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Economic Anxiety

26 Saturday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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campaign swag, MAGA, missouri

Today, in the crowd at a parade in west central Missouri:

That campaign swag doesn’t pay for itself.

One question.

Whatever happened to Mike Pence (r)? Just asking.

Campaign Finance: after that forced birth, you’re on your own

25 Friday Oct 2024

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abortion, Amendemt 3, anti-choice, forced birthers, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, right wingnuts, women's health care, women's reproductive health

“Don’t like Abortions? Ignore them. Like you ignore school shootings!”

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for various groups opposed to Amendment 3, the initiative on women’s reproductive rights, women’s health care, and access to abortion now on the November ballot:

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 Eckelkamp Management Group, Inc. 200 W Main St Washington MO 63090 10/23/2024 $250,000.00

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 Craig Schlapprizzi 470 Killearn Ln. St Louis MO 63141 Donald L. Schlapprizzi, P.C. Attorney 10/23/2024 $15,000.00

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 David Snively 1254 Devonworth Dr Town And Country MO 63017 Requested Requested 10/23/2024 $20,000.00

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 Cornerstone 1791 1100 Main St. Ste. 2700 Kansas City MO 64105 10/24/2024 $250,000.00

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 America Next, Inc. 5800 One Perkins Place Suite 8B Baton Rouge LA 70808 10/24/2024 $60,000.00

243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 Stan Crader 175 Lakeview Ln. Jackson MO 63755 Crader Distributing Owner 10/25/2024 $10,000.00

C243093 10/25/2024 Vote No on 3 Theresa Archer 4724 Oakridge Park Dr. St Louis MO 63129 Requested Requested 10/25/2024 $25,000.00

C242689 10/25/2024 Missouri Stands With Women, Inc. Rich Peters 20 Edwin Ave Glendale MO 63122 Retired Retired 10/24/2024 $25,000.00

C242689 10/25/2024 Missouri Stands With Women, Inc. Lisa Peters 20 Edwin Ave Glendale MO 63122 Retired Retired 10/24/2024 $25,000.00

C000628 10/25/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Michael Ross 12826 Dubon Lane St Louis MO 63131 Retired 10/15/2024 $10,000.00

C000628 10/25/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Deanie Reis 14 Woodbridge Manor Road St Louis MO 63141 Not Working 10/15/2024 $10,000.00

000628 10/25/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Timothy Sullivan 564 Oak Valley Dr St Louis MO 63131 Retired 10/15/2024 $25,000.00

Busybodies wanting to impose their personal ideologies on everyone else in the state.

“Reasons women get abortions…”

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, 2024)

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: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said (October 25, 2024)

“We will not go back”

Campaign Finance: Not really

25 Friday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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amendment 2, campaign finance, initiative, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, sports betting

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the committee promoting Amendment 2 (sports betting) on the November ballot:

C242679 10/25/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US LLC 101 Hudson St Ste 2170 Jersey City NJ 07302 10/24/2024 $4,600,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s about a dollar for every registered voter in Missouri.

Must be nice.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: on advertising “good bottomland” located on top of a rocky hill (October 20, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said

25 Friday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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abortion, Amendment 3, initiative, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, women's health care, women's reproductive health

“Mind your own uterus”

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC which gathered signatures for the initiative on women’s reproductive rights, women’s health care, and access to abortion now on the November ballot as Amendment 3:

C232407 10/24/2024 Missourians for Constitutional Freedom Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri 4251 Forest Park Ave St Louis MO 63108 10/23/2024 $795,000.00

C232407 10/24/2024 Missourians for Constitutional Freedom Think Big America 70 W Madison Street, Suite 1790 Chicago IL 60602 10/23/2024 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’re not letting up.

“Woman Rights” – July 9, 2022

Exactly.

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, 2024)

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: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

“My body, my choice”

An oxymoron by a maroon

23 Wednesday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, abortion, Amendment 3, former newsreader, intitaive, Mark Alford, maroon, missouri, right wingnut, social media, that ridiculous hat, women's health care, women's reproductive health

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

What a maroon.

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 23, 2024]
Missouri is a pro-life state.
Amendment 3 would undo current protections for life by allowing abortions without any limits.
We must stay firm in our defense of the unborn.

There is much hilarity in the responses:

The one line I draw as a generally moderate conservative. Definitely stand pro-choice as a woman.

No it does not. This bill specifically says up to fetal viability.
STOP LYING

There is absolutely NOTHING about gender reassignment!
STOP LYING

ANDREW BAILEY IS PROMOTING TEEN PREGNANCY
[….]

There is nothing in this amendment about altering gender. Obviously been listening to some kind of crazy c*** designed to influence the vote. Like the other nonsense I’ve heard about pharmacists or nurses or dental hygenics performing abortion. You’re dumb enough to believe that nonsense then maybe you should just stay in your house and not interact with people.

No. “May” is absolute bullshit. gender reassignment has NOTHING to do with reproductive rights.
And ya’all better start thinking about the massive exodus of OBGYNs from red states because of these scorched earth laws.
YOU and YOURS will the ones that can’t get pabst smears, prenatal care, reproductive disease care like cervical or ovarian cancer, endometriosis, post menopausal care, emergency c-sections, and much more.

Prosecuting has to do with criminal charges.
There is NOTHING in the bill that prevents malpractice.

You’re lying again

I think health care providers are the best to determine that not you or the government.

clearly anyone that supports Trump is okay with lies

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

If Missouri is such a pro-life state, why isn’t there free healthcare for all, free school lunches, and free prenatal care for all pregnant mothers?

Well?

Don’t forget the lawsuit to INCREASE Teen Pregnancy. It’s not about the fetus, it’s about keeping women in chains.

Andrew Bailey (r).

gaslighting is dangerous. Supporting religious violence is dangerous. Withholding healthcare is a human rights violation. Imposing deleterious healthcare forcibly on individuals without their consent is a human rights violation.
Destroying colleges and hospitals, and supporting such destruction is questionably suspect.

Another Magat Lie,Marky Mark!!!

Congressman Mark Alford the people of Missouri are the face of Missouri. You are not Missouri, and we do not support or tolerate your support of religious violence in the gaslighting of the people of Missouri.
Your support of #fraud and your support of religious violence makes you #notfitforoffice

Mark Alford, your statement is factually incorrect, and I strongly suspect you have knowingly lied. The amendment would prohibit the Missouri Legislature from limiting abortion until fetal viability. There are express limits in amendment 3. I don’t care if you are pro-life or pro-choice, but as an elected official, you should have a moral and ethical responsibility to communicate with your constituents in an honest manner.

You misspelled Pro Forced Birth.

Congressman Mark Alford any state that inflicts the death penalty is not a pro-life state.
Gaslighting is dangerous.

radical is a woman bleeding out at home from a non viable pregnancy and feeling forced to flee to another state due to fear that doctors in Missouri will delay service due to her, not being sick enough.
Radical is forcing CHILDREN to give birth to their rape victims baby. Will the rapist get visitation rights when he gets out of jail?
Radical is religious extremists forcing their life at conception views on everyone else when within the Jewish religion believe in life at first breath and many, with a more scientific mind, land more in the middle around fetal viability. 
It doesn’t look like you will be pregnant anytime soon, so who cares right?

Pro life would mean protecting women to make medical choices with health care professionals not congress people. It would mean not executing a man who had evidence he was innocent. These folks are not pro life. They are pro forcing others to follow their will. That is not freedom. That is not common sense. What to be home of freedom?
[….]

We wouldn’t be to this point had politicians crafted an abortion law utilizing facts, reason, and empathy but instead caved to religious extremists which didn’t even allow exemptions for rape and incest, which is estimated to have affected well over 5800 ++++ women with rape related pregnancies, in just Missouri, since the fall of Roe.
[….]

I respect your Christian values but they should not be used to craft legislation. Let women make their own decisions. Abortion for as an action pains me but I do not know the pain, mentally & physically, of what they are going through.

Any state that has the death penalty aren’t pro life states. What Missouri is under Republican control is a pro birth state that could care less about the child after it’s out of the womb.

The moral majority are neither! Missouri is not pro life. The majority of Americans are pro-choice and believe politicians should stay out of our bedrooms and doctor’s offices. Quit lying to your constituents Mark!

When will you be introducing a bill that requires everyone to be an organ donor, after death?
What about forcing everyone to be tested to see if they are a match, so they can be forced to donate a kidney, to save the life of someone who’s already alive and paying taxes?

Really? Then how did it get enough signatures to get on the ballot? When it is a state constitutional right after November 4th, will you tell the same story?

What does the bible say about liars…

“Mind your own damn business” T. Walz

All the men in these comments that don’t know what a speculum is. Don’t know the anatomy of a vagina. Are likely to be a dead beat parent after saying she shouldn’t have a choice…. Is astonishing. Go jerk your tiny appendage around a little bit and worry about yourself.

Your October Moment of Zen

23 Wednesday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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color, Fall, leaves, missouri

This afternoon, in west central Missouri:

If you vote for Donald Trump (r) you deserve him

22 Tuesday Oct 2024

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bigot, Donald Trump, Vanessa Guillén

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

Today:

Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum
Trump volunteered to pay for the funeral of a murdered U.S. soldier. When the bill came, Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!”
[….]
2:49 PM · Oct 22, 2024

And:

Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17
In another universe, this would be roundly condemned by politicians on all sides, while the media would give it nonstop press as an example of someone’s manifest unfitness for office. It would be a career-ending scandal.

Not this one, though.
[….]
3:18 PM · Oct 22, 2024

She was from Houston, Texas.

Campaign Finance: even more for choice

21 Monday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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abortion, Amendment 3, campaign finance, initiative, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, pro-choice, women's health care, women's reproductive health

“…Not your incubator”

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC which gathered signatures for the initiative on women’s reproductive rights, women’s health care, and access to abortion now on the November ballot as Amendment 3:

C232407 10/20/2024 Missourians for Constitutional Freedom Our American Future Action 1032 15th Street NW Washington DC 20005 10/18/2024 $1,400,000.00

C232407 10/20/2024 Missourians for Constitutional Freedom Michael R Bloomberg P.O. Box 1060 New York NY 10150 Bloomberg Inc Founder 10/18/2024 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Saturday, in Columbia, Missouri.

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, 2024)

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: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on advertising “good bottomland” located on top of a rocky hill

20 Sunday Oct 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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amendment 2, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Winning for Missouri Education

Somebody will buy it.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the committee promoting Amendment 2 (sports betting) on the November ballot:

C242679 10/19/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley St Boston MA 02116 10/17/2024 $4,600,000.00

[emphasis added]

Before that:

C242679 01/11/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DraftKings, Inc 222 Berkeley Street 5th Floor Boston MA 02116 1/9/2024 $250,000.00

C242679 01/11/2024 Winning for Missouri Education FanDuel, Inc 300 Park Avenue South 14th Floor New York NY 10010 1/10/2024 $250,000.00

C242679 01/23/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DraftKings, Inc 222 Berkeley Street 5th Floor Boston MA 02116 1/22/2024 $500,000.00

C242679 01/23/2024 Winning for Missouri Education FanDuel, Inc 300 Park Avenue South 14th Floor New York NY 10010 1/22/2024 $1,500,000.00

C242679 03/04/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley St Fl 5 Boston MA 02116 3/4/2024 $500,000.00

C242679 03/15/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US, LLC 101 Hudson St Ste 2170 Jersey City NJ 07302 3/14/2024 $500,000.00

C242679 03/19/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley Street Boston MA 02116 3/19/2024 $500,000.00

C242679 04/04/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley Street 5th Floor Boston MA 02116 4/3/2024 $500,000.00

C242679 04/06/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US, LLC 101 Hudson St Jersey City NJ 07302 4/5/2024 $1,625,000.00

C242679 04/29/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US, LLC 101 Hudson St Jersey City NJ 07302 4/29/2024 $400,000.00

C242679 08/16/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings Inc 222 Berkeley Street 5th Floor Boston MA 02116 8/15/2024 $3,525,000.00

C242679 09/13/2024 Winning for Missouri Education BETFAIR INTERACTIVE US, LLC 101 Hudson St Jersey City NJ 07302 9/12/2024 $1,500,000.00

C242679 09/18/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley St FL 5 Boston MA 02116 9/17/2024 $5,000,000.00

C242679 09/20/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US LLC 101 Hudson Street Jersey City NJ 07302 9/19/2024 $5,000,000.00

C242679 10/02/2024 Winning for Missouri Education DK Crown Holdings, Inc 222 Berkeley St FL 5 Boston MA 02116 10/1/2024 $5,000,000.00

C242679 10/07/2024 Winning for Missouri Education Betfair Interactive US LLC 101 Hudson St Ste 2170 Jersey City NJ 07302 10/7/2024 $5,000,000.00

[emphasis added]

Some of which paid for this:

Sad teacher there, apparently.

Wait, spending millions of dollars to get Missouri voters to allow them to give their money to gambling corporations which may result in an amount of revenue directed to public education which won’t significantly address current and historical funding issues somehow adds up?

And who is responsible for the current state of education funding in Missouri which places the state at or near the bottom of the rankings? Hint: maybe the right wingnut republicans who have controlled state government for two decades? You think?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: What are the odds? (January 11, 2024)

Campaign Finance: it’s gambling (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: bet on it (March 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: just another large bet (March 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: altruism (April 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: zero sum gaming (September 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: profit motive (September 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: How much per vote? (September 20, 2024)

Campaign Finance: it’s not about education (October 2, 2024)

Campaign Finance: because there are only so many marks in Missouri (October 2, 2024)

Campaign Finance: competing interests, competing millions (October 7, 2024)

Elad Gross (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024

20 Sunday Oct 2024

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The University of Missouri held its annual homecoming parade in Columbia yesterday morning.

Elad Gross (D), the Democratic Party candidate for Attorney General:

Meta. There are logistics (also scheduling) involved at this point in the campaign in getting a candidate from one side of the state and a trailer and volunteers from the other side of the state for an early morning line-up and 8:00 a.m. start for a homecoming parade in the center of the state.

It involves leaving at 2:30 a.m.

4:30 a.m., first staging area, in Columbia.

5:30 a.m., second staging area, in Columbia.

Setting the hitch on the Eladmobile.

At the assigned parade line-up position.

Progress in setting up the trailer:

Ready to roll out:

During the lengthy period from line-up, final float construction and set-up, and the start of the parade, candidates and parade volunteers can and do utilize the time to visit and stand for group photos:

At the start of the parade:

Elad Gross (D) and Liberty Belle (D).

Previously:

Crystal Quade (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024 (October 19, 2024)

Mark Osmack (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024 (October 20, 2024)

Jeanette Cass (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024 (October 20, 2024)

Lucas Kunce (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024 (October 20, 2024)

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