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In today’s mail

27 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Spencer Toder (D) [2021 file photo].

Paid for by the candidate’s own committee. How novel.

“…Spencer Toder makes the lives of Missourians better — Every. Single. Day. He’s helped more than 20,000 families sign up for benefits like the Child Tax Credit, rental relief, affordable internet, and Medicaid…”

Previously:

Heartland Pod: Spencer Toder (D) (May 17, 2021)

Spencer Toder (D) – candidate for the U.S. Senate – Boone County – June 6, 2021 (June 7, 2021)

Solidarity – Medicaid Expansion – Rally and March – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 1, 2021 (July 2, 2021)

Still struggling to remain irrelevant

27 Wednesday Jul 2022

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Give us all a brake.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Democrats ignored all the warning signs to ram through a $1.9 trillion partisan spending bill that triggered 9.1% inflation & negative economic growth.
[….]
5:16 PM · Jul 26, 2022

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Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Now, they’re pushing ahead with more spending & tax hikes that will make the situation worse. They need to pump the breaks before they drive the economy off the recession cliff.
5:16 PM · Jul 26, 2022

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Almost every country in the world is experiencing a 9% inflation rate. Is that the result of U.S.spending?

The spending bill is responsible for worldwide inflation?? Or just MAYBE it’s the ongoing war and pandemic?

Gas prices going down, thanks Biden!

You used to teach history

Not an English teacher – pump the breaks?

Them’s the brakes

Thanks Senator for tweeting about this instead of checking on us constituents going thru historical flash flooding on the east side of the state. [….]

And how does this explain the fact that inflation is global?

Roy Blount, professional water boy. Good job walking the party line.

What, exactly, is the GOP plan to deal with inflation? I haven’t seen anything except mean tweets. Do better!

Old Roy is getting forgetful. He forgot about all the tax breaks that Republicans granted to the wealthy and corporations during the Trump years…which laid the groundwork for our inflation. [….]

You need to do your homework before posts like this

You know you’re party’s too far gone which is why you’re slinking away. Your corporate donors thank you for your service to their interests.

Are you talking about the #GOPTaxScam?

Inflation is a world-wide problem so let’s put it in world-wide contexts.

Uh, maybe it has something to do with covid-caused supply chain issues & the war in Ukraine thanks to your buddy Putin? Quit simplifying complex issues that you must not understand.

Really appreciate your concern for the STL area! Too busy lying about inflation to notice the havoc climate change is wreaking.
#GOPTraitors [….]

That spending and only that spending caused the inflation? How so? Why not the Trump tax cuts? How did it cause worldwide inflation?

Maybe you’re just lying, intent on leaving the Senate with no integrity left at all

Horse shit Roy

It’s so easy to lie for you isn’t it?
So pathetic

Omg just stop with the partisan BS. You are thrilled with your fascist party or you would be backing Liz Cheney. You are a corrupt POS.

Inflation is global. Quit lying you POS.
#GaslightObstructProject

In Kansas

26 Tuesday Jul 2022

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On the ballot in Kansas on August 2, 2022:

Anti-choice:

“…A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion…”

Who the hell knows?:

Pro-choice:

“…A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion…”

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r)

25 Monday Jul 2022

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Not that we blame them.

The republican primary candidates for the 4th Congressional District:

U.S. Representative – District 4
Republican
Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Jim (Soupy) Campbell 1228 MEL DOR ACRES CLIMAX SPRINGS MO 65324 180 2/22/2022

Rick Brattin P.O. BOX 920 HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 283 2/22/2022

William (Bill) Irwin PO BOX 383 HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 401 2/22/2022

Mark Alford PO BOX 1634 RAYMORE MO 64083 423 2/22/2022

Kalena Bruce PO BOX 1107 STOCKTON MO 65785 622 2/22/2022

Taylor Burks PO BOX 405 ASHLAND MO 65010 682 2/22/2022

Kyle Stonner LaBrue 4376 SKI DR OSAGE BEACH MO 65065 3/29/2022

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Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

We’ve received several mail pieces paid for by a right wingnut Federal Super PAC that attack Rick Brattin (r):

Let’s see, he didn’t support Donald Trump (r) early on. Something, something, China.

Something, something, Communist China.

Something, something, Chinese spies.

Never Trumper, anti-Trump. Something, something, China.

The disclaimer:

Paid for by Missourians for Truth PAC. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. [….]

Who paid for this [via the Federal Election Commission (FEC)]?:

Source information
Name MCDANIEL, CHRIS
City and state BLUE SPRINGS, MO, 64014
Occupation OWNER
Employer HEARTLAND FINANICAL GROUP INC
Year to date $50,000.00
Receipt information
Amount $50,000.00
Receipt date March 4, 2022
Report year 2022
Memo
Reported on Form 3X on line 11AI
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC
Political party
Type Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)
State Missouri

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Source information
Name LOWE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LLC
City and state CLINTON, MO, 64735
Occupation
Employer
Year to date $10,000.00
Receipt information
Amount $10,000.00
Receipt date March 31, 2022
Report year 2022
Memo
Reported on Form 3X on line 11AI
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC
Political party
Type Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)
State Missouri

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Source information
Name WORTH, GAIL
City and state GRANDVIEW, MO, 64030
Occupation OWNER
Employer GAIL POWERSPORTS, INC
Year to date $5,000.00
Receipt information
Amount $5,000.00
Receipt date May 3, 2022
Report year 2022
Memo
Reported on Form 3X on line 11AI
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC
Political party
Type Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)
State Missouri

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Source information
Name LOWE, MATTHEW
City and state CLINTON, MO, 64735
Occupation VP OF SALES
Employer PLZ CORP
Year to date $5,000.00
Receipt information
Amount $5,000.00
Receipt date June 28, 2022
Report year 2022
Memo
Reported on Form 3X on line 11AI
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC
Political party
Type Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)
State Missouri

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Source information
Name WETZEL INVESTMENTS LP
City and state CLINTON, MO, 64735
Occupation
Employer
Year to date $1,000.00
Receipt information
Amount $1,000.00
Receipt date March 31, 2022
Report year 2022
Memo
Reported on Form 3X on line 11AI
Election type PRIMARY
Recipient information
Committee MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC
Political party
Type Super PAC (Independent Expenditure-Only)
State Missouri

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The expenditures by Missourians for Truth PAC:

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Oppose BRATTIN, RICHARD RAY JR. IN-KIND DIRECT MAIL PRINTING AND POSTAGE CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/22/2022 $12,500.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Oppose BRATTIN, RICHARD RAY JR. IN-KIND – DIRECT MAIL PRINTING AND POSTAGE CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/22/2022 $12,500.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Oppose BRATTIN, RICHARD RAY JR. DIRECT MAIL DESIGN AND POSTAGE CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/22/2022 $4,309.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Oppose BRATTIN, RICHARD RAY JR. DIRECT MAIL DESIGN AND POSTAGE CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/22/2022 $4,309.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Support ALFORD, MARK DIRECT MAIL CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/18/2022 $17,680.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Support ALFORD, MARK DIRECT MAIL CATAMARAN CONSULTING 07/11/2022 $22,310.00

MISSOURIANS FOR TRUTH PAC Support ALFORD, MARK DIRECT MAIL CATAMARAN CONSULTING 06/24/2022 $26,315.00

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Ah, promoting Mark Alford (r):

Mark Alford (r) [May 2022 file photo].

Pass the popcorn.

A right wingnut republican, just not in name

24 Sunday Jul 2022

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They must truly believe we’re all stoopit.

John Wood [still from campaign video].

John Wood:

[…]

Our choices must be better than two politicians, one who resigned in disgrace from his last job after blackmailing his mistress- and who has since been credibly accused of abusing his wife and child. The other will be a rubber-stamp for Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer’s radical, progressive agenda that is out-of-touch with the values of Missourians.

I’m running for the United States Senate because Missouri voters deserve better than the extreme choices currently being offered by the two parties in this race.

[….]

Eric Schmitt (r), Billy Long (r), Vicky Hartzler (r), and a whole host of other republican candidates would like a word.

Affordable access to health care? Equal access to educational opportunities? Bodily autonomy? Investment in public infrastructure?

We looked over John Wood’s campaign website. Nothing on issues. Nothing. Zip. Zero.

It is then a matter of the company one keeps.

This:

[….]
John previously served as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he assisted and advised former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a broad range of matters, including terrorism, intelligence, preparedness, border security, immigration, law enforcement, and management issues.

John has held several high-level positions at the Department of Justice and in the White House, including Deputy Associate Attorney General and Counselor to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and White House Deputy General Counsel for the Office of Management & Budget.

John is a former clerk for both U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig. Prior to law school, he worked on the staff of U.S. Senator John C. Danforth of Missouri.
[….]

John Ashcroft, Michael Chertoff, Clarence Thomas, and Michael Luttig aren’t considered “moderates” in anyone’s book. John Danforth (r) doesn’t have a particularly impressive record when it comes to endorsements. Why should we listen now?

In 2011, before Josh Hawley (r):

[….]…Question: Do you have any regrets in terms of your career and, if so, what’s your biggest one?

John Danforth: Do I have any regrets? Uh [laugh], I, uh, my net, net answer is I do not. I mean, I really enjoyed being in public office and I hope I did a good job at it. I, I know that I enjoyed it. Are there, are there votes that I took or issues that I championed at the time that, looking back on it from a little bit of distance, I ask myself, why did I do that? Yeah, you know. I mean, I, I’m not, I could, I want to bore you with all, with, with some of them, but, are there issues where if I had to do it over again I would have done it differently? Yeah, sure. But, do I really have regrets about it? No, I don’t. I, I really don’t. But, I, I really enjoyed it and I hope I did well. [applause]

[….]

Apparently John Danforth (r) wants all of us to believe that the third time is the charm.

Campaign Finance: Perryville shuffle

23 Saturday Jul 2022

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C171158 07/23/2022 Missouri Forward PAC Missouri Senior PAC PO Box 651 Perryville MO 63775 7/21/2022 $10,000.00

C171158 07/23/2022 Missouri Forward PAC Missouri Growth PAC PO Box 555 Perryville MO 63775 7/21/2022 $10,000.00

C171158 07/23/2022 Missouri Forward PAC MO Majority PAC PO Box 651 Perryville MO 63775 7/21/2022 $10,000.00

C171158 07/23/2022 Missouri Forward PAC Missouri C PAC 1418 W. St. Joseph St. Suite 90 Perryville MO 63775 7/21/2022 $10,000.00

C171158 07/23/2022 Missouri Forward PAC Conservative Leaders of Missouri LLC PO Box 651 Perryville MO 63775 7/21/2022 $10,000.00

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Directionally challenged to boot.

“…Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!…”

23 Saturday Jul 2022

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Mary Elizabeth Coleman (r) [2019 file photo].

Yestwerday evening:

MaryElizabethColeman @meaccoleman
Some candidates talk about supporting conservative policies during the campaign. I have a real conservative record of protecting our freedom and liberties.
6:02 PM · Jul 22, 2022

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Conservative government is destroying Missouri. We need less of it not more.

Define freedom!

Nope. Not true at all.

Aren’t small government & local control “conservative values”? So why do you support laws to remove local control and tell people they have to follow your religious beliefs?

“I have a real conservative record of restricting, and even erasing, our freedom and liberties.” There, fixed it for you.

And let’s remember that in your world “protecting our freedom and liberties” actually means attacking and actively undermining people’s freedom and liberties. #FuckAbortionBans

You defend only the freedoms you want and the religion you want. This is who you are.

Your record proves you are MAGA GOP intent on destroying Missouri by being against high quality and safe public schools, women’s and minorities rights, and our democracy. No votes for you!

Isn’t your record that of crudely taunting and threatening to take away reproductive rights from Missourians and hanging out with fascists? [….]

Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve lost freedom and liberties but go off Mary.

Sorry umm what’s this freedom and liberty do you speak of? Because your track record shows that you willfully and deliberately helped make women of Missouri second class citizens.

Protecting who’s freedom and liberties? Please! You’re doing no such thing. This tweet is a lie. Stop lying.

Hey MaryElizabeth? You need to keep your religion to yourself. You have absolutely no respect for the constitution and are so full of yourself that you think you know what is best for other people that you don’t even know.

They consider that a feature, not a bug.

Previously:

HB 1987: apparently 1984 was already taken (December 16, 2021)

The reason for the season? (December 26, 2021)

HB 1993: and you’ll have to wear a brown shirt while you’re driving on it (December 28, 2021)

HB 2424: Covid Mary (January 14, 2022)

The company one keeps (April 22, 2022)

One million dead Americans could have probably provided us with a different definition of “pro-life” – if they were still alive (May 16, 2022)

This you? (May 25, 2022)

Not in Missouri

22 Friday Jul 2022

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Well, yeah.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

This evening:

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Josh Hawley runs out on stage in Tampa tonight and says he has a message for liberals about J6: “I do not regret it! I am not backing down! I’m not gonna apologize, I’M NOT GONNA COWER, I’M NOT GONNA RUN FROM YOU, I’m not gonna bend the knee!”
[….]
5:13 PM · Jul 22, 2022

Definitely not in Missouri.

Previously:

Josh Hawley (r) is famous! (July 21, 2022)

“Fistpump McRunpants” (July 22, 2022)