Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000960 10/24/2014 MO DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE Missourians for Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 10/24/2014 $50,000.00

C000960 10/24/2014 MO DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE Claire McCaskill 1941 Spring House Dr St Louis MO 63122 United States Senate 10/24/2014 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $590,000.00 since February, $300,000.00 in the month of October from Claire McCaskill.

That’s $150,000.00 since June from Chris Koster.

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

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

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, from one right wingnut astroturf PAC to another:

C131097 10/24/2014 GROW MISSOURI TeachGreat.Org 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 10/23/2014 $225,000.00

[emphasis added]

Our household received this piece in the mail today:

Another mailing from the Grow Missouri PAC funded by Rex Sinquefield.

Tell it to Kansas.

Heh. They wrote “flick”. That probably makes the legalization folks smile.

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)

Mailboxes in the 51st Legislative District are getting inundated with Dean Dohrman (r) campaign mail paid for by everybody but Dean Dohrman.

Dean Dohrman (r) spent his time in the General Assembly in Jefferson City voting to prevent an imaginary implementation of Sharia Law, voting to stop a right wingnut paranoid fantasy concocted out of the ether in the form of Agenda 21, and voting for nullification (which was settled 150 years ago). Nope, nothing on jobs.

Dean Dohrman (r) did vote to screw education (and the University of Central Missouri) in his district. School Boards across the state opposed that ill conceived cut to public education for the benefit of the wealthiest few.

Dean Dohrman (r) did vote to allow the state to intrude on an individual’s medical decisions.

With no record of legitimate legislative achievement to speak of Dean Dohrman’s (r) benefactors have to resort to mailers like these to prop him up.

This one is paid for by the Missouri republican party.

Uh, Dean Dohrman (r) ain’t no friend of educators or public education. Think for a moment about the delicious irony of the incumbent posing in front of the University of Central Missouri football stadium with young people wearing university gear after voting to screw the institution and its students in 2013, and again in the last session in 2014.

And for more delicious irony (or cluelessness, your choice) a mail piece paid for by a PAC largely funded by a right wingnut billionaire:

….Dean Dohrman listens to his constituents, not special interests!….

Who paid for that?:

Understatement (July 20, 2014)

[….]

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

MISSOURI CLUB FOR GROWTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE [pdf] 3/31/2014

Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/27/2014 $973,000.00

12. TOTAL ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSON GIVING $25 OR LESS $0.00

13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $0.00

[emphasis added]

[….]

Rex Sinquefield’s campaign contribution to the Missouri Club for Growth as reported to the Missouri Ethics Commission in 2014

– compared to those of seventeen other individuals and one business entity. That tiny slice is everyone else.

[….]

Uh, one person with a lot of money spending that money for a specific political agenda is a special interest.

Wait a minute. The second piece was paid for by an “independent” entity as an “independent” expenditure. Why is the candidate’s clothing in the respective glamor shots in different mailings by different entities identical?:

Paid for by the Missouri republican party (left) and Missouri Club for Growth PAC (right).

The tie, the shirt, and the jacket are identical. The haircut is exactly the same, too. What are the odds?

Just asking. Maybe there are paparazzi prowling the 51st Legislative District capturing images of candidates while they stand around outside smiling in their suits. Nah.

And the next mailing, an attack piece paid for by the Missouri republican party, extolls the virtues of SB 509:

And who really, really, really wanted SB 509? You guessed it, a right wingnut billionaire.

Here’s the thing for candidate Dean Dohrman (r), he can’t cheerily benefit from insipid mailings (with no substance) like the first piece paid for by the Missouri republican party and at the same time escape accepting responsibility for the nasty attack pieces on his behalf paid for by that same Missouri republican party – all mailed to the same households in the district.

Previously:

Dean Dohrman (r) thinks your stoopit (October 10, 2014)

Dean Dohrman (r) thinks your stoopit – part 2 (October 16, 2014)

Dean Dohrman (r) thinks your stoopit – part 3 (October 18, 2014)

Gosh, those funsters at the Republican State leadership Committee – Missouri PAC just keep rolling in that campaign cash. Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVEDBY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY

SINGLE DONOR -TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION

C051039

RSLC-MISSOURI PAC [pdf] 10/23/2014

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW Suite 675

Washington, DC 20004 10/21/2014

$35,250.00

Republican State Leadership Committee

1201 F Street, NW Suite 675

Washington, DC 20004 10/23/2014

$22,800.00

[emphasis added]

They ain’t feeding widows and orphans with all that money.

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)

It’s an interesting exercise watching republican PACs move money around. Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C071094 10/22/2014 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Eastern Missouri Senate PAC 3220 West Edgewood Ste E Jefferson City MO 65109 10/21/2014 $150,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well then, let’s follow the money. First, from the Eastern Missouri Senate PAC:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

EASTERN MISSOURI SENATE PAC [pdf] 4/14/2014

Missouri Senate Campaign Committee

PO Box 754

Jefferson City MO 65102

2/11/2014

$100,000.00

Southwest Missouri Senate PAC

3220 West Edgewood Ste E

Jefferson City MO 65109

3/31/2014

$99,825.00

[emphasis added]

Okay, some of the money found it’s way back home. Where did the Southwest Missouri Senate PAC get its money?:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SENATE PAC [pdf] 4/14/2014

Missouri Senate Campaign Committee

PO Box 754

Jefferson City MO 65102

2/11/2014

$100,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s funny. Why bother?

Maybe the legacy gets the next move.

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

Because Kansas is doing so well? Right.

Conservative candidates need your help to make Missouri’s Economy strong again. Liberals and special interests are relentlessly trying to make it harder to run a business; they want to raise taxes to fund government, create unnecessary red tape and drive up costs that slow success.* They are counting on low voter turnout to make it happen. It’s your civic duty to vote on November 4th.

Go tell it to Kansas.

Yeah, irony of ironies, they refer to the travesty that is SB 509.

And this is particularly rich (pun intended):

….WHAT ARE WE VOTING FOR?: [….] Greater Access to Healthcare….

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.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141258 10/22/2014 COMMITTEE IN SUPPORT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION MO National Education Association 1810 E Elm Street Jefferson City MO 65107 10/21/2014 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

The worst nightmare for rightwingnuts is that teachers, their families, and friends turn out and vote in the November general election. You all know what to do.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: “…nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” (September 5, 2014)

Campaign Finance: there is no tomorrow (August 31, 2014)

Campaign Finance: they’re serious (August 29, 2014)

Campaign Finance: pawn to queen’s bishop $125,000.00 (August 27, 2014)

Understatement (July 20, 2014)

Campaign Finance: even more in (July 15, 2014)

Campaign Finance: all in (July 9, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Nope, the boat’s still not big enough. (June 4, 2014)

Campaign Finance: still need a much bigger boat (May 28, 2014)

Campaign Finance: schooling (May 19, 2014)

…and Tom Schweich cries (r).

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141055 10/22/2014 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR Rex Singuefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 10/20/2014 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Now they’re just toying with him. For some people these days entertainment is really cheap.

Previously:

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 Committee to Protect MO Familes, a PAC, has released a video ad in the 51st legislative District race in support of challenger Gary Grigsby (D) and against incumbent Dean Dohrman (r).

Announcer: Things are still pretty tough around here. That’s why it’s more important than ever that we have someone in Jefferson City who will fight for us. But Dean Dohrman [r] has not been looking out for us. Dohrman supported legislation backed by a St. Louis billionaire that would have cut taxes for the wealthy, slashed funding for local schools, and even raised taxes on the rest of us for things like textbooks and prescription drugs. We can do better. Support Gary Grigsby [D] for state representative. He’ll look out for us, not just the wealthy. Paid for the committee to protect MoFamilies, Martin Walter, treasurer.

We expect that this is running (or will run) on cable, since the 51st Legislative District is not in a major media broadcast market.

At the PAC website:

The Committee to Protect MO Families is a growing broad-based coalition of organizations and individuals who have come together to oppose so-called “Right to Work” efforts in Missouri, as well as the corporate extremists and self-interested politicians who are using “Right to Work” as part of their larger war on the middle class.

Ah, it’s a pro organized labor and working people organization.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000953 10/20/2014 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY House Republican Campaign Committee PO Box 1313 Jefferson City MO 65102 10/20/2014 $150,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’ll always have all the money they’ll ever need.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: they’ll always have all the money they’ll ever need (May 10, 2014)

Campaign Finance: What on earth for? (August 10, 2014)

Campaign Finance: the HRCC has a really, really, really good day (August 11, 2014)

Campaign Finance: there’s nothing new under the Sun (August 16, 2014)

Campaign Finance: from one pocket to the other (October 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: they obviously need bigger pockets (October 9, 2014)