Hoover: Kent is a legacy, Otter. His brother was a ’59, Fred Dorfman. Flounder: He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically. Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case. Otter, Boon: Like Fred.
C151004 11/30/2015 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building Products, Inc. President and CEO 11/28/2015 $50,000.00
C151053 11/30/2015 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI William Draper III 91 Tallwood Court Atherton CA 94025 Draper International Venture Capital 11/30/2015 $5,001.00
[emphasis added]
Nope, can’t vote in the republican primary either.
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for William Eigel’s (r) 2016 23rd Senate District primary campaign:
C151102 11/29/2015 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Self-Employed Manufacturing 11/28/2015 $50,000.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a nice round number.
From William Eigel’s (r) October 2015 quarterly campaign finance report:
C151102: Eigel For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 39 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Peters Mo 63376 Established Date: 06/05/2015
[….]
Information Reported On: 2015 – October Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $135,581.00
Monetary Receipts + $15,195.00
Monetary Expenditures – $14,287.01
Contributions Made – $500.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $407.99
Ending Money On Hand $135,988.99
[emphasis added]
There’s quite an interesting group sitting around that campaign kitchen table:
C151102: Eigel For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 39 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Peters Mo 63376 Established Date: 06/05/2015
[….]
Candidate Treasurer Deputy Treasurer
William Eigel Carl Bearden Mark Parkinson
Election History
Election Year Primary Outcome General Outcome Political Office 2016 State Senator District 23
That probably doesn’t make Anne Zerr (r) who also running in the 23rd Senate District in 2016 very happy. But, then again, she’s probably not too worried:
C071253: Anne Zerr For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 1191 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Charles Mo 63302-1191 Established Date: 09/28/2007
[….]
Information Reported On: 2015 – October Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $168,677.78
Monetary Receipts + $48,285.00
Monetary Expenditures – $4,483.88
Contributions Made – $5,500.00
Other Disbursements – $5,242.05
Subtotal $33,059.07
Ending Money On Hand $201,736.85
We almost used the headline: “We never thought we’d be thankful for Ed Martin…” Just couldn’t do it.
From Jane Cunningham (r), former state representative and former state senator:
Jane Cunningham
@JCunninghamMO Shooter at CO Springs Planned Parenthood. Reporting “loss of life”. Tragedy, but loss of life is a daily event at Planned Parenthood. 8:10 PM – 27 Nov 2015
The republican controlled House of Representatives moved quickly:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 643
[….]
H R 4038 RECORDED VOTE 19-Nov-2015 1:55 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act
—- AYES 289 —
Graves (MO) Hartzler
Long
Luetkemeyer
Smith (MO)
Wagner
—- NOES 137 —
Clay
Cleaver
….It goes without saying, of course, that all of this is yet another manufactured non-issue being ballyhooed by Republicans in order to stir up their xenophobic base and the occasional ignorant independent. Of all the ways for a terrorist to enter the United States, the refugee program is the slowest and the likeliest to get them caught. All of the Paris gunmen were European nationals, not refugees. If an Islamist terrorist group wants to come to the United States, all they need do is send European compatriots here on tourist visas. Meanwhile, ISIS also despises refugees and desperately wants western nations to reject them and send them back to Iraq and Syria to be used and exploited for skills, sex and labor. Once again, Republicans are acting in the most counterproductive way, doing ISIS’ dirty work for them while condemning thousands of people to near certain death—all so they can whip up the basest sentiments from America’s most fearful, least moral and most ignorant voters….
Well, those are salient points.
Yesterday via Twitter from Representative Vicky Hartzler (r):
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
What are you thankful for? I am thankful to serve you, and wish you a #happythanksgiving [….] 9:35 AM – 26 Nov 2015
You ain’t seen nothing yet. From the link in the tweet to Representative Hartzler’s (r) message:
….When I think of this holiday I think of the Pilgrims and that first Thanksgiving in 1621 when they gathered with their Native American friends to thank the Lord for His provision after surviving that first perilous year. So many had perished during the harsh winter but the dream lived on. That original dream is captured in one of the paintings displayed in the Capitol rotunda. The painting depicts the beginning of the Pilgrims journey and captures the essence of why they came….
….The Pilgrims came here for religious freedom and for a better life for their children…
Cognitive dissonance? You bet. Let’s celebrate a holiday which is ostensibly about persecuted peoples coming to the new world and at the same time vote to complicate or deny refuge to people who are being persecuted.
So far there are two responses:
Jalal El-Jayyousi @JUC_jalal
@RepHartzler I’m thankful for the safety of my family in spite of your fearmongering 9:39 AM – 26 Nov 2015
Touché.
pomme_de_doodie @pomme_de_doodie
@RepHartzler You seem to be more concerned about what’s going on in Louisiana than here in Mo. You voted against vets! How much subs$ u get? 9:41 PM – 26 Nov 2015
Mike Morse @mikemorsesays
Fox News just reported that the turkey Obama pardoned yesterday flew to Syria and is now fighting for ISIS. #ThanksObama 11:35 AM – 26 Nov 2015
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