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Campaign Finance: Portlandia

29 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, Eric Greitens., governor, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 02/29/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Gordon Sondland 111 SW Fifth Ave Suite 1001 Portland OR 97204 Provenance Hotels CEO 2/29/2016 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Nope, can’t vote in the primary either. This has become so commonplace in some circles.

Previously:

Eric Greitens (r) – January 2016 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report – “Running for governor in which state?” (January 17, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Nope… (January 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not something you see every day (January 19, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 24 (January 22, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 25 (January 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: look at that (January 29, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Leawood, Kansas! (February 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: pretty soon we’ll be talking about some serious money (February 5, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 26 (February 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s just so…boring (February 16, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 27 (February 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 28 (February 22, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 29 (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 30 (February 24, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s the thought that counts (February 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Because Florida doesn’t have an Attorney General?

29 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Attorney General, campaign finance, Josh Hawley, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Josh Hawley’s (r) 2016 Attrney General campaign:

C151132 02/29/2016 HAWLEY FOR MISSOURI Wayne Laufer 4989 Joewood Dr Sanibel FL 33957 Retired Retired 2/29/2016 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

I understand the beach is nice at this time of year.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: no limits (August 22, 2015)

Understanding your job… (September 5, 2015)

Campaign Finance: What flavor? (September 6, 2015)

Campaign Finance: You paid what for what? (September 23/October 2, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Do you pick your faction, or do they pick you? (September 29/October 2, 2015)

Campaign Finance: there’s no such thing as a “moderate” republican (October 14, 2015)

Josh Hawley (r) – October 2015 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report (October 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: What was that again about contributions under $5,000.00? (October 22, 2015)

Campaign Finance: can’t vote in the republican primary (November 13, 2015)

Campaign Finance: What else is new? (December 9, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Hail Columbia! (February 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s been very quiet of late (February 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Because Arkansas doesn’t have an Attorney General? (February 24, 2016)

Your Missouri sunrise moment of Zen

29 Monday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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missouri, sunrise

This morning in west central Missouri:

Sunrise.

Sunrise.

Campaign Finance: Because they can?

28 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, Eric Schmitt, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, state treasurer

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Schmitt’s (r) 2016 campaign for State Treasurer:

C071320 02/28/2016 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI Orville J Middendorf #29 Zinzer Ct St Louis MO 63123 Retired 2/26/2016 $5,001.00

C071320 02/28/2016 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI Lodging Hospitality Management 111 Westport Plaza St Louis MO 63146 2/26/2016 $15,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well, they are from Missouri.

It’s not like it’s going to make that much of a difference (via the Missouri Ethics Commission):

C071320: Schmitt For Missouri

Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 220722 Party Affiliation: Republican
Kirkwood Mo 63122 Established Date: 10/12/2007
[….]
Information Reported On: 2016 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $1,957,679.18
Monetary Receipts + $185,067.68
Monetary Expenditures – $33,945.22
Contributions Made – $5,045.26
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $146,077.20
Ending Money On Hand $2,103,756.38

[emphasis added]

Yeah, that’s $2,103,756.38.

Previously:

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

Campaign Finance: adding to the treasury (January 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Somebody has a favorite… (February 26, 2016)

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – the 2016 presidential campaign edition

28 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, meta

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Media, meta, missouri, stenographers, Supreme Court

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

From the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. That little black dot at the lower left in the image is a "stinger" allegedly deployed for crowd control outside the perimeter by the LAPD on the first night of the convention.

From the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. That little black dot at the lower left in the image is a “stinger” allegedly deployed for crowd control outside the perimeter by the LAPD on the first night of the convention.

The stakes are the same. The environment may be a little different.

Sixteen years ago I was elected at the congressional district level as a national delegate pledged to vote to nominate Al Gore at the Democratic National Convention. I had been active in the party for years and, like everyone else who wanted to be a delegate, ran a campaign on my behalf to convince other county level delegates (over 100, if I recall correctly) to elect me. I was successful, but it wasn’t easy nor was the outcome assured.

In 2000 old media just plain didn’t like Al Gore.

I spent a lot of time on the floor of the convention (the Missouri delegation had center front seats, right behind the Tennessee delegation) and had plenty of opportunity to watch and interact with old media – broadcast and print.

On one of the evenings before Al Gore’s acceptance speech a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Dennis Farney, was interviewing Missouri delegates, asking, as I recall, what Al Gore had to say in his speech to convince us that he could convince others and anyone who was listening to support his candidacy [my interpretation of the questions]. I remember thinking, “What the @&%#? We’re all Gore delegates, he doesn’t have to convince us of anything.” So, I edged over and started talking at the reporter. I told him that I thought most people weren’t paying attention yet and that when they did they’d get it. I told him that I grew up in Arizona and that we had a saying about people like George W. Bush, “He’s all hat, and no cattle.” This is what ran in the paper on Friday morning:

Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2000, A24, “Missouri Delegation has One Hope for Gore: Show the Real Man”, Dennis Farney.

…Delegates from Missouri, the Show-Me State have a direct but difficult expectation of Al Gore when he speaks tonight…

[….]

‘All Hat and No Cattle’

…”Then people will realize that Bush is all hat and no cattle,” predicts Michael Bersin…

[….]

“Difficult?” Yeah, he wrote that.

After the 2000 and 2004 elections the media landscape changed dramatically. Sure, The Faux News Channel still has a sizeable and steady (though demographically challenging) viewership, but in comparison to 2000 and 2004 there is now a wider variety and greater number of new media resources providing information to counter what was then part of the dominant conventional wisdom.

That’s why we exist.

Does anyone believe that Hillary Clinton’s or Bernie Sander’s candidacies would have survived the 2000 or 2004 media environment? It does remain to be seen about 2016. But the world has changed – just a bit. It’s more difficult now for the right to sling bullshit and for old media stenographers to uncritically repeat it.

And that’s why we’ll continue to do what we do. The stakes are high. They always are.

Previously:

The world has changed (February 13, 2016)

Originalism in a time of argle-bargle (February 14, 2016)

Clarity in a time of right wingnut political fog (February 15, 2016)

Campaign Finance: wholly owned subsidiary

27 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, Catherine Hanaway, governor, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Pelopidas

Catherine Hanaway (r) [2014 file photo].

Catherine Hanaway (r) [2014 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Catherine Hanaway’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C141055 02/27/2016 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR, INC First Rule Film & Broadcast, LLC 1034 S Brentwood Blvd Suite 1700 St Louis MO 63117 2/25/2016 $58,729.04

[emphasis added]

That’s a unique amount. Obscure symbolism aside (if any), that’s got to be an in-kind contribution. Yep [pdf].

Who are they? Via the Missouri Secretary of State:

Name(s) First Rule Film and Broadcast
Address 1034 S. Brentwood Blvd. Suite 1700
St. Louis, MO 63117

Type Fictitious Name Charter No. X01360659
Status Fictitious Active
Date Formed 12/4/2013
Expiration Date 12/4/2018

And the owner?:

Pelopidas, L.L.C. Organization
1034 S. Brentwood Blvd. Suite 1700

St. Louis, MO 63117
12/4/2013

Ah. That’s quite a circle. Well, how generous of them.

Previously:

But, but, corporations are supposed to be people, right? (April 14, 2012)

How “a broad based coalition” is now defined in Missouri and America (September 13, 2014)

Campaign Finance: we almost forgot (December 29, 2015)

Catherine Hanaway (r) – January 2016 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report – “It used to be a lot better” (January 16, 2016)

Flailing away at the back of the pack (January 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: shell game (January 24, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Somebody has a favorite…

26 Friday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, Dan Brown, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, state treasurer

…running for something:

StateTreasurerCand022616

State Treasurer

Democratic
Pat Contreras PO BOX 22546 KANSAS CITY MO 64113 348 2/23/2016 1:01 p.m.
Judy Baker PO BOX 329 COLUMBIA MO 65205 681 2/23/2016 11:38 a.m.

Republican
Eric Schmitt 937 BROWNELL AVE ST LOUIS MO 63122 11 2/23/2016 9:23 a.m.
Dan W. Brown PO BOX 934 ROLLA MO 65402 308 2/23/2016 12:01 p.m.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Dan Brown’s (r) campaign committee:

C101063 02/25/2016 DR DAN BROWN FOR SENATE David Humphreys PO BOX 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamco Owner 2/22/2016 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

Voila! Instant statewide campaign. The grassroots momentum is just so overwhelming.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Account…ability (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 2 (February 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 2

25 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Perfect timing.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, from another familiar big dollar contributor and for a now familiar political action committee:

C151174 02/25/2016 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI Sarah Atkins 4713 Rock Springs Rd Arlington VA 22207 TAMKO Building Products Consultant 2/25/2016 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

The PAC has taken in $500,000.00 in the last two days. The questions are if and how it’ll use the money to punish supposed republican heretics.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Account…ability (February 23, 2016)

Bernie Sanders – Kansas City

25 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by jerrycentral in Uncategorized

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Bernie Sanders, Kansas City, missouri

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bernie2016-02-24_13-14-mp3.mp3

Play the iPhone recording of his speech. Click above.

Bernie Sanders fills Bartle Hall, standing room only, on February 24, 2016.

Photos: Jerry Schmidt

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Campaign Finance: it’s the thought that counts

25 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, Eric Greitens., governor, Misouri Ethics Commission, missouri

Yeah, right.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 02/25/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Market Street Bancshares, Inc. PO Box 908 Mount Vernon IL 62864 2/25/2016 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Illinois! Maybe they have a governor there they don’t like.

This probably does make the low dollar folks who only contributed $5,001.00 feel bad.

Previously:

Eric Greitens (r) – January 2016 Quarterly Campaign Finance Report – “Running for governor in which state?” (January 17, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Nope… (January 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not something you see every day (January 19, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 24 (January 22, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 25 (January 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: look at that (January 29, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Leawood, Kansas! (February 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: pretty soon we’ll be talking about some serious money (February 5, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 26 (February 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s just so…boring (February 16, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 27 (February 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 28 (February 22, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 29 (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 30 (February 24, 2016)

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