Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Chris Koster’s (D) probable 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C031159 07/20/2015 KOSTER FOR MISSOURI Bommarito Automotive Group 15736 Manchester Rd Ellisville MO 63011 7/20/2015 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

When your campaign raises a lot of money it will probably continue to raise a lot of money.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Working People! (May 11, 2015)

Campaign Finance: it’s been too quiet… (May 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: again with the working people (May 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: not a surprise, considering the alternative (June 3, 2015)

Campaign Finance: in someone’s corner June 4, 2015)

Reason enough (June 4, 2015)

Salus populi suprema lex esto (June 5, 2015)

Campaign Finance: they know which side (June 9, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Mr. Smith goes to Jefferson City? (June 12, 2015)

Campaign Finance: to your health (June 17, 2015)

Campaign Finance: to the end of the quarter…and beyond (June 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: more from working people (June 22, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (June 24, 2015)

Campaign Finance: running for Governor, may run for Governor, probably running for Governor (June 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Is this the start of the end of the quarter rush? (June 30, 2015)

Campaign Finance: inexorable (July 7, 2015)

Campaign Finance: I’ll see your managed care and raise you a home health service… (July 14, 2015)

Chris Koster (D) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 18, 2015)

…and predictable.

In the past few days at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 exploratory gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 07/18/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Terry Scariot 116 Sunningdale Drive Georgetown KY 40324 Remington Partners Partner 7/18/2015 $10,000.00

C151053 07/18/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Linda Finerty 20 Algonquin Ln St Louis MO 63119 N/A Community Volunteer 7/18/2015 $10,000.00

C151053 07/20/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Randall Voss 1718 S Glenstone Ave Springfield MO 65804 Voss Autohaus of Springfield Owner 7/20/2015 $5,001.00

[emphasis added]

Ah, the grassroots.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: There is another? (February 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a little bit more (February 26, 2015)

Campaign Finance: A new bandwagon? (March 6, 2015)

Campaign Finance: but wait, there’s more (March 10, 2015)

Campaign Finance: that’ll help finance a whole lot of exploring (March 12, 2015)

Campaign Finance: it’s going to be a good quarter (March 16, 2015)

Campaign Finance: still exploring (March 17, 2015)

Campaign Finance: gone quiet (March 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: not quiet at all (March 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: eat mor chikin (March 26, 2015)

The stenographer: Ah, for the good old days… (March 28, 2015)

Campaign Finance: in under the wire (April 1, 2015)

Campaign Finance: all in today (April 9, 2015)

Campaign Finance: far afield (April 13, 2015)

Eric Greitens (r) – quarterly campaign finance report – April 15, 2015 (April 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: not to be outdone (April 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: not exactly spare change (April 23, 2015)

Campaign Finance: also in increments of $5,001.00 (April 23, 2015)

Campaign Finance: That’s Entertainment! (April 27, 2015)

Campaign Finance: still more (May 2, 2015)

Campaign Finance: just another harbinger of a populist awakening in Missouri (May 5, 2015)

Campaign Finance: You were expecting anything less? (May 19, 2015)

Campaign Finance: still exploring (June 6, 2015)

Campaign Finance: running for Governor, may run for Governor, exploring a run for Governor (June 13, 2015)

Campaign Finance: alrighty then (June 16, 2015)

Campaign Finance: we’d venture to say that’s a lot of capital (June 23, 2015)

Campaign Finance: pretty soon you’re talkin’ serious money (June 24, 2015)

Campaign Finance: you don’t need to play chess when you have friends like this (June 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: fast approaching that first million (June 26, 2015)

Campaign Finance: getting closer… (June 26, 2015)

Campaign Finance: ever so close… (June 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: blow right by it (June 30, 2015)

Campaign Finance: there is no end to it (July 1, 2015)

Campaign Finance: also inexorable (July 11, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a talent for raising money (July 13, 2015)

Eric Greitens (r) – July 2015 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report (July 15, 2015)

Grassroots campaign fundraising isn’t dead.

Pat Contreras, the Democratic Party candidate for State Treasurer in 2016 [2015 file photo].

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No, not this one.

Eric Schmitt’s (r) 2016 state treasurer campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th: (r):

C071320: Schmitt For Missouri

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 220722 Party Affiliation: Republican

Kirkwood Mo 63122 Established Date: 10/12/2007

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $1,713,355.43

Monetary Receipts + $151,231.09

Monetary Expenditures – $75,946.02

Contributions Made – $5,200.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $70,085.07

Ending Money On Hand   $1,783,440.50

[emphasis added]

Uh, yeah, that’s a lot of money. Just where did it all come from? Previously some of it came from really, really, really generous friends.

The contributions this past fundraising quarter:

Contributions to Eric Schmitt’s (r) 2016 state treasurer campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Eric Schmitt’s(r) 2016 state treasurer campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Simmons Hanly Conroy $25,000.00

Drury Development $12,500.00

Noranda Aluminum $10,000.00

August A Busch III $10,000.00

Rivertown Enterprises $10,000.00

Land West 7 $5,001.00

Douglas Albrecht $5,000.00

John Bardgett & Associates $3,425.00

John Qualy $3,000.00

William Stephen Maritz $2,500.00

John Rallo $2,500.00

John T OConnell $2,500.00

Kwame Building Group $2,500.00

Gerard Hempstead $2,500.00

Burns & McDonnell $2,500.00

Home Building Industry PAC $2,500.00

James Zara $2,500.00

Medart $2,500.00

Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters $2,000.00

Anna M Blair $2,000.00

MARF $2,000.00

McBride & Son $2,000.00

Eugene M Toombs $1,500.00

Michael OKeefe $1,500.00

Ward M Klein $1,000.00

Steven W Schulte $1,000.00

Christopher P McKee $1,000.00

Professional Fire Fighters of Eastern Missouri $1,000.00

Stephen A Smith $1,000.00

Caryn Lamping $1,000.00

West County Firefighters $1,000.00

Wasinger for County Council $1,000.00

Stephen R Green $1,000.00

Missouri Association of Nurse Anesthetists $1,000.00

Friends of Tilley $1,000.00

Dale Turvey $1,000.00

Commerce Bancshares $1,000.00

Stephen Gross $1,000.00

Peter F Benoist $1,000.00

Enterprise Holdings $1,000.00

Jeffrey L Fox $1,000.00

Jeffrey Dunn $750.00

John Ertz $700.00

Stephen F Brauer $500.00

John P King $500.00

James M Talent $500.00

Robert James Ciapciak $500.00

John Shields $500.00

Brian L Bruce $500.00

Scott Underwood $500.00

Jesse Hill $500.00

Kathleen M Ratcliffe $500.00

Peter A Racen $500.00

Mark D Schuchardt $500.00

Michael Corry $500.00

Michael Staenberg $500.00

St. Louis Home Health $500.00

Kenneth P Stricker $500.00

Howard L Chilcutt $500.00

Brentwood Physical Therapy $500.00

MBA Capitol Region PAC $500.00

Robert L Scharff $500.00

Pattonville Community Affairs Fund $500.00

Mattingly Lumber $300.00

FRS Investments $300.00

Paul E Martin $250.00

Richard F Huck $250.00

Steven A Busch $250.00

William F Holekamp $250.00

Brent C Beumer $250.00

Matthew C Jessee $250.00

Tripp H Hardin $250.00

William M Bolster $250.00

Donald R Klaas $250.00

Janet Torrisi-Mokwa $250.00

William M Bolster $250.00

Andrew B Leonard $250.00

CVPT $250.00

Robert P Walsh $200.00

David T Kramer $150.00

St. Louis Physical Therapy $125.00

Rebecca Blackwell $100.00

James J Reis $100.00

Craig D Jobe $100.00

Clay A Degenhardt $100.00

Keith Barket $100.00

Brent C Beumer $100.00

Andrew C Wegman $100.00

John Howard Short $100.00

Thomas Clemens $100.00

Ann M Brand $100.00

Corry A Coopmans $100.00

[emphasis added]

Half of the total amount raised this quarter came from seven individuals or entities. Close to 90% of the total amount raised came in contributions of $1,000.00 or more.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 7/15/2015

Candidate Command LLC 1420 NW Vivion, Ste 113 Kansas City MO 64118 4/24/2015 Consulting and digital and social media $2,857.82

Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 5/1/2015 Consulting – media and grassroots $11,500.00

Joe Machens Ford 807 Southwest Blvd Jefferson City MO 65109 5/14/2015 Campaign Vehicle $40,488.46

Candidate Command, LLC 1420 NW Vivion, Ste 113 Kansas City MO 64118 6/2/2015 Consulting – media and constituent contact $5,106.02

Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 6/8/2015 Consulting – media and grassroots $3,000.00

Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 6/8/2015 Consulting – media and grassroots $4,500.00

[emphasis added]

Heh. Do you suppose the campaign vehicle has a really nice sound system?

Uh, get back to us about that “grassroots” label when most of your campaign cash comes from folks who can’t write four and five figure checks.

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Oh, there is a difference. Big. Really big. Huge.

Pat Contreras’ (D) 2016 state treasurer campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C151083: Contreras For Treasurer

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 22546 Party Affiliation: Democrat

Kansas City Mo 64113 Established Date: 04/10/2015

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $0.00

Monetary Receipts + $65,353.32

Monetary Expenditures – $9,517.35

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $500.00

Subtotal     $55,335.97

Ending Money On Hand   $55,335.97

[emphasis added]

That doesn’t provide the whole story. Try this: just over 400 contributions (mostly in comparatively modest amounts) in one fundraising quarter.

The contributions:

Contributions to Pat Contreras’ (D) 2016 state treasurer campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Pat Contreras’ (D) 2016 state treasurer campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

3D Political $7,500.00

Michael Haverty $5,001.00

Hubbard and Kurtz $2,100.00

James B. Nutter $2,000.00

Elma Martinez $1,000.00

Kelvin Walls $1,000.00

Ryan Haverty $1,000.00

Chris Miller $1,000.00

Mary Steeb $1,000.00

Robert Wayne Contreras $800.00

Sarah Starnes $757.24

Paul Woody $750.00

Shawn Borich $530.00

Emily Rochon $500.00

Maria E Andrade $500.00

Lola Rocha $500.00

Burton Taylor $500.00

Juan Sepulveda $500.00

Lawrence Gates $500.00

Gregory Cook $500.00

Ursula Terrasi $500.00

Jason Zook $500.00

John Wandless $500.00

Committee to Elect Tony Miller $500.00

Michael Gonzalez $500.00

Adam Meister $500.00

Nick Rocha $500.00

Michael Cappel $500.00

Kristofer Clark $500.00

Migael Penix $350.00

Bryan Hunt $350.00

Vincent Klein $350.00

Saul Gomez $300.00

Steve Cordova $300.00

Paul Guertin $300.00

Alan Lang $300.00

Luis Maes $300.00

Sarah Simons $300.00

Charles Andrew Chappelle $300.00

Paloma Gonzalez $300.00

Oana Cheta $300.00

Kevin Hyzak $300.00

Hector Nieto $250.00

Maurice Watson $250.00

Sara Cecilia Lopez $250.00

Franklin Davis $250.00

Lou deBaca $250.00

Arthur Moore $250.00

Charles Wurth $250.00

Salim Lajam $250.00

Kimberly Caine $250.00

Gabriel Gore $250.00

Robert Smith $250.00

Jessica Contreras $250.00

Alexia Norris $250.00

Sheridan Wood $250.00

Kevin Gluba $250.00

Mark Reinsch $250.00

Josh Campbell $250.00

Liliana Gabriel $250.00

Idris Ademola $250.00

Shawn VanDiver $250.00

Marina Torres $250.00

Sharon Hoffman $250.00

Phyllis Chase $250.00

Ahnna Smith $250.00

Daniel Aleshire $250.00

Michael Sigler $250.00

Mike Haverty $250.00

Philip Lyons $250.00

Gayle Krigel $250.00

Charles Sosland $250.00

Josh Weinberg $250.00

David Wetzel $250.00

Mark Anthony Thomas $250.00

Chris Stout $250.00

Jackie Nugent $250.00

Scarlett Freeman $250.00

Phu Huynh $250.00

Stephen Herrman $250.00

Luis Renta $250.00

Hala Hijazi $250.00

Henry Garcia $250.00

Paco Palmieri $250.00

Alain Sylvain $250.00

Nicholas Fagan $250.00

Leonardo Bullaro $250.00

Jan Singelmann $250.00

Alfredo Pedroza $200.00

Jana Nelson $200.00

Kevin Pistilli $200.00

Matt Bunting $200.00

De Zjai Eskridge $200.00

Jason Thompson $200.00

Noerena Limon $200.00

Laura Schnettgoecke $200.00

Gregory Lever $200.00

Michelle Miller $200.00

Mary Jane Judy $200.00

Jared Wells $200.00

Ericka Duker $200.00

Tom Bullaro $200.00

Mark Saighman $200.00

Tressa Guenov $200.00

Dan McSweeney $200.00

Temple Cooley $200.00

Phil Woodmore $200.00

Cooper Smith $200.00

John Clarke $200.00

Gina Coronado $200.00

Sabreen Dogar $200.00

Brian Nogy $200.00

Clarence Jasen Peterson $200.00

Rosario Babiskin $200.00

John Paul Schnapper-Casteras $200.00

Toby Dalton $200.00

Geneve Villacres $200.00

Michael Flores $200.00

Olga Sanchez $200.00

Megan Green $200.00

Pat Contreras $155.80

Omer Salamat $150.00

Carlo DiCarlo $150.00

Anthony Henderson $150.00

Jason Slattery $150.00

Felicia Pullam $150.00

Pablo Quintanilla $150.00

Carolina Olego $150.00

Bernard Burrola $150.00

Ted Chartier $150.00

Jeremy Newman $150.00

Danielle Davis $150.00

Eric Smith $150.00

Teresa Sullivan $150.00

John Contreras $150.00

Bradley Bakker $150.00

Agustin Dominguez $150.00

Ishmael Rocha $150.00

Duane Smith $150.00

Evan Krauss $140.32

Jennifer Prudencio $125.00

Carmen Gutierrez $125.00

Didier Sylvain $120.00

Ronald Wilson $100.00

Carmen Lomellin $100.00

Alfred Murguia $100.00

Jon Tollefson $100.00

Veenita Kaushik $100.00

Shea Festoff $100.00

Diana Rodriguez $100.00

Cristina Antelo $100.00

Patrick Peterson $100.00

Venita Ramirez $100.00

Kathy Humphrey $100.00

Guillermo Meneses $100.00

Josh Branson $100.00

Joseph Gilbride $100.00

Kathie Allsion $100.00

Shelly Rivas $100.00

David Peterson $100.00

Vijayendran Somasegaran $100.00

Anthony Diaz $100.00

Deepti Gudipati $100.00

Carlos Becerra $100.00

Jeff Till $100.00

Jeffrey McCarther $100.00

Cindy Circo $100.00

Leib Dodell $100.00

Samuel Madrigal $100.00

Matt Raplinger $100.00

Eric Robbins $100.00

Philip Glynn $100.00

Sandy Geduldig $100.00

Christian Cardona $100.00

Mickey Goldstein $100.00

Nicholas Contreras $100.00

Sue Aguilar $100.00

Elvis Cordova $100.00

Heather Oberrieder $100.00

Akeiisa Coleman $100.00

Kristofer Hilliard $100.00

Thomas Devine $100.00

Nate Huppe $100.00

Gordon Griffin $100.00

Ebony Cain $100.00

Ann Hyde $100.00

Amanda Tamayo $100.00

Jon Gray $100.00

Benton Lloyd and Chung $100.00

Corby Jones $100.00

D’Vonta Richard $100.00

E.J.Whitney Wilson $100.00

Peter Sloan $100.00

Alfred Jordan $100.00

Lanna Ultican $100.00

Michael Henry $100.00

Charles Eagan $100.00

Sandy Querry $100.00

Carol Hallquist $100.00

Alvin Brooks $100.00

Westport Landing Democratic Club $100.00

Negrete Design $100.00

Matthew Aronson $100.00

Jim Green $100.00

Josue Lopez Calderon $100.00

Ryan Fenwick $100.00

Michael Borich $100.00

Stephen Williamson $100.00

Jay Chen $100.00

Luke Davenport $100.00

Salman Khalil $100.00

Shil Patel $100.00

Aaron Case $100.00

Anthony Graves $100.00

Francisco Perez $100.00

Jesse Wald $100.00

Anthony Johnson $100.00

Roman Sienkiewicz $100.00

Gabe Zorogastua $100.00

Paul Fitzgibbons $100.00

Brennan Cain $100.00

Joel Acevedo $100.00

Melissa Reynolds $100.00

Brian Kanatzar $100.00

Kenneth W Fallows $100.00

Eloise Quintanilla $100.00

Alvaro Bedoya $100.00

Katie Verschelden $100.00

Angela Florez $100.00

Lisa Lopez $100.00

Joe Nastasi $100.00

Aaron Mitchell $100.00

Roderick Carey $100.00

Felicia Medellin $100.00

Michael Hodes $100.00

Michael Doody $100.00

Ramon Escobar $100.00

Brad Elkins $100.00

Jacob Saperstein $100.00

Jennifer Lynch $100.00

Lourdes Rivery $100.00

Marisa Suescun $100.00

Axelle Latortue $100.00

Luis Miranda $100.00

Derek Weber $100.00

Nicholas Murphy $100.00

James Reyes $100.00

Suzie Jang $100.00

Julio Urrutia $100.00

Harlyn Pacheco $100.00

Emanuel Pleitez $100.00

Brian Altenhofen $100.00

Nathaly Arriola $100.00

Frances Colon $100.00

Joel Samuels $100.00

Adam Tiffen $100.00

Erika Brice $75.00

Brandon Dangle $75.00

Shaun Stallworth $75.00

Linda Reyes $75.00

Caitlin Howarth $75.00

Salvador Perez $75.00

Melissa Hazley $60.00

Kermit Jones $56.00

Isabelle Giap $50.00

Jessica Berlow $50.00

Kimberly Olson $50.00

Miranda Patterson $50.00

Brandon Fureigh $50.00

Linda Manus $50.00

Susie Quintana $50.00

Jacqueline Wood $50.00

Sandra Tasic $50.00

Jeff Mallare $50.00

Jaclyn Luby $50.00

Xuan-Trang Morton $50.00

Sara Marti $50.00

Tom Hare $50.00

Jackie Nugent $50.00

Javier Martinez $50.00

Mabel Arrambide $50.00

Michael Evans $50.00

Michael Lieberman $50.00

Michael Breen $50.00

Leo Cruz $50.00

Andrea Marr $50.00

Nicholas Sarcone $50.00

Barbara Womack $50.00

Christine Carney $50.00

Christine Garton $50.00

Cort VanOstran $50.00

Patricia Jordan $50.00

Nia Richardson $50.00

Rudy Chavez $50.00

Alice Kitchen $50.00

Charles Morgan $50.00

Judy Morgan $50.00

B. Carey $50.00

Paula Willmarth $50.00

Tim Kennedy $50.00

Kevin McCaffrey $50.00

Leanna Fenneberg $50.00

Jim Sellers $50.00

Kerry Kraemer $50.00

Christopher Boyle $50.00

Chad Kreikemeier $50.00

Rob Santiago $50.00

Carlos Vizcarra $50.00

Joe Costa $50.00

Jesse Boateng $50.00

Samantha Remeika $50.00

Christopher Carr $50.00

Daniel Schniedermeier $50.00

Leigh O’Neill $50.00

Andrew Fogel $50.00

Matthew Asada $50.00

Gerty O’Leary $50.00

Roberto Fierro $50.00

Frank Ramirez $50.00

Prashanth Rajan $50.00

Carmen Cantor $50.00

Ben Yates $50.00

Zaid Zaid $50.00

Graziella Bullaro $50.00

Dan Sutera $50.00

Lubna Alam $50.00

Abdul Fouzi $50.00

Ben Smilowitz $50.00

Daniel Melgoza $50.00

Carol Winick $50.00

Laura Guerra-Cardus $50.00

Nicholas Juliano $50.00

Raymond Rico $50.00

Luke Finocchario $50.00

Geraldine Gassam $50.00

Nicole Rocha $50.00

Charles Perkey $50.00

Stephen Wichmann $50.00

Rose Bell $50.00

Jerome Warchol $50.00

David Kim $40.00

Robert Hall $40.00

Shanna Brownstein $36.00

Chere Chaney $30.00

Andrea Raya $25.00

Kristian Ramos $25.00

Pat Garcia $25.00

Jomo Castro $25.00

Sebastian Ontiveros $25.00

Rebekkah Schear $25.00

Jessica Leeker $25.00

Mark Havera $25.00

Kim Skerko Orth $25.00

Kevin Sullivan $25.00

Aysha Chowdhry $25.00

Kellie Hawkins $25.00

Jocelyn Rivera-Olivas $25.00

Maria Rincon $25.00

Jorge Rodriguez $25.00

Tony Perez $25.00

Denise Lopez $25.00

Julian Alcazar $25.00

Rose Jackson $25.00

Maggie Moore $25.00

Evan Frederick $25.00

Shannon Morrisey $25.00

Welton Chang $25.00

Michael Moschella $25.00

Jordan D’Angelo $25.00

Justin McFarlin $25.00

Dileep Rajan $25.00

Emily Galindo $25.00

Randy Lopez $25.00

Rebecca Richardson $25.00

Jason Howell $25.00

Kyle Smith $25.00

Stacy Purvis $25.00

Clayton Bond $25.00

Benjamin Villanti $25.00

Francisco Trigo $25.00

Navarro Moore $25.00

Jimmy Ortiz Ortiz $25.00

Monique Alcala $25.00

Karen Clark $25.00

Jason Stanford $25.00

Lindsey Fisher $25.00

Attia Nasar $25.00

Alicia Arendt $25.00

Sara Marti $25.00

Michael Herman $25.00

Francisco Alvarez $20.00

Eric Lanigan $20.00

Graham West $20.00

Tianna Taylor-Albin $20.00

John Wilson $20.00

Takishia Ford $15.00

Cydny Black $15.00

Kevin Garner $10.00

Bonnie Frye Hemphill $10.00

Samantha Elghanayan $10.00

There’s a big difference.

To put it in perspective that’s 386 contributions of $500.00 or less. 365 contributions of $350.00 or less. 357 contributions of $250.00 or less. 308 contributions of $200.00 or less. 278 contributions of $150.00 or less. 256 contributions of $100.00 or less. 135 contributions of $50 or less.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

CONTRERAS FOR TREASURER [pdf] 7/15/2015

City of Clayton MO 10 N Bemiston Clayton MO 63105 6/1/2015 Parking Fee $2.00

JS Stadium 807 Stadium Blvd Columbia MO 65109 6/25/2015 Gas $40.32

Quicktrip #00602 1640 S 5th St St. Charles MO 63303 5/31/2015 Gas $37.62

Rhodes 101 Stop #335 2023 Lake Dr Perryville MO 63775 6/27/2015 Gas $32.79

TA Travelcenter #175 3265 N Service Rd Foristell MO 63348 6/28/2015 Gas $33.72

[emphasis added]

Now that’s grassroots.

Oh yes, there’s a big difference.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: there are friends, and then there are “friends” (July 4, 2014)

Campaign Finance: it’s just not the same when it’s only four or five figures (July 8, 2014)

Campaign Finance: somebody’s favorite (August 12, 2014)

Campaign Finance: it takes a treasure to become a treasurer (November 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: there will be more (January 10, 2015)

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce (June 3, 2015)

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce – part 2 (June 5, 2015)

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce – part 3 (June 11, 2015)

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Pat Contreras (D) a candidate for State Treasurer in 2016 (April 13, 2015)

From Senator Claire McCaskill (D) today via Twitter:

Claire McCaskill ‏@clairecmc

There’s something unseemly about Cruz following Trump around like a lost puppy,hoping to get his leftovers when he finally flames out. 10:35 AM – 20 Jul 2015

One of the responses:

Bruce Barmer ‏@BruceBarmer

@clairecmc “There’s something unseemly about Cruz…” You could really just leave it at that. 10:36 AM – 20 Jul 2015

Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.

Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 attorney general campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C081145: Citizens To Elect Kurt Schaefer Attorney General

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 1614 Party Affiliation: Republican

Columbia Mo 65205 Established Date: 04/04/2008

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $1,326,971.20

Monetary Receipts + $96,097.50

Monetary Expenditures – $38,920.56

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $57,176.94

Ending Money On Hand   $1,384,148.14

[emphasis added]

Not a particularly active fundraising quarter, though the cash on hand, at first glance, is impressive. There is $544,822.93 in outstanding indebtedness.

The contributions:

Contributions to Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Pfizer PAC $5,001.00

Bob McCosh Chevrolet $5,000.00

Missouri Soybean Association $5,000.00

Otto Maly $5,000.00

RightChoice Managed Care $5,000.00

Alliance for Higher Education $2,500.00

CenturyLink $2,500.00

Cerner PAC $2,500.00

Coalition for Advanced Learning $2,500.00

Dealers Interested in Government $2,500.00

Express Scripts $2,500.00

Glazer’s Missouri PAC $2,500.00

Kum & Go $2,500.00

MHA $2,500.00

Missouri Realtors PAC $2,500.00

MO Corn Growers Association $2,500.00

MO Dental PAC $2,500.00

MO Health Care Association $2,500.00

Supporters of Health Research $2,500.00

Orscheln Management $2,000.00

GibbonsWorkman $1,500.00

Kevin Greenberg $1,500.00

MARF $1,500.00

MO Asphalt Pavement Assn $1,500.00

Support Kids Services $1,500.00

ACE Group PAC $1,000.00

Brent Hemphill $1,000.00

Cozen O’Connor PAC $1,000.00

Heal PAC $1,000.00

Microsoft Corp PAC $1,000.00

MOSFA PAC $1,000.00

Neal Bredehoeft $1,000.00

Penman & Winton $1,000.00

Polsinelli $1,000.00

Randy Coil $1,000.00

Robert Alpers $1,000.00

Ronald Russell $1,000.00

Thomas Rafter $1,000.00

Travelers Indemnity $1,000.00

W. E. Shoehigh $1,000.00

Warren Stemme $1,000.00

MFA Oil $800.00

AMEC PAC $600.00

Bristol-Meyers Squibb $500.00

Central Bancompany PAC $500.00

D. C. Inc $500.00

FEAPAC $500.00

Gary Drawing $500.00

Greg Steinhoff $500.00

Hulett Heating $500.00

Jennifer Brant Bukowsky $500.00

MBA Capitol Region $500.00

MO American Water Employees $500.00

MO Beer Wholesalers $500.00

MO Independent Bankers Assoc $500.00

Re/Max Boone Realty $500.00

Socket Telecom $500.00

Toni Wyrick $500.00

Reid & Associates $150.00

There are a lot of PACs in the mix.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

CITIZENS TO ELECT KURT SCHAEFER ATTORNEY GENERAL [pdf] 7/15/2015

Robert Knodell 110 Venus Holts Summit MO 65043 6/4/2015 Campaign Worker $10,000.00

VPR 2870 S Ingram Mill Road Springfield MO 65804 6/10/2015 public relations $5,291.01

Mike Roman & Associates 2305 Rhawn Street Philadelphia PA 19152 4/1/2015 research $7,500.00

[emphasis added]

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Jake Zimmerman’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C051130: Citizens For Jake Zimmerman

  Committee Type: Candidate

9046 Old Bonhomme Road Party Affiliation: Democrat

St Louis Mo 63132 Established Date: 06/13/2005

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $797,924.74

Monetary Receipts + $156,129.57

Monetary Expenditures – $30,862.82

Contributions Made – $50.00

Other Disbursements – $2,081.91

Subtotal     $123,134.84

Ending Money On Hand   $921,059.58

[emphasis added]

An comparatively impressive fundraising quarter and a healthy cash on hand. There is $203,890.86 in outstanding indebtedness.

The contributions:

Contributions to Jake Zimmerman’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Jake Zimmerman’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

David Roberts $5,000.00

Steve Berman $5,000.00

Matthew Fischer $5,000.00

Archein Construction $5,000.00

Michael Staenberg $5,000.00

University Terrace Association $4,800.00

Robern Incorporated $2,500.00

Christopher Giampapa $2,500.00

Hugh Scott $2,500.00

Ed Balk $2,500.00

CLAYCO $2,500.00

Lawrence Chapman $2,500.00

Terry Bloomberg $2,500.00

Howard Jacobson $2,500.00

Don Musick $2,500.00

Hensley Construction $2,500.00

Stone Leyton & Gershman $2,000.00

Paramount Apparel $2,000.00

Cathy Steele $2,000.00

Schlichter Bogard & Denton $1,500.00

Stone & Alter Real Estate $1,500.00

University Square $1,500.00

Anthony Shapiro $1,500.00

City Wireless $1,500.00

Gloss LLC $1,500.00

Stephanie Peterson $1,100.00

Robert Denlow $1,000.00

American Medical Consulting $1,000.00

Roby Robertson $1,000.00

Matthew Landwehr $1,000.00

Mary R Wolff Real Estate $1,000.00

Sheila Greenbaum $1,000.00

John Dubinsky $1,000.00

Kristoffer Boevingloh $1,000.00

Gary Heifetz $1,000.00

Friends of Bill Frick $1,000.00

Phil Calabrese $1,000.00

Karen Levy $1,000.00

Robert Gellman $1,000.00

Vivian Gellman $1,000.00

Charles Sanders $1,000.00

Cerame Trust Management $1,000.00

Sun Associates Kirkwood $1,000.00

Atlantic Apartment $1,000.00

Charles Hatfield $1,000.00

Thomas Zupon $1,000.00

Commercial Bank $1,000.00

Reinsurance Group of America $1,000.00

Dean Franklin $1,000.00

Ken Katzif $1,000.00

David Bohm $1,000.00

BNSF Railway $1,000.00

Kevin Buchek $1,000.00

Donna Moog Landsbaum $1,000.00

William Murphy $1,000.00

George Capps $1,000.00

Express Scripts $1,000.00

Sauter Sullivan $1,000.00

Goralnik-Muskin Properties $1,000.00

Paul Macon $1,000.00

Scott Stern $1,000.00

MOSFA PAC $1,000.00

Aimee Aver $1,000.00

Ron Danna $1,000.00

Steven Funk $1,000.00

Kim Jacobs $1,000.00

Pagedale Business Center $1,000.00

Dudley Von Holt $900.00

Jeniphr A. E. Breckenridge $750.00

Christopher O’Hara $750.00

Andrew Volk $750.00

Shelter Insurance $750.00

Steven Sherman $700.00

Jennifer Connolly $500.00

Thomas Loeser $500.00

Seph McNamara $500.00

Cynthia Allen $500.00

Chesterfield Place $500.00

Creve Coeur Real Estate $500.00

Deerfield Apartments $500.00

Pebble Point Apartments $500.00

Daniel McCuaig $500.00

Tamar Fernandez $500.00

Paul Sonderegger $500.00

Paul Forman $500.00

Jason Growe $500.00

Thomas Litz $500.00

Andrew Smolik $500.00

Robert Goldson $500.00

Daniel Engle $500.00

Andrew Voss $500.00

Suzanne Fischer $500.00

Richard Fister $500.00

Charles Friedman $500.00

Douglas Baron $500.00

Edward Cohen $500.00

Lawrence Friedman $500.00

Barbara Geisman $500.00

Bob Hull $500.00

Kenton Knickmeyer $500.00

Raymond Massey $500.00

Thomas Snider $500.00

Isaac Young $500.00

Matt Fillo $500.00

Terry Stone $500.00

Daryl Crone $500.00

Janette Lohman $500.00

Khristine Heisinger $500.00

Jay Baumohl $500.00

Mark Sableman $500.00

MACO Development $500.00

William Koenigsdorf $500.00

Kay Drey $500.00

Daniel Cox $500.00

Sanford Jaffe $500.00

Kirk Presley $500.00

Sara Seabaugh $500.00

Robert Wagner $500.00

Murphy Orlando $500.00

Gordon Ankney $500.00

Robert Elgin $500.00

William Killian $500.00

Irv Rothenberg $500.00

N D Consulting $500.00

Rava Consulting $500.00

Enterprise Holdings $500.00

Joan Ellyn Silber $360.00

Michael Scully $350.00

Russell Iungerich $300.00

Rush Robinson $300.00

Jason Wheeler $300.00

Francine Cantor $270.00

Francis Buckley $250.00

Kathleen Sorkin $250.00

Howard Smith $250.00

Michael Litwack $250.00

Susan Block $250.00

William Danforth $250.00

Scott Wilson $250.00

Harry Hulings $250.00

David Capes $250.00

Brian Stone $250.00

Rodney Harrison $250.00

John Phillips $250.00

Paul Flotken $250.00

Robert Rothschild $250.00

Edward Goldberg $250.00

Eileen Hulsey $250.00

Scott Claassen $250.00

Mary Still $250.00

Mary Buenger $250.00

Gregory Patterson $250.00

Steven Cousins $250.00

Martin Israel $250.00

Seth Albin $250.00

Dan Ball $250.00

Christopher Bauman $250.00

Alex Berger $250.00

M. Susan Carlson $250.00

Barry Cervantes $250.00

Charles Elbert $250.00

Leonard Frankel $250.00

Robert Newmark $250.00

Susan Talve $250.00

Dan White $250.00

Kimberly Yates $250.00

Ivy Arai Tabbara $200.00

Christopher Thau $200.00

Jason Linder $200.00

Bruce Ryder $200.00

Linda Shapiro $200.00

William Holtz $150.00

Ashley Hanna $150.00

Humberto Reboredo $150.00

Amanda Kelley $150.00

Paul Donnelly $150.00

Michael Meredith $150.00

Benjamin Uchitelle $150.00

Timothy O’Connell $125.00

Valery Starr $125.00

Zileta Lolly Bennett $118.00

Catherine Schroeder $118.00

Morris Sterneck $100.00

Aaron McMurtray $100.00

JAC Consulting $100.00

Richard Halpern $100.00

Ray Dobinsky $100.00

Alan Sachs $100.00

James Graves $75.00

Shiran Kochavi $50.00

William Curtis $50.00

Zach Vigna $50.00

William Curtis $50.00

Kathleen Sorkin $25.00

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

CITIZENS FOR JAKE ZIMMERMAN [pdf] 7/15/2015

Benjamin Murray 3616 Cleveland Avenue St. Louis MO 63110 4/1/2015 Campaign Worker $10,000.00

Solvency Group 826 University Place Detroit MI 48230 4/14/2015 Fundraising $3,500.00

Solvency Group 826 University Place Detroit MI 48230 5/14/2015 Fundraising $3,500.00

[emphasis added]

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Scott Sifton’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C091061: Scott Sifton For Missouri

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 4396 Party Affiliation: Democrat

St Louis Mo 63123 Established Date: 02/19/2009

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $440,679.28

Monetary Receipts + $100,033.91

Monetary Expenditures – $27,570.82

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $25,000.00

Subtotal     $47,463.09

Ending Money On Hand   $488,142.37

[emphasis added]

Rough fundraising parity and a competitive cash on hand. There is $110,000.00 in outstanding indebtedness.

The contributions:

Contributions to Scott Sifton’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Scott Sifton’s (D) 2016 attorney general campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

MO Optometric PAC $3,000.00

Express Scripts $2,000.00

James M. Dowd Law Firm $1,500.00

McCormack Baron Salazar $1,000.00

BNSF Railway $1,000.00

Geneva Shearburn $1,000.00

Polsinelli $1,000.00

UNITE HERE Union Local #74 $1,000.00

Anheuser Busch Companies $1,000.00

Charles Nester $1,000.00

PHLV $1,000.00

Sheet Metal Workers $1,000.00

Patricia Scaglia $1,000.00

Randy Alberhasky $1,000.00

MOSFA Pac $1,000.00

Travelers Indemnity $1,000.00

Evergreen Investments $1,000.00

Realtors PAC $1,000.00

Mid States $1,000.00

GibbonsWorkman $1,000.00

Joan Callis $1,000.00

FEAPAC $1,000.00

Vehicle Protection Association $1,000.00

Reliant Care Management $1,000.00

Luxco $1,000.00

Shelter Insurance $750.00

MO Truck PAC $750.00

Gregory Bratcher $600.00

Rush Robinson $500.00

James Ash $500.00

Quality Building $500.00

John McArthur $500.00

Robert Tomaso $500.00

Joy Doll $500.00

Centurylink $500.00

Dave Fenley $500.00

Missouri Dental PAC $500.00

Susan Philpott $500.00

Jack Martorelli $500.00

MO Asphalt Pavement Assoc $500.00

Paul Kalsbeek $500.00

Dan Burkhardt $500.00

Commercial Bank $500.00

St. Louis Labor Council AFL-CIO $500.00

MBA Capitol Region $500.00

Roger Wright $500.00

MLPA Legislative Fund $500.00

Phil Scaglia $500.00

Don Schlapprizzi $500.00

Fire Fighters Local 42 PAC $500.00

Heat and Frost Insulators $500.00

Steven Torline $500.00

MO American Water Employees $500.00

Responsible Building PAC $500.00

Travis Noble $500.00

Wes Rogers $500.00

Amy Wachs $500.00

Gregg Lombardi $500.00

American Family Insurance $500.00

Robert Haar $500.00

Independent Bankers Association PAC $500.00

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers $500.00

Gas Workers Local 5-6 $500.00

Rick Brenner $500.00

Branch 343 National Association of Letter Carriers $350.00

Douglas Kennedy $300.00

Mary Creamer $250.00

Lucky Maynard $250.00

David Richardson $250.00

Larry Ward $250.00

David Clithero $250.00

Eric Trelz $250.00

Bob Stuber $250.00

Zane Cagle $250.00

David Sobelman $250.00

Jeff Demerath $250.00

Dick Deshon $250.00

SITE Improvement Association $250.00

Larry J Pitts $250.00

Douglas Schmidt $250.00

Susan Block $250.00

William James $250.00

Claire Owen $250.00

Missouri Association Of Municipal Utilities $250.00

Harry Wilson $250.00

Kenneth Slavens $250.00

Teresa Maledy $250.00

IBEW Local Union 1439 $250.00

John Crossley $250.00

Eli Karsh $250.00

Michael Nepple $250.00

Schuchat Cook and Werner $250.00

Rita Baron $250.00

Wally Bley $200.00

Nancy Copenhaver $200.00

Frank Keefe $200.00

William Demarest $200.00

Ben Lewis $200.00

Nancy Patterson $200.00

Gary Myers $200.00

Kathleen Mueller $200.00

Sidney Johnson $200.00

Richard Greenberg $200.00

Pauli Kendrick $200.00

Jordan Ault $150.00

Judith Mann $150.00

Michael Moroni $150.00

Brianna Lennon $150.00

Vernon Scoville $150.00

Mike Heins $125.00

Saul Pwanson $125.00

Patrick Witte $100.00

James Gates $100.00

Nancy Mogab $100.00

Margaret A. Eaton $100.00

Wyse Law Firm $100.00

Shulamith Simon $100.00

William Demarest $100.00

William Schlosser $100.00

Courtney Cole $100.00

Michael McNeil $100.00

Susan Plassmeyer $100.00

Doug Beck $100.00

Sarah Pleban $100.00

Glaziers, Architectural Metal and Glassworkers $100.00

Luxemberg Realty $100.00

Vernon Scoville $100.00

Pamela Coffin $100.00

Patrick Witte $100.00

William Richter $100.00

Bob Fanning $50.00

Rebecca Blackwell $50.00

Kathy Rieck $50.00

William Schlosser $50.00

Rea Kleeman $50.00

Max Wolfrum $50.00

Rea Kleeman $50.00

Timothy McBride $50.00

Richard Sifton $35.00

Ron Gibbs $25.00

Rebecca Blackwell $25.00

Ed Weisbart $20.00

Ed Weisbart $20.00

Ed Weisbart $20.00

Also:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

SCOTT SIFTON FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 7/15/2015

13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $3,430.00

[emphasis added]

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

SCOTT SIFTON FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 7/15/2015

Show-Me Victories 409 N 15th St Saint Louis MO 63103-2454 4/13/2015 Retainer $12,800.00

Previously:

Campaign Finance: now we know where the rest of the million dollars went (October 15, 2014)

Why would anyone trust Kurt Schaefer? (April 14, 2015)

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There is another (January 27, 2015)

Campaign Finance: also in under the wire (April 1, 2015)

Campaign Finance: now that’s personal commitment (April 2, 2015)

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Sen. Scott Sifton (D): running for Attorney General in 2016 (November 10, 2014)

Campaign Finance: the long road to 2016 (November 12, 2014)

Campaign Finance: St. Louis (November 25, 2014)

Sen. Scott Sifton (D) at the Back to Blue Dinner in Cass County – April 25, 2015 (April 28, 2015)

Campaign Finance: right at the end of the quarter (July 3, 2015)

Bev Randles’ (r) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C141581: Missourians For Randles

  Committee Type: Exploratory

5823 North Cypress Ave

Kansas City Mo64119 Established Date: 12/08/2014

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $953,299.92

Monetary Receipts + $28,885.00

Monetary Expenditures – $79,417.05

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     ($50,532.05)

Ending Money On Hand   $902,767.87

[emphasis added]

It was not a particularly stellar fundraising quarter. But then, it doesn’t have to be when you have friends who write really, really, really large checks.

The contributions:

Contributions to Bev Randles’ (r) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Bev Randles’ (r) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Missourians for Tim Jones $25,000.00

Dorothy Moore $1,000.00

KC Renewal Fellowship $1,000.00

Harold Gallaher $250.00

John Cashill $250.00

Gerald Reynolds $250.00

Dan Heckman $200.00

Nancy Kraus $125.00

John Lilly $100.00

Rosa Schleeter $100.00

Dave Stockman $100.00

Rick Perry $100.00

Darrell Valentine $50.00

Darrin Adkins $50.00

Todd Wright $50.00

Michael Kijowski $50.00

Sherry Berry $50.00

John McMillen $50.00

James Miles $50.00

Marshall J Saye $25.00

Clay Lyons $25.00

Luke Corbett $10.00

[emphasis added]

Twenty-two contributors in the quarter. Gee, you can really sense the grassroots momentum.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

MISSOURIANS FOR RANDLES [pdf] 7/15/2015

Connect Strategies, LLC 6499 Waxberry Dr Seven Hills OH 44131 4/22/2015 Digital Strategies $10,469.06

Turning Point Public Affairs, LLC 3458 Pestalozzi St St Louis MO 63318 4/24/2015 Campaign Strategy $25,000.00

East Meridian Strategies 1101 14th St NW, Ste 1030 Washington DC 20005 5/13/2015 Printing $4,000.00

Turning Point Public Affairs, LLC 3458 Pestalozzi St St Louis MO 63318 6/5/2015 Campaign Strategy $13,500.00

Connect Strategies, LLC 6499 Waxberry Dr Seven Hills OH 44131 6/8/2015 Digital Strategy $4,842.40

Victory Enterprises 5200 SW 30th St Davenport IA 52802 6/8/2015 Grassroots Strategy $3,500.00

[emphasis added]

Digital strategies? Does that include blog advertising? Just asking! We’re assuming that “grassroots strategy” involves more than twenty people.

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Brad Bradshaw’s (D) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C141569: Bradshaw For Missouri

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 190201 Party Affiliation: Democrat

St Louis Mo 63119 Established Date: 11/25/2014

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $292,564.63

Monetary Receipts + $177,045.00

Monetary Expenditures – $61,803.83

Contributions Made – $500.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $114,741.17

Ending Money On Hand   $407,305.80

[emphasis added]

There’s also a $50,000.00 loan by the candidate to the campaign.

The contributions:

Contributions to Brad Bradshaw’s (D) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Brad Bradshaw’s (D) 2016 lieutenant governor campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Brad Bradshaw $21,938.24

Eric Belk $20,000.00

Nail Firm $20,000.00

Hosmer & Wise $20,000.00

Simon Law Firm $5,500.00

Michael Ketchmark $5,500.00

Onder Shelton OLeary & Peterson $5,250.00

Dollar Burns & Becker $5,005.00

Strong Garner Bauer $5,005.00

Century Lumber $5,005.00

Holman Schiavone $5,005.00

Gori Julian & Associates $5,005.00

David Bronson $2,500.00

Scott Vorhees $2,000.00

Langdon & Emison $1,000.00

Robert Palmer $1,000.00

Roger Wright $1,000.00

Jay Benson $550.00

Theresa Appelbaum $500.00

Leonard P Cervantes $500.00

Sam Hamra $500.00

Hoffman & Gelfman $500.00

Charlie OReilly $500.00

John Benson $500.00

Jeffrey Singer $500.00

Henning Law Firm $500.00

Meyerford Russell & Hergott $250.00

Brian Fellows $250.00

Mark Haywood $250.00

Thomas E Schwartz $250.00

Padberg Corrigan & Appelbaum $250.00

Eugene Fahrenkrog $250.00

Gayle Krigel $250.00

John T McDonald $200.00

O’Grady Law Firm $100.00

Myers Injury Law $100.00

Floyd Law Firm $100.00

Thomas Burke $100.00

Paul Enochs $100.00

Alex Mammen $100.00

James Przyvyiski $50.00

Anne McGregor $50.00

Shirley Hendricks $50.00

Gerry Renfrow $50.00

Edward Coe $50.00

Sheryl Dunavan $50.00

Carl D Gunn $50.00

James Turner $50.00

Arthur Butler $50.00

Joel Zemmer $25.00

Reese Forbes $25.00

John Boehm $25.00

Linda S Ellis $25.00

Walter Pettit $20.00

Richard Moore $20.00

Robert Mendelsohn $20.00

Charles Bahn $20.00

Steve Gardner $20.00

John Evans $20.00

Joseph McElwain $10.00

Alma Staffer $10.00

Tom Caldwell $10.00

Suzanne Conaway $5.00

Frank Helmer $5.00

Mary Kay Green $5.00

[emphasis added]

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

BRADSHAW FOR MISSOURI [pdf] 7/15/2015

Bill Romjue 7200 E. North Shore Drive Hartsburg MO 65309 5/29/2015 Electoral Analysis $3,000.00

Facebook 1601 Willow Rd Menlo Park CA 94025 5/11/2015 Advertising $500.67

Facebook 1601 Willow Rd Menlo Park CA 94025 5/13/2015 Advertising $113.09

Facebook 1601 Willow Rd Menlo Park CA 94025 5/14/2015 Advertising $753.98

Twitter 1355 Market St Ste 900 San Francisco CA 94103 5/15/2015 Advertising $196.25

[emphasis added]

Social media!

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, hell, just buy the state already (December 8, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Exploring something. (January 13, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a December to really remember (January 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a sense of proportion (April 22, 2015)

Bev Randles (r): officially in the 2016 Lieutenant Governor race (July 1, 2015)

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Campaign Finance: branching out (May 12, 2015)

Campaign Finance: branching out – part 2 (May 15, 2015)

Campaign Finance: adding more (May 16, 2015)

Campaign Finance: friends in the business (May 20, 2015)

Campaign Finance: supportive colleagues (June 1, 2015)

Campaign Finance: right at the end of the quarter (July 3, 2015)

When Missouri’s GOP delegation traded the perpetually foot-in-mouth Todd Akin for the unctuously smooth Rep. Ann Wagner (R-2), they were undoubtedly hoping that she would help to mute all that “war on women” talk. The hope seems to have been that Wagner, who is quite a bit smarter than the Todster, would be able to paint hard GOP policies in soft terms that would be more acceptable to women. No surprise then that Wagner is taking a leading role in demanding congressional hearings on the Planned Parenthood video that was recently released. Who could be more effective expressing outrage over what the GOP clearly hopes will be perceived as atrocities than a smooth-spoken female professing her determination to confront the horror.

What better way to shift the narrative from one dealing with the suppression of women’s right to control their own bodies to one dealing with what folks like Wagner hope to paint as distasteful abuses stemming from legalized abortion. And finally, what better time to do this than during an election year when the unvarnished truth abut GOP policies dealing with women might alienate female voters.  

On the surface, the noise generated by the video, which shows a Planned Parenthood doctor talking abut the mechanics and financial aspects of donating fetal tissue to researchers, along with demands that it needs to be “investigated” by Congress, seems purely silly. Consider the following points that would seem to relegate this “scandal” to the trash bin:

— It is entirely legal for Planned Parenthood to supply researchers with fetal material and recover the costs of doing so. Staff of the PBS Newshour viewed the unedited three hour video and confirmed that the official was very clear about the legalities.  

— Fetal tissue research has contributed significantly to improvements in human health over the years and donating such tissue – and insuring that it is  usable – strikes many of us as an excellent thing.

— The Planned Parenthood participant in the video has been criticized for her “flippancy.” However, doctors that I know are often quite matter of fact about physical details that they deal with routinely. Folks who have to put their hands where many doctors do, can’t afford an overly precious attitude about bodily parts and functions.

— It is because the full video does not suggest either illegal activity or “disrespect” for the unborn  that it was only released in a heavily edited form designed to upset the squeamish.

— The group that made the video is both deceptive and has ties to an extreme anti-abortion group, Live Action, which has contrived video sting efforts in the past.

But wait there’s more. It seems that Republicans have known about this video for some time, including one GOPer who tried to deny that he had just admitted that this was old news. This fact raises some serious questions. And the answers may lie in some observations by Steve Benen. Maybe what we are seeing is not the real outrage of anti-abortion zealots, but the unfolding of an election year strategy intended to blunt the effective war on women rhetoric of the Democratic party. Benen quotes a Politico article:

Republicans on Capitol Hill are betting the secretly filmed Planned Parenthood video – depicting an executive allegedly discussing the sale of fetal organs from terminated pregnancies – will give them cover to more aggressively push abortion issues without the political ramifications that have haunted the party in the past. […]

To which Benen adds:

Ah, there it is. Republicans don’t have proof of Planned Parenthood wrongdoing, but rather, have a desire to claim a “scalp.” When the GOP went after women’s healthcare in 2012, it backfired on the party, so Republicans hope a misleading video will offer new opportunities to try the same move again.

That’s the point of the GOP calls for investigations, hearings, and probes. That’s why Republicans are trying to use this story to raise money and advance their personal ambitions.

It’s very likly that Wagner’s and other GOPers’ plans for a congressional investigation is designed to keep the story fresh well into 2016 where it can be utilized to undercut discussion of the entire range of anti-choice GOP policies as well as giving them cover to push more abortion and contraceptive restrictions. Ann Wagner, as a member of the Republican House leadership, will be well placed to push “baby parts for sale” lies. Move over Benghazi; we’ve got another faux-scandal to keep GOPers occupied – unless Democrats grow some backbone and push back full force against the lies.

By BGinKC

I may get in a lot of trouble for writing this. I’m a Catholic, and I teach in a Catholic school.

But before I was a teacher, I was a laboratory scientist. Some of my career was spent doing research, and I have, quite frankly, watched with speechless horror as the country has turned against science and intellectualism, and it scares me. It scares me in a primal, personal-safety-might-be-threatened sort of way.

Let me tell you a little secret you probably suspected about medicine….Most of it is icky.

We stick needles in you to withdraw fluids.

We cut you open, prod around, rearrange, add and remove parts.

If you have the misfortune of being burned and surviving, you will then understand what “debridement” is…basically, burn victims are placed in tanks of water, their wounds are scrubbed, and the loose, dead flesh is cut away while the patient screams because the process is extremely painful and the morphine doesn’t provide much relief for that kind of pain. Icky, right? Got your gag reflex with that one, didn’t I? You can admit it.

If that didn’t get your gag reflex, how about the patient with the impacted colon and you have to put on the rubber gloves and start digging stool out of their rectum until the colon is empty enough for the person to defecate on their own? Really icky, huh?

We stick cameras up your bum.

We stick cameras (different ones!) down your throat.

Some of the really icky stuff takes place in the lab. That is where tissue is analyzed and biopsied and research is done.

That is where cancerous breasts that have been removed in a mastectomy come to determine the stage and spread of cancer, and are biopsied and cross-sectioned and stained and studied. Oh…this is what first got your husband to look at you? Now we’re doing clinical tests on it he wants no part of.

The morgue is downstairs, connected by tube and elevator.

So we do the autopsies.

Sometimes, that autopsy is on a stillbirth, and sometimes it’s on a neonate that was born alive but didn’t survive.

Those are the really quiet ones.

We have in front of us a perfectly healthy full-term infant.  Except it’s dead.

The pathologist and the technologist have been known to clasp hands over the body, even cross themselves or say a silent prayer before the first incision is made, especially if both have children.

I have stood at that table and searched for the elusive cause of death to give a family grieving the greatest loss imaginable an answer to the question they must have an answer to. “Why me? Why my baby? Why???”

Sometimes it’s apparent…it’s an aortic aneurysm that dissected and ruptured and there was nothing to be done,

Sometimes it’s not.  Sometimes it’s a minor defect in the development of the kidneys that could have been fixed by fetal surgery at 30 weeks if it had been detected.  

The causes of fetal demise are varied, but that doesn’t matter to the family going through the loss. To them, no one has ever hurt this bad, felt this much pain, been this mad at God…

And that is what pisses me off so bad about the latest attack video on Planned Parenthood.

The so-called pro-life activists playing “gotcha” with a doctor who thinks and speaks in clinical terms essentially wants more people like me to clasp hands with a pathologist before they start to cut on a dead baby to find out why it is in front of them instead of in the nursery.

I’m sure it won’t be the last time I have to say it, but damn I’m getting tired of saying it….When a fetus is aborted by the D & X procedure, it’s a wanted child but the pregnancy has gone wrong…horribly, horribly wrong. Sometimes the fetus has fatal or quality-of-life defects and the parents decide the humane thing is termination. There are other instances where the mother’s life, health or future fertility are at risk.

And guess what, pro-lifers? If you get the fuck out of the way and stop playing “gotcha” and setting up front groups with no other purpose than to entrap a Planned Parenthood (only 3% of their work is abortions) official discussing a topic that is inherently unpleasant on hidden camera so they can heavily edit the footage, research can happen and less wanted children will die. These people are so monomaniacally stupid it makes me want to scream.

Let’s talk about organ transplants for a second.  Everyone knows someone who got a new-to-them-organ.  That is really icky if you think about it…taking organs out of one dead person and putting them in several other live ones, and I bet most pro-lifers check the box on their license anyway. Well, guess what? if we harvest a heart in KC that goes to Denver and two kidneys that go to Des Moines and Wichita and corneas that go across town to KU Med and a liver that goes to someone here in town at another hospital, part of that processing includes a shipping and handling fee. I’m trained in this shit, you don’t get the butcher from Hy-Vee to process organs for shipment.

I know what the doctor was talking about is a topic that makes people uncomfortable, and makes people squirm, but the tissue and organs she talked about preserving as doomed fetuses were aborted were shipped to labs — much like, hell, EXACTLY like — the one I used to work in, those tissue samples, those intact defective organs, allow for medical advances in the fields of perinatology and neonatology, and those advances mean the pathologist and the technologist have a lot fewer opportunities to clasp hands and say a silent prayer before beginning an autopsy on a stillbirth or a dead neonate.

Attorney General and probable Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster has a lot to smile about [2014 file photo].

Chris Koster’s (D) (probable!) 2016 gubernatorial campaign filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C031159: Koster For Missouri

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 1551 Party Affiliation: Democrat

Jefferson City Mo 65102 Established Date: 08/12/2003

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $3,295,487.95

Monetary Receipts + $967,955.05

Monetary Expenditures – $300,832.11

Contributions Made – $11,000.00

Other Disbursements – $3,796.17

Subtotal     $652,326.77

Ending Money On Hand   $3,947,814.72

[emphasis added]

Uh, yeah, he’s in a league of his own.

The contributions:

Contributions to Chris Koster’s (D) (probable) 2016 gubernatorial campaign

reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Note: Since there were over 640 contributions the amount labels on the chart were omitted – labeling would have made the chart unreadable.

Contributions to Chris Koster’s (D) (probable) 2016 gubernatorial campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Eastern Missouri Laborers $50,000.00

Simmons Hanly Conroy $50,000.00

UA Political Education Committee $50,000.00

UAW V CAP $50,000.00

CHIPP $26,562.98

Edgar Law Firm $25,000.00

Gregory Wendt $25,000.00

James Emison $25,000.00

Kenneth McClain $25,000.00

Missouri Drive Fund $25,000.00

Operating Engineers Local 101 $25,000.00

Operating Engineers Local 513 $25,000.00

RightCHOICE Managed Care $25,000.00

Steve Craig $25,000.00

William Danforth $17,500.00

Democratic Governors Association $12,500.00

Comprehensive Health Systems $10,000.00

Elissa Holman $10,000.00

Four Corners Development $10,000.00

James Nutter $10,000.00

Lawrence Chapman $10,000.00

MACO Development $10,000.00

United Food and Commercial Workers $10,000.00

Lawrence Chapman $7,500.00

Air EVAC EMS $5,000.00

BNSF Railway $5,000.00

Connie Burkhardt $5,000.00

Evergreen Investments $5,000.00

Harris, Harris, and Gilbert $5,000.00

HNTB Holdings $5,000.00

Mark Gardner $5,000.00

Missouri Health Care Association $5,000.00

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local #562 $5,000.00

Prewitts Highway 54 Enterprises $5,000.00

Rotts and Gibbs $5,000.00

Sharalyn Saks $5,000.00

Steven Stogel $5,000.00

Stone, Leyton and Gershman $5,000.00

Teamsters Local #41 $5,000.00

Teamsters Local Union 688 $5,000.00

Veterans United Home Loans $5,000.00

William Maritz $5,000.00….

Oh, there’s a lot more…

There are over 300 contributions that are $250.00 or less.

Contributions to Chris Koster’s (D) (probable) 2016 gubernatorial campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report [continued]

….Larus Corporation $3,750.00

Missouri Corn Growers Association $3,050.47

Seth Myers $3,000.00

Mary Sheid $2,750.00

Ameren Missouri $2,500.00

Burns and McDonnell $2,500.00

Chantel Alberhasky $2,500.00

Diann Garnett $2,500.00

Donald Baker $2,500.00

Donald Flora $2,500.00

Edward Koplar $2,500.00

Festus Manor $2,500.00

Gill Group $2,500.00

Great Southern Bank $2,500.00

Henry and Williams $2,500.00

John Wright $2,500.00

Kathleen Steele Danner $2,500.00

Kendall Randolph $2,500.00

Law Firm of Thomas C. Antoniou $2,500.00

LLoyd Carmichael $2,500.00

Marie Carmichael $2,500.00

Maurice Watson $2,500.00

Michael DeCola $2,500.00

Mitchell Markow $2,500.00

Nancy Grove $2,500.00

PGVN $2,500.00

PHAV $2,500.00

PHBS $2,500.00

PHLV $2,500.00

PHMC $2,500.00

Robert Pugh $2,500.00

Ryan Williams $2,500.00

Sandra Lehrer $2,500.00

Teamsters Local #245 $2,500.00

Teamsters Local Union #541 $2,500.00

Teamsters Local Union No. 682 $2,500.00

Thomas McDonnell $2,500.00

Susan Carlson $2,271.34

Telephone Contact $2,194.00

Charles Slavens $2,000.00

Charter Communications $2,000.00

Christopher Shank $2,000.00

Clockwork $2,000.00

Don Lents $2,000.00

Hugh Zimmer $2,000.00

M.S. Consulting $2,000.00

Michael McCallum $2,000.00

Milton Goldenberg $2,000.00

MO Democratic State Committee $2,000.00

Peggy Stepp $2,000.00

Philip A. Klawuhn $2,000.00

Dale Doerhoff $1,586.20

Abe Shafer $1,500.00

Elizabeth Heller $1,500.00

Jennifer Sievers $1,500.00

Mitch Burgess $1,500.00

Susan Carlson $1,500.00

Teamsters Local #600 $1,500.00

Teamsters Local 6 $1,500.00

Wally Bley $1,500.00

Joseph Turner $1,250.00

Richard B. Scherrer $1,250.00

William Turner $1,250.00

Sandra Lehrer $1,190.00

Allison Murdock $1,001.00

Adam Fischer $1,000.00

Advance America $1,000.00

Andrea Bough $1,000.00

Anthony Stubblefield $1,000.00

Baldwin and Vernon $1,000.00

Barrister Properties $1,000.00

Begonya Klumb $1,000.00

Beine Group $1,000.00

Beth Canuteson $1,000.00

Bridget Halquist $1,000.00

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers $1,000.00

Bruce Baty $1,000.00

Carl Myers $1,000.00

Cedar Bay Entertainment $1,000.00

CenturyLink $1,000.00

Chad Gaddie $1,000.00

Charles Stribling $1,000.00

Chester Bross $1,000.00

Chester Palmer $1,000.00

Citizens For White $1,000.00

Commerce Bancshares $1,000.00

Dave Knight $1,000.00

David Christian $1,000.00

David Westbrook $1,000.00

Donna Moog $1,000.00

Doris Kirkpatrick $1,000.00

Edward Hamill $1,000.00

Ellison Investments $1,000.00

Five Star Tax $1,000.00

Flotron and McIntosh $1,000.00

Friends of Mark Ellebracht $1,000.00

Gary Sarachan $1,000.00

Gateway Government Relations $1,000.00

Giana Andrews $1,000.00

Gregory Smith $1,000.00

Harold Walther $1,000.00

Hartnett Gladney Hetterman $1,000.00

IBEW Local #412 $1,000.00

IBEW Local Union #545 $1,000.00

IUPAT Political Action $1,000.00

James Ash $1,000.00

James Deutcsh $1,000.00

James Miller $1,000.00

James O Donnell $1,000.00

James Owen $1,000.00

James Reinhard $1,000.00

Jay Baumohl $1,000.00

Jill Schupp $1,000.00

Jim Kreider $1,000.00

John Briscoe $1,000.00

John Dickey $1,000.00

John Youngblood $1,000.00

Joseph Driskill $1,000.00

Joseph Machatschek $1,000.00

Joseph Rechter $1,000.00

Kathleen Kunkler $1,000.00

Kevin Cantwell $1,000.00

Kim Hull $1,000.00

Larry Stacey $1,000.00

Mark McQueary $1,000.00

Mary Beth O Reilly $1,000.00

McClain Forest Products $1,000.00

Michael Honigfort $1,000.00

Michael White $1,000.00

Missouri Ag Services $1,000.00

Missouri Dental PAC $1,000.00

Missouri Petroleum Marketers $1,000.00

Missouri Renewable Fuels Association $1,000.00

Nancy Langworthy $1,000.00

Pat Taylor $1,000.00

Penman and Winton $1,000.00

Peter Werner $1,000.00

Peter Wiedenbeck $1,000.00

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union #45 $1,000.00

Powerful Performance Solutions $1,000.00

R. Gideon Morrison $1,000.00

Realtors PAC $1,000.00

Rick Hughlett $1,000.00

Robert Clayton $1,000.00

Roger Geary $1,000.00

Sam Hamra $1,000.00

Scott Wilson $1,000.00

Sean McGinnis $1,000.00

Slusher Law Firm $1,000.00

Stacy Shaw and Associates $1,000.00

Steve Singer $1,000.00

Susan Moriconi $1,000.00

Tamara Wagner $1,000.00

Teamsters Local 823 $1,000.00

Teresa Woody $1,000.00

Thomas Carlson $1,000.00

Thomas Wagstaff $1,000.00

United Transportation Union $1,000.00

Vinograd Winery $1,000.00

Walter Pfeffer $1,000.00

Ward Klein $1,000.00

Wemhoff Law Firm $1,000.00

William Hirsch $1,000.00

Gary Marshall $900.00

Local 610 PAC $650.00

Teamsters Local #838 $650.00

Teamsters Local 955 $650.00

Teamsters Local Union No. 618 $650.00

Marilyn Teitelbaum $551.33

Steven Teitelbaum $551.33

Missouri Soybean Association $550.47

Alfred Purcell $500.00

AMECPAC $500.00

Ann Burns $500.00

Annell Bailey $500.00

Ashley McCarty $500.00

Bobby Shepherd $500.00

Brent Hemphill and Associates $500.00

Brian Klippenstein $500.00

Brian Wahby $500.00

Bruce Shapiro $500.00

Camelot Consulting $500.00

Cathy Steele $500.00

Christie Jess $500.00

Cliff Davis $500.00

Crista Hogan $500.00

Dale Smith $500.00

Dave Fenley $500.00

David Capes $500.00

Deirdre Squires $500.00

Doug Mann $500.00

Douglas Schmidt $500.00

Edward Finkelstein $500.00

Eugene Bushmann $500.00

Gary Deaver $500.00

Gateway Clippers $500.00

George Von Stamwitz $500.00

H. Marvin Gilmore $500.00

Harold Remley $500.00

Heidi Vollet $500.00

Homayoun Sedighi $500.00

Housing Plus $500.00

Janet Thompson $500.00

Janice Barkett $500.00

Jeffrey Cohen $500.00

Jeffrey Hanslick $500.00

Jenny Sadow $500.00

Joan Burger $500.00

Joan Newman $500.00

Joe Moseley $500.00

John McQueary $500.00

John Meyer $500.00

John Weil $500.00

Jonathan Beakley $500.00

Joseph Brannon $500.00

Judith Vokac $500.00

Karen Rice $500.00

Kathryn Wood $500.00

Kellie Hynes $500.00

Kenner Law Firm $500.00

Kenneth Haller $500.00

Linda Locke $500.00

Linda Raclin $500.00

Marie Carlie $500.00

Michael Cannon $500.00

Michael Insco $500.00

Michael Moroni $500.00

Missouri Forest Products $500.00

Nathalie Pettus $500.00

Neal Perryman $500.00

Northwest Missouri Central Labor Council $500.00

Pam Gentry $500.00

Paul Miller $500.00

Peter Young $500.00

R. Denise Henning $500.00

Randall Doennig $500.00

Robert Clayton $500.00

Robert Robuck $500.00

Rodney Loomer $500.00

Rodney Rodenbaugh $500.00

Ron Medin $500.00

Ron Netemeyer $500.00

Rosalyn Kling $500.00

Rosana Privitera Biondo $500.00

Saleem Abdulrauf $500.00

Schlichter Bogard and Denton $500.00

Schreimann, Rackers, Francka and Blunt $500.00

Schuyler Metlis $500.00

Scott Smith $500.00

Shane Kinne $500.00

Shirley Virdon $500.00

Stephen Burke $500.00

Stephen Keithahn $500.00

Steven Cousins $500.00

Sunie Pace $500.00

Susan Talve $500.00

Ted Lucas $500.00

Terry Crow $500.00

Thomas Berra $500.00

Thomas O Grady $500.00

Tom Payne $500.00

Tracy Mathis $500.00

Ursula Terrasi $500.00

William Peck $500.00

Jerrie Heisserer $453.34

Gas Workers Local 5-6 $450.00

Bob Koplar $400.00

Dean Hartman $400.00

Henry Luepke $400.00

Rush Robinson $400.00

Sheila Greenbaum $350.00

John Briscoe $328.27

Belinda Fender $300.00

Bonnie Clair $300.00

Carol Welborn $300.00

Gerald Clary $300.00

Margaret Hvatum $300.00

Mary Schoolman $300.00

Nancy Guyton $300.00

Paul Venker $300.00

Sandy Querry $300.00

Scott Pauley $300.00

Suzanne Schoomer $300.00

Susan Montee $280.00

Alice Landrum $250.00

Amanda Kelley $250.00

Ann Greenley $250.00

Anne Kessen Lowell $250.00

Betty Heckemeyer $250.00

Bud Luepke $250.00

Carla Holste $250.00

Central St. Louis County Firefighters $250.00

David Glarner $250.00

David Harper $250.00

David Janish $250.00

Francis Mahurin $250.00

Greg Cecil $250.00

Hg Consult $250.00

Ibrahim Botchway $250.00

J. Paul Quinn $250.00

James Coulter $250.00

James Ford $250.00

James Malouff $250.00

James Payne $250.00

Janet Dearing $250.00

Janice Hetland $250.00

Jeffrey Curl $250.00

Jerome Gidlow $250.00

John Cooper $250.00

Judy Wiles $250.00

Kathleen Haycraft $250.00

Kathryn Allen $250.00

Kathy Morrison $250.00

Katie Statler $250.00

Kellie Campbell $250.00

Kevin Langford $250.00

Leslie Anderson $250.00

Lisa Washburn $250.00

Lois Schoemehl $250.00

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Maris Berg $250.00

Mark Steward $250.00

Mary Shaw Branton $250.00

MC Materials $250.00

Michael C. Reid $250.00

Michael Evans $250.00

Michael O Cheltree $250.00

Michael Wolff $250.00

Mike Lybyer $250.00

Missouri Veterinary Medical PAC $250.00

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Nada Abumrad $250.00

Peggy Lee $250.00

Phillip Apprill $250.00

Rickert Althaus $250.00

Robert Glarner, Jr. $250.00

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Sheldon Andrew $250.00

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Smith Family Farms $250.00

Spring Creek Materials $250.00

Stephen Erdel $250.00

Stephen Skrainka $250.00

Stewart-Morrison $250.00

Susan Newman $250.00

Teresa Maledy $250.00

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Thomas Connelly $250.00

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Travis Morrison $250.00

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Vaughn Redi Mix $250.00

W. Dudley McCarter $250.00

Alex Sachs $200.00

Ami Miller $200.00

Ann Kornblet $200.00

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Barbara Koirtyohann $200.00

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David Trippe $200.00

Dennis Ziegenhorn $200.00

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Gary Myers $200.00

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Graham-Andebrhan $200.00

Gratz Real Estate $200.00

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IBEW PAC $200.00

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Meierhoffer Funeral Home $200.00

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Michael Howell $200.00

Michael Meierhoffer $200.00

Missouri Federation of Teachers $200.00

Nancy Wilson $200.00

Peggy Lane $200.00

Peter Brown $200.00

R. Dwight Hardin $200.00

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RSB III $200.00

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Berry Laws $150.00

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JWOOD Political Strategies $150.00

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Leo MacDonald $150.00

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Lynn Lyss $150.00

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Mark Darrell $150.00

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Charles Brazeale $100.00

Dan Bollow $100.00

David Clayton $100.00

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Don Perdue $100.00

Donald J. Green $100.00

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Edward Geltman $100.00

Fonda Davis $100.00

Geraldean Hewitt $100.00

Greg Logan $100.00

Greta Myers $100.00

Ian Simmons $100.00

James Mulherin $100.00

James Schnitzler $100.00

James Weyand $100.00

Joan Barrett $100.00

John Dobies $100.00

John Yancey $100.00

Jon Gray $100.00

Joseph Adams $100.00

Joseph Stivers $100.00

Judith Lee $100.00

Judy Kimrey $100.00

Julie Middleton $100.00

Kim Marshall $100.00

Larry J. Pitts $100.00

Leisa Stevens $100.00

Lewis Fischbein $100.00

Mary Anne McCollum $100.00

Mary Dorsey $100.00

Melba Curls $100.00

Michael DeMent $100.00

Michael Hess $100.00

Mitch Nordstrom $100.00

Patrick McMenamin $100.00

Paul Wallace $100.00

Paula Willmarth $100.00

Robert Rapp $100.00

Robert Smith $100.00

Robert Williams $100.00

Sandra Worthington $100.00

Stanley Harris $100.00

Steve McIntsoh $100.00

Sue Magruder $100.00

Valerie Munzlinger $100.00

Vincent Accurso $100.00

W. Dudley McCarter $100.00

Wayne Feuerborn $100.00

William Fisch $100.00

William Jackson $100.00

William McKenzie $100.00

Yvonne Wilson $100.00

Derek Vap $75.00

Gretchen Ivy $75.00

Margaret Miller $75.00

Arla Rodenbaugh $50.00

Carl Gum $50.00

Cathryn Cook $50.00

James Reinert $50.00

James Shinn $50.00

Jeff Wright $50.00

Jeffrey Dee $50.00

Judson McConnell $50.00

Lawrence Wansing $50.00

Luke Scavuzzo $50.00

Marietta Jayne $50.00

Mark Huffer $50.00

Max Conrad $50.00

Michael Daniels $50.00

Rebecca Reed $50.00

Scott Baier $50.00

Sharon Kosek $50.00

Shawn Borich $50.00

Thomas Keller $50.00

Wirt Darnell $50.00

Marcy George $35.00

Julia Kocher $30.00

Tom Caldwell $30.00

Alan Kelly $25.00

April Veale $25.00

Charles Barbour $25.00

Charles Bates $25.00

Colleen Starkloff $25.00

Debbie Morris $25.00

Elaine Parks $25.00

Greg Alden $25.00

Harry Katz $25.00

Jason Rugo $25.00

Jeff Allison $25.00

John Wanamaker $25.00

Lawrence Nwachukwu $25.00

Lee l Humbert $25.00

Leila Medley $25.00

Linzel Ham $25.00

Mark Seneker $25.00

Mary Elizabeth Bridge $25.00

Michael Radzin $25.00

Patricia Mosher $25.00

Patrick Gadell $25.00

Regina Popper $25.00

Rodney Schulte $25.00

Sherry Duffett $25.00

Sherry Shamel $25.00

Susan Fluegel $25.00

Terry Akins $25.00

William Blasingame $25.00

Barbara Stocker $20.00

Jacob Anderson-Little $20.00

Paula Barba $20.00

John Lurvey $12.00

Max Conrad $10.05

Carla Galloway $10.00

Donna Cartwright $10.00

James Schnitzler $10.00

James Villa $10.00

Jeffrey Mazur $10.00

Joseph Adams $10.00

Josephine Purler $10.00

Lawrence Chapman $10.00

Peggy L Swafford $10.00

Susan Thornton $10.00

Susan Thornton $10.00

Bobbie LaFavor $5.00

Chad Dalton $5.00

Edith Grafing $5.00

Marlys Ballard $5.00

Mathieu Agee $5.00

Michael Soule $5.00

Shalanda Curry $5.00

Susan Thomas $5.00

William Foster $5.00

The difference in contributor base from the republican gubernatorial candidates (declared and exploratory) is illuminating:

Eric Greitens (r) – July 2015 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report (July 15, 2015)

John Brunner (r) – July 2015 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report (July 15, 2015)

Mike Parson (r) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 16, 2015)

Catherine Hanaway (r) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 17, 2015)

Peter Kinder (r) – July 2015 Campaign Finance Report (July 17, 2015)

There is a big difference.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

KOSTER FOR MISSOURI 7/15/2015

Hilltop Public Solutions 3000 K St NW Ste 320 Washington DC 20007-5109 6/12/2015 Campaign Support $30,319.61

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. 3980 Howard Hughes Pkwy Las Vegas NV 89169-0992 4/15/2015 Contribution Refund $10,000.00

Charter Communications 12405 Powerscourt Dr Saint Louis MO 63131-3674 5/15/2015 Contribution Refund $2,000.00

Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel 800 Washington Ave Saint Louis MO 63101-1202 4/23/2015 Event Expense $24,149.17

Windward Strategies 5713 Overlea Rd Bethesda MD 20816-1918 6/12/2015 Direct Mail $3,000.00

Onder, Shelton, O Leary and Peterson, LLC 110 E Lockwood Ave Saint Louis MO 63119-3049 4/2/2015 Contribution Refund $5,000.00

GPS Impact 100 E Grand Ave Ste 380 Des Moines IA 50309-1801 5/11/2015 Campaign Support $4,000.00

Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P., d b a AT and T One AT and T Center Room 4200 Saint Louis MO 63101 4/6/2015 Contribution Refund $10,000.00

Cardinal Strategic Consulting 434 Fayetteville St Ste 2020 Raleigh NC 27601-3006 4/3/2015 Campaign Support $17,500.00

Cardinal Strategic Consulting 434 Fayetteville St Ste 2020 Raleigh NC 27601-3006 4/30/2015 Campaign Support $12,500.00

Cardinal Strategic Consulting 434 Fayetteville St Ste 2020 Raleigh NC 27601-3006 6/15/2015 Campaign Support $12,500.00

Hilltop Public Solutions 3000 K St NW Ste 320 Washington DC 20007-5109 6/12/2015 Campaign Support $33,489.78

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Working People! (May 11, 2015)

Campaign Finance: it’s been too quiet… (May 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: again with the working people (May 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: not a surprise, considering the alternative (June 3, 2015)

Campaign Finance: in someone’s corner June 4, 2015)

Reason enough (June 4, 2015)

Salus populi suprema lex esto (June 5, 2015)

Campaign Finance: they know which side (June 9, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Mr. Smith goes to Jefferson City? (June 12, 2015)

Campaign Finance: to your health (June 17, 2015)

Campaign Finance: to the end of the quarter…and beyond (June 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: more from working people (June 22, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (June 24, 2015)

Campaign Finance: running for Governor, may run for Governor, probably running for Governor (June 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Is this the start of the end of the quarter rush? (June 30, 2015)

Campaign Finance: inexorable (July 7, 2015)

Campaign Finance: I’ll see your managed care and raise you a home health service… (July 14, 2015)

Peter Kinder’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign (yeah, we know, he just announced) filed its July quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 15th:

C091145: Friends Of Peter Kinder

  Committee Type: Candidate

Po Box 712 Party Affiliation: Republican

Jefferson City Mo 65102 Established Date: 06/30/2009

[….] Termination Date:

Information Reported On: 2015 – July Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $830.02

Monetary Receipts + $129,701.00

Monetary Expenditures – $61,513.20

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $9,151.54

Subtotal     $59,036.26

Ending Money On Hand   $59,866.28

[emphasis added]

There wasn’t much there to begin with, but some high dollar donors have been stepping in. Anyone think he won’t be able to raise money?

The contributions:

Contributions to Peter Kinder’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign

reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

Contributions to Peter Kinder’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign reported on its July 2015 quarterly campaign finance report.

August Busch III $50,000.00

James Henry Cooper $10,000.00

Larus Corp $10,000.00

Loren Cook II $10,000.00

Cape Radiology $10,000.00

W Bryan Magers $7,500.00

Riverton Enterprises $5,001.00

William Holekamp $5,000.00

Tri-State Treatment $5,000.00

Missouri Realtors $2,500.00

Rudolph Farber $2,500.00

Citizens for New Health $2,500.00

Coalition for Disability Rights $2,500.00

Laclede Corporation $2,500.00

Gene Schwartz $2,000.00

Edward Robinson $1,500.00

David Barklage $1,200.00

Not exactly the sign of a populist wave.

Some of the expenditures:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf] 7/15/2015

New Capitol City Warehouse 1011 Industrial Dr Jefferson City MO 65109 5/5/2015 Sign Storage $75.00

New Capitol City Warehouse 1011 Industrial Dr Jefferson City MO 65109 5/13/2015 Sign Storage $25.00

Willis Jones 135 Jupiter Street Holts Summit MO 65043 5/29/2015 Research $1,000.00

The J Harris Company 122 E High St Ste 200 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/1/2015 Research/Fundraising $6,000.00

Applied Research Coordinates 11753 North Shore Drive Reston VA 20190 6/16/2015 Research $4,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Okay, this is really funny in a schadenfreude kind of way (August 18, 2011)

Kinder losing brownie points with major donor (August 19, 2011)

Campaign Finance: somebody’s still raising big bucks for 2012 (August 23, 2011)

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): the republican cult of the victim (August 29, 2011)

Peter the Tweeter has a Tantrum (July 8, 2012)

It’s hard to get by on $86,484.00* a year (February 19, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Peter who? (May 6, 2015)

Campaign Finance: What’s up with that? (May 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: running for Governor, may run for Governor, exploring a run for Governor (June 13, 2015)

Campaign Finance: running for Governor, may run for Governor, probably running for Governor (June 25, 2015)

Campaign Finance: in the past this might have been impressive (July 1, 2015)

Campaign Finance: wild card (July 6, 2015)

Peter Kinder (r) announces for the 2016 gubernatorial race (July 12, 2015)