This month, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091145 09/12/2012 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER JAMES HEBENSTREIT 5828 PEMBROKE COURT MISSION HILLS KS 66208 SELF 9/11/2012 $10,000.00

C091145 09/23/2012 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER August Busch III 1 Mid Rivers Mall Drive Ste 210 St Peters MO 63376 Self 9/21/2012 $7,500.00

C091145 09/23/2012 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Drury Southwest Corporation PO Box 1214 Cape Giradeau MO 63702 9/21/2012 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

$17,500.00 this week. He’s gonna need it:

C091145: Friends Of Peter Kinder

Information Reported On: 2012 – 30 Day After Primary Election-8/7/2012

Beginning Money on Hand $35,159.84

Ending Money On Hand $18,260.36

[emphasis added]

Ouch. That was an expensive primary.

Meanwhile:

C111177 09/11/2012 MONTEE FOR MISSOURI I.B.E.W. Educational Committee 900 Seventh Street, N.W. Washington DC 20001 9/11/2012 $10,000.00

C111177 09/21/2012 MONTEE FOR MISSOURI Hoisting Engineers Local 513 Political & Educational Fund 3449 Hollenberg Dr. Bridgeton MO 63044 9/21/2012 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

C111177: Montee For Missouri

Information Reported On: 2012 – 30 Day After Primary Election-8/7/2012

Beginning Money on Hand $140,121.24

Ending Money On Hand $185,200.46

[emphasis added]

Does anyone think that Peter Kinder (r) won’t have all the money he needs eventually?

Susan Montee (D), the Democratic Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor, released a campaign video today of her campaign swing through Northeast Missouri last Saturday:

To be exact, $1,272,420.50 in media buys.

Via the Missouri Secretary of State:

Office / Candidate Name Votes

Lt. Governor (3,418 of 3,420 Precincts Reported)

Susan Montee DEM 131,115

Dennis Weisenburger DEM 16,134

Fred Kratky DEM 10,972

Becky Lee Plattner DEM 11,072

Judy Baker DEM 46,168

Sara Lampe DEM 25,887

Jackie Townes McGee DEM 15,462

Bill (William) Haas DEM 35,005

Charles W. Kullmann REP 34,908

Brad Lager REP 239,578

Peter Kinder REP 254,838

Mike Carter REP 47,208

Matthew Copple LIB 2,429

Cynthia L. Davis CST 761

Total Votes 871,537

Think of the primary as Brad Lager (r) softening up the opposition for Susan Montee (D).

And to think, Cynthia Davis (let them eat McDonald’s) advances to the general election.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091011 08/06/2012 CITIZENS FOR BRAD LAGER David Humphreys P O Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Owner 8/6/2012 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Somebody noticed:

Tony Messenger ‏@tonymess

Question for politicos: Who is more likely to quickly kiss and make up this week after painful primary loss: Clay/Carnahan or Kinder/Lager? 10:26 AM – 6 Aug 12

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Lt. Gov. – republican primary – 24 hour notice of late contributions (August 3, 2012)

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): spending $300,000.00 could have made him look like a victim (August 2, 2012)

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): standing on the corner, watching all the mail go by… (August 1, 2012)

At the Missouri Ethics Commission, from Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s (r) challenger in the primary:

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091011 CITIZENS FOR BRAD LAGER [pdf]

Missouri American Water Employees PAC 727 Craig Rd St Louis, MO 63141 7/30/2012 [$]750.00

Friends for Munzlinger P O Box 65 Monticello, MO 63457 7/30/2012 [$]5,005.00

Sprint Nextel P O Box 63670 Phoenix, AZ 85082 7/30/2012 [$]2,500.00

James Ferrell 10601 Mission Rd Leawood, KS 66206 7/30/2012 [$]1,000.00

Lee Harris 3815 W 84th Terr Leawood, KS 66206 7/30/2012 [$]2,500.00

Nicholas Powell 6549 Wenonga Rd Mission Hills, KS 66208 7/30/2012 [$]2,500.00

[emphasis added]

And today:

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091011 CITIZENS FOR BRAD LAGER [pdf]

Herzog Contracting Corp P O Box 1089 St Joseph, MO 64502 8/2/2012 [$]25,000.00

Jack Talley 14812 Dalea Dr Oklahoma City, OK 73142 8/2/2012 [$]750.00

James Moise 25 Twin Springs Lane St Louis, MO 63124 8/2/2012 [$]750.00

Hugh McKinnis 5359 Merriam Dr Merriam, KS 66208 8/2/2012 [$]750.00

Anheuser Busch One Busch Place St Louis, MO 63118 8/2/2012 [$]2,500.00

Enterprise Holdings Inc PAC 600 Corporate Park Drive St Louis, MO 63105 8/2/2012 [$]750.00

Lathrop & Gage LLP 2345 Grand Blvd Kansas City, MO 64108 8/2/2012 [$]2,500.00

Major Brands Inc PAC 6701 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City PC 8717 W 110th St Suite 600 Overland Park, KS 66210 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

Phillip Scaglia 2903 SW 13th Terr Lees Summit, MO 64081 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

Steve Hood 4805 E FR 144 Springfield, MO 65809 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

Don’t they have republican candidates in Kansas and Oklahoma? Just asking.

From the 8 Day Before Primary Election report filed on July 30th:

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

CITIZENS FOR BRAD LAGER [pdf] 7/30/2012

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES ALL OVER $100

Media Placement Technologies

336 Commerce St

Alexandria VA 22314

7/5/2012

TV Cable and Radio

advertising $268,471.25

Media Placement Technologies

336 Commerce Street

Alexandria VA 22314

7/11/2012

Media Buy $300,391.25

Media Placement Technologies

336 Commerce St

Alexandra VA 22314

7/18/2012

Media buy $318,521.25

Chatham Light Media

P O Box 1330

Stowe VT 05672

7/20/2012

Media buy $37,840.50

Media Placement Technologies

336 Commerce St

Alexandria VA 22314

7/26/2012

Media buy $347,196.25

[emphasis added]

My God, that’s $1,272,420.50 in media buys from one candidate for the republican lieutenant governor primary. Yep, that’ll do it.

Then again, Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) is no slouch in the twenty-four hour report category:

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Citizens for Diehl 2404 White Stable Rd Town and Country, MO 63131 8/2/2012 [$]5,000.00

John Connell 524 Fox Ridge St Louis, MO 63131 8/2/2012 [$]5,000.00

Arthur Muskin 633 Etzel St Louis, MO 63133 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Missouri Insurance Coalition 220 Madison St Jefferson City, MO 65101 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Jared Novelly 5 Brighton Way Louis, MO 63105 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

UP Railroad Company 511 West Congress Pacific, MO 63069 8/2/2012 [$]1,500.00

Ryan Erlbacher 182 Red Fox Ln Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

Jack Pohrer 15 Overbrook Dr St Louis, MO 63124 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

Thomas Sutherland 302 E. South St Ozark, MO 65721 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Laclede Political Action Committee 720 Olive St Suite 1516 St Louis, MO 63101 8/2/2012 [$]2,500.00

Jerry Hunter 245 Union Blvd Apt 902 St Louis, MO 63108 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

CLR Consultants, INC 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1210 St Louis, MO 63105 8/2/2012 [$]4,500.00

Charles Eveker 6626 Oleatha Ave St Louis , MO 63139 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

Steven Stogel 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1210 St Louis, MO 63105 8/2/2012 [$]2,000.00

Heal PAC PO BOX 411241 Creve Coeur, MO 63141 8/2/2012 [$]1,000.00

Douglas Woodruff 11 Claychester Dr St Louis, MO 63131 8/2/2012 [$]500.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Bernie Gossland 3434 Arbor Rd Joplin, MO 64804 8/1/2012 [$]1,500.00

Roper Buick GMC INC 808 Illinois Ave Joplin, MO 64801 8/1/2012 [$]1,000.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Mark Vogt 139 NE 100 Rd Clinton, MO 64735 8/1/2012 [$]500.00

Effertz Farms 16401 Holmes Rd Belton, MO 64012 8/1/2012 [$]500.00

Anne Albrecht 16 Upper Dadue St Louis, MO 63124 8/1/2012 [$]10,000.00

Don Bedell PO Box 1210 Sikeston , MO 63801 8/1/2012 [$]2,500.00

Dewey King 613 Stokelan Dr Malden, MO 63863 8/1/2012 [$]2,500.00

Terrence Dunn 12008 Ensley Ln Leawood, KS 66209 8/1/2012 [$]2,500.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

William Mcginnis Checkerboard Square St Louis, MO 63164 7/31/2012 [$]10,000.00

Missouri Leadership Committee 222 W Columbia St Farmington, MO 63640 7/31/2012 [$]40,000.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Citizens for Chuck Gross 3019 Westborough Ct St Charles, MO 63301 7/30/2012 [$]1,000.00

David Law 306 Dux Landing Cape Giradeau, MO 63701 7/30/2012 [$]500.00

Cornerstone Commercial Development LLC 608 SW 3rd St Lees Summit, MO 64063 7/30/2012 [$]2,500.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Cole & Associates, Inc 10404 Sunset Office Dr ste 10 St Louis, MO 63127 7/30/2012 [$]1,000.00

[emphasis added]

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

Alliance for Elderly Health Care 101 E High St Jefferson City, MO 65101 7/26/2012 [$]2,500.00

Coalition for Advanced Learning 101 E High St Jefferson City, MO 65101 7/26/2012 [$]2,500.00

[emphasis added]

Seriously? Do they just use a random generator when they come up with these organization names at the same address?

24 HOUR NOTICE OF LATE CONTRIBUTIONS / LOANS RECEIVED

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf]

John Tracy 12326 Wedgetown Ln Des Peres, MO 63131 7/26/2012 [$]500.00

SLBS Limited Partnership 3201 Rider Trl South Earth City, MO 63045 7/26/2012 [$]5,000.00

Gary Rust 250 Birdsong Ln Cape Giradeau, MO 63701 7/26/2012 [$]10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Expenditures from the 8 Day Before Primary Election report filed on July 30th:

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM

FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf] 7/30/2012

ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES ALL OVER $100

American Viewpoint

300 N. Lee Street

Suite 400

Alexandria VA 22314

7/23/2012

Add-On Questions to Survey $2,700.00

Patrick Media

PO BOX 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/17/2012

TV and Radio $400,000.00

Patrick Media

PO BOX 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/24/2012

Advertising $35,000.00

Patrick Media

PO BOX 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/10/2012

Advertising $168,375.48

Patrick Media

PO BOX 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/9/2012

Advertising $143,395.48

American View Point

300 N Lee St

Suite 400

Alexandria VA 22314

7/19/2012

Survey Questions $2,700.00

Patrick Media

PO Box 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/25/2012

media $80,000.00

Patrick Media

PO Box 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/25/2012

Media $190,000.00

Amrican Viewpoint

300 North Lee St

Ste 400

Alexandria VA 22314

7/16/2012

Poll $2,700.00

Patrick Media

PO Box 5

200 W Jefferson

Marshfield MO 65706

7/26/2012

Media $70,000.00

[emphasis added]

Just think about the television ads in this race for the November general election, no matter who the republican nominee is.

Previously: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (r): standing on the corner, watching all the mail go by… (August 1, 2012)

Given the circumstances that’s not gonna happen. The republican on republican primary pummeling continues. The latest mailing for the republican primary attacking Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) –  from Missourians for Conservative Values PAC:

Uh, actually, it’s the image on the bottom of the left page that really tells you what’s important in Missouri politics.

“So why is Lt. Governor Peter Kinder hanging out in a bar know for it’s ‘Pantless Parties'[?]” Uh, because he can?

Hotel bills, check. Penthouse Pet, check. Still no burning car?

The folks who are paying for this filed an AMENDED 8 Day Before Primary Election report on July 30th with the Missouri Ethics Commission:

REPORT SUMMARY

MISSOURIANS FOR CONSERVATIVE VALUES PAC [pdf] 7/30/2012

1. Total Receipts For This Election Previously Reported $7,879.00

2. All Monetary Contributions Received This Period $300,000.00

10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $300,115.00

27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $5,025.01

[emphasis added]

Maybe they’ll use the remainder of their cash to hand out wrapped hotel chocolates with Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder’s (r) name on them outside the polls on Tuesday.

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

MISSOURIANS FOR CONSERVATIVE VALUES PAC 7/30/2012

Better Government for Missouri PO Box 521 Jefferson City MO 65102 7/13/2012 $100,000.00

Better Government for Missouri PO Box 521 Jefferson City MO 65102 7/18/2012 $200,000.00

[emphasis added]

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

MISSOURIANS FOR CONSERVATIVE VALUES PAC 7/30/2012

B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100

Nebo Media

PO Box 3775

Washington DC 20007 7/16/2012

Media buy

$100,000.00

Amplified Strategies

1803 42nd Ave. E

Seattle WA 98112

7/20/2012

Direct mail pieces

$200,000.00

The good news for Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) is that they’re only spending $300,000.00. The bad news is, the mail is still landing.

Pass the popcorn.

It is an awesome thing to behold, attack mail directed by republicans at republicans. This, paid for by Missourians for Conservative Values PAC:

The chocolates are a thoughtful touch.

Hotel bills, check. Penthouse Pet, check. What, no burning car? Yeah, like that would have been too much of a cheap shot.

Slick and big. Pass the popcorn.

It’s always fun to take a look at particularly amusing past mistakes. In that spirit I offer this video of former State Rep. Cynthia Davis regaling a gathering with the reasons they should vote for her, the Constitution Party Candidate, for Lieutenant Governor this fall (h/t The Turner Report):

It’s the standard, sweetly oblivious Tea Party Cynthia we all remember so fondly, patting herself on the back for being the “most constitutional” legislator in Missouri, issuing the routine condemnations of government as incompetent and out to “ruin our lives.”

Oddly, though, Davis doesn’t seem to realize what it means that that she got a chance to fix what she perceived as wrong by serving in government. That fact might suggest to some that government actually serves a legitimate purpose and that we need it. Additionally, if, in democracies at least, individuals can enter government to correct perceived problems – and here I’m not making any judgments about the corrections a Cynthia Davis would pursue – it means that in general government has the power to self-correct through the agency of engaged citizenry, something that is not always true of other social institutions – particularly when it comes to private enterprise of which folks like Davis seem to be so enamoured.

Davis does, though, to give her credit, put her finger on a big problem facing our democracy right now. Seems that Cynthia has learned the hard way that politics involves money – and was shocked to learn that her fellow GOPers did favors in return for hefty campaign dollars. Pervasive corruption she implies, is why she, a seeming bastion of “constitutional” purity, decamped from the GOP.

Of course, a meaner-minded person than I might ask if Davis hadn’t actually been rejected by the party first – and perhaps might still be going great GOP guns if she had prevailed against Scott Rupp in the 2010 state Senatorial primary, or if her short tenure as Chair of the St. Charles Republican Party had been happier. Nevertheless, she deserves credit for speaking up now about a real and very obvious problem in Missouri (and in the wake of Citizens United, elsewhere) where untrammeled campaign donations flow far too freely with no accountability.  Ask yourself, though, if someone as lame as Davis can, in her halting way, identify the biggest problem facing our democracy today, the role of big money, hadn’t we  better get busy and do something about it before it’s too late?

Addendum:  More on money and political favors: Paul Blumenthal and Howard Fineman write that what Super PAC donors really want is a return on their investment. Also, more on the “dark money” that, via, for example, Crossroads GPS, is influencing elections right here in Missouri – just ask Claire McCaskill who’s been blitzed with Crossroads ads and billboards – and who’s now, as a result, according to the most recent poll running behind every one of the sad doofuses vying for the GOP nomination.  

So much money, so little time. An attack ad, by a right wingnut PAC, directed at Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r):

Narrator: Where’s Peter Kinder been? As Lieutenant Governor, we pay Kinder to break tie votes in the state senate. But Peter Kinder’s never been present for a tie vote. The last time a vote was tied Kinder was spotted at a bar, the Horny Toad Bar at the lake. And Kinder’s aggressive behavior with a stripper forced her to end contact. Skipping work to hang out at the Horny Toad. Questionable behavior. It’s last call for Peter Kinder. Time to cut him off.

[Missourians for Conservative values PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising. paid for by Missourians for Conservative values PAC. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee….]

Pass the popcorn.

And we still don’t know exactly who’s paying for this. But it is a lot.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: It lives again! (July 14, 2012)

Campaign Finance: It lives again! – part 2 (July 19, 2012)

Okay, this is really funny in a schadenfreude kind of way (August 18, 2011)

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, the republican lieutenant governor really, really rich guy campaign finance primary pile on continues:

C091011 07/02/2012 CITIZENS FOR BRAD LAGER Herzog Contracting Corp P O Box 1089 St Joseph MO 64502 6/30/2012 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

Why do they do this? Because they can.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder (r) keeps pedaling his campaign finance tricycle:

C091145 07/02/2012 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER Drury Development Corporation 721 Emerson Road, Suite 200 Saint Louis MO 63141 7/1/2012 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

I was gonna write something about almost feeling sorry. Nah. Pass the popcorn.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: it’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it (June 25, 2012)

Campaign Finance: whip it out… (June 25, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Virginia weighs in with a paltry $10,000.00 (June 27, 2012)