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Campaign Finance: here we go ’round and ’round…

22 Wednesday Nov 2017

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

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8th Senate District, campaign finance, Hillary Shields, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C171144 11/21/2017 Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC Liberty Alliance 7509 NW Tiffany Springs Parkway Suite 300 Kansas City MO 64153 11/21/2017 $24,316.50

[emphasis added]

You think they just passed the check over the cubicle partition? Just asking.

A few weeks ago, from their 24 Hour Expenditure Report:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC [pdf] 10/31/2017
[….]
B. Itemized Expenditures All Over $100
Something Else Strategies, LLC 212 Golden Willow Court Easley SC 29642 10/30/2017 Media Production $12,500.00 [emphasis added]
[….]
DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT
Hillary Shields 513 SE Miller Street Lees Summit MO 64063 State Senator District 8 [opposed] 10/30/2017 $12,500.00

[emphasis added]

There you go.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Well, they certainly saved on postage (October 27, 2017)

About those television ads in the 8th Senate District special election (October 29, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D)

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Hillary Shields, Jacob Turk, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, special election

A great candidate with an efficient grassroots campaign.

Hillary Shields (D) – November 7, 2017

The results:

State of Missouri – Special – State Senate District 8 – November 7, 2017
Unofficial Results
as of 11/7/2017 9:40:30 PM

State Senator – District 8 – unexpired
70 of 70 Precincts Reported
Mike Cierpiot Republican 12,851 50.345%
Hillary Shields Democratic 10,869 42.580%
Jacob Turk Independent 1,806 7.075%
Total Votes: 25,526

We heard a number between $700,000.00 and $1,000,000.00 tossed around for the total expenditures in support of Mike Cierpiot’s (r) campaign in this special election. There were enough of those incessant television commercials in the Kansas City media market to make one believe those numbers. If that’s truly the case, it’s somewhere between $54.00 and $77.00 per vote. Somebody got their money’s worth.

Gee, they should have just taken everyone out to dinner at a really nice Lee’s Summit restaurant.

We heard that Hillary Shield’s campaign raised and spent somewhere north of $100,000.00. That would be approximately $9.20 per vote. We’re talking working people fare here.

It looks like they’ll meet again in 2018:

Stephen Webber‏ @s_webber
.@ShieldsForMO is a classy, hardworking person. She ran a heck of a race, and she’s going to run again in 2018!
[….]
9:42 PM – 7 Nov 2017

2018 will not be 2014, 2016, nor 2017.

Show up. Vote.

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Elecetion Day, Hillary Shields, missouri, special election, vote

They will.

If you want change for the better. Show up. Vote. It’s that simple.

In Missouri:

POLLING PLACES ARE OPEN FROM 6:00 AM TO 7:00 PM ON ELECTION DAY.
Important: If you are in line at the closing time of 7:00 PM you have the right to cast your vote

[….]

ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VOTER ID
Effective June 1, 2017, the following forms of identification are acceptable for voting purposes in Missouri:
Nonexpired Missouri driver license;
Nonexpired or nonexpiring Missouri non-driver license;
Nonexpired document which contains the voter’s name and photograph and is issued by the United States or the state of Missouri; or
Nonexpired or nonexpiring military ID card which contains a photograph

You may also use these forms of identification and sign a statement provided by the election judge at your polling place:
Identification issued by the state of Missouri, an agency of the state, or a local election authority of the state;
Identification issued by the United States government or agency thereof;
Identification issued by an institution of higher education, including a university, college, vocational and technical school, located within the state of Missouri; or
A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document that contains the name and address of the voter

If you do not possess any of these forms of identification, but are a registered voter, you may still cast a provisional ballot. Your provisional ballot will be counted if you return to the polling place and show a valid photo ID or if the signature on the provisional ballot envelope matches the signature on your voter registration record.

[….]

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: Sunday field operation – a few words from Jason Kander (D)

05 Sunday Nov 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Hillary Shields, Jacob Turk, Jason Kander, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, special election

This morning in Lee’s Summit over fifty individuals showed up at the start of a full day of phone banking, literature drops, and canvassing for Hillary Shields, the Democratic Party candidate in the 8th Senate District special election.

Hillary Shields, the Democratic Party candidate in the 8th Senate District special election.

Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander spoke to morning campaign volunteers before they set out to cover their assigned door to door turf.

Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander (D).

Jason Kander (D): ….I really appreciate all of you being out here for Hillary…

….You know, the reason they’re doing it [negative ads] is they’re scared. You’ve got ’em scared. [cheers, applause] For a really, for a really good reason. Um, you know, I’m, after this I gotta go do some get out the vote stuff up in Virginia today. I’ve been, sure [applause], to tell you that I have now, in twenty-seventeen, spoken to Democratic groups in thirty states. And I’ve, I’ve seen just like the incredible momentum that’s out there. So, I tell you that to tell you that, um, you’re here because you’re excited about Hillary and that’s awesome… But, what I want you to know is like this is not an isolated incident, right? What’s exciting about this is that I, like I know that when you wake up every day if you, if you aren’t actively involved the way all of us are it can be very frustrating because then it feels like every morning is November ninth, right? But, instead, if you’re actively fighting back the way all of you are you’re really part of something pretty great.

[….]

Who was I talking to? Raise your hand, maybe there’s more than just one of you who’s just gotten involved this year. Um, well, yeah. [laughter] Alright, look, but that’ cool. Like, how cool is that? A whole bunch of people out here plus the candidate. This is real, what’s happening in the country.

Some of you have heard me tell this story – a couple months ago I was in Tennessee and a woman picked me up and she was driving me around to different Democratic events where I was speaking for the Tennessee Democratic Party. And her name was Dawn. At every event we went to it was like, remember when Norm would walk into Cheers? [laughter] Norm! It was like that. Dawn! Everybody knew Dawn. She was the ace number one MVP volunteer, it seemed to me, of the Tennessee Democratic Party. So she goes to, she goes to drop me off at the airport later that day ’cause I’m gonna come back to Kansas City and I asked her, I said, ‘Dawn, how many years have you been volunteering with the Tennessee Democratic Party?’ She said, ‘Honey, years?’ She said, ‘I started volunteering on January twentieth, twenty-seventeen.’ [laughter]

And I have, I mean, I’ve just seen that so many places. And, and it’s so appropriate that now you have a candidate who really got involved this year. And I think I about to be a state senator [cheers, applause].

[….]

But what always happened was the same thing, ’cause I would hit that hill, look at my watch and so, ‘Okay, you got it.’ And then I would have this rush of adrenaline and I would sprint like the last quarter mile, right? And I always thought of that ’cause people in campaigns would always say to me, and they’ve probably said this to you a million times, they always say, ‘You know, it’s a marathon, not a sprint.’ Like whenever you look tired, they would say that. And I’d always say, ‘But if I sprint the whole marathon I’m probably gonna win.’ [laughter]

And so, you know, you’ve been through this. It’s been, it’s been a marathon, it’s been, you know, now you’re at the last hill. And the thing is like now you are the adrenaline rush. Like now you are the adrenaline rush for her as she starts to sprint. So that’s what you’ve got to do. You’ve got to get out there, you’ve got to spend a much time a you can today, over the next few days, continuing to do what you’ve been doing, hitting as many doors as you possibly can.

Because, like we’ve seen the polling, we’ve seen where this race is. This is gonna come down to whoever’s side works the hardest. And all along it’s been really clear that this is a good example of passion is persuasive. Like, our side has passion. Their side has a sense of entitlement about the district, right? Yeah, they got tons of money and they got a sense of entitlement. And what we have is passion. We have people standing out here shivering….we have people who are willing to do that because we have a candidate who’s deeply passionate and is going to do an amazing job.

So all you’ve got to do is be the adrenaline rush and print for her over the next few days. Well you do that? [voices: ‘Yes.’][applause]

Previously:

About those television ads in the 8th Senate District special election (October 29, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: less than one week to the special election (November 1, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: Sunday field operation (November 5, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: Sunday field operation

05 Sunday Nov 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Hillary Shields, Jacob Turk, Jason Kander, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, special election

This morning in Lee’s Summit over fifty individuals showed up at the start of a full day of phone banking, literature drops, and canvassing for Hillary Shields, the Democratic Party candidate in the 8th Senate District special election. The election will take place this coming Tuesday. The Shields campaign is planning on similar field operations through to the close of the polls on Tuesday evening.

Hillary Shields, the Democratic Party candidate in the 8th Senate District special election.

By a number of reports and estimates the republican candidate, the republican establishment and other PACs have outspent Hillary Shields’ (D) campaign by close to a 10 to 1 margin.

Turf and literature – ready to go.

No one in the Kansas City metro media market can escape the incessant attack ads on television directed at the Democratic Party candidate, paid for by the usual suspects. That, and a deluge of attack mail paid for by right wingnut republican interest groups, is probably eating up a lot of republican campaign resources.

This morning former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander greeted early morning campaign volunteers before they set out to cover their assigned door to door turf.

Former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander (D).

Volunteers and campaign staff.

Previously:

About those television ads in the 8th Senate District special election (October 29, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: less than one week to the special election (November 1, 2017)

Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District: less than one week to the special election

01 Wednesday Nov 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Hillary Shields, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, special election

A video from Hillary Shields’ (D) 8th Senate District special election campaign:

Narrator: Across this country we’re standing up for our values, saying no to hate and demanding that government put us first, not big corporations or political donors. In the special election on November 7th we have a chance to elect a state senator who shares our values, Democrat Hillary Shields. Hillary will work to expand healthcare access, support our public schools, and stand up for the rights of working families. But she needs our votes on Tuesday, November 7th. Vote for Democrat Hillary Shields.

As far as we can tell there are no PACs pouring tens of thousand into television ads attacking Hillary Shields’ (D) opponents.

It’s the PACs’ big money world, the rest of us only get to live in it.

Previously:

About those television ads in the 8th Senate District special election (October 29, 2017)

About those television ads in the 8th Senate District special election

29 Sunday Oct 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, ads, campaign finance, Hillary Shileds, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, PACs, television

We just saw the television ad running in the Kansas City media market paid for by the “Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC” attacking Hillary Shields (D), a candidate in the 8th Senate District special election. Mike Cierpiot (r) is the republican party candidate in the election.

Mike Cierpiot (r) [2017 file photo].

It was easily established that the premise of the ad is a lie.

A lot of money has been passed through to the PAC, including:

C171144 10/26/2017 Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC Missouri Senate Campaign Committee P.O. Box 754 Jefferson City MO 65102 10/24/2017 $20,183.00

[emphasis added]

The Missouri Senate Campaign Committee is the republican state senate PAC.

They helped pay for the ad. They own it. They probably don’t care. They probably think they can get away with it. They’d be right.

Hillary Shields (D), the Democratic Party nominee for the 8th Senate District November special election.

Hillary Shields (D): community campaigning in the 8th Senate District special election

07 Thursday Sep 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Hillary Shields, Lee's Summit, Mike Cierpiot, missouri, special election

This evening around 100 individuals gathered in Lee’s Summit for a community campaign event to support Hillary Shields (D) in the 8th Senate District special election taking place this November.

Hillary Shields (D), the Democratic Party nominee in the 8th Senate District November special election.

On Saturday many of those individuals will be canvassing door to door in the district.

Previously:

A Sen. Roy Blunt (r) health care story (June 23, 2017)

Whoops, there goes another special election…

31 Monday Jul 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Missouri Senate

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8th Senate District, Eric Greitens, missouri, special election, Will Kraus

From Governor Eric Greitens (r):

Governor Eric Greitens Appoints Leaders Across State and Local Government
July 31, 2017
[….]
State Tax Commission

Senator Will Kraus was appointed as a member of the State Tax Commission. Kraus will be the successor of Ryan McKenna.

Senator Kraus represents the Eighth District of Missouri and has been a leader in tax policy during his time in the Missouri State Senate. He served in the United States Army for 25 years. Kraus also previously served as a State Representative. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Missouri State University.
[….]

There’ll be a special election in the 8th Senate District.

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce

17 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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8th Senate District, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Rex Sinquefield, Will Kraus

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C041029 10/16/2014 CITIZENS FOR WILL KRAUS Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retire 10/15/2014 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

Like the republican incumbent needs the cash?:

C041029: Citizens For Will Kraus

612 Sw Trailpark Circle Committee Type: Candidate

Lees Summit Mo 64081 Party Affiliation: Republican

[….] Established Date: 01/26/2004

  Termination Date:

Information Reported On: 2014 – October Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $193,868.49

Monetary Receipts + $81,586.00

Monetary Expenditures – $1,371.60

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $80,214.40

Ending Money On Hand   $274,082.89

[emphasis added]

Uh, that was before the really, really, really big contribution from the really, really, really wealthy individual. Because we all know, one can never take an election result for granted. There is one exception.

The individuals who filed for the 8th Senate District seat:

State Senator – District 8

Republican

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Will Kraus 612 SW TRAILPARK CIR LEES SUMMIT MO 64081 162 2/25/2014

That’s it. No one else. That’s the one exception.

So, what’s the $100,000.00 for and what does it really buy? Just asking.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: For what purpose? (September 3, 2014)

Well, well, somebody’s an early friend of Catherine Hanaway’s (r) 2016 campaign for Governor.

Campaign Finance: locking up the vote at 9109 Watson Road (April 15, 2014)

[….]

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED – SUPPLEMENTAL

HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR [pdf] 4/15/2014

[….]

Citizens for Will Kraus

612 Trailpark Circle

Lees Summit MO 64081

3/31/2014 $5,000.00

[….]

[emphasis added]

We’ll definitely keep an eye on that $100,000.00.

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