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Campaign Finance: Viva Las Vegas!

31 Tuesday May 2016

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

C151053 05/31/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Craig Estey 3051 Arabian Rd. Las Vegas NV 89107 Nevada Rest. Services Management 5/31/2016 $10,000.00

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$10,000.00 is the new $5,001.00?

Previously:

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

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 39 (April 13, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 40 (April 14, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 41 (April 15, 2016)

April 2016 – candidate campaign finance reports – Governor (April 16, 2016)

Campaign Finance: from a strange land (April 25, 2016)

Burning through all that campaign cash at the same rate? (May 8, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 42 (May 9, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Pay the $2.00? (May 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 43 (May 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Anything else new? (May 24, 2016)

Campaign Finance: more from working people

31 Tuesday May 2016

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Chris Koster (D) [2016 file photo].

Chris Koster (D) [2016 file photo].

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

C031159 05/31/2016 KOSTER FOR MISSOURI Operating Engineers Local 101 PAC 6601 Winchester Ste 280 Kansas City MO 64133 5/31/2016 $25,000.00

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They understand what’s at stake.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: meanwhile… (March 1, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it’s what you call a good day (March 14, 2016)

Campaign Finance: yes, but there are four of them (April 2, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (April 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: continuing… (April 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: everything’s up to date in Kansas City (April 23, 2016)

Chris Koster (D) – Cass County Back to Blue Dinner – April, 23, 2016 (April 26, 2016)

Campaign Finance: steady, steady (May 6, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Doesn’t everyone have family in Winnetka? (May 14, 2016)

Campaign Finance: well, they have bridges, we have bridges (May 17, 2016)

Campaign Finance: it doesn’t look like Eric Greitens (r) will be able to keep up (May 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: a pretty good week (May 20, 2016)

Campaign Finance: how quaint

28 Saturday May 2016

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Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C161134 05/27/2016 MISSOURI FARM BUREAU FEDERATION STATE PAC MO Farm Bureau Farm PAC NW District 506 Macadee Street Marysville MO 64469 5/27/2016 $9,724.18

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There was a time, not too long ago, when this was an outrageous amount of money.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: dayum (May 27, 2016)

Campaign Finance: I, Rex (May 27, 2016)

Campaign Finance: I, Rex

27 Friday May 2016

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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].

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].

Your late Friday contribution dump at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121488 05/27/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 retired 5/27/2016 $2,500,000.00

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C101046 05/27/2016 MISSOURI CLUB FOR GROWTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 5/27/2016 $1,501,406.00

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C161187 05/27/2016 GREAT ST LOUIS Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 5/27/2016 $2,806,207.00

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None of that penny ante stuff, no siree.

We’re wondering if we’re gonna get to see the blimp this year.

Campaign Finance: dayum

27 Friday May 2016

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Peter Kinder (r) [August 2013 file photo].

Peter Kinder (r) [August 2013 file photo].

Earlier this week at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Peter Kinder’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151161 05/25/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR PETER KINDER Jim Plunkett Inc. 13380 N. Hwy Platte City MO 64079 5/23/2016 $10,000.00

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Meh.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C151161 05/27/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR PETER KINDER David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products President & CEO 5/27/2016 $250,000.00

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Alrighty then. John Brunner (r) , Eric Greitens (r) and Catherine Hanaway (r) each just took a big breath.

Pass the freakin’ popcorn.

Cheap partisan thieves masquerading as a professional campaign

26 Thursday May 2016

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Yeah, this is a meta post.

Over the years in covering government and politics for this blog I’ve taken somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 images. Obviously most of those images don’t make it into a post, but a lot do. I tend to remember most, if not all, of the images I’ve taken (yes, even for that large a number) because, well, because. From time to time a newspaper, magazine or other news outlet will contact us and ask for permission to use my images for one of their stories. We’ve always granted such for legitimate news sources (Did you see what we did there?) provided that they credit the photographer and the blog.

There are other times that we discover our images have been appropriated by campaigns for their attack ads. This is one of those times.

In June of 2013 I covered Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) in Warrensburg. I shot several hundred stills. One of those stills made it into a blog post. In February of 2014 we were contacted by Governing magazine’s Corporate Creative Director, asking for permission to use one of my images of Jason Kander for an April 2014 article in their magazine. We granted permission with the proviso they credit me and Show Me Progress. They agreed. They published the article and left off the photo credit.

Fast forward to this week. We noted my 2013 photo of Jason Kander in a post attacking him on a web site associated with Roy Blunt’s (r) campaign. The photo was credited to Governing magazine.

The offending post from Jason Kander Watch, paid for by “Friends of Roy Blunt”:

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The original:

Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) - Warrensburg, Missouri - June 20, 2013. IMG_8587 - F 2.8, 1/100, ISO 800, 200 mm. Michael Bersin - Show Me Progress.

Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 20, 2013. IMG_8587 – F 2.8, 1/100, ISO 800, 200 mm. Michael Bersin – Show Me Progress.

Here’s the thing. If Roy Blunt’s attack dogs had asked permission we wouldn’t have granted it. Mostly because they’re the kind of political operation, even with their millions of cash on hand, that’s too cheap ass or lazy to pay a photographer to take a few stock images of another public figure when he’s at a public event. Show up. It’s easy enough to do. We do it all the time.

Roy Blunt (r) deserves to lose for a lot of reasons, this one is just icing on the cake.

It is what it is

26 Thursday May 2016

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Via Twitter yesterday, from Senator Claire McCaskill (D):

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Claire McCaskill ‏@clairecmc
WA state,Bernie wins caucus,where many can’t attend because of work. Primary w/open mail in ballot Hillary wins,w/twice the turnout.Rigged?
8:26 PM – 25 May 2016

Point well taken. Subtle, too.

If I’m ever in a back alley knife fight I want Claire on my side.

Campaign Finance: Was it something Ryan Silvey (r) said?

25 Wednesday May 2016

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Someone is being punished.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Josiah Bechthold’s (D) 17th Senate District campaign:

C161027 05/25/2016 COMMITTEE TO ELECT BECHTHOLD David Humphreys P.O. Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko 5/13/2016 $25,000.00

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Interesting. Up to the last quarterly campaign finance report filed for Bechthold’s (D) campaign:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
COMMITTEE STATEMENT OF LIMITED ACTIVITY
C161027
4/9/2016
COMMITTEE TO ELECT BECHTHOLD [pdf]
[….]
I CERTIFY THAT NEITHER THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED NOR THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES MADE BY THE COMMITTEE EXCEEDED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
[….]

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Then again, Ryan Silvey (r), the incumbent, doesn’t appear to need any help:

C051232: Silvey For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 10626 Party Affiliation: Republican
Gladstone Mo 64118 Established Date: 10/17/2005
[….]
Information Reported On: 2016 – April Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $490,382.32
Monetary Receipts + $8,050.00
Monetary Expenditures – $18,198.80
Contributions Made – $0.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal ($10,148.80)
Ending Money On Hand $480,233.52

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With the exception of Josiah Bechthold’s campaign David Humphreys has not exactly been a regular large dollar donor for Democratic Party candidates in 2016:

MECID Committee Name Report Contributor Name/Address Employer/Occupation Contribution Date Contribution Amount Monetary/In-Kind Committee

C071030 FRIENDS OF ANDREW KOENIG 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO BOX 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building 02/18/2016 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C101063 DR DAN BROWN FOR SENATE 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO BOX 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamco – Owner 02/22/2016 $250,000.00 Monetary No
C131147 FRIENDS OF ROB VESCOVO 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 1404 Joplin MO 64802 Tamko Building Products, Inc – President & CEO 02/04/2016 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C141581 MISSOURIANS FOR RANDLES 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products – Executive 01/11/2016 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C151004 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys P.O. Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products, Inc. – President and CEO 01/16/2016 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C151102 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Self Employed – Manufacturing 05/06/2016 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C151132 HAWLEY FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building Products – Executive 05/02/2016 $500,000.00 Monetary No
C151174 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO – Executive 03/18/2016 $250,000.00 Monetary No
C151174 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO – Executive 02/17/2016 $250,000.00 Monetary No
C161027 COMMITTEE TO ELECT BECHTHOLD 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys P.O. Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko 05/13/2016 $25,000.00 Monetary No

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And neither in 2015:

MECID Committee Name Report Contributor Name/Address Employer/Occupation Contribution Date Contribution Amount Monetary/In-Kind Committee

C151004 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building Products, Inc. – President and CEO 11/28/2015 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C151102 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Self-Employed – Manufacturing 11/28/2015 $50,000.00 Monetary No
C151132 HAWLEY FOR MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building Products – Executive 09/22/2015 $125,000.00 Monetary No
C151174 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI 48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000 David Humphreys P O Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO – Owner 09/14/2015 $500,000.00 Monetary No

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It must have been something he said.

Pass the popcorn.