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Campaign Finance: recharging

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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They’re not wasting any time.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Committee:

C190996 08/07/2024 Conservative Leaders of Missouri Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

C171235 08/07/2024 Missouri Senior PAC Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

C131007 08/07/2024 Missouri Growth PAC Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

C151156 08/07/2024 MO Majority PAC LLC Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

C171229 08/07/2024 Missouri C PAC Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

C141393 08/07/2024 Missouri AG PAC Bass Pro, LLC 2500 E Kearney Springfield MO 65898 8/7/2024 $33,000.00

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Secretary of State – Primary – August 6, 2024

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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[2024 file photo]

Via Missouri Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 06, 2024
Unofficial Results
as of 8/7/2024 2:30:46 PM

Secretary of State 3566 of 3566 Precincts Reported

Valentina Gomez Republican 47,931 7.449%
Shane Schoeller Republican 108,289 16.829%
Denny Hoskins Republican 157,116 24.418%
Adam J. Schwadron Republican 32,335 5.025%
Jamie Corley Republican 46,314 7.198%
Dean Plocher Republican 86,659 13.468%
Mary Elizabeth Coleman Republican 72,938 11.335%
Mike Carter Republican 91,866 14.277%
Party Total: 643,448

Monique Williams Democratic 123,270 34.429%
Barbara Phifer Democratic 146,284 40.856%
Haley Jacobson Democratic 88,491 24.715%
Party Total: 358,045

Carl Herman Freese Libertarian 2,402 100.000%
Party Total: 2,402

Total Votes: 1,003,895

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Denny Hoskins (r) [2023 file photo]

Heh. A plurality of 24.418% of the vote. How much did that cost Denny Hoskins (r) and his friends?

Via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

And:

And:

That’s about $3.00 per vote.

To compare:

Barbara Phifer (D) [2021 file photo].

That comes to approximately 50 cents per vote.

Previously:

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

Apparently, “chickenshit” is an important concept in internal GOP discourse (April 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a face in the crowd (August 3, 2024)

It sounded like a good idea at the time (July 12, 2024)

What happened to the flatbed?

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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The Ivy League vision of a flatbed truck. [2018 file photo]

Last night:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Congrats to @LucasKunceMO – now let’s debate. Next week. MO State Fair, Sedalia. Thursday AM right after the Governor’s Ham Breakfast. No fancy studio or moderators. Just the two of us on a trailer. Lincoln-Douglas style. I’ll bring the trailer. I’ll even let Kunce go first
8:02 PM · Aug 6, 2024

Are ladders optional? Just asking.

And within twenty-four minutes:

Lucas Kunce @LucasKunceMO
Better idea — Fox News. First of five. Let every Missourian see it.
[….]
8:26 PM · Aug 6, 2024

Heh.

Previously:

Claire McCaskill (D) clubs a baby harp seal… (August 8, 2018)

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): opening day at the Missouri State Fair (August 9, 2018)

What passes for a flatbed truck at “…Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” (August 16, 2028)

Governor – Primary – August 6, 2024

07 Wednesday Aug 2024

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Crowded primaries. A lot of money expended.

Democrat Crystal Quade will face republican Mike Kehoe in the November General Election.

Via Missouri Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 06, 2024
Unofficial Results
as of 8/7/2024 5:12:25 AM

Governor 3566 of 3566 Precincts Reported

Darrell Leon McClanahan III Republican 5,637 0.808%
Jeremy Gundel Republican 2,946 0.422%
Bill Eigel Republican 227,012 32.554%
Robert James Olson Republican 2,975 0.427%
John R. (Jay) Ashcroft Republican 162,086 23.243%
Mike Kehoe Republican 274,840 39.412%
Chris Wright Republican 9,358 1.342%
Darren L Grant Republican 1,866 0.268%
Amber Thomsen Republican 10,627 1.524%
Party Total: 697,347

Eric Morrison Democratic 36,985 9.790%
Crystal Quade Democratic 189,822 50.248%
Sheryl Gladney Democratic 25,287 6.694%
Hollis L Laster Democratic 5,973 1.581%
Mike Hamra Democratic 119,702 31.687%
Party Total: 377,769

Bill Slantz Libertarian 2,414 100.000%
Party Total: 2,414

Total Votes: 1,077,530

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Crystal Quade (D) [2023 file photo].

Mike Kehoe (r) [August 2022 file photo].

Buckle your seatbelts.

31st Senate District – Primary Election – August 6, 2024

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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All that money in the republican primary. And our friends in organized labor could have spent their energy on the real pro-union Democrat instead.

Democrat Ray James will face republican Rick Brattin in the November General Election for the 31st Senate District seat.

Via Missouri Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 06, 2024
Unofficial Results
as of 8/6/2024 9:38:46 PM

State Senator – District 31 61 of 61 Precincts Reported

Rick Brattin Republican 11,028 46.966%
Michael Haffner Republican 6,440 27.426%
Dan Houx Republican 6,013 25.608%
Party Total: 23,481

Raymond L. James Democratic 6,040 100.000%
Party Total: 6,040

Total Votes: 29,521

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Ray James, the Democratic Party candidate in the 31st Senate District.

Rick Brattin [2016 file photo].

Our favorite Rick Brattin (r) image, courtesy of a right wingnut PAC:

Previously:

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r) (July 25, 2022)

Are you certain it wasn’t Rick Brattin (r)? (February 3, 2023)

Rick Brattin (r) and his franked list of personal phobias (July 3, 2024)

Campaign Finance: You get what they pay for (July 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the money behind the “school choice” voucher scam designed to defund public education (July 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: You get what they pay for (July 25, 2024)

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican (July 26, 2024)

Lazy and incurious (July 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Solidarity ain’t what it used to be (August 2, 2024)

Do tell us about China (August 2, 2024)

The last piece – with a twist (August 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC which gathered signatures for an initiative to place women’s reproductive rights, women’s health care, and access to abortion on the November ballot:

C232407 08/06/2024 Missourians for Constitutional Freedom Health Forward Foundation 2300 Main Street, Suite 304 Kansas City MO 64108 8/5/2024 $250,000.00

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There’s a lot of work to be done before now and November.

“We need to talk about the elephant in the womb”

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2023)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: For what?

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC PAC propping up Will Scharf (r) in today’s republican Attorney General primary:

C232374 08/06/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 Dogwood Farm Lane New Bloomfield MO 65063 8/6/2024 $15,000.00

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As if there’s anything left to spend money on?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce higher (July 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more bounce for the buck (July 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: salting the Earth (July 31, 2024)

Campaign Finance: yet another right wingnut high dollar shell game (August 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the high dollar shell game continues (August 2, 2024)

Kamala Harris/Tim Walz (D) – “When we fight, we win.”

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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From the Harris/Walz campaign:

Sometimes life is as much about the lessons you learn as the lessons you teach. When I grew up Community was a way of life. My high school class was twenty-four people. I was related to half of them. I learned to be generous towards my neighbors, compromised without compromising my values, and work for the common good.

My dad was in the Army and with his encouragement I joined the Army National Guard when I was seventeen. I served for twenty-four years. I used my GI benefits to go to college and become a public school teacher. I coached football and taught social studies for twenty years and I tried to teach my students what smalltown Nebraska taught me, respect, compromise, service to country.

And so, when I went into government that’s what I carried with me. I worked with Republicans to pass an infrastructure Bill, cut taxes for working families, signed paid leave into law. I codified abortion rights after Roe got overturned because I go to work for the common good.

But enough about me, let’s talk about you because that’s what the election is about. It’s about your future, it’s about your family. And vice president Harris knows that. She, too, grew up in a middle class family. She, too, goes to work every day making sure families cannot just get by, but get ahead. We believe in the promise of America, in those values I learned in Nebraska, and we’re ready to fight for them. Because as Kamala Harris says, when we fight, we win.

This is going to be fun.

Campaign Finance: when in doubt, throw more money at it

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC propping up right wingnut Andrew Bailey (r) in the republican Attorney General primary:

C222296 08/06/2024 Liberty and Justice PAC Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Ln Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 8/5/2024 $100,000.00

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At this point is there anything to spend the money on?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: the smell of fear and popcorn (July 30, 2024)

Kamala Harris/Tim Walz (D)

06 Tuesday Aug 2024

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This going to be fun.

Kamala Harris (D) [2019 file photo].

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) has been selected by Vice-President Kamala Harris to be her nominee for Vice President.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Attorney General Ellison statement on the Harris-Walz ticket

August 6, 2024 (SAINT PAUL) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison released the following statement in response to Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her nominee for Vice President of the United States:

“Tim Walz and I were elected to Congress together in 2006 and statewide office together in 2018. We have worked alongside one another for almost 20 years, so I can say with confidence that there is no better choice for Vice President of the United States of America. Tim has the courage of a veteran, the compassion of a school teacher, the grit of a football coach, and the experience of both a congressman and governor.

“If you want to understand who Tim Walz is, look no further than what he has done for Minnesota. Under Tim’s leadership, Minnesota is banishing hunger from our classrooms by providing free school meals to every student. Under Tim’s leadership, our state passed paid leave to ensure no worker has to choose between earning a living and caring for an ill family member. And under Tim’s leadership, Minnesota enacted universal background checks and a red flag law to protect people from gun violence. Tim Walz built a record of putting people first because that’s just the kind of person he is.

“Tim Walz .nd Kamala Harris are true public servants who have spent their lives working tirelessly on behalf of the American people. Plus, they are both big-hearted, jovial people with great senses of humor and boundless optimism. I look forward to campaigning vigorously for the Harris-Walz ticket, and I cannot wait to see what Kamala and Tim accomplish on behalf of America.”

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There is a difference:

Rob Israel @robisraelart
Democratic Governor Tim Walz signing a bill guaranteeing all children get to eat. Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders signing a bill forcing children to work at the Hog De-Knuckler factory. Both parties are not the same.
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10:05 PM · Aug 5, 2024

Yep.

You all know what to do:

Make it so.