You may have noticed that we spend a lot of time perusing campaign finance reports available online from the Missouri Ethics Commission. We see interesting things.

For instance, this political action committee:

C051257: Citizens For Insurance Reform

Committee Type: Political Action
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101 Established Date: 11/02/2005
[….]

Treasurer [….]
Donna Schellman
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101

[emphasis added]

And this political action committee:

C051251: Alliance For Elderly Health Care

Committee Type: Political Action
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101 Established Date: 11/01/2005
[….]

Treasurer [….]
Donna Schellman
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101

[emphasis added]

And this political action committee:

C051259: Citizens For New Health Care Concepts

Committee Type: Political Action
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101 Established Date: 11/02/2005
[….]

Treasurer [….]
Donna Schellman
101 East High Street
Jefferson City Mo 65101

Fancy that.

You’d think all these citizens and alliances would be grass rootsie. You’d think.

C051257: Citizens For Insurance Reform

[….]

Information Reported On: 2016 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $3,582.50
Monetary Receipts + $4,000.00
Monetary Expenditures – $0.00
Contributions Made – $7,500.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal ($3,500.00)
Ending Money On Hand $82.50

They took in $4,000.00, disbursed $7,500.00 and had a balance at the end of the quarter of $82.50. That’s cutting it close.

Some of the details:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
CITIZENS FOR INSURANCE REFORM [pdf] 1/13/2016

Capital Health Management, Inc. PO Box 7688 Columbia, MO 65205 12/1/2015 $4,000.00

[….]

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

Schmitt For Missouri PO Box 220722 Kirkwood MO 63122 12/3/2015 $2,500.00

Missourians For Peter Kinder PO Box 712 Jefferson City MO 65102 12/14/2015 $2,500.00

Hanaway for Governor, Inc. 7509 NW Tiffany Springs Parkway, Ste. 300 Kansas City MO 64153 12/31/2015 $2,500.00

[emphasis added]

Aside from giving the same amount to rival republican gubernatorial candidates, nothing particularly remarkable.

Then there’s this:

C051251: Alliance For Elderly Health Care

[….]

Information Reported On: 2016 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $4,298.05
Monetary Receipts + $4,000.00
Monetary Expenditures – $0.00
Contributions Made – $7,500.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal ($3,500.00)
Ending Money On Hand $798.05

[emphasis added]

They took in $4,000.00, disbursed $7,500.00 and had a balance at the end of the quarter of $798.05. Other than the balance, it’s all so familiar.

Some of the details:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
ALLIANCE FOR ELDERLY HEALTH CARE [pdf] 1/13/2016

Capital Health Management, Inc. PO Box 7688 Columbia, MO 65205 12/1/2015 $4,000.00

[….]

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

Schmitt For Missouri PO Box 220722 Kirkwood MO 63122 12/3/2015 $2,500.00

Anne Zerr For Missouri PO Box 1191 St Charles MO 63302 12/10/2015 $2,500.00

Missourians For Peter Kinder PO Box 712 Jefferson City MO 65102 12/14/2015 $2,500.00

[emphasis added]

What, nothing for Catherine Hanaway (r)?

And there’s this:

C051259: Citizens For New Health Care Concepts

[….]

Information Reported On: 2016 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $2,896.05
Monetary Receipts + $4,000.00
Monetary Expenditures – $0.00
Contributions Made – $5,000.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal ($1,000.00)
Ending Money On Hand $1,896.05

[emphasis added]

They took in $4,000.00 and disbursed $5,000.00. They didn’t have enough to drop another $2,500.00 on another candidate.

Still, it’s all so familiar:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED
CITIZENS FOR NEW HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS [pdf] 1/13/2016

Capital Health Management, Inc. PO Box 7688 Columbia, MO 65205 12/1/2015 $4,000.00

[….]

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

Missourians For Peter Kinder PO Box 712 Jefferson City MO 65102 12/14/2015 $2,500.00

Schmitt For Missouri PO Box 220722 Kirkwood MO 63122 12/3/2015 $2,500.00

[emphasis added]

Nothing for Catherine Hanaway (r) again. Not that her campaign has a history of suffering.

You’ve just got to love the “sincere” committee names. But, wouldn’t it have been easier just to write one check?

The Rex Sinquefield funded PAC Grow Missouri’s moving billboard at the University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport near Warrensburg [October 2014 file photo].

It’s the same source of funding, different PACs. Maybe they could loan them the blimp.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C101046 01/22/2016 MISSOURI CLUB FOR GROWTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 1/21/2016 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

For a very, very small number of people this is penny ante.

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

C031159 01/22/2016 KOSTER FOR MISSOURI Retina Contracting Inc 9760 Old Warson Rd Saint Louis MO 63124 1/21/2016 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

We couldn’t resist.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: familiar refrain (December 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: back to the grind (January 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not to be outdone (January 8, 2016)

Campaign Finance: there is that (January 12, 2016)

Campaign Finance: get on board that train (January 14, 2016)

Campaign Finance: uh, yep (January 20, 2016)

Chris Koster (D) [August 2015 file photo].

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

C031159 01/20/2016 KOSTER FOR MISSOURI Michael Ketchmark 15454 Ironhorse Circle Leawood KS 66224 Ketchmark & McCreight P.C. Attorney 1/20/2016 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Can’t vote in the primary, but, then again, there isn’t one.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: familiar refrain (December 29, 2015)

Campaign Finance: back to the grind (January 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not to be outdone (January 8, 2016)

Campaign Finance: there is that (January 12, 2016)

Campaign Finance: get on board that train (January 14, 2016)