without giving refunds to those who have spent well earned money

Playstation Home is a social gaming platform that has been around since the mid 2000s providing many gamers to have a place to socialize and meet a quanity of people that have impacted or changed their perspective on life in general. Many individuals have spent well earned dollars on this platform for their own entertainment and now we have came to a conclusion that Sony wants to shut down this service. We the People deserve a refund if this process is being issued otherwise we wish for Playstation Home to continue to exist rather then removing it from the Community.

Created: Sep 27, 2014

Issues: Consumer Protections, Economy, Technology and Telecommunications

Signatures needed by October 27, 2014 to reach goal of 100,000 99,840

Total signatures on this petition 160

[emphasis added]

This one reads as if it was written by a committee of junior high school students appointed by their student council. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

After visiting the Democratic Party tent at our local street fair this morning we went looking for the republicans. At first glance we thought we found them:

While an apt description of the majority party in control of the Missouri General Assembly, it turns out this street vendor was just literally selling nuts.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 09/27/2014 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON Platinum Health Care Inc. 7444 Long Avenue Skokie IL 60077 9/26/2014 $23,883.05

[emphasis added]

Blimps are for billionaires.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141179 09/26/2014 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI Vicky Hartzler for Congress PO Box 9265 Shawnee Mission KS 66201 9/26/2014 $5,001.00

[emphasis added]

Is John Ashcroft having so much difficulty raising money from grassroots supporters in the 24th Senate District that he needs to rely on a member of Congress from the other side of the state to add to his tally?

What’s with the extra $1.00? Was that so it would be reported immediately at the Missouri Ethics Commission [It would show up in the quarterly campaign finance report in three weeks anyway]?

Is this an indication that Vicky Hartzler is taking the November general election and her opponent, Nate Irvin (D), that lightly?

Shawnee Mission, Kansas?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: polling, polling, polling… (September 24, 2014)

Campaign Finance: all in on the legacy (September 23, 2014)

Campaign Finance: supporting the legacy in $10,000.00 increments (September 5, 2014)

Campaign Finance: legacies (August 27, 2014)

“He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.” (August 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: all that money in the 24th Senate District republican primary (August 3, 2014)

Campaign Finance: 24th Senate District – July quarterly campaign finance reports (July 18, 2014)

Campaign Finance: end of quarter confidence in the 24th Senate District (July 3, 2014)

Campaign Finance: 24th Senate District – April quarterly campaign finance reports (April 19, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Friends of the family?  (April 11, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Make room for daddy? (April 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: trying to catch up in the 24th Senate District (March 31, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Schupp (D) and Lamping (r) in the 24th Senate District – 4th quarter 2013 (January 15, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Schupp (D) and Lamping (r) in the 24th Senate District – 3rd quarter 2013 (October 21, 2013)

Today, at the Pitch:

Rex Sinquefield-backed PAC Grow Missouri trying to pay local reporters to blog for them

Posted by Steve Vockrodt on Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:07 PM

….Alex Stuckey, the statehouse reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received an e-mail from some functionary who starts the message by fawning over Stuckey’s work for the newspaper, followed with an offer to have her pen entries for Grow Missouri’s website, with or without a byline. The going rate was $250 per dispatch.

Other reporters, including St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum, received similar offers, which were posted on their Twitter feeds and roundly lampooned….

People get paid serious money (well, at least to us) to write for blogs? That’s actually possible?

If there are any billionaires reading this – we can be bought. For the right price…  

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r), via Twitter:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler

It is wise public policy for marriage to be between a man and a woman. #VVS14 [….] 12:53 PM – 26 Sep 2014

There were a lot of responses:

Robbie Medwed ‏@rjmedwed

@RepHartzler @NOMupdate it’s not wise policy, it’s bigotry and discrimination. 12:55 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Josh V ‏@JustJoshBlue

@RepHartzler @NOMupdate Because [*]mumble mumble nonsense[*] 12:55 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Matthew Scott ‏@Rev0lution9

@RepHartzler Why? Can you explain your statement without the use of biblical quotation? 1:00 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Bob Yates ‏@OldDrum

@RepHartzler If terrible for unelected judges to define marriage is as opposed to “the people,” aren’t you outraged at Loving v. VA, too? 1:25 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Sad day 4u ‏@Lib3ral_Jedi04

@RepHartzler @NOMupdate You misspelled “bigoted”. #HateFest2014 1:27 PM – 26 Sep 2014

LogCabinGOP – WI ‏@LCRWI

@RepHartzler @NOMupdate: How so, other than to exclude same-sex families for no reason? There’s nothing sound about discrimination. #wrong 2:29 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Abe Tessio ‏@ATessio

@RepHartzler Why? 2:32 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Elephant We Ignore® ‏@ElephantWeIgnor

@RepHartzler @NOMupdate: Showing what a #Dixiecrat Republican looks like with this rights denials. Equality is best policy. #ReclaimOurParty 2:36 PM – 26 Sep 2014

Just think what people will think and say about all of this fifty years from now.

In the past few days, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for the republican in the St. Louis County Executive race:

C061248 09/25/2014 FRIENDS OF RICK STREAM David Spence 2021 S Warson Rd Saint Louis MO 63124 Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging 9/25/2014 $15,000.00

C061248 09/26/2014 FRIENDS OF RICK STREAM Drury Development Corporation 721 Emerson Road Suite 200 St Louis MO 63141 9/26/2014 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

The republican campaign consultant industrial complex should advise him to get a campaign land yacht…

And for the Democrat:

C071362 09/23/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Scott Sifton for State Senate 9814 Berwick Place St Louis MO 63123 9/23/2014 $5,001.00

C071362 09/24/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER John Ross Jr 101 S. Hanley Rd., #1400 St Louis MO 63105 Summit Development Group 9/23/2014 $10,000.00

C071362 09/24/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 110 PAC Fund 4532 S. Lindbergh Blvd. Sunset Hills MO 63127 9/24/2014 $15,000.00

C071362 09/24/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Eastern Missouri Laborers’ Educational and Benevolent Fund 3450 Hollenberg Dr. Bridgeton MO 63044 9/24/2014 $15,000.00

C071362 09/25/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Professional Fire Fighters of Eastern Missouri Local 2665 PAC Fund 115 McMenamy St Peters MO 63376 9/24/2014 $8,100.00

C071362 09/25/2014 CITIZENS FOR STEVE STENGER Clayco 2199 Innerbelt Business Center Dr. St Louis MO 63114 9/25/2014 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

They have different circles of friends.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: the recharging continues (August 20, 2014)

Campaign Finance: they’re fixin’ to spend a lot of money (August 21, 2014)

Campaign Finance: en passant (August 29, 2014)

Campaign Finance: the money will be there (September 8, 2014)

Campaign Finance: there’s that number, again (September 10, 2014)