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Campaign Finance: begging the question

23 Thursday Mar 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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It must depend on who you ask.

This month, so far, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180684 03/03/2023 American Dream PAC Site Improvement Association of MO-PAC 2071 Exchange Drive Saint Charles MO 63303 3/2/2023 $15,000.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/08/2023 American Dream PAC Tom Prater 11335 Weller Ave. Springfield MO 65804 MNP Eye Center Physician 3/7/2023 $5,650.00

C180684 03/08/2023 American Dream PAC Tom Prater 11335 Weller Ave. Springfield MO 65804 MNP Eye Center Physician 3/7/2023 $5,650.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/20/2023 American Dream PAC John Schicker 6490 Rhodes Ave. Saint Louis MO 63109 Schicker Ford Auto Sales 3/20/2023 $5,650.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/21/2023 American Dream PAC Beau Reinberg 3167 Fee Fee Road Bridgeton MO 63044 DSS-BCM Principal 3/21/2023 $5,650.00

C180684 03/21/2023 American Dream PAC BMJC Management LLC 759 Gravois Bluffs Rd. Fenton MO 63025 3/21/2023 $25,000.00

C180684 03/22/2023 American Dream PAC Matthew Gornet 9900 Litzsinger Rd. Ladue MO 63124 Medical Doctor 3/22/2023 $10,000.00

C180684 03/23/2023 American Dream PAC Scott Engelbrecht 701 Haverford Road 9900 Litzsinger Rd. Saint Louis MO 63124 Clifton Larson Allen LLP CGO 3/22/2023 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

What happens to a dream deferred? – Langston Hughes

Campaign Finance: Sisyphean toil

16 Thursday Mar 2023

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Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180610 03/15/2023 Missourians for Effective Leadership PAC Burns & McDonnell Corporate Services, Inc. 9400 Ward Parkway Kansas City MO 64114 3/13/2023 $17,000.00

[emphasis added]

In a more perfect world? Roll on Missouri.

Campaign Finance: From what?

13 Monday Mar 2023

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232374 03/13/2023 Defend Missouri Roger Hertog 399 Park Avenue RM 2502 New York NY 11225 HERTOG FOUNDATION PRESIDENT 3/13/2023 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

At first reading I thought it was Defund Missouri. Probably the same endgame, though.

It’s a brand new PAC:

Why would someone from New York drop $50,000.00 on a brand new PAC in Missouri? Because they can?

From 2015:

Walker Has Received $2.4 Million in Contributions, Help From School Voucher Supporters

February 5, 2015

Wealthy individuals throughout the country who support an expansion of school vouchers in Wisconsin have contributed nearly $1.3 million since 2009 to Republican Governor Scott Walker and dropped another $1.1 million to help him win his contentious 2012 recall election.

[….]

The largest contributions between 2009 and July 2014 to Walker from voucher supporters came from Robert and Patricia Kern of Waukesha, founders of Generac Corp., $220,000; investor Foster Friess and his wife, Lynnette, of Jackson, Wyo., $130,700; hedge fund founder Bruce Kovner and his wife, Suzie, of New York City, $120,000; and retired New York City financier Roger Hertog, $120,000.

[….]

Roger Hertog
National Humanities Medal
2007

[….]

….He is on the board of Commentary magazine, and is a current board member of the American Enterprise Institute…

[….]

You think he plays chess, too?

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 3

09 Thursday Mar 2023

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Do voting rights first. End voter suppression. Then maybe – and that’s a really big maybe – we’ll take a look.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222341 03/08/2023 Missouri Agrees The Center for Election Science 1267 Willis St Suite 200 Redding CA 96001 3/8/2023 $11,960.50

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? (February 21, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 2 (February 23, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 2

23 Thursday Feb 2023

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

222341 02/23/2023 Missouri Agrees Jack Danforth 911 Tirrill Farms Road St Louis MO 63124 Dowd Bennett Attorney 2/23/2022 $10,291.00

C222341 02/23/2023 Missouri Agrees Cathi Brain 815 West 51st St Kansas City MO 64112 Not employed 2/23/2022 $9,000.00

$10,291.00? What’s with that?

From a conversation on social media:

Well, yeah, but they [the PAC] ain’t exactly “grassroots” at this point. They filed a “limited activity” report in January and then a single $10,000 contribution shows up. They claim to have raised $200,000 so far.

So their web site still doesn’t tell us much that’s useful – and they appear to have communications staff.

RSMo § 115.199 requires that the local election authority remove deceased registered voters from their rolls. If they’re not doing it locally, get a writ of mandamus.

I’m not convinced by their stated “solutions”/ask list to their perceived problems.

Uh, voters decide if candidates are “similar” or not. This PAC appears to be constituted to oppose ranked choice voting. All the other stuff is chaff.

School board elections as a model? Heh. The voter turnout for school board elections is an exemplar for grassroots democracy, right?

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.” – Mark Twain (1897)

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? (February 21, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ?

21 Tuesday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222341 02/21/2023 Missouri Agrees Steve Fox 7701 Forsyth Blvd, Ste 600 St Louis MO 63105 SV Capital Management Chairman 2/21/2023 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Says who?

What on earth for?

Campaign Finance: The right wingnut friends and right wingnut family plan

17 Friday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Can you hear me now?

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091068 02/17/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc AT&T 1010 Pine Street Saint Louis MO 63101 2/16/2023 $30,000.00

[emphasis added]

Is there a data cap? Just asking.

Campaign Finance: What the H?

13 Monday Feb 2023

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190837 02/13/2023 H-PAC Ellen Houx 8276 N 62nd Place Paradise Valley AZ 85253 Retired 2/13/2023 $20,000.00

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Huh. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, you think?

Campaign Finance: apparently not

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission

180554 01/19/2023 It Starts Today Missouri IST-MO Nominee PAC Number Two PO Box 63403 St Louis MO 63163 12/13/2022 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

It looks like this one instance originated last month.

Campaign Finance: there’s work to be done

10 Tuesday Jan 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Claire McCaskill, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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They’re not wasting any time.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for the PAC supporting Stephen Webber (D) in the 2024 19th Senate District race:

C232347 01/10/2023 HOMEFRONT PAC UFCW Local 655 300 Weidman Rd Manchester MO 63011 1/9/2023 $10,000.00

C232347 01/10/2023 HOMEFRONT PAC Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area PAC 1401 Hampton Ave St Louis MO 63139 1/9/2022 $100,000.00

C232347 01/10/2023 HOMEFRONT PAC Joseph Shepard 17 W Lockwood St Louis MO 63119 Self Real Estate 1/9/2022 $10,000.00

C232347 01/10/2023 HOMEFRONT PAC Sheet Metal Workers International Association 2319 Chouteau Ave Suite 100 St Louis MO 63103 1/9/2022 $10,036.00

[emphasis added]

Friends in organized labor and in St. Louis.

Stephen Webber (D) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

A lifelong commitment to public service (January 10, 2023)

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