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Vicky’s Cow Prayer
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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Campaign Finance: have they got a PAC for you
23 Sunday Oct 2016
Posted in campaign finance
On September 13, 2016 a new republican political action committee, the Kansas City Missouri Republican Senate PAC, was formed [pdf] with Ron Richard (r) as the treasurer.
According to the Missouri Ethics Commission the committee received a contribution from TAMKO’s David Humphreys a few weeks later:
C161337 09/25/2016 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI REPUBLICAN SENATE PAC David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko uilding Products Executive 9/23/2016 $50,000.00
And after the beginning of October the PAC received a smaller contribution:
C161337 10/07/2016 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI REPUBLICAN SENATE PAC Hegeman For Senate PO Box 266 Savannah MO 64485 10/6/2016 $5,001.00
[emphasis added]
The committee filed it’s October quarterly campaign finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission on October 17, 2016.
C161337: Kansas City Missouri Republican Senate Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 144
Jefferson City Mo 65102
Established Date: 09/12/2016
[….]
Information Reported On: 2016 – October Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $0.00
Monetary Receipts + $50,000.00
Monetary Expenditures – $0.00
Contributions Made – $0.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $50,000.00
Ending Money On Hand $50,000.00
Up to September 30, 2016 they didn’t spend a dime. And, despite their name, their mailing address is in Jefferson City.
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C161337 10/23/2016 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI REPUBLICAN SENATE PAC Committee to Elect Ron Richard PO Box 2523 Joplin MO 64803 10/22/2016 $100,000.00
C161337 10/23/2016 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI REPUBLICAN SENATE PAC Citizens for Jay Wasson PO Box 1231 Nixa MO 65714 10/22/2016 $50,000.00
C161337 10/23/2016 KANSAS CITY MISSOURI REPUBLICAN SENATE PAC Citizens to Elect Mike Kehoe PO Box 105527 Jefferson City MO 65110 10/23/2016 $50,000.00
[emphasis added]
That’s another $200,000.00 to play with. They better hurry. They only have a little over two weeks to spend it.
Teresa Hensley (D): Protect
23 Sunday Oct 2016
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The newest ad from Teresa Hensley’s (D) 2016 campaign for Attorney General:
The Attorney General’s job is to protect Missouri’s most vulnerable. Teresa Hensley understands that. And so do the people she’s fought for.
She prosecuted the man who broke into my house and attacked me.
There was five prosecutions in my grandfather’s murder and she got five convictions.
Teresa was protecting me, but she was also protecting every woman in Missouri.
She told us how it was gonna go and that’s exactly how it went.
Teresa is the only one I trust as Missouri’s Attorney General.
Teresa Hensley, a prosecutor for Attorney General.
[Paid for by Teresa Hensley for Missouri, Karen Meador, Treasurer]
Previously:
Teresa Hensley (D) for Attorney General: first general election ad (October 3, 2016)
Teresa Hensley (D): about that Josh Hawley (r) television ad… (October 6, 2016)
Everybody loves a parade
22 Saturday Oct 2016
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21st Senate District, 52nd Legislative District, Denny Hoskins, ElGene VerDught, homecoming, Kyle Garner, missouri, parade, Warresnburg
Parades are a fixture of Missouri politics. In an election year college homecoming parades are a magnet for political parties and local candidates looking to engage a large number of voters (who may or may not be voters and who may or may not live in their district). This morning in Warrensburg at the University of Central Missouri Homecoming parade the political entries were placed by party at the end of the parade.
Johnson County Democrats.
While the Democratic Party vehicles were lining up in the parade staging area a smirking twenty something, driving a truck and towing a float, yelled out, “Trump!” as he drove past. This was on the back window of his truck:
The current (and long time) state of erudite public policy discourse in west central Missouri.
Back to the parade. Vehicles and floats representing the respective party presidential candidates and statewide candidates were also in the mix, though none of those candidates, as far as we can tell, attended the parade. The University of Missouri, ninety miles away, with bigger crowds also held their homecoming parade this morning. A number of statewide candidates reportedly walked in that parade.
Patty Johnson, chair of the Cass County Democratic Committee, walking in the parade.
Candidates in the 21st Senate District:
ElGene VerDught, the Democratic Party nominee in the 21st Senate District.
Denny Hoskins, the republican party nominee in the 21st Senate District.
Family and supporters of Kyle Garner, the Democratic Party nominee in the 52nd Legislative District (the candidate is in the background, working the crowd).
Robert Simmons, the Democratic Party nominee for Eastern Commissioner in Johnson County.
After the parade was done:
Proud to be a Democrat.
Previously:
What true believers spend their time on when your campaign doesn’t have a field operation and it doesn’t believe in GOTV (October 22, 2016)
Campaign Finance: and there it is
22 Saturday Oct 2016
Posted in campaign finance
![Chris Koster (D) [2016 file photo].](https://i0.wp.com/showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_9687.jpg?ssl=1)
Chris Koster (D) [2016 file photo].
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Chris Koster’s (D) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:
C031159 10/22/2016 KOSTER FOR MISSOURI Democratic Governors Association – Missouri 1225 I St NW Ste 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/20/2016 $1,000,000.00
[emphasis added]
It pales in comparison.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: it is going to end up somewhere (September 30, 2016)
Campaign Finance: and it did (October 2, 2016)
Campaign Finance: we can guess (October 22, 2016)
What true believers spend their time on when your campaign doesn’t have a field operation and it doesn’t believe in GOTV
22 Saturday Oct 2016
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At the UCM Homecoming parade in Warrensburg this morning:
Sometimes handing a microphone to just anyone isn’t a particularly good idea.
Ranting and raving in public appears to go with the turf.
A Trump (r) float at the UCM Homecoming parade in Warrensburg – waiting to line up in the staging area.
One observer quipped, “That second elephant looks like it has its trunk up the other one’s ass.”
That is an apt metaphor for the Trump campaign.
What the hell do they have to lose?
Walls and prisons.
The election.
Campaign Finance: we can guess
22 Saturday Oct 2016
Posted in campaign finance
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C041325 10/21/2016 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION-MISSOURI Democratic Governors Association 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100, Suite 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/20/2016 $150,000.00
C041325 10/21/2016 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION-MISSOURI Democratic Governors Association 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100, Suite 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/20/2016 $400,000.00
C041325 10/21/2016 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION-MISSOURI Democratic Governors Association 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100, Suite 1100 Washington DC 20005 10/20/2016 $450,000.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a lot of money. A million, to be exact.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: it is going to end up somewhere (September 30, 2016)
Campaign Finance: and it did (October 2, 2016)
Campaign Finance: it’s what you call actual transparency
21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in campaign finance
![Teresa Hensley (D) [2016 file photo].](https://i0.wp.com/showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20160818-img_9773.jpg?ssl=1)
Teresa Hensley (D) [2016 file photo].
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Teresa Hensley’s (D) 2016 campaign for Attorney General:
C151147 10/20/2016 TERESA HENSLEY FOR MISSOURI Democratic Attorneys General Association – Missouri 600 Washington Ave Saint Louis MO 63101 10/20/2016 $175,000.00
[emphasis added]
In the week previous:
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Intuit 2700 Coast Ave Mountain View CA 94043 10/14/2016 $25,000.00
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI CleanChoice Energy Inc. 1055 Thomas Jefferson St NW Suite 650 Washington DC 20007 10/14/2016 $25,000.00
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Walgreen CO/IL Walgreen Co. Government Relations 104 Wilmot Road MS #1428 Deerfield IL 60015 10/14/2016 $25,000.00
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP 850 Third Avenue New York NY 10022 10/14/2016 $10,000.00
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI DeVry Education Group 3005 Highland Parkway Downers Grove IL 60515 10/14/2016 $15,000.00
C091291 10/14/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 10020 10/14/2016 $50,000.00
C091291 10/19/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Planned Parenthood Action Fund 1101 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 300 Washington DC 20005 10/12/2016 $10,000.00
C091291 10/19/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Distilled Spirits Council US 1250 Eye Street NW Suite 400 Washington DC 20005 10/17/2016 $10,000.00
C091291 10/19/2016 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ASSOCIATION – MISSOURI Smithfield Foods Inc. PO Box 9003 Smithfield VA 23431 10/19/2016 $15,000.00
[emphasis added]
It’s easy enough to see where the money comes from. Unlike others.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: how transparency is supposed to work (September 24, 2016)
Campaign Finance: pour some more on
20 Thursday Oct 2016
Posted in campaign finance
![Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].](https://i0.wp.com/showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/img_9551.jpg?ssl=1)
Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:
C151053 10/20/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Dairy Farmers of America, INC 10220 N EXECUTIVE HILLS BLVD NORTHPOINTE TOWER SUITE 1000 Kansas City MO 64190 10/19/2016 $25,000.00
[emphasis added]
Not corn, not soybean, not Farm Bureau, not the NRA, but milk? Go figure.
C151053 10/20/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Gary Aggus 3790 E. Pond Apple Dr. Springfield MO 65809 Prairie Farms CEO/President 10/19/2016 $5,001.00
[emphasis added]
It’s just like a campaign contribution, only smaller.
C151053 10/20/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Richard Uihlein 1396 N Waukegan Road Lake Forest IL 60045 Uline CEO 10/20/2016 $250,000.00
[emphasis added]
Illinois. And we really mean, Illinois.
C151053 10/20/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Herzog Railroad Services INC PO BOX 518 St Joseph MO 64502 10/20/2016 $50,000.00
[emphasis added]
Railroad.
C151053 10/20/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI David Sokol PO Box 4998 Jackson WY 83001 Teton Capital, LLC Chairman and CEO 10/20/2016 $10,000.00
[emphasis added]
Wyoming.
Is there any television ad time left to buy? Just asking.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: throw a lot in a pile, pass a lot through, send a lot from out of state (October 19, 2016)
Eric Greitens: All hat and no cattle?
20 Thursday Oct 2016
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American Policy Coalition, Dark money, Election 2016, Eric Greitens., missouri, SEALs, SEALs for Truth
Texas political grande dame Ann Richards memorably pigeon-holed George W. Bush as being all hat and no cattle. It appears that we in Missouri may have another he-man poseur waving a great big, empty hat as he enters the political arena. I’m referring to ex-Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, the Missouri GOP gubernatorial candidate.
Pay special attention to the ex-Navy SEAL label because that’s the metaphorical hat our hero flourishes. Greitens really was a SEAL and deserves all the respect that such a resume implies, although it doesn’t necessarily imply fitness to be governor. But the inexperienced political novice seems to think brandishing a glamorous past military affiliation is all it takes to persuade Missourians that he is qualified to begin his political career way up near the top as leader of the State.
With ads that showed him Ramboing corrupt Jefferson City political culture with very big explosive devices, he revealed that he thinks that Missourians are so mired in Billy Bob culture that they will prefer movie-style, tough-guy bombast over real leadership credentials. Who better to strong-arm the bad guys (and fearful right-wing culture is replete with bad guys) than a gun-toting Navy SEAL. (Of course, the fact that his promise to attack corrupt political culture with big guns means that he would have to take aim at most of his own GOP political colleagues may have soured his candidacy somewhat for some Republicans.)
Lately, however, Greitens himself has come under suspicion of bending ethical rules when it comes to his own fundraising.
A federal political action committee called “SEALs for Truth” cut Greitens a $1.9 million check prior to the Aug. 2 Republican primary. According to a disclosure form filed with the Federal Elections Commission, all of the group’s money came from a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit called the American Policy Coalition Inc.
The American Policy Coalition website contains no information about the group at all, and it appears to have filed no paperwork with either the FEC or the Missouri Ethics Commission. But the group is connected to an Ohio attorney who the Center for Public Integrity labeled the “nexus of one of the nation’s most mysterious networks pouring secret money into elections.”
Where the money actually came from may never be known.
Not too cool for a candidate who’s tried to play holier-than-thou when it comes to political corruption. But the part that really burns is the name of Greitens’ SEALs for Truth PAC. Turns out that the PAC likely doesn’t have anything to do with SEALs at all, a fact that the PAC and Greitens seemed to want to obfuscate:
In a statement released by “SEALs for Truth” shortly after making its donation to Greitens, it claimed former Navy SEALs made up “the largest number of donors to our organization.”
Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, also hinted during a meeting in August with the Missouri Farm Bureau that the group’s money came from Navy SEALs, saying “I’m honored to have my fellow SEALs standing behind me.”
Now why would any SEALs want to keep their pro-Greitens fervor secret? Could it be because there are no SEALs as such, just very rich individuals behind the single large donation to the PAC, individuals who really, really want things like right-to-work-for-less for Missouri?
In fact, speaking of SEALs, some of the fraternity have been more than a little annoyed about the efforts of Greitens and other former SEALs to exploit their association with the group
Now, Mr. Greitens, seeking the Republican nomination, finds himself in a battle with some former comrades, who charged in a slickly produced YouTube video that he exaggerated his record and was unduly benefiting from his time in the SEALs. The dispute lays bare a widening rift among Navy SEALs, provoked by what leaders and many in the ranks describe as rampant commercial and personal exploitation of a brotherhood that once prized discretion.
But, hey, what’s a man with no cattle going to do if he can’t put on an impressive hat? Opportunists gotta do what opportunists do.