06 Monday Nov 2023
Posted in campaign finance
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commssion:
C071094 11/05/2023 Missouri Senate Campaign Committee Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 11/3/2023 $75,000.00
[emphasis added]
Just a maintenance dose.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: adding it up (November 3, 2023)
05 Sunday Nov 2023
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
4th Congressional District, border, former newsreader, Israel, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Yesterday:
Congressman Mark Alford
[November 4, 2023]
While the world is watching the situation in Israel play out, our own southern border is wide open.
Since Joe Biden took office, hundreds of individuals on the terror watchlist have been encountered at our border.
That leads me to ask:
1. How many made it through?
2. Where are they now?
3. How many have ties to Hamas or Hezbollah?
We aren’t the only ones with these questions. Last week, Senator Schmitt and I led 22 of our House and Senate colleagues in a letter demanding to know how the conflict in the Middle East would affect our homeland.
For the entirety of this Administration’s tenure, we have operated with our guard down. We cannot allow that to continue.
We need answers before it is too late.
Because someone will take hostages somewhere in the Southwest and take them where?
Some of the responses:
According to the Representative, our southern border is wide open. His solution, sponsoring legislation “Combatting the Persecution of Religious Groups in China Act.” Another Alford bill with no cosponsors. Maybe spending more time on solving issues in the United States, and less time on tv and the internet, would be in order.
The border is not wide open, despite your repeated claim that it is.
Congress can can enact immigration reform. You should do your job and get on that.
Then do something. Put forth a bill, fund for additional border patrol, simplify immigration. Add immigration attorneys. Or keep doing what you always do, whine and blame others.
I guess you didn’t notice Israel’s wall didn’t work, oh and Trump’s buddy is in charge there. Also indicted on corruption funny enough.
” Blaming Biden” is not a constructive solution! How about you introducing legislation to resolve issues ? Missouri deserves better!
Fear mongering last week. Fear mongering this week. How does this help our country?
You are an absolute LIAR and should be expelled immediately. You are an elected official and you are telling the world our border is officially open. You are a reckless traitor. You talk about your big bad letters when you are not on TV, radio, or YouTube spewing your pandering line of party BS. You and your staffs salaries would be better used to assist the CBP agents you trash consistently. What is even more pathetic is the fact that you try and use religion to make yourself look like a righteous person. The stupid may believe you, but anyone with half a brain knows you are no better than Boebert, Gaetz, and Greene. You are a radical in hiding.
Congressman Mark Alford why not post your ridiculous letter that you sent with Senator Eric Schmitt? You both blither about China and of course don’t mention Russia! Do you seriously believe that the Federal Government is doing nothing to safeguard the US from terrorism? Also, why wasn’t that wall built that Mexico was going to pay for? You do nothing, but grandstand! [….]
That’s the way it is, isn’t it?
03 Friday Nov 2023
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Tags
Fascist pig, faux populist, gaslighting, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, missouri, organized labor, receipts, right to get paid less, seditionist, social media, U.S. Senate, Virginia, working people
This morning:
Jess Piper @piper4missouri
Screenshot this one, friends.
You’re gonna need it over the next year. Hawley is no friend to working folks no matter how much he wants to act like it now.
[….]
10:01 AM · Nov 3, 2023
You don’t #$%& with teachers, they keep grade books.
03 Friday Nov 2023
Posted in campaign finance
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C211696 11/03/2023 NEMO Leadership PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 11/3/2023 $25,000.00
[emphasis added]
And:
C211696 11/03/2023 NEMO Leadership PAC Evergy Metro, Inc PO Box 418679 Kansas City MO 64141 11/3/2023 $10,000.00
C211696 11/03/2023 NEMO Leadership PAC Charter Communications 12405 Powerscourt Drive St Louis MO 63131 11/3/2023 $7,500.00
C211696 11/03/2023 NEMO Leadership PAC HealthPAC PO Box 60 Jefferson City MO 65102 11/3/2023 $10,000.00
03 Friday Nov 2023
Posted in Uncategorized
Tags
abortion, initiative, Jay Ashcroft, missouri, Missouri Court of Appeals, reproductive rights, Secretary of State
You were expecting something else?
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, on the ballot summary statements for initiative petitions on reproductive rights and abortion:
“….the Secretary’s summary statements do not fairly describe the purposes and probable effects of the initiatives. The Secretary’s summary statements are replete with politically partisan language. After removal of the inaccurate and partisan language of the Secretary’s summary statements, the circuit court was left with largely unworkable summary statements. The circuit court was authorized to write alternative language to fulfill its responsibility that a fair and sufficient summary statement be certified. This result is clearly contemplated by the statute in the event that the Secretary fails to provide a workable framework for a summary statement with fair and sufficient language….”
“…the Secretary contends that the circuit court’s newly crafted summary statements are partial and misleading. The Secretary first takes issue with the circuit court’s language that the initiatives would remove Missouri’s ban on abortion. The Secretary argues that this language is inaccurate because Missouri does not have a ban on abortion, but only a ban on elective abortion. This argument is puzzling, given that the Secretary argued earlier in point two that Missouri did have a ban on abortion. The Secretary previously argued that “Missouri was prohibited from enforcing its ban against abortion while Roe v. Wade was on the books.” Given the fact that the Secretary’s brief itself refers to Missouri having a ban on abortion, the argument that it is misleading for the summary statement to refer to the proposed amendments as removing Missouri’s ban on abortion is without merit…” – Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, WD86595, October 31, 2023
Jay Ashcroft (r) [2019 file photo].
Jay Ashcroft (r), spinner:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 31, 2023
[….]Ashcroft Critical of Appeals Court’s Abortion Initiative Petitions Decision
Jefferson City, Mo. — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft vowed to keep fighting for fair and accurate ballot language after the Western District Court of Appeals blocked his ballot summary language and for all practical purposes upheld a ruling by the lower court.
“Once again Missouri courts refused to allow the truth to be known. The Western District essentially approved the language that was entirely rewritten by Judge Beetem. Not only is the language misleading but it is categorically false,” said Ashcroft.
“The circuit court’s opinion admits the real issue is about abortion. The Western District today continued to gloss over the issue in its affirmation. We stand by our language and believe it fairly and accurately reflects the scope and magnitude of each petition.”
Through an Entry of Appearance filed with the Kansas City based court, Ashcroft was a representative on the legal team arguing the case alongside counsel from the attorney general’s office.
Ashcroft plans to appeal the decision and said, “My office will continue the fight to preserve an accurate summary for Missouri voters.”
—30—
The reality:
Appeals court swats down Ashcroft arguments on Missouri abortion rights petitions
Western District Court of Appeals rules Jay Ashcroft wrote misleading ballot titles with a ‘singular focus on abortion’
BY: RUDI KELLER – OCTOBER 31, 2023Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote ballot titles for six proposals to restore abortion rights that were “replete with politically partisan language,” a Missouri appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday.
In an expedited decision issued a day after hearing arguments, a three-judge panel of the Western District Court of Appeals upheld, with only minor revisions, the revised ballot titles written by Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem.
In a decision by a separate panel, the court upheld the fiscal note summary written by State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick. Rejecting arguments from two lawmakers and an anti-abortion activist, the court said Fitzpatrick’s summary was “fair and sufficient.”
[….]
“Without merit”. Now, that’s quite a legacy.
01 Wednesday Nov 2023
Posted in Congress, Mark Alford, social media
Tags
4th Congressional District, former newsreader, Israel, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, Ukraine, useful idiot
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Today, from Mark Alford (r):
Congressman Mark Alford
[November 1, 2023]
For far too long, the Washington swamp has tried to tie critical and controversial legislation together, dealing lawmakers an impossible hand by forcing them to vote on bundled legislation.
That stops here. The House is set to vote on an aid package to Israel, separate from the aid to Ukraine.
As lawmakers, we need to individually evaluate and systematically review aid packages and track where the money is going.
American taxpayers are footing the bill for these wars: they are funding Ukraine, Israel, and potentially Taiwan down the road. Congress should not be forced to send billions to multiple countries for different wars simultaneously.
America’s financial health is deteriorating; the dollar is weakening, and the endless printing of money has no end in sight.
We need individual review, accountability, and oversight for aid packages, not a bundle.
This is American taxpayers’ money, and allowing members to vote on this separately should be the standard.
We know Vladimir Putin thinks helping Ukraine is controversial. Go figure.
“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.
Who else? We’ll wait.
Some of the responses to Mark Alford (r)
Tell us , Alford, who do you want America to be in the World?
A Leader of Democracy that believes every single person has rights and say in their Government?
OR a Putin “kiss the hand” country who believes in Autocracy, Oligarchy and Facism.
History is repeating itself…..
The republican party needs to stop catering to Putin! Do your job and vote for aid to Ukraine and Isreal and stop playing games!
yes I remember that the United States and Europe sanctioned Russia heavily over that and General Flynn promised the Russians that Trump would ease those sanctions once he got in office.
“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.
if they were not enforced why was Russia wanting their Puppet Trump to release them so badly ?
So the majority party is trying to separate Isreal aid, while keeping it tied to IRS de-funding, and then take the separated Ukraine aide and tie it to border funding. So much for your premise of un-bundleing
That’s pretty disingenuous considering it includes cutting IRS funding.
AMEN, SO TRUE. STOP THOWING OUR MONEY AWAY TO OTHER COUNTRIES WHO DO NOT PAY BACK. YOU WANT TO CUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY, THAT IS NOT FAIR, WE WORKED FOR IT & WE DO NOT NEED IT GOING OVERSEAS WHERE THEY DO NOT APPRECIATE IT OR PAY BACK.
GOD BLESS AMERICA [….]
Is somebody going to tell her?
I don’t want aid to foreign countries
Isolationist.
I’d rather throw American tax dollars at foreign countries now to help them fight aggressors than not help them and later have to throw American service members directly into the fray.
Previously:
We’re not a prop for your apocalyptic right wingnut fever dream (October 21, 2023)