That is the message in the anti-union Proposition A “right to get paid less” campaign mail strategy of Americans for Prosperity – Missouri.

Proposition A would allow workers who don’t want to pay Union dues for the Union representation in their work place to accrue the benefit of that Union representation without paying their fair share for it.

The “right to get paid less” powers that be keep mailing their anti-worker propaganda to Union households:

Chains? Really? What genius thought of that?

Uh, pro-choice, eh? “Freedom to choose” – they can’t believe we’re all that stupid. Well, yes, they can.

Note the state seal (in the gray background) – “United We…Divided We Fall”. That’s a rationale for collective bargaining.

“Right to work” gives some people the right to sponge off of the resources and hard work of their co-workers.

The diversity in the photo is just knocking the message out of the park. Not.

As if this about workers? This is about right wingnut corporatists who don’t want anyone to pay workers meaningful living wages. Period.

Vote “No” on the anti-Union Proposition A in the August 7th primary.

Previously:

Astroturf propaganda (August 1, 2017)

Since when is an astroturf right wingnut organization truly concerned about the economic welfare of working people? (August 30, 2017)

Whoever gave money to Americans for Prosperity for their anti-Union mailing must really believe working people in Missouri are stupid (October 27, 2017)

AFP Missouri: werking peeple in misooree our stoopit (July 9, 2018)

Organized labor in Kansas City held a rally and walk (door to door) event to “Vote ‘No’ on proposition A” (right to get paid less), an anti-labor initiative on the August 7th ballot, late this afternoon at the Pipefitters Association, Local 533 hall. Several hundred members of various labor unions in the Kansas City area attended to hear from their leadership and from Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treaurer.

A sampling of the labor organizations present at the rally:

Signing up volunteers to walk door to door and phone bank:

Speaking to local media before the rally:

Some of the speakers:

The election is in four weeks. There are twenty-eight days left to crush this anti-labor initiative.

That appears to be the message in the Proposition A campaign mail strategery of Americans for Prosperity – Missouri.

Proposition A would allow workers who don’t want to pay Union dues for the Union representation in their work place to accrue the benefit of that Union representation without paying their fair share for it.

The “right to get paid less” powers that be keep mailing their anti-worker propaganda to Union households:

Is that model wearing one of those stone washed jackets? Just wondering.

Uh, Unions have regular elections for their leadership. That’s how union members keep their Union leaders “accountable”. How do workers keep their corporate “leaders” accountable? That’s easy. With Union representation.

Vote “No” on the anti-Union Proposition A in the August 7th primary.

Previously:

Astroturf propaganda (August 1, 2017)

Since when is an astroturf right wingnut organization truly concerned about the economic welfare of working people? (August 30, 2017)

Whoever gave money to Americans for Prosperity for their anti-Union mailing must really believe working people in Missouri are stupid (October 27, 2017)

From the Kansas City Board of Elections:

Election Summary Report

APRIL 5, 2011

SCHOOL AND SPECIAL ELECTION

Summary For Jurisdiction Wide , All Counters, All Races

Unofficial Results

KC QUESTION

Polling Absentee Total

Number of Precincts 133 133 133

Precincts Reporting 133 133 133 100.0 %

Total Votes 45818 2070 47888

YES 37838 1737 39575 82.64%

NO 7980 333 8313 17.36%

[emphasis added]

From the Platte County Board of Elections:

Election Summary Report

General Municipal Election

Summary For Presidential, All Counters, All Races

Platte County, MO

Unofficial (All Polls)

05 April 2011

Kansas City – Earnings Tax

Total

Number of Precincts 13

Precincts Reporting 13 100.0 %

Times Counted 7858/28939 27.2 %

Total Votes 7845

YES 5353 68.23%

NO 2492 31.77%

[emphasis added]

Cass County and Clay County results aren’t in yet.

Update: see comments.

St. Louis looks like a landslide, too:

Election Summary Report

General Municipal Election

St. Louis, Missouri

April 5, 2011

Summary For CITY WIDE, All Counters, All Races

Absentee and Partial Results

PROP E

Total

Number of Precincts 203

Precincts Reporting 133 65.5 %

Times Counted 27985/194640 14.4 %

Total Votes 27767

YES 24324 87.60%

NO 3443 12.40%

[emphasis added]

All those millions spent by a billionaire to make everyone else jump through hoops. To what end? Increase the bond interest rates for Missouri’s two largest cities?

The folks who are opposed to the continuation of the earnings tax on tomorrow’s ballot in Kansas City filed their final 24 Hour Expenditure Report with the Missouri Ethics Commission today:

REPORT SUMMARY

FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/4/2011

8. Total All Receipts This Election $476,025.01

10. Expenditures made by cash or check this period $2,600.00

14. Total Expenditures This Election $535,412.54

21. Payments This Period on Prev Reported Expend Incurred (Paid by Cash/Check Only) $10,509.00

27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $19,061.40

34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $105,536.00

[emphasis added]

Let’s take a look at those disbursements:

ADDENDUM STATEMENT [pdf]

Debt Payment:

Wilson Research Strageties, LLC — Invoice #123095 reported on

4/2/2011

Amount: 6000.00

Debt Payment:

Advantage, Inc. — Invoice #310401 — Reported on 4/2/2011

Amount: 4509.00

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/4/2011

B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100

Cozad Company, LLC

21550 Highway 92

Platte City MO 64079

4/4/2011

Consulting Services

$2,000.00

CRAFT | Media/Digital

706 7th St., SE

Washington DC 20003

4/4/2011

Video Work

$600.00

[emphasis added]

Cozad Company? Via the Missouri Secretary of State:

Name Name Type

COZAD COMPANY, LLC Legal

Limited Liability Company – Domestic – Information

Charter Number: LC0076448

Status: Active

Entity Creation Date: 1/14/2003

State of Business.: MO

Expiration Date: Perpetual

Registered Agent

Agent Name: LINDA H. COZAD

Office Address: 21550 HIGHWAY 92

PLATTE CITY MO 64079

Their purpose?:

….1. To engage in governmental consulting services of all kinds and types….

Ah, lobbyists:

LOBID:L001796 Received Date:2/10/2003

Lobbyist’s Name John C. Cozad Termination Date:

Lobbyist’s Address Cozad Company LLC

Lobbyist’s Address2 21550 Highway 92

Lobbyist’s C/S/Z Platte City, MO 64079

Principal Name/Address/Phone Status Date Added Date Deleted

[….]

KANSAS CITY MISSOURI POLICE DEPARTMENT

1125 LOCUST

KANSAS CITY MO 64106

816-234-5057 D 3/13/2005 12/7/2010

[emphasis added]

Really? You think?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: what’s this? (April 3, 2011)

Campaign Finance: opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax – another 24 hour report (March 31, 2011)

Campaign Finance: throwing bad money after bad – opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax (March 30, 2011)

Kansas City Earnings Tax: ad in support of yes vote on April 5th (March 30, 2011)

That’s a question a lot of people have been asking (March 29, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC’s spending against the earnings tax in Kansas City (March 28, 2011)

Uh, we already knew about that (March 24, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC funded by the usual suspect(s) (March 18, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Who is bankrolling the bankrollers? (March 10, 2011)

Campaign Finance: your Friday big bucks contribution dump (March 4, 2011)

Campaign Finance: opponents of the earnings tax in Kansas City get a lot of help (February 26, 2011)

The folks who are opposed to the continuation of the earnings tax on Tuesday’s ballot in Kansas City filed a curious string of amended 24 Hour Expenditure Reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission:

POLITICAL ACTION Date Established: 11/4/2009

COMMITTEE: MECID:C091269

FREEDOM PAC

Electronically Filed Reports

I.D. Report Date Received

4815 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4807 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4806 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4804 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4799 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4798 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4796 AMENDED 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

4753 24 Hour Expenditure Report-4/5/2011 General 04/02/2011

[emphasis added]

What’s the explanation?

For 4796:

Updating amounts spent in opposition to specific ballot initiative.

For 4798:

Updating direct expenditures.

For 4799:

Updating direct expenditures report.

For 4804:

Correct direct expenditure report.

For 4806:

Update direct expenditure totals.

For 4807:

Correct math error on total direct expenditures.

Okay. Seventh time is the charm?

Let’s take a look at the latest summary:

REPORT SUMMARY

FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/2011

8. Total All Receipts This Election $476,025.01

14. Total Expenditures This Election $532,812.54

27. Money On Hand at the close of this reporting period $32,167.40

34. Total Indebtedness at the Close of This Reporting Period $116,045.00

[emphasis added]

Uh, oh. Those numbers don’t look good. I wonder if their bankroller’s bankroller(s) will bail them out? We’d ask them, but we can’t figure out who it is.

Let’s take a look at those last minute expenditures:

EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE

FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/2011

B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100

Wilson Research Stragegies, LLC

1319 Classen Drive

Oklahoma City OK 73103

4/2/2011

Polling

$6,000.00

Advantage, Inc.

2300 Clarendon Blvd

Suite 1004

Arlington VA 22201

4/2/2011

Voter ID

$4,509.00

Hmm. Low turnout elections are notoriously difficult to poll.

Then, there’s this from the first April 2, 2011 24 Hour Expenditure Report (4753):

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

FREEDOM PAC [pdf] 4/2/2011

B. NON-ITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

13. TOTAL MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM PERSONS GIVING $100 OR LESS $25.00

[emphasis added]

It looks kind of lost, especially after all those previous $100,000.00 contributions. By our calculation it’ll take 3,355 more of those $25.00 contributions to make up the total indebtedness. What are the odds of that happening?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax – another 24 hour report (March 31, 2011)

Campaign Finance: throwing bad money after bad – opponent(s) of the Kansas City earnings tax (March 30, 2011)

Kansas City Earnings Tax: ad in support of yes vote on April 5th (March 30, 2011)

That’s a question a lot of people have been asking (March 29, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC’s spending against the earnings tax in Kansas City (March 28, 2011)

Uh, we already knew about that (March 24, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Freedom PAC funded by the usual suspect(s) (March 18, 2011)

Campaign Finance: Who is bankrolling the bankrollers? (March 10, 2011)

Campaign Finance: your Friday big bucks contribution dump (March 4, 2011)

Campaign Finance: opponents of the earnings tax in Kansas City get a lot of help (February 26, 2011)