27 Sunday Aug 2017
Posted in Claire McCaskill, social media, US Senate
This morning, from Donald Trump (r):
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will also be going to a wonderful state, Missouri, that I won by a lot in ’16. Dem C.M. is opposed to big tax cuts. Republican will win S!
8:15 AM – 27 Aug 2017
Sociopath. And that’s being generous.
Previously:
Donald Trump is coming soon to a city near you (August 26, 2017)
Sen. Roy Blunt (r): Guess who’s coming to town? (August 27, 2017)
27 Sunday Aug 2017
Posted in Roy Blunt, social media
Donald Trump is coming to Springfield, Missouri on Wednesday. Senator Roy Blunt (r) is pleased.
Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].
On Friday, via Twitter:
Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Glad that @POTUS will be in Springfield to highlight economic benefits that pro-growth policies will have for #MO families & businesses
[….]
1:24 PM – 25 Aug 2017
Some of the responses:
Between Trump, you, Greitens and Mo. GOP the only thing highlighted in Mo. is our new travel advisory status, our lack of providing needed…
aid to our elderly, disabled, foster children, Vets, etc. so that the rich and Corporations can have more tax cuts. The only thing trickling…
down in Missouri is poverty! Corporations do not give back to employees or community, they keep for themselves
I’m sure that POTUS will cite the huge benefits Missouri and Kansas have experienced with all the tax cuts.
Wonder which trump will show, teleprompted or unhinged. We know which Roy will show, grinning lap dog.
Are you sure? Or, is he going to rant about “fake” news and perceived slights from fellow GOP members for 77 minutes?
Mexico will provide the tax plan.
Maybe you should be encouraging him to focus Harvey and try to staff FEMA instead of coming here to stroke his ego and lie to us.
We don’t want him here
MO doesn’t need to hear about the tax policies of a man who won’t release his taxes. He and his bigot brigade are not welcome here.
Praying for Texas enduring Harvey and MO enduring Donald.
Makes sense. Springfield is Klan country.
Have the moral integrity to stand up to trump. He is ruining the Republican party.
With Arpaio pardoned, you are welcoming a man who continues to come out on the side of racism #notmypresident #ImpeachNow Silence tells all.
I wish instead of cheering him coming to our state, take a leadership role and stand up to his childish behavior
You are an embarrassment to Mo. He shouldn’t be welcomed here. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Oh wait. You have that in common
Im a farmer Roy. i too am interested in how much he addresses any of what youre referring to. im guessing Trump will be talking about Trump
Sad that pro-growth is really only code for anti-health & anti-environment. I guess as long as the rich get richer people don’t need water
Senator @RoyBlunt, how can you trust any @POTUS appearance to not turn into a rambling rant about nothing in particular?
You’re scared he’ll talk smack about you if you don’t welcome him? He doesn’t care about Americans unless he can use them. He’ll use you too
This will be a great photo op for Roy. Everyone knows Roy loves photo ops, unlike his fear of town hall meetings. tRump talks Roy language.
So presidential. He cares nothing about this country. Only himself. And you choose to support him instead of representing & fighting for MO
I’m not glad. And newsflash: trump doesn’t give a rip about working families anywhere.
Senator Blunt – you will be remembered for enabling a President who consistently chooses the morally indefensible.
You picked the wrong side of history. Choosing @realDonaldTrump over Americans, you lose. There is no excuse or reasoning for your decision
Your continued support of Trump puts you on wrong side of history. You continue to put party and self-interest over best for Missourians.
“burdensome regulations” and “tax reform” code for ” making the wealthy wealthier and keeping the workers waiting for trickle down crumbs”
The only reason he’s coming to Springfield is to campaign. He has no interest in Missourians.
You’re an embarrassment to Missouri. Donnie is an embarrassment for the whole United States
“Burdensome regulations” like the EPA rule preventing toxic coal ash being dumped in waterways. Great job letting your rivers be polluted.
There will be no redemption for you if you stand in support of this white supremacist. We will know without a doubt where you stand.
The only pro-growth you two are worried about is your own personal bank accounts #ImpeachTrump
Roy,
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
Like shutting down the government if he can’t get funding for his transparent border wall? He, like you, should stay out of MO
You can hold KKK rallies but not town hall meetings?
Your support for the modern world’s most prominent Nazi has been duly noted.
Unlike some other Republicans who actually care about this country, you have now joined yourself to the #CRAYCRAY #RascistInChief Disgusting
Sad that Senator Blunt is a shameless, spineless sycophant to a racist POTUS.
@clairecmc is busy holding #TownHall
Why won’t you??
And on and on…
Previously:
Donald Trump is coming soon to a city near you (August 28, 2017)
26 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Uncategorized
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Springfield. That’s the city. And it’s true that Donald Trump will be there next week. Wednesday to be exact.
Trump’s gonna talk about his tax plan. Except that he doesn’t have a tax plan.
According to Trump’s Chief Economic Advisor, Gary Cohn, the Trumpies have a “great, I would say, skeleton. We need the Ways and Means Committee to put some muscle and skin on the skeleton and drive tax reform forward.” Which means that Trump and his not-such-wunderkinds are going to let congress – the same congress he’s been busy bad-mouthing – fill in the details and “solve the big questions that remain unanswered.”
Just like Trump’s recipe for “wonderful” healthcare. Remember the bang-up job congress and Trump did with that one?
So, if there’s no real plan, what exactly will Trump be selling when he comes to Springfield? Obviously, as the White House has said, there will be no specifics. Instead, according to an unnamed administration official, he’ll “advocate broad themes of middle-class tax cuts, simplifying the tax code and making businesses more competitive in a way that encourages job creation.”
In other words, he’s coming to Missouri to sell us a pig in a poke – and trying to persuade us, sight-unseen that, just like his healthcare plan, it’s the best ever. Certainly the best Pavlovian buzz-words ever.
We can only hope that there are at least a few Missourians who are on to this game by now.
We’ve heard Trump’s faux populist palaver about cutting middle-class taxes for a long time. It’s faux populism because it’s not really true.
The broad-stroke proposals released during the election campaign last year along with the similar outlines that were shared in April and July of this year, very emphatically were not designed to benefit the middle class – although they offered Trump’s homies, that is, the very wealthy, a super-sweet deal. Buzz is that this latest stinker’s just more of the same – and that the wealthy and super-wealthy will do just fine, as usual, on the backs of the middle class.
The devil, of course, is in the details, and the fact that we have no details – even though these bozos have had seven months to fill in the blanks – suggests a very unpleasant product is in the offing although the perpetrators of the proposed reform will be doing all that they can do to disguise its shortcomings. The fact that Paul Ryan will have a hand in crafting the details is not reassuring. We’ve seen his budget proposals in the past and they are not, to put it mildly, friendly to the less than wealthy.
Anne Kim at The Washington Monthly argues that, while there is plenty of room for real tax reform, given the inability of the White House to provide serious direction when it comes to the hard decisions – and I would add, because of the ideological bent of the GOP-dominated Congress – we’ll probably get nothing more than tax cuts with the potential to do lasting harm:
Given all this, it’s highly doubtful that anything the GOP Congress puts forward this fall will truly count as “reform.” Rather, the likeliest scenario is a modest—or not so modest—set of corporate tax cuts aimed at placating the president and his base and, of course, squeezing vulnerable swing-state Democrats into making difficult pre-election choices. As Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway signaled as early as January, Trump would be just as happy with tax “relief” as he would be with “reform.”
A tax cut package disguised as reform could do serious damage—such as by blowing a mile-high hole in the federal deficit while aggravating the blatant inequities of the current system. More significantly, it would be an enormous missed opportunity for genuine discussion about the kinds of reforms that could grow the economy and make it fairer for working-class Americans.
(A word to the wise: Keep in mind the part about “squeezing vulnerable swing-state Democrats into making difficult pre-election choices” when you hear Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill try to make nice with tax-cutting Trump.)
It has been suggested that Trump is coming to Missouri rather than to Kansas because Kansas has been reduced to near financial ruin through the implementation of the type of tax cuts he wants to see enacted on the national level. And although Missouri is now experiencing the consequences of similar, if not as extreme, ideologically motivated tax-cuts, there are plenty of true-believers here intent on not learning the lesson of Kansas – and plenty of self-interested money-men – e.g., billionaire Rex Sinquefield and his ilk – who encourage their wilful blindness with plentiful dollops of campaign cash.
Nevertheless, it’ll be interesting to see how Trump’s sales spiel will be received by Missourians other than the hard-core, ever- salivating base. John Danforth, the Dean of traditional Missouri Republican circles, recently attempted to exorcise Trump from the GOP body politic when he declared in a WaPo op-ed that the GOP “cannot allow Donald Trump to redefine the Republican Party.” I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict that Danforth will have to sit on a similar limb all by himself.
It already looks like lots of Missouri GOP good ol’ boy and gal pols will be more than willing to let The Donald redefine the party any old way he wants to as long as they get the tax “reform” for which their financial supporters have been clamoring. The question is, though, how will the rest of us welcome Trump and his bloviations to Missouri? Are Missourians still as susceptible to the empty blandishments of the conman-in-chief as they were in fall 2016?
26 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in social media
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4th Congresional District, Donald Trump, military, missouri, social media, trangender, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler
“It is a strange sort of patriot who tells certain people that they shouldn’t be allowed to serve their country.”
We’re not talking about Hurricane Harvey.
Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) [2016 file photo].
Yesterday evening, from Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) via Twitter:
Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Military service is a privilege, not a right. My statement on @realDonaldTrump #transgender announcement:
[….]
6:00 PM – 25 Aug 2017
The statement:
Hartzler Statement on Transgender Policy Announcement
August 25, 2017 Press Release
After President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security Friday detailing the new transgender military policy, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) released the following statement:
“Military service is a privilege, not a right,” said Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler. “I’m pleased to see the President putting military readiness first and making sure our defense dollars are spent keeping us safe. With the growing threats from Iran, North Korea, China and others, the U.S. military cannot afford to divert precious defense dollars from our national security. Every dollar must be spent investing in new military technology, getting the right equipment for our troops, and making sure we are protected from threats across the globe.”
Some of the replies to Representative Hartzler’s (r) Twitter post:
Obviously, viagra and cialus don’t contribute to our defensive strength either. Propose that the military stops funding them.
3. We (all Americans) r privileged that all Americans have an opportunity to serve regardless of religion, gender, color, or gender identity
Your post in our government is a privilege, not a right. I look forward to you losing that privilege.
I earned that privilege by putting my life on the line while you were sitting in a cushy office. Who are you, again?
How dare you? These people are willing to give their lives for their country.
WRONG! Serving your country is your duty and honour, and you are denying those who want to serve for those reasons, the chance to do so!
So voting against you. Transgender people are not a distraction and not an issue to exploit. I’m disgusted by your post.
You madam nothing about the privilege of military service. Tammy Duckworth does.
2. Transgender americans that r soldiers, sailors, airmen & marines 1st, r stronger, more dedicated & more patriotic than u & ur transphobia
Interesting how you and Pres Draft Dodger, never used that privilege, yet think you have the right to tell others if they are for to serve.
How dare you take these peoples’ careers and aspirations from them? Are you ready to take their place on the line?
But it’s okay for trump to bankrupt the secret service with all his vacations? Or waste billions on a wall
Does anyone know the cost of sacking and hiring 1000s of new soldiers, with the training and comp packages needed?
People want to put their lives on the line, and this is what you do? You’re not fit for public office
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” If they wish to serve, it is shameful to stop them.
Thank you for your service, both of you- oh wait….
It is a strange sort of patriot who tells certain people that they shouldn’t be allowed to serve their country.
Are you going to kick out all the other service members that are on “profiles” and cannot deploy? Cancel viagra scripts? Ban pregnancy?
Transgendered troops, just like the rest of our troops, do nothing but put their lives on the line for this country! They are courageous!
“Every dollar must be spent investing in new military technology” should include your salary after this statement.
I trust you will vehemently oppose funding a border wall thru cuts to DoD and DoS budgets then since security abroad is so important to you.
You should learn of which you speak. All troops – cis and trans – are valuable patriots. Bigotry has no place in America.
Bet those conscripted and killed in the war in Vietnam didn’t feel privileged
We should respect anyone that chooses to fight for our country. It’s more courage than you making statements about it.
Last I checked it was one’s duty and honor.
That’s why they had to pick numbers to see who got the “privilege” of going to Vietnam.
Wait. Was conscription more of a privilege or a right?
Military service IS a privilege, so is working in government. Not one that should be abused by personal opinion.
tinpot demagoguery is nothing to be proud of
Is this why we still make it mandatory for young men register for a draft? Privilege?
Difficult to put into words how awful a person you are. Rely on service of others, but judge who you deem worthy to protect you. Twisted.
What do you expect in return for this shameless pandering to the Great Pumpkin, Ms. Hartzler?
Have you even read the bill of rights?
Truly disgraceful. These are my friends and family you are dehumanizing and putting at further risk of violence. Shame on you.
Nut. You should appreciate courageous qualified people who join to protect your right to be a bigot.
The President uses the same arguments to ban trans soldiers as those used to ban blacks&women. What a disrespect to those of us who served.
Americans willing to put their lives on the line to protect others should be allowed to serve. Since you haven’t served, how dare you judge?
A privilege?! No, your free, safe life is a privilege because of their service, you fool.
Fighting for your country is a duty some feel they are called to. Discrimination is wrong and unnecessary and bigoted.
The ability of a person to defend their country is not defined by their genitalia.
And on and on…
Previously:
Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) on DADT: it’s all about the plumbing (April 1, 2011)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): really, it’s still all about the plumbing (February 13, 2013)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): it’s all about the plumbing, again (May 15, 2016)
25 Friday Aug 2017
Posted in US Senate
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In 2013, in the aftermath of Sandy:
Roll Call Vote 113th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 152 )
Vote Number: 4
Vote Date: January 28, 2013, 06:09 PMRequired For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Bill PassedMeasure Number: H.R. 152 (Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 )
Measure Title: A bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 62
NAYs 36
Not Voting 2
[….]
Texas:
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Nay
[….]
[emphasis added]
Any guesses on how they’ll vote this time?
24 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in campaign finance
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C131007 08/24/2017 Missouri Growth PAC Phoenix Home Care 3033 S Kansas Expressway Springfield MO 65807 8/23/2017 $5,700.00
C131007 08/24/2017 Missouri Growth PAC Gardner Capital Management LLC 4803 S National Suite 200 Springfield MO 65810 8/23/2017 $8,750.00
C131007 08/24/2017 Missouri Growth PAC MACO Development Company PO Box 68 Clarkton MO 63837 8/23/2017 $15,600.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a total of $30,050.00 in one day.
The PAC:
C131007: Missouri Growth Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 555
Perryville Mo 63775
Established Date: 01/11/2013
[….]
Treasurer
Everett A Tilley
507 Steven Street
Perryville Mo 63775
Missouri Growth PAC filed a routine Amended Statement of Committee Organization on August 1, 2017. On August 8, 2017 the PAC reported “Ending Money On Hand” of $2,875.66.
And:
C141393 08/24/2017 Missouri AG PAC Phoenix Home Care 3033 S Kansas Expressway Springfield MO 65807 8/23/2017 $5,700.00
C141393 08/24/2017 Missouri AG PAC Gardner Capital Management LLC 4803 S National Suite 200 Springfield MO 65810 8/23/2017 $8,750.00
C141393 08/24/2017 Missouri AG PAC MACO Development Company PO Box 68 Clarkton MO 63837 8/23/2017 $15,600.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a total of $30,050.00 in one day.
Missouri AG PAC reported “Ending Money On Hand” of $1,679.89 in its July quarterly campaign finance report.
And:
C171235 08/24/2017 Missouri Senior PAC Phoenix Home Care 3033 S Kansas Expressway Springfield MO 65807 8/23/2017 $5,700.00
C171235 08/24/2017 Missouri Senior PAC Gardner Capital Management LLC 4803 S National Suite 200 Springfield MO 65810 8/23/2017 $8,750.00
C171235 08/24/2017 Missouri Senior PAC MACO Development Company PO Box 68 Clarkton MO 63837
8/23/2017 $15,600.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a total of $30,050.00 in one day.
It’s a brand new PAC:
C171235: Missouri Senior Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
303 North Jackson
Farmington Mo 63640
Established Date: 08/03/2017
[….]
Treasurer
Gary M Matheny
303 North Jackson
Farmington Mo 63640
Missouri Senior PAC dated its Statement of Committee Organization on August 3, 2017 (received by the Missouri Ethics Commission on August 22, 2017).
And:
C171229 08/24/2017 Missouri C PAC MACO Development Company PO Box 68 Clarkton MO 63837 8/23/2017 $15,600.00
C171229 08/24/2017 Missouri C PAC Gardner Capital Managment LLC 4803 S National Suite 200 Springfield MO 65810 8/23/2017 $8,750.00
C171229 08/24/2017 Missouri C PAC Phoenix Home Care 3033 S Kansas Expressway Springfield MO 65807 8/23/2017 $5,700.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a total of $30,050.00 in one day.
It’s a brand new PAC:
C171229: Missouri C Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
5103 Westmeyer Road
Farmington Mo 63640
Established Date: 08/02/2017
[….]
Treasurer
John C Burcham
5103 Westmeyer Road
Farmington Mo 63640
Missouri C PAC dated its Statement of Committee Organization on August 2, 2017 (received by the Missouri Ethics Commission on August 17, 2017).
Such coincidences, eh? What are the odds?
24 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in Uncategorized
Students on the campus of the University of Central Missouri held a vigil in support of Charlotteville, Virginia last night. Over fifty students, staff, and community friends attended.
….our mission to to stand together as a campus community against hate, injustice, and bigotry; and give our families an opportunity to express and share messages of hope, love, and healing.
Join the Warrensburg and Springfield Missouri Organized Student Alliance as we come together to promote peace and justice on our campuses and within our community! Let us not remain silent during times such as this….
“Not today”
Messages of hope:
University of Central Missouri President Chuck Ambrose with students at the vigil.
It’s a good start.
Previously:
A short early morning conversation (November 10, 2016)
Donald Trump (r) – expect this for the next four years”>Donald Trump (r) – expect this for the next four years (November 10, 2016)
These kids are all right (November 11, 2016)
23 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in social media, Town Hall
Members of Congress are on their August break. Some are holding open public town halls, others (republican) are staging photo-ops and avoiding town halls.
One group of contituents, wanting an open town hall with their representative, learned their lesson.
Monday, in the Columbia Daily Tribune:
Liberal group CoMo for Progress cancels meeting with Hartzler
by Rudi Keller
Posted Aug 21, 2017 at 9:15 PMA non-partisan Columbia group that pushes liberal policies on health care, taxes and human rights cried foul Monday on U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Harrisonville, for refusing to allow a reporter to attend a meeting set for Tuesday.
CoMo for Progress had agreed to limit the meeting, scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday, to 12 members and to filter all the questions through a moderator, member Kate Canterbury said. The group also agreed to provide the names of the people who would attend to Hartzler’s office and a list of topics to be discussed, Canterbury said.
The only non-negotiable point was that at least one news reporter also be allowed in the meeting, she said
[….]
Hartzler refused the request for a reporter because she doesn’t generally conduct meetings with constituents in front of the press, Hartzler spokesman Steve Walsh said. The decision not to allow a reporter was made Friday, he said.
Como for Progress canceled the meeting, Walsh said.
“You shouldn’t need a media presence if you sincerely want to express your views to the congresswoman,” Walsh said.
[….]
Steve Walsh, eight year ago:
Steve Walsh (left) – Senator Claire McCaskill (D) – speaking with the press in Jefferson City after a town hall – August 26, 2009.
Right, Steve, what would you have said nine years ago if Claire McCaskill’s communication director had expressed the same sentiments?
“…You shouldn’t need a media presence if you sincerely want to express your views to the congresswoman…”
It’s about what that member of Congress says or promises to constituents. It’s called accountability. Hack.
Previously:
Oderint dum metuant (May 11, 2017)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): open public town halls are just not gonna happen (June 13, 2017)
22 Tuesday Aug 2017
Posted in Uncategorized
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Yesterday a reported 200 million people were within a day’s drive of witnessing totality for the 2017 solar eclipse across the United States. We were among those number and closer than most.
We live approximately two miles southwest of the edge of totality, so we knew we had to give a trip to the area of totality the good old college try.
We found what turned out to be a spectacular (and perfect) location approximately fifteen miles north of us.
We departed with our loaded vehicle at about 5:00 a.m. Totality commenced at approximately 1:10 p.m. and lasted just under two minutes. If traffic was impossible we had a plan B location approximately half the distance with one minute of totality.
Traffic was never a problem, probably due to weather forecasts and the perception of iffy cloud cover and storms immediately before totality.
Our planned load included three people, at least six cameras, assorted tripods, two laptops, two small tables, three lawn chairs, two cases of water, umbrellas (for shade and any rain while we waited), food and drink in two coolers, toilet paper, insect repellent, solar eclipse viewing glasses, a small pinhole viewing box and a long pinhole viewing tube.
All batteries and phones were charged, I guarantee it.
We didn’t acquire solar filters for the cameras so we planned on taking photos during totality. Timing turned out to be everything. No one was willing to risk their higher end full frame camera sensors to the sun, so we used older cameras operated remotely in live view from laptops. It’s a little clunkier way to operate, but we were not willing to risk our eyesight through the viewfinders.
We figured if we got some images, great. If not, it would still have been an adventure.
We got the images.
Sunrise at Maple Leaf Lake Conservation Area, Lafayette County, Missouri – August 21, 2017.
Fishing before the big show.
Our two vehicle encampment and set up for watching and photographing the solar eclipse yesterday at Maple Leaf Lake Conservation Area, Lafayette County, Missouri – Left to right, my Canon T4i, with 70-200 mm F 2.8 lens (set to 200 mm, F 4, manual focus to infinity – lens front covered in foil until totality) on a tripod tethered to my laptop (covered in black cloth so I could duck under it in the sunlight), my old Canon XT with an 18-55mm kit lens with an intervalometer set to one minute on the roof of the vehicle, pointed at the horizon, two others in our party, Jerry Schmidt with his Canon T5i and 300 mm F 2.8 lens tethered to his laptop (on his nifty shrouded laptop stand), and Jerry’s awesome pinhole viewer, also attached to a tripod. We used the pinhole viewer more than we used our eclipse glasses.
Note the clouds behind us.
Encampment.
There was a very nice couple from Arkansas parked next to us.
Visiting from Arkansas.
As the intense light source gets narrower the edge of the shadows get sharper.
Shadow.
We also witnessed the effect of tree leaves as natural pinhole projectors of the eclipse on the ground.
The sky was relatively clear until about 10:00 a.m., then we had thick overcast with thunder and lightning to the northwest, along with raindrops. The area steadily filled with vehicles as six individuals in vehicles from the Conservation Department monitored the area.
The sky cleared about twenty-five minutes before totality, much to everyone’s relief. After a few hours of quiet, a little bit of boredom, and socializing with our neighbors, the final half hour was a whirl of activity as we set our camera and observed the progress of the eclipse.
Totality:
Michael Bersin. @1:09 p.m. Central, August 21, 2017. Lat.: 38.9883° N, Long.: 93.7971° W. Maple Leaf Lake State Conservation Area, Lafayette County, Missouri.
F 4, 1/30, ISO 200, 200 mm.
F 4, 1/30, ISO 200, 200 mm.
F 4, 1/20, ISO 200, 200 mm.
F 4, 1/6, ISO 200, 200 mm.
In the brief moment of totality I managed to take eighteen frames. This last was at the last instant:
End of totality. F 4, 1/15, ISO 200, 200 mm.
Previously:
Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017)
22 Tuesday Aug 2017
Posted in campaign finance
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the House Republican Campaign Committee (HRC):
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Friends Of Elijah Haahr PO Box 14506 Springfield MO 65814 8/19/2017 $16,500.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Friends Of Holly Rehder PO Box 1868 Sikeston MO 63801 8/19/2017 $15,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Dealers Interested In Government PO Box 245 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/19/2017 $15,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Friends Of Kirk Mathews 18161 Meramec Vista Ln Pacific MO 63069 8/19/2017 $13,500.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC MOSFA PAC Inc 121 Madison Street Jefferson City MO 65101 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Enterprise Holdings Inc PAC 600 Corporate Park Drive St Louis MO 63105 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC AGC Of MO PAC 6330 Knox Industrial Drive St Louis MO 63139 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC FEAPAC Of Missouri 17000 W 119th H Street Olathe KS 66061 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Committee To Elect Jean Evans 9180 Garber Road St Louis MO 63126 8/19/2017 $5,400.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Anheuser-Busch Companies LLC 1 Busch Pl St Louis MO 63118 8/19/2017 $15,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Cheyenne International LLC 701 South Battleground Ave Grover NC 28073 8/19/2017 $15,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Monsanto Company 800 North Lindbergh St Louis MO 63167 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC RightCHOICE Managed Care Inc 3075 Vandercar Way AP OH3403-A300 Cincinnati OH 45209 8/19/2017 $10,000.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Andrew McDaniel 6403 State Highway J Deering MO 63840 Missouri State Representative 8/19/2017 $5,350.00
C091068 08/21/2017 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Lynn Morris 4230 Greenbriar Nixa MO 65714 Missouri State Representaive 8/19/2017 $5,200.00
[emphasis added]
That’s a tidy little sum. They’ll always have all the money they’ll need.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: the HRCC has a really, really, really good day (August 12, 2014)