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Koch Money: because Josh Hawley (r) will never need to hold over fifty open public town halls across Missouri

07 Sunday Oct 2018

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We got astroturf (fake grassroots) campaign mail yesterday:

Right wingnut financed “astroturf” (fake grassroots) campaign mail – October 2018.

Who is paying for this?

That’s it?

Wait, hasn’t Senator Claire McCaskill (D) traveled across the state holding over fifty open public town halls? What a great way to remind everyone of that fact. Josh Hawley (r) does have a flatbed truck.

Donald Trump (r) and the republican controlled Congress gave a massive tax break to the top 1%, increasing the national debt by over a trillion dollars. They’ll be coming after Medicare and Social Security next. Hint: If you’re a billionaire you won’t ever need Medicare or Social Security. Raise your hand right now if you’re a billionaire.

This particular piece was paid for by “Americans for Prosperity Action”, a super PAC, using a Jefferson City PO box as a return address:

Koch brothers’ network launches new super PAC
By David Wright, CNN
Updated 1:58 PM ET, Mon September 10, 2018

…Americans for Prosperity, the sprawling Koch political network, announced Monday the launch of a new super PAC arm as the organization gears up for the final stretch of the 2018 midterms.

The new super PAC was described as “a new tool to build broad policy coalitions in Congress to help advance AFP’s vision,” which “will advocate for candidates who share our commitment to breaking internal and external barriers that prevent people from realizing their full potential.”

The super PAC, called “AFP Action,” will operate independently of the network’s preexisting 501(c)(4) nonprofit and with some key advantages.

Per campaign finance laws, the new group will be able to spend unlimited sums on election activities while being subject to some loose disclosure requirements, The nonprofit arm, however, is subject to even looser disclosure requirements but must dedicate a portion of their spending to “social welfare” activities that cannot explicitly target elections.

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“…the new group will be able to spend unlimited sums on election activities while being subject to some loose disclosure requirements…”

So much for transparency.

Anyone think the Koch brothers will ever hold open public town halls in Missouri? Nah, me neither.

Campaign Finance: You were expecting nothing?

26 Wednesday Sep 2018

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There’s an election in November.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a pair of right wingnut PACs:

C171144 09/25/2018 Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC Herzog Contracting Corp 600 South Riverside Dr. St Joseph MO 64507 9/24/2018 $100,000.00

C171141 09/25/2018 American Democracy Alliance – Ridgely PAC Herzog Contracting Corporation 600 S. Riverside Road St Joseph MO 64507 9/24/2018 $100,000.00

They’ll have all the money they need. And more.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: it’s in their nature (July 15, 2017)

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

Campaign Finance: You were expecting anything else? (April 4, 2018)

For right wingnuts “The Handmaid’s Tale” is not dystopian fiction, it’s aspirational

16 Thursday Aug 2018

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This morning outside the Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia:

Concerned Women for America Brett Kavanaugh (r) U.S. Supreme Court tour bus.

We understand red is the color.

Campaign Finance: dismantle the public good, privatize everything

28 Saturday Jul 2018

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Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180455 07/27/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund American Federation for Children Suite 675 Washington DC 20036 7/26/2018 $27,500.00

The American Federation for Children?:

The American Federation for Children is a 501(c)(4) organization that does lobbying and grassroots advocacy work in the states and Washington, D.C. We are affiliated with the American Federation for Children Action Fund, a political committee that supports and opposes state-level candidates for elected office. We work closely with our educational partner, the American Federation for Children Growth Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, to promote the benefits of—and the need for—school choice, make parents aware of their options, mobilize grassroots supports and ensure private school choice laws work for students.
The American Federation for Children works in states across America to advance our mission. Our headquarters are in Washington, D.C., with state-based staff located in regional offices around the country.

Ah, they’re about defunding and dismantling public education. That’ll work so well in rural Missouri. In the same way right wingnuts blocking Medicaid expansion helped rural access to health care and rural hospitals prosper. Oh, wait.

And:

C180455 07/27/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund US Term Limits, Inc. Suite 200 Washington DC 20036 7/27/2018 $200,000.00

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Ironic, eh?

U.S. Term Limits (USTL), based out of Washington, D.C., advocates for term limits at all levels of government.
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In 2016, USTL launched the Term Limits Convention, a new project to enact a constitutional amendment for congressional term limits. Under this approach, state legislators can enact term limits for the Congress in Washington and no member of Congress can stop them.

And that way only lobbyists and special interests, not elected legislators, will hold any legislative institutional memory. Why, that takes us down the road towards kakistocracy and kleptocracy.

And, the usual individuals and right wingnut funded entities:

180455 07/24/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund David Humphreys P.O. Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Building Products President/CEO 7/23/2018 $50,000.00

C180455 07/25/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund Missouri Alliance For Freedom – Grace River PAC 7509 NW Tiffany Springs Parkway Suite 300 Kansas City MO 61453 7/24/2018 $100,000.00

C180455 07/25/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund Missouri Republican Leadership PAC P.O. Box 144 Jefferson City MO 65102 7/24/2018 $25,000.00

C180455 07/25/2018 Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund American Democracy Alliance – Ridgely PAC 1100 Main Street Suite 2700 Kansas City MO 64105 7/25/2018 $50,000.00

“…Why, that takes us down the road towards kakistocracy and kleptocracy…”

They consider that a feature, not a bug.

AFP Missouri: werking peepul in misooree our reely, reely stoopit

19 Thursday Jul 2018

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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)

AFP Missouri: werking peeple in misooree our stoopit

09 Monday Jul 2018

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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)

Why here? Why now?

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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We just love this photo. Apparently a lot of other people do, too.

The badass on the right. #resist

Over the past ten days or so we’ve covered a variety of events. A town hall on gun violence in Kansas City, Kansas which included students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, and several demonstrations against Donald Trump’s (r) policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and placing them in concentration camps – in downtown Overland Park, Kansas; downtown and on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri; and in Columbia, Missouri. In the meantime the right wingnut controlled U.S. Supreme Court upheld the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s (r) Muslim travel ban.

On Friday evening we covered a demonstration near the entrance of the Plaza in Kansas City organized by a coalition of Muslim community groups and allies. About 150 people showed up – modest, yet still effective by Kansas City standards. There was the usual Kansas City Police presence.

About an hour into the demonstration a lone Trump supporter, by his flag, showed up. And then later still, a half dozen or so other right wingnuts showed up in matching t-shirts, bearing matching flags and signs, who strutted past the Muslim demonstration.

Checking it out.

A minister engages.

Walking through.

It’s quite simple, really, if you single out a religious minority you’re a bigot. That’s it.

His editor would cut the first line and the fourth line, then call it truth in advertising.

Uh, about that lack of civility…

Diversity fail.

They have Congress, the have the executive branch, and they have the Supreme Court. What makes them so aggrieved that they’d show up to a modest and harmless demonstration like this? That they’re so insecure that they demand absolute fealty to their supreme leader?

Fist bump.

That’s just like Barack and Michelle Obama! Oh, wait….

Sartorial splendor.

Wait, is that guy wearing American flag underpants out in public? Go figure.

Why here? Why now? Why this demonstration and not the others? What was the difference?

Oh, wait…

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees – Kansas City – June 29, 2018 (June 30, 2018)

Campaign Finance: You were expecting anything else?

04 Wednesday Apr 2018

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, because they can:

C171141 04/04/2018 American Democracy Alliance – Ridgely PAC Herzog Contracting 600 S. Riverside Road St Joseph MO 64507 3/1/2018 $100,000.00

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Previously:

Campaign Finance: it’s in their nature (July 15, 2017)

Campaign Finance: following the money (August 8, 2017)