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Consistently stepping on any available rake as a lifestyle choice

30 Saturday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media

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21st Senate District, Denny Hoskins, General Assembly, missouri, right wingnut, SB 798, social media

Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].

This past week:

Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Unfortunately SB798, the #BigMacWelfare #LobsterFoodStamp bill, was perfected 16-14 last night in the MO Senate. I don’t believe your tax dollars should pay for restaurant food from Red Lobster, McDonald’s, etc. for food stamp recipients. @GOP @MoSenateGOP
⁩[….]
9:51 AM · Apr 26, 2022

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Please provide the list of restaurants that have already signed contracts with the state since this bill just passed last night there are NONE, so your making most of this up. MISINFORMATION

Denny Hoskins (r) answers today, sort of:

Senator Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
[….]
Sorry, not misinformation, you just weren’t listening very well. I said these were some of the restaurants approved in California for #WelfareWhoppers and #DelTacoFoodStamps. CA is 1 of 6 states to approve this program. [….]
3:17 PM · Apr 30, 2022

I listened to what you said, and you did not bring up CA in your video ONCE. provide the list of approved restaurants that have contracted with the state of Mo. for this?

He’s caught in gaslighting. Let’s watch him backpedal.

Well his original post has no CA narrative, then he added the link for CA in the response to me, so yes your exactly right. I can find NO agreement with the state of Mo with any Bus., so if he has that provide it

of course you do, punish the poor, make them cook!
Jesus helped the poor.

Disingenuous. This bill allows only elderly, disabled & homeless to use FS at just a small # of approved restaurants that have been approved by HHS to provide a nutritious approved meal. This fills a def need for this small community.

I’m okay with people getting food.

Great job the MoGOP is going with their supermajority! I don’t see ‘brass knuckles’ on your board, figured it was important since it was debated during the pandemic? You should also add ‘defund local public schools’ as GOP wants the money for private schools.

The homeless must cook their food?
What is wrong with you?
Jesus wants you to cook!
Jesus doesn’t want you eating prepared food!

Did you vote to raise the minimum wage to a living wage?
Did you vote for affordable housing?
People live in food deserts & the only food available is often fast food. Not a good choice but better than starvation.
How did you vote on Medicaid?
Stingy Republican.
#moleg

I’d rather my tax dollars not pay you.

You should resign.

#moleg

Via the National Conference of State Legislatures:

2020 Legislator Compensation
Missouri $35,915/year. 43/mile. $121/day. Tied to federal rate. Unvouchered.

$121.00 per day. You think prepared food is off the table for Denny Hoskins (r)?

You’re seriously worried that someone may spend $1 for a burger? That’s a pathetic waste of legislative time & a bigger scandal than $1 meal on food stamps. It’s disgusting that these are the people you pick on. Too chicken to take on serious corruption or HELP your constituents?

I am a psychologist who works with low-income clients. Most of those who receive SNAP benefits don’t get enough to get them through the month. They certainly aren’t going to blow it all at Red Lobster. You should educate yourself instead of relying on Republican hyperbole.

I don’t believe my tax dollars should pay for shitheads like you.

Billions to farmers in subsidies. You don’t have a problem with free money to big Ag. Just don’t want the little people to be able to eat. Hypocrite jerk.
[….]

What an embarrassment to the profession. Penny-wise, pound foolish. Ever heard that one? What a fool.

Not to mention a lack of empathy and understanding for the circumstances of those who are less fortunate.

Schmitt’s ATM

30 Saturday Apr 2022

Posted by penroseonpolitics in US Senate

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Eric Schmitt, Eric Schmitt Lawsuits, Eric Schmitt. U.S. Senate, Mask Mandate Lawsuits, Missouri General Assembly, Schmitt for Senate

About this morning

30 Saturday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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lightning, missouri, weather

Very late or very early, depending on how you look at it.

F 8.0, 12.0 sec, ISO 800, 70 mm.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200mm.

F 8.0, 9.6 sec, ISO 800, 70 mm.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200mm.

F 8.0, 8.5 sec, ISO 800, 70 mm.
Canon 5D III, 2.8 70-200mm.

Virginia. Ohio. Same difference.

28 Thursday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Josh Hawley, US Senate

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Josh Hawley, missouri, Ohio, right wingnut, social media, Twitter, Virginia

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Tonight:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Can’t wait to be out on the trail with @JDVance1 in Ohio this Sunday and Monday! Let’s start the countdown to victory #OHSen
8:23 PM · Apr 28, 2022

Some of the responses:

The Pale, Male, Yale Tour

Well, at least you won’t be polluting Missouri. Oh wait, you don’t live in Missouri! June 9th is going to be the start of illumination. [….]

Mark your calendar.

Pass the popcorn.

I dare you to come to Kansas City to host a town hall.

Why on Earth would Josh do something like that?

That will just cut into his time with meeting with wealthy donors.

Exactly.

At some point you are going to be in MO to meet with voters right? I mean that are going to ask you questions and not just give you money?

Virginia. Not Missouri.

Talk to your constituents in your alleged home state some time. And not just the ones donating to your campaign.

Wish you’d hit the trail to Missouri sometime. It’s just west of Illinois.

Elite Ivy League Bros Club [….]

Head out, don’t come back. Thanks!

So they’re sending out the third team for Brown Shirt rallies?

Of course you CAN wait to be on the trail to Missouri. You know, the state that you claim to represent.

Are you planning another coup?

Makes sense. You don’t spend any time in Missouri. Might as well spend a week in Ohio.

There are tapes…I wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about anything right now if I were you.

JD Vance and Charlie Kirk?
The company you keep defines you Josh.

Care to do a townhall with your constituents? Like, ever? What a joke you are.

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place.

Uh?

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?

28 Thursday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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2nd Congressional District, Ann Wagner, clueless, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Twitter

Today:

Ann Wagner @AnnLWagner
Missourians know how to balance their budget – the federal government should too.
9:07 AM · Apr 28, 2022

Show us you don’t really know much about social media without telling us you don’t know much about social media.

There is hilarity in the responses:

So you regret your vote to give billionaires a tax cut?

Says the woman who voted to blow up the deficit.
[….]

I was on a tele-town hall with you when you said the reason you ran for office originally was because you thought the Democrats were being fiscally irresponsible. Then you voted for the Trump tax scam.
[….]

You weren’t worried about balancing the budget when you gave big tax cuts to the ultra rich and corporations.

They know how to underfund public education too. Should the feds do that as well? 49 state fund education and teacher salaries better than MO.

There’s that.

Tip O’Neill used to have a great retort when Reagan would call for a balance budget amendment. He would say if President Reagan wanted a balanced budget, he should just send one up. What could possibly be the response to that putdown?

Y’all made this mess. We clean it up. Every time.

Easy for you to say that while you’re out of power. Wasn’t so easy for you to vote that way from 2016-2020 though.

Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency from 2016–2018 and did not balance the budget. Why not?

So sick of the constant whining with no actual plans or policies put forward. Last I heard you voted to blow up the budget with the trump tax cuts for the wealthy.

Aren’t you the federal government? Haven’t you been the federal government for a while?

Shhhhh.

Someone tell Ann we’re roasting her over here. Does her social team even look back at the crap they tweet?

Evidently not.

You have room to talk. You voted for a tax reform bill that added trillions $ to the national debt with absolutely no way to pay for it. #Hypocrite

Republicans like @annlwagner only care about the federal deficit when a Democrat is in the WH. They look the other way when a Republican is in office. The hypocrisy is stunning!

What else is new?

Heartland POD: 2022 Midterm

27 Wednesday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Adam Sommer, Heartland POD, missouri, podcast

MId-Term 2022 Desk Check In from Pennsylvania & Ohio; Shumer blocking Anti-Trust Bill; Biden’s Approval and student debt; Missouri primary check in; Last Call Preview

There you go.

Campaign Finance: “Missouri”

26 Tuesday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, gambling, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C211750 04/26/2022 Mo Coalition for Video Lottery PAC Golden Entertainment 6595 S. Jones Blvd Las Vegas NV 89118 4/26/2022 $6,000.00

C211750 04/26/2022 Mo Coalition for Video Lottery PAC Accel Entertainment Gaming,LL 140 Tower Drive Burr Ridge IL 60527 4/26/2022 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Is somebody going to tell them?

Once an apparatchik, always an apparatchik

25 Monday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Roy Blunt, social media

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apparatchik, Donald Trump, missouri, right wingnut, Roy Blunt, social media, Twitter, useful idiot

No surprise here.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Last night:

Will Saletan @saletan
Follow-up on CNN:

Q: “Why is Trump’s push to overturn the election result—and his continued insistence the election was stolen—not an automatic disqualifier?”

@RoyBlunt: “He can have his own opinion. That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”
8:58 PM · Apr 24, 2022

Just one issue, eh? Evidently insurrection isn’t a deal breaker.

Some of the responses:

It’s not just that he thinks the election was stolen. It’s what he did in the lead-up to January 6th and everything that’s come after. How can Blunt think that’s not disqualifying?

And its such a minor issue: whether to accept the results of a legitimate election.

Embarrassing blunts in Congress:
1. whatever was in Cawthorn’s hands in that video
2. Roy

Jeebus.

The definition of insanity.

“That’s not a disqualifier, because you may have one issue you disagree with.”

WTH?
Faith in US elections isn’t ONE ISSUE
Faith in our electoral process is the basis of consent of the governed

Blunt was allowed to skate on both shows

@MeetThePress & @CNN both screwed the pooch

Roy Blunt, you are a coward.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Campaign Finance: “Grassroots”

24 Sunday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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initiative, legalization, Marijuana, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Heh. Grass.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201444 04/24/2022 Legal Missouri 2022 Grassroots OpCo LLC 120 S Central Ave Clayton MO 63105 4/22/2022 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Green? Green. (March 16, 2021)

Green? Green? Green! (October 7, 2021)

Campaign Finance: it’s where the money is (October 26, 2021)

Being Green (November 11, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Greenish (November 14, 2021)

Campaign Finance: almost enough to rent a blimp (December 16, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Friends in Pennsylvania (March 16, 2022)

Campaign Finance: all the money in the world (March 21, 2022)

Campaign Finance: persistence (April 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: not exactly pocket change (April 6, 2022)

Campaign Finance: anticipation (April 10, 2022)

Campaign Finance: just another day (April 14, 2022)

Campaign Finance: yet another day (April 15, 2022)

Campaign Finance: rinse, repeat, repeat (April 18, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Requested Requested (April 19, 2022)

Campaign Finance: “I spent a week in Buffalo, Missouri one day…” (April 23, 2022)

Campaign Finance: “I spent a week in Buffalo, Missouri one day…”

23 Saturday Apr 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, initiative, legalization, Marijuana, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201444 04/23/2022 Legal Missouri 2022 Heartland Enterprises LLC 1795 S Ash Street Buffalo MO 65804 4/20/2022 $5,500.00

C201444 04/23/2022 Legal Missouri 2022 Heya Missouri Holdings Inc 3701 Mueller Rd Saint Charles MO 63301 4/21/2022 $25,000.00

C201444 04/23/2022 Legal Missouri 2022 GF Saint Mary LLC 950 Francis Place Suite 107 Clayton MO 63105 4/21/2022 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

True story.

On U.S. 65 South, north of Buffalo, Missouri – May 4, 2012

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Green? Green. (March 16, 2021)

Green? Green? Green! (October 7, 2021)

Campaign Finance: it’s where the money is (October 26, 2021)

Being Green (November 11, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Greenish (November 14, 2021)

Campaign Finance: almost enough to rent a blimp (December 16, 2021)

Campaign Finance: Friends in Pennsylvania (March 16, 2022)

Campaign Finance: all the money in the world (March 21, 2022)

Campaign Finance: persistence (April 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: not exactly pocket change (April 6, 2022)

Campaign Finance: anticipation (April 10, 2022)

Campaign Finance: just another day (April 14, 2022)

Campaign Finance: yet another day (April 15, 2022)

Campaign Finance: rinse, repeat, repeat (April 18, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Requested Requested (April 19, 2022)

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