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Is Jay Ashcroft running scared, or is he just dishonest?

31 Friday Oct 2014

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child sex offenders, Jay Ashcroft, Jill Schupp, missouri, Rex Sinquefield

A few months ago I met Jay Ashcroft, the Republican candidate running against Rep. Jill Schupp (D-88) for the Missouri Senate 24th District seat, while he was walking through my neighborhood greeting potential voters. He came across as personable in a somewhat feckless way and he was hauling one of his cute little kids in his wake, all calculated to thrill folks in my heavily Republican neighborhood who, presumably, remember the heyday of his father, George W. Bush’s very conservative Attorney General, John Ashcroft.  Many of us have been counting on Rep. Jill Schupp to bring our district into the Democratic fold, but I have to admit that this show of early campaign zeal on the part of this scion of the Missouri Republican establishment left me a bit worried that she might not be able to waltz into the Senate.  

And I was right to be worried – but not because Ashcroft has been burning up the shoe-leather on my neighborhoods’ sidewalks, but because the Ashcroft name elicited the predictable Pavlovian slobbering from the GOP establishment. Lots of big GOP donors jumped in to help the baby Ashcroft take his first big political step. He harvested almost $60,000 from Rex Sinquefield alone, although the lion’s share of his financial support has come from Missouri Republican pols hoping to reinforce their Senate majority:

Republican state senators have bankrolled Ashcroft’s campaign, providing $570,411 through a joint political action committee and $110,505 through their individual campaign committees. Ashcroft said that did not obligate him to side with them.

Yeah right … . As you might surmise from that coy comment, Ashcroft is attempting the Ann Wagner say-nothing approach in order to avoid alienating any group  of potential backers, a strategy that has a better chance of working in his case since, unlike Wagner, he is a newcomer with no political record that might give his actual positions away. He has been so noncommittal that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Virginia Young concluded that “his positions on issues often seem under development.”

What’s not under development, though, is Ashcroft’s willingness to adopt the GOP’s tried-and-true smear techniques. I recently received a mailer from the Ashcroft campaign telling me that Jill Schupp, who spent much of her time in the Missouri House struggling against GOP policies that would decimate the welfare of the state’s children, is enabling – wait for it – “sexual predators” in our schools. That’s right, she’s hand-in-glove with pederasts, according to Ashcroft. I understand from today’s Post-Dispatch that his campaign’s been airing TV spots making the same claims.  

The mailer cites a number of bills, many of which do include the provisions that touch on issues involving sex-offenders. Many of these bills are omnibus bills chock full of unrelated changes to the state’ criminal code or other bodies of law. Consider SB815 from 2010, which Ashcroft cites, which requires candidates for School boards to submit “documentation to the election authority to demonstrate that he or she does not have disqualifying information on the family care safety registry and does not have any substantiated claims of child abuse on the central child abuse registry.” It also has lengthy provisions concerning charter school governance, school finances, teacher requirements, teacher compensation and governance, and much, much more.

Careful politicians don’t just vote for part of a bill, or for a single-focus bill’s worthy intentions; they want to know what it will achieve in toto and, if like Jill Schupp, they’re conscientious, they take the big picture into consideration. They want to know if the goal has already been realized in other existing or pending legislation, or if it will have any unintended, negative consequences. Given the propensity of this predominantly Republican legislature to carelessness when drafting legislation, one would ask for no less.

The Post-Dispatch quotes Emily van Schenkhof, deputy director of Missouri Kids First, a child welfare lobbying group that, who not only takes issue with Ashcroft’s smearing of Schupp, but who adds that such campaigning has the potential to discourage good legislation dealing with child sex-offenders:

Van Schenkhof said ads portraying isolated votes as favoring predators are “going to make it harder for us to do thoughtful policy work on sex offenders, because people aren’t going to want to get involved in these conversations”.

It’s fair to expect politicians to be accountable for their votes, but when it comes to how they vote on particular bills, it’s important to make sure one has all the information. It’s especially important when the information is coming near the end of a close election and the source is an individual who himself doesn’t seem to want to go on the record on any of the hard questions if it might result in election-day blowback, but who is more than willing to distort his opponents voting record.

Is it possible that along with the generally bad smell emanating from the Ashcroft campaign in the wake of this last, shameful maneuver, one can also detect a whiff of desperation? Maybe all that second-hand, GOP greenback courage isn’t working the way it was supposed to and the Ashcroft heir is running scared?  

 

Campaign Finance: welcome to Missouri, St. Louis County edition

31 Friday Oct 2014

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campaign finance, county executive, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Rick Stream, St. Louis, Steve Stenger

Today, from the republican candidate in the St. Louis County Executive race (via the Missouri Ethics Commission):

C041343 10/30/2014 NORWOOD TOWNSHIP DEMOCRATIC CLUB Friends of Rick Stream 1229 Lockett Lane Kirkwood MO 63122 10/30/2014 $19,702.00

[emphasis added]

There’s probably a really interesting explanation.

White House Petition: prehatched chicken counting classes will meet as scheduled

31 Friday Oct 2014

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Kansas, Kansas City, missouri, Petition, White House, World Series

At the White House petition site:

We petition the Obama Administration to:

Cancel school in Kansas if the Royals win the World Series

Petition for no school for all Kansas students if the Royals win the world series (when the Royals won in 1985 they cancelled school, tradition)

Created: Oct 29, 2014

Issues: Education, Human Rights

Signatures needed by November 28, 2014 to reach goal of 100,000 99,011

Total signatures on this petition 989

And a right wingnut billionaire wants Missouri to be just like Kansas.

Your late October close, but no cigar in the World Series moment of Zen

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Fall, missouri

Fall in west central Missouri.

There’s an election on Tuesday. You all know what to do.

Campaign Finance: judge the details

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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19th Judicial Circuit, Brian Stumpe, campaign finance, Cole County, missouri, Patricia Joyce, Republican State Leadership Committee, RSLC

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) has been funneling a lot of money (the source which we don’t know yet) to prop up Brian Stumpe, the republican in the 19th Judicial Circuit race challenging incumbent Judge Patricia Joyce (D). Still, we can see what their “local” PAC does with the money through reports to the Missouri Ethics Commission. Why is this race so important? Court challenges to statewide ballot initiative language are filed in the Cole County circuit (which includes Jefferson City). You think right wingnuts get upset when the court sometimes won’t let them have their way with obfuscatory ballot language?

From the RSLC Missouri PAC eight days before the election report:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC [pdf] 10/27/2014

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/3/2014

$100,000.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/10/2014

$100,000.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/15/2014

$10,700.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/21/2014

$35,250.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/23/2014

$22,800.00

[emphasis added]

And they gave a really big chunk of that change to the republican challenger:

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC 10/27/2014

C.Contributions Made (Regardless of Amount)

Citizens for Stumpe

611 E Capitol Avenue

Jefferson City MO 65101

10/3/2014

$100,000.00

[emphasis added]

And they also have to report what they spent the money on:

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC 10/27/2014

Smart Media Group, LLC

1427 Leslie Avenue

Suite 100

Alexandria VA 22301

10/3/2014

Media Placement and Production $100,000.00

Candidate Command, LLC

1420 NW Vivion

Suite 113

Kansas City MO 64118

10/15/2014

Mail Postage and Production $10,666.00

Candidate Command, LLC

1420 NW Vivion

Suite 113

Kansas City MO 64118

10/21/2014

Mail Postage and Production $34,108.00

Candidate Command, LLC

1420 NW Vivion

Suite 113

Kansas City MO 64118

10/23/2014

Mail Postage and Production $12,776.00

Hanold Communications

630 Browns Court, SE

Washington DC 20003

10/21/2014

Media Production

$1,070.00

[emphasis added]

Television (?), radio (?) and a lot of mail.

And who they spent the money against:

DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC 10/27/2014

This form is used when expenditures listed on form CD3 have been made directly on behalf of [or in opposition to] a candidate or ballot measure issue. Candidate committees making expenditures only on behalf of the candidate for which their committee was formed do not complete this form.

[in opposition to:]

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/21/2014 $1,070.00

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/23/2014 $12,776.00

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/21/2014 $34,108.00

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/15/2014 $10,666.00

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/10/2014 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’re carpet bombing the voters with direct mail.

We’re at the point in the campaign calender where PACs (and all other campaigns) must report significant expenditures within twenty-four hours. The RSLC Missouri PAC has filed a couple of those, too:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC [pdf] 10/27/2014

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/27/2014

$12,800.00

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

B.Itemized Expenditures All Over $100

Candidate Command, LLC

1420 NW Vivion

Suite 113

Kansas City MO 64118

10/27/2014

Mail Postage and Production

$12,776.00

DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT

[in opposition to:]

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/27/2014 $12,776.00

[emphasis added]

Fancy that.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC [pdf] 10/30/2014

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/29/2014

$16,200.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW

Washington DC 20004

10/30/2014

$1,250.00

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

B.Itemized Expenditures All Over $100

Smart Media Group, LLC

1427 Leslie Avenue

Suite 100

Alexandria VA 22301

10/29/2014

Media Placement and Production

$16,200.00

Four Winds Consulting

311 S Summit Avenue

Villa Park IL 60181

10/30/2014

Digital Production

$1,250.00

DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT

[in opposition to:]

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/29/2014 $16,200.00

Patricia Joyce

PO Box 105827

Jefferson City MO 65110

Circuit Judge

Circuit 19

Division 4

10/30/2014 1,250.00

[emphasis added]

That’s close to $300,000.00 against an incumbent in a county circuit judge race. There’s probably plenty more where that came from.

Now, tell us again why we don’t need campaign finance limits and campaign finance reform in Missouri.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Who is getting propped up this time? (October 3, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Now we know… (October 6, 2014)

Campaign Finance: But wait, there’s more… (October 12, 2014)

Others are noticing (October 17, 2014)

Campaign Finance: topping off the tank (October 17, 2014)

What you’d get to see of a campaign finance full moon if the RSLC cut a check in Missouri (October 20, 2014)

Campaign Finance: be the judge (October 23, 2014)

Campaign Finance: a Cole County courtroom drama (October 27, 2014)

Campaign Finance: It’s my party and I’ll help fund it if I want to – part 4

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000960 10/29/2014 MO DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE Claire McCaskill 1941 Spring House Dr St Louis MO 63122 United States Senate 10/29/2014 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $690,000.00 since February, $400,000.00 in the month of October.    

Orange Walks, open-carry marchers and those Ferguson types

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Ferguson, gun control, Gun Laws, missouri, open-carry laws, open-carry march, racism

In Northern Ireland what is known as the marching season takes place between April and August. There are lots of parades during this period. By far the most contentious are the Orange Walks, parades that take place mid-July and which commemorate the victory of Prince William of Orange over James II at the Battle of Boyne. This battle cemented the subjugation of Catholic Ireland to Protestant England, and Orange Walks have functioned to ensure that Catholic Irish don’t forget who it is who runs the show in the North.

The Orange walks are contentious because they focus unresolved tensions among two cultural groups that often view each other with suspicion and fear. The Orangemen represent the folks who have historically had the lion’s share of the meager Northern Ireland pie, a situation that is perhaps finally changing in the wake of  decades of civil strife known as the Troubles. Though the largely Catholic nationalist population is beginning to succeed in more equitably integrating into public and economic life, the tension between the groups persists and finds one of its most tangible and occasionally violent expressions in the Orange walks.

I bring this up because St. Louis County has recently had its own experience with civic unrest in the suburban city of Ferguson. As in Northern Ireland, the ongoing Ferguson protests express the conflict between culturally distinct, mutually suspicious groups, one of which  is historically privileged over the smaller, politically subordinate group. I’d also like to suggest that we saw the same impulse that animates the triumphalist Orange Walks surface in downtown St. Louis. I’m referring to the 40 open-carry advocates who paraded through St. Louis Saturday afternoon, sporting “pistols in holsters and long guns slung from their shoulders.”

Understand that I’m not directly comparing the sparsely attended open-carry march with the powerfully organized Orange marchers. I’m just pointing out that when people feel that their privileges are threatened, they’re apt to react defensively. The Orangemen, for instance, refuse to avoid nationalist areas or negotiate their passage; they insist on claiming right-of-way. So, in this context, ask yourself why white St. Louis gunmen feel it’s important to show off their guns in a predominently Black city? Just why is it necessary to, as one marcher put it, “exercise the newly codified rights in the Missouri Constitution” in such an in-your-face way?

Reasons for the march given by participants had to to with proselytizing for guns because, “more people with guns will ‘keep the streets safer’,” and, more tellingly, “we should always be prepared for an attack.”  Do these responses satisfy? One blogger has noted that the issue has lots to do with just who has the guns and is part of a larger pattern of cultural conflict:

It’s the same pattern you see with conservatives on a lot of issues pertaining to “rights.”  They love going on and on about “freedoms” and “Constitutional rights,” but what they really mean is that they’re fighting for these rights for only those who they feel should have them.

When they talk about religious rights, they mean Christian.  When they talk about protecting equal rights, they mean heterosexuals.  When they talk about shrinking government, they only mean laws that are preventing them from getting away with what they want to get away with.

So when they talk about “open carry rights” they’re really only talking about those people who they feel safe around.  Because I really can’t imagine a group of rural country folk sitting in their local diner feeling at ease with a group of 30 openly armed African-Americans strolling in.

Sociologist Angela Stroud has investigated what makes gun ownership attractive to certain middle class white men. In her research concerning concealed carry, she concludes that “part of the appeal of carrying a concealed firearm is that it allows men to identify with hegemonic masculinity through fantasies of violence and self-defense.” I bet that she’d find that to be the case in spades when it comes to openly brandishing those guns in public. Stroud also identifies a specifically racial aspect to the appeal of guns, noting that:

No figure makes these men feel more physically vulnerable than the specter of the Black criminal. They ascribe a violent masculinity to men of color, and construct a sense of self in contradistinction. Because they assume that the Black men they encounter are potentially armed and dangerous, they want to carry a concealed handgun. Having a gun allows them to maintain a confidence that they are capable of responding to any threat …

See why it might be appealing to some to stage an open-carry parade just as the Ferguson demonstrations begin to cool down? When change is not welcome and conflict emerges, there are lots of folks who can’t help feeling that they should always be “prepared for an attack.” The flaunting of weapons on the part of individuals who are motivated by fantasies of fighting off violent threat is, however, potentially toxic. The blogger I quoted earlier perfectly describes the effect of open-carry laws:

The cultural effect of all these laws is to encourage a kind of hypervigilance that’s simultaneously paranoid and arrogant. It encourages armed citizens to seek confrontations and escalate them, confident that they can end them definitively.

In this context, it becomes difficult not to see a post-Ferguson celebration of open-carry as anything other than an invitation to “bring it on,” issued by frightened white men (and women)* trying their best to live up to an heroic, masculine, cultural ideal. I don’t want to labor the point, but in researching this post, I came across a Website maintained by a comic book author who calls himself D.W. Ulsterman (Northern Ireland is also known as Ulster), who asks:

Is it coincidence that a gathering of marchers who support the pro-2nd Amendment open carry laws of Missouri found nary a sign of Ferguson type protesters attempting to confront them?

WhooHooo! Real men arise and grab your guns! We’ll show those Fergunson types! With any luck, we too, just like Northern Ireland, can enjoy twenty or thirty years of well-armed tit-for-tat murder as we turn the culture wars from a metaphor to a reality.

* Stroud earlier interviewed several women who applied for open-carry licenses and concluded that women want guns in order “to feel as powerful as men in a culture where women are taught to feel vulnerable.” Same dynamic, slightly skewed.

N.B. Text edited slightly for clarity.

 

Campaign Finance: It’s my party and I’ll help fund it if I want to – part 3

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000960 10/28/2014 MO DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE McCaskill Claire 1941 Spring House Dr St Louis MO 63122 United States Senate 10/28/2014 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $640,000.00 since February, $350,000.00 in the month of October.  

Every time Rex Sinquefield signs a check a campaign consultant gets their wings… – part 2

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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2016, campaign finance, Catherine Hanaway, governor, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Rex Sinquefield, Tom Schweich

…and Tom Schweich (r) sheds even more tears.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commision:

C141055 10/28/2014 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 10/27/2014 $10,000.00

Drip, drip, drip.

Fairfax:…Man, that’s just mean. That’s mean, man.

Previously:

Every time Rex Sinquefield signs a check a twenty-something campaign consultant gets their wings… (October 22, 2014)

Campaign Finance: making a choice (October 15, 2014)

Campaign Finance: a choice (October 1, 2014)

Campaign Finance: wachet auf (September 17, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Which side are you on? (June 30, 2014)

Campaign Finance: waking up at the end of the quarter (June 25, 2014)

Campaign Finance: different friends (June 14, 2014)

Campaign Finance: This probably qualifies as an oxymoron… (May 22, 2014)

The campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit – part 2

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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2014, Grow Missouri, GrowMo, mail, missouri, PAC, right wingnuts

Our household received this campaign piece in yesterday’s mail:



As if Newsmax is credible for anything?

Yes, yes, let’s talk about Kansas.

Any bets on quotes taken out of context?

Improve Missouri education and healthcare? If you define that as gutting public education and keeping hundreds of thousands of people from affordable access to healthcare.

The twenty-something campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit (October 22, 2014)

Is there anyone left on the planet who seriously believes that right wingnut republicans want people to have greater access to healthcare? Any twenty-something campaign consultant who shovels this mail is either delusional or a sociopath.

Yes, it’s the PAC with the blimp that confuses supporters of legalization:

The Rex Sinquefield funded PAC Grow Missouri’s moving billboard at

the University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport near Warrensburg [file photo].

And the money comes from:

How “a broad based coalition” is now defined in Missouri and America (September 12, 2014)

[….]

The Grow Missouri PAC’s “broad based coalition” consists of $6,045,000.00 from Rex Sinquefield (in blue)

and $22,000.00 (in-kind) from Pelopidas LLC over the fourteen month existence of the PAC.

[….]

Welcome to Missouri and America in the 21st century.

But we repeat ourselves. So do they.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: how astroturf (the fake grassroots) works (August 1, 2013)

Campaign Finance: teachers are evil, except when they save kids from a tornado or a crazed gunman (May 24, 2013)

Campaign Finance: using a lot of money to beat up on teachers (May 28, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Bah, humbug! (December 25, 2013)

Campaign Finance: here’s $31,000.00, go beat up on public school teachers (February 26, 2014)

Campaign Finance: a contribution of only $20.00 is a stronger statement (April 25, 2014)

“…We smiled and waved, sittin’ there on that sack of seeds.” (September 20, 2014)

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys (October 1, 2014)

Follow the blimp, then check the area for concentrations of hot air… (October 11, 2014)

The twenty-something campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit (October 22, 2014)

Campaign Finance: maybe the blimp is running out of gas (October 24, 2014)

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