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Campaign Finance: What the H?

13 Monday Feb 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Arizona, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, right wingnuts

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

[emphasis added]

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

Slow and over the plate – Ciggsy

23 Friday Dec 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Andy Biggs, Arizona, right wingnut, seditionist, social media

This morning:

Rep Andy Biggs @RepAndyBiggsAZ
I’ll be voting against this $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill in-person today.

Many of my colleagues feel entitled to remain in the comfort of their homes.

That’s wrong.

As Members of Congress, we must uphold our constitutional obligation to work in the nation’s capital.
8:59 AM · Dec 23, 2022

A response, out of the park:

you wouldn’t know a constitutional obligation if it came up and asked you for a pardon

Previously:

Slow and over the plate (December 22, 2022)

Yes. Yes they do.

15 Tuesday Nov 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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Arizona, governor, Kari Lake, right wingnut, social media

Risky and Reckless.

Arizona.

Last night:

Kari Lake@KariLake
Governor candidate, AZ
Arizonans know BS when they see it.
9:25 PM · Nov 14, 2022

Heh.

Some of the responses:

You lost

And that’s why they voted against you

That’s exactly why you lost.

Exactly! Which is why we voted for Katie Hobbs

They sure do. That’s why you lost.

Self awareness is the first step. Now you can begin to address why you felt compelled to give the people of your state BS instead of truth.

Explains why you’re not the next Governor

Yeah we do. And we voted against it. Proud McCain Republican here. I took great pride voting for Hobbs after you told all of us to go to hell. How you possibly thought attacking Senator McCain in Arizona was a winning strategy will always be a mind blowing mystery.

Yep. Turns out telling a huge swath of your potential voters to fuck off is a bad strategy. Nice work.

Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s.

Heh.

who are you again?

That is indeed what the official results suggest

You’ve got a mirror, try it sometime.

This is so true! Very glad you’ve come to terms with your loss

Apparently.

Didn’t expect you to concede so early but good for you

Yes. Yes they do.

Synchronicity.

Biggest self own in political history.

You really didn’t think this one through, did you.

A rare moment of self-awareness here.

They do, that’s why they voted for the other person!

Have a nice day 🙂

Good summary of how your race ended up

Sorry, Kari who?

This has to be the most impressive self-own ever.

Wow. What an astoundingly honest moment of self reflection

Kind of telling on yourself with this one aren’t you?

I mean you really walked right into this one

Bless your heart. Who knew you were so introspective? You’re taking this so much better than we thought you would.

She perfectly summed up her own campaign; what a great way to concede.

And on and on.

Previously:

In the Arizona dust (November 14, 2022)

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

In the Arizona dust

15 Tuesday Nov 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, election, governor, Kari Lake, Katie Hobbs

In Arizona:

Governor
4 Year Term | Elect 1
Hobbs, Katie (DEM) 1,267,241 Votes (Leading by 19,382) 50.4%
Lake, Kari (REP) 1,247,859 Votes 49.6%

No friends of right wingnut trumper and former news reader Kari Lake (r):

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN
US House candidate, MN-05
Katie Hobbs wins Arizona governor’s race. Kari Lake can thank the voters she was rude to for her defeat. Classic f@&# around find out beat down.
8:24 PM · Nov 14, 2022

And:

Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney
You’re welcome, @KariLake.
[….]
8:17 PM · Nov 14, 2022

Receipts. Across the political spectrum.

Campaign Finance: one out of three isn’t as bad

05 Friday Aug 2022

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

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Arizona, campaign finance, House Republican Campaign Committee, HRCC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, North Carolina, right wingnuts

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091068 08/05/2022 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Cheyenne International LLC 701 S. Battleground Avenue Grover NC 28073 8/4/2022 $25,000.00

C091068 08/05/2022 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Lathrop Gage Consulting PAC 314 E. High Street Jefferson City MO 65101 8/4/2022 $15,000.00

C091068 08/05/2022 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc LE03-AWIN Management Inc. 18500 North Allied Way Phoenix AZ 85054 8/4/2022 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

They get what they pay for.

American history summed up in one image

15 Friday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, governor, Kari Lake, Karrin Taylor Robson, Primary, republicans, right wingnuts, signs

About that $15 minimum wage vote…

06 Monday Sep 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media, US Senate

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Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema, Labor Day, ratio, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate

Sabino Canyon, Coronado National Forest, Arizona.

We’re just here for the ratio.

Today, from Kysten Sinema:

Kyrsten Sinema @SenatorSinema
Happy Labor Day! We’re committed to ensuring every Arizona family has a fair shot at the American Dream.
11:15 AM · Sep 6, 2021

Ironic.

Some of the responses:

Serious question, are you trolling your constituents with this after you voted down $15 an hour minimum wage and that you are helping to hold up voting rights legislation?

lols, sure. that’s why you voted against the $15 minimum wage.
[….]

What have you done to support working Americans?
What have you done to protect American families?
What have you done to secure voting rights and protect democracy?
Exactly what have you done for Americans? & wealthy donors don’t count.
We’ll be right here waiting for your answer

That’s why you voted no on a $15 federal minimum wage amendment in dramatic fashion.

Ratio!!
[….]

…as long as it doesn’t involve a livable wage.

Or women’s reproductive rights

Or women’s reproductive rights

Watching you get ratioed is the best Labor Day ever.
OMG. lmao. [….]

You voted against a $15 minimum wage. So no. You’re not.

I’m sorry but no you’re not.

Really? Fact is you:
-Voted down $15/hour
-Reject investing in people
-Refuse to break the filibuster to support voting rights

You’ve done a lot of talking, ma’am. But rejected significant changes to support Arizona families and other Americans.

So the “American Dream” is to never make more than $7.25 an hour?

The American Dream would be easier to achieve with the fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage you so blithely voted against. You are a disgrace.

You cannot be “committed to ensuring every Arizona family has a fair shot at the American Dream” while allowing the filibuster to be used to obstruct a living wage. Show us some action.

You’re a horrible troll and it’s actively worse when you pay lip service to things that you deliberately stand in the way of improving despite being one of the 0.0002% of Americans who actually have the power to do something.

The filibuster is blocking access to the American Dream…unless your American Dream is a broken government that can’t even increase the minimum wage or protect the right to vote.

Really?

Because last I checked you helped block Congress from passing the first increase to the minimum wage since the George W Bush was president.

And on and on…

Right wingnuts throw shit against the wall to see if it sticks

10 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Arizona, Donald Trump, Eric Schmitt, Georgia, HR 2, jiggery-pokery, Joe Biden, Justin Hill, Michigan, missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, right wingnuts, Texas, toadies, U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin

In Jefferson City, of course. What else is new?

At the end of the special session, reportedly signed on to by sixty-six republicans:

HR 2
Confirms the Missouri House’s lack of faith in the 2020 election results
Sponsor: Hill, Justin (108)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2020
LR Number: 1241H.03I
Last Action: 12/10/2020 – Referred: Special Committee on Government Oversight(H)
Bill String: HR 2
[….]

The resolution text:

SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
House Resolution No. 2
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BYREPRESENTATIVE HILL.

1241H.03I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

WHEREAS, the President of the United States has immense enumerated powers and serves as both the head of the executive branch of government of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces; and

WHEREAS, the election of the President of the United States should be free and fair in order to preserve the legitimacy of the government, avoid constitutional crisis, and promote the general welfare of the people of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the legislatures of the states are delegated primary responsibility to ensure that free and fair elections for the office of the Presidency of the United States are held under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States which allows each state to appoint presidential Electors in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct; and

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States is authorized under Amendment XII of the Constitution of the United States and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to independently evaluate whether or not free and fair elections have occurred and to uphold the fundamental principle that the laws governing elections that are enacted by the legislatures of the states prior to the election are fully complied with during the election process; and

WHEREAS, historically low absentee ballot rejection rates occurred in the 2020 election despite the overwhelming new and unprecedented use of absentee ballots and mail in votes by many different persons and organizations; and

WHEREAS, a razor thin margin favoring Biden was reported in the days after election day in many swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada and political analyst Robert Barnes observed that Trump would win the election if any historical absentee ballot analysis process and rejection rate was assumed;

WHEREAS, statistically abnormal vote counts were reported in numerous states late on election night and the Biden-to-Trump ratio in reporting was 90 percent or more for some batches of votes;

WHEREAS, the manifest lack of any absentee ballot and mail in ballot oversight by unelected election administrators shows that the laws passed prior to election day were likely ignored and violated in numerous ways and that this violation was of significant magnitude to change the results for the election of the President of the United States; and

WHEREAS, in Pennsylvania 23,000 absentee ballots have impossible return dates, 86,000 absentee ballots are questionable, 50,000 votes held on 47 USB cards are missing in Delaware County, and signature matching for mail in ballots has been rendered impossible by the destruction of ballot envelopes; and

WHEREAS, in Georgia, Matt Braynard’s Voter Integrity Project estimates that 20,312 nonresidents cast ballots, there is video evidence of the statistical anomalies that occurred when Biden overtook President Trump with 89 percent of the votes counted, and for 53 different individual batches of votes counted, Biden led by the same 50.05 to 49.95 percent margin in every single batch; and

WHEREAS, a full and fair investigation of the election results, including analysis of absentee and mail in ballot samples for compliance with state election law, is necessary to ensure a free and fair election and should be conducted by Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives of the one Hundredth General Assembly, Second Extraordinary Session, hereby have no faith in the validity of the results of the 2020 presidential election reported by the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if a full and fair investigation is not completed, that the United States Congress sitting in joint session refuse to accept electoral votes for the office of President of the United States from the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for each house of the United States Congress.

These people really are that stupid.

Uh, Robert Barnes (whatever non-entity he is) is not the arbiter of any election in this country.

Uh, Matt Braynard (whatever non-entity he is) is not the arbiter of any election in this country.

Previously:

Uh, the job description says Missouri (December 9, 2020)

A party in disarray (December 10, 2020)

Arizona, put on your Biden shades

12 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, election, Joe Biden

Arizona
2020 General Election
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Unofficial Results
Precincts Reporting: 100% Registered Voters: 4,281,152 Ballots Cast: 3,401,300 Voter Turnout: 79.45%

FEDERAL
President of the United States
Choice Votes Percent

Biden, Joseph (DEM)
1,663,447
49.41%

Trump, Donald J. (REP)
1,651,812
49.07%

Jorgensen, Jo (LBT)
51,057
1.52%

There you go.

Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Campaign Finance: “…Arizona’s favorite child…”

06 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Arizona, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201164 03/05/2020 Arizona Democratic Party – MO Non-Fed Arizona Democratic Party 2910 North Central Ave. Phoenix AZ 85012 3/4/2020 $115,000.00

They must be doing well.

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