30 Thursday Jun 2016
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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, again, shuffling money for two Rex Sinquefield supported PACs:
C131097 06/30/2016 GROW MISSOURI Great St. Louis 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/30/2016 $231,972.67
[emphasis added]
Just because?
Previously:
Campaign Finance: I, Rex (May 27, 2016)
Campaign Finance: Who’s on first? (June 28, 2016)
Campaign Finance: What’s on second? (June 29, 2016)
30 Thursday Jun 2016
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Yob: “The antithesis of what a good boy should be – rude, obnoxious, violent and stupid. …” Urban Dictionary.
Missouri Governor wannabe, the hitherto impeccably clean-cut, former Rhodes Scholar, Republican Eric Greitens, is evidently inspired by the head of his party ticket, Donald Trump. His campaign philosophy seems to be “go big, go loud, and to hell with facts.”
First, he released an ad that showed him blowing up “politics as usual” with a military-style assault weapon. His campaign has now followed up that opus with a fund-raising stunt offering campaign contributors bumper stickers that read “ISIS hunting permit 2016” for a $10 donation, and “stickers signed by a former Navy SEAL who claims he killed Osama bin Laden” for $100. So only two steps into the campaign and you’ve got all the elements of a fourteen year old boy’s wet dream: guns, explosions, intellectually lazy but very macho slogans. Just the ticket for the Missouri GOP base.
Like Trump, whose addiction to hyperbole and spectacle we suspect to be overcompensation for his very minimal gifts (not to mention his small hands), Greitens may be overcompensating for rumors about his earlier, more moderate leanings, and what seemed to be a brief flirtation with the Democratic party before he woke to the realities that govern political success in Missouri. And one has to admit that he’s a quick study. He got his head around the fact that real issues don’t matter; the show’s the thing.
The Greitens approach can be summed up by the comments of British big-money man and Brexit campaign funder, Arron Banks, who described the Brexit effort as an “an American-style media approach”:
What they said early on was ‘facts don’t work’ and that’s it. The remain campaign featured fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. It just doesn’t work. You have got to connect with people emotionally. It’s the Trump success.
So Greitens doesn’t have to explain away his early shopping spree, looking for just the right dress-for-success political party to wear to an election in Missouri. Nor does he have to explain how a man with little political or managerial experience will run an entity that rivals most corporations in its complexity. All he has to do is go after a few easy targets – like political corruption – although not the type of corruption that comes in the form of unlimited campaign donations such as those from the out-of-state donors who have done very well for Greitens.
Greitens is out to win and his campaign makes it clear that he doesn’t care how he does it. Shoot, he was a Navy SEAL – even though many of his former SEAL colleagues were “irritated that Greitens was riding ‘on our coattails of our valor’ without ever having commanded a SEAL platoon” – and, for bonus points, he doesn’t just play with guns, he plays with big, positively yuuuge guns, and, he implies, he’ll not scruple to use ’em to kill those hordes of Muslim terrorists lurking at Missouri’s borders. What he’d do otherwise to make Missourians’ life better doesn’t matter, at least not with the voters who matter to Greitens.
30 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in campaign finance
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:
C151053 06/30/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Michael Lukacs PO Box 8020 Garden City NY 11530 Retired Retired 6/30/2016 $50,000.00
C151053 06/30/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Harold Beznos 31731 Northwestern Hwy Suite 250W Farmington Hills MI 48334 Self Real Estate Developer 6/30/2016 $10,000.00
[emphasis added]
What else is new?
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 50 (June 29, 2016)
29 Wednesday Jun 2016
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From Charles P. Pierce at Esquire:
….Back in May, the House passed a bill banning the display of the Confederate battle flag at VA cemeteries. This was the last big victory in the fight to eliminate the gonfalon of sedition from its entirely undeserved place of honor in our national life, one that began after the Mother Emanuel massacre in Charleston. Somehow, by a calculation so twisted it defies rational explanation, some Republicans in the House decided to sneak a provision into the Zika bill that would rescind this new rule….
The bill also included “…a provision that would loosen restrictions on the use of dangerous pesticides and a provision that would deny funding to Planned Parenthood…”
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“[T]he gonfalon of sedition” [foreground]
From Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) yesterday, via Twitter:
Rep. Vicky Hartzler@RepHartzler
Senate Democrats have chosen to put partisan politics ahead of defending against the #Zika virus. [….] 11:36 AM – 28 Jun 2016
That’s real chutzpah. The Twitterverse responded:
Glic @Glic
.@RepHartzler Why did you add pro-Confederate flag language to a *Zika* bill?Your post is fundamentally dishonest and grotesque. 1:11 PM – 28 Jun 2016
Jp @JDP6
@RepHartzler [….] funny thing is your voting base is dumb enough to believe this 12:10 PM – 28 Jun 2016
Diana Ranly @dogzandcoffee
@RepHartzler I think you have that backwards. 2:48 PM – 28 Jun 2016
Nope, they’re not buying it either.
29 Wednesday Jun 2016
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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for PACs funded by Rex Sinquefield:
C131097 06/29/2016 GROW MISSOURI Great St. Louis 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/29/2016 $211,117.96
[emphasis added]
From one to another. What else is new?
Previously:
Campaign Finance: pass the dutchie ‘pon the right hand side (April 29, 2016)
Campaign Finance: I, Rex (May 27, 2016)
Campaign Finance: Who’s on first? (June 28, 2016)
29 Wednesday Jun 2016
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Reported today, via Twitter:
Jo Mannies@jmannies
MoGOP gov candidate @EricGreitens is offering “ISIS hunting permits” to donors who give at least $10 to his campaign.
2:27 PM – 29 Jun 2016
Just asking.
Last we checked it wasn’t in the governor’s job description.
29 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in campaign finance
To infinity and beyond.
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:
C151053 06/29/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Alexander Kemper 14905 Little Blue Rd Kansas City MO 64136 C2FO CEO 6/28/2016 $5,001.00
[emphasis added]
Someone who can vote in the primary and general election. Go figure.
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 48 (June 22, 2016)
Campaign Finance: milk money (June 24, 2016)
Campaign Finance: it’s like a campaign contribution, only smaller – part 49 (June 27, 2016)
28 Tuesday Jun 2016
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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a Rex Sinquefield funded PAC:
C131097 06/28/2016 GROW MISSOURI Great St. Louis 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/28/2016 $236,328.42
[emphasis added]
Great St. Louis…
And where did that come from?:
C161187 04/29/2016 GREAT ST LOUIS Vote No on the E-Tax 308 E High Street Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 4/28/2016 $668,337.43
C161187 05/27/2016 GREAT ST LOUIS Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 5/27/2016 $2,806,207.00
[emphasis added]
The same address. Vote No on the E-Tax…
And where did that come from?:
C161039 03/02/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/1/2016 $618,306.00
C161039 03/04/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/3/2016 $452,804.00
C161039 03/07/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/7/2016 $395,857.00
C161039 03/09/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/8/2016 $346,904.00
C161039 03/11/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/10/2016 $319,257.00
C161039 03/30/2016 VOTE NO ON THE E-TAX Missouri Club for Growth PO Box 669 Grover MO 63040 3/29/2016 $5,422.00
[emphasis added]
Missouri Club for Growth…
And where did that come from?:
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
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
[emphasis added]
Alrighty then. Back to the beginning…
C131097 03/05/2016 GROW MISSOURI Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/3/2016 $9,242.00
C131097 03/09/2016 GROW MISSOURI Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/8/2016 $13,300.00
C131097 03/20/2016 GROW MISSOURI Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/17/2016 $21,625.00
C131097 06/10/2016 GROW MISSOURI Missourians for Excellence in Government 6175 Westminster Saint Louis MO 63112 6/10/2016 $298,017.55
[emphasis added]
Missourians for Excellence in Government…
And where did that come from?:
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
[emphasis added]
A circle, fancy that.
Wouldn’t it be easier just to write the checks directly without all those PACs? Just asking.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: pass the dutchie ‘pon the right hand side (April 29, 2016)
Campaign Finance: I, Rex (May 27, 2016)
28 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in meta, social media
CNN hired Donald Trump’s former (recently) campaign manager as a political talking head. There’s non-disclosure involved with the former campaign manager and the campaign. Donald Trump read a teleprompter today and CNN covered it:
Jennifer Hayden @Scout_Finch
Turns on CNN: “Corey Lewandowski, what do you think of Trump’s speech?” Lew: “I think it was best of his…” NOPE. CLICK. 1:59 PM – 28 Jun 2016
Because CNN is doing such a great job. Nah.
28 Tuesday Jun 2016
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