04 Wednesday Mar 2026
Posted in campaign finance
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C253728 03/04/2026 We Are Missouri Missouri and Kansas Laborers’ District Council 951 Corporate Parkway Wentzvile MO 63385 3/3/2026 $600,000.00
[emphasis added]
Dayam.
Collective action – it does add up.
02 Monday Sep 2024
Posted in Uncategorized
Peter Merideth (D) [2021 file photo].
Two years ago, from Missouri Representative Peter Merideth (D):
Exactly.
02 Friday Aug 2024
Posted in campaign finance, Missouri Senate
There is no such thing as a moderate republican. You’d think individuals and organizations would learn. Instead, they persist in wanting to believe in some mythical unicorn despite all evidence to the contray.
In today’s mail:
Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete
A right wingnut republican touting an endorsement from the AFL-CIO?
Nothing from Missouri NEA, eh?
And just think of the juxtaposition of an endorsement from the Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) with “Defends the 2nd Amendment and voted repeatedly to guarantee Missourians right to conceal and carry”. Missouri Association of School Administrators, too?
“Protecting our kids from liberal indoctrination in our schools”? Is that book banning or book burning? Just asking.
Try as I might, I haven’t been able to find an International Allied Printing Trades Council label – “union bug” – on any of these mailings. Solidarity forever.
Previously:
There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican (July 26, 2024)
Lazy and incurious (July 30, 2024)
20 Saturday Apr 2024
Posted in Uncategorized
Last night, from the White House:
APRIL 19, 2024
Statement from President Joe Biden on UAW Vote in TennesseeCongratulations to the workers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on their historic vote for union representation with the United Auto Workers. I was proud to stand alongside auto workers in their successful fight for record contracts, and I am proud to stand with auto workers now as they successfully organize at Volkswagen. Across the country, union members have logged major wins and large raises, including auto workers, actors, port workers, Teamsters, writers, warehouse and health care workers, and more. Together, these union wins have helped raise wages and demonstrate once again that the middle-class built America and that unions are still building and expanding the middle class for all workers.
Six Republican governors wrote a letter attempting to influence workers’ votes by falsely claiming that a successful vote would jeopardize jobs in their states. Let me be clear to the Republican governors that tried to undermine this vote: there is nothing to fear from American workers using their voice and their legal right to form a union if they so choose. In fact, the growing strength of unions over the last year has gone hand-in-hand with record small business and jobs growth alongside the longest stretch of low unemployment in more than 50 years. I will continue to stand with American workers and stand against Republican’s effort to weaken workers’ voice.
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Also:
Scared Southern Elites (April 19, 2024)
UAW Wins in Chattanooga!!!! (April 19, 2024)
Workers Of The World, Unite! (April 19, 2024)
Which side are you on?
06 Wednesday Dec 2023
Posted in campaign finance
Tags
campaign finance, Majority Forward PAC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, organized labor, PAC
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C161387 12/06/2023 MAJORITY FORWARD Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area PAC 1401 Hampton Avenue St Louis MO 63139 12/6/2023 $100,000.00
[emphasis added]
They’re gonna need a lot more.
03 Friday Nov 2023
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Tags
Fascist pig, faux populist, gaslighting, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, missouri, organized labor, receipts, right to get paid less, seditionist, social media, U.S. Senate, Virginia, working people
This morning:
Jess Piper @piper4missouri
Screenshot this one, friends.
You’re gonna need it over the next year. Hawley is no friend to working folks no matter how much he wants to act like it now.
[….]
10:01 AM · Nov 3, 2023
You don’t #$%& with teachers, they keep grade books.
16 Saturday Sep 2023
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Tags
Fascist pig, insurrectionist, Josh Hawley, organized labor, poseur, right wingnut, seditionist, social media, U.S. Senate, Virginia
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
Yesterday:
Senator Josh Hawley
[September 15, 2023]
Hawley Stands Up for Auto Workers, Protecting American Jobs
[….]
Some of the responses:
Oh BULLSH*T – you’ve advocated for “Right to Work for LESS” every time. Faker.
Hawley could care less about the Auto Workers….. His BS gets deeper everyday!!
We do need to support the auto workers, but Hee Hawley is not really for the worker. HE SUPPORTS HIMSELF. Election time is rolling around.
[….] He is absolutely, 100% ANTI-UNION, and will do exactly NOTHING for unions. He will sign legislation into law empowering corporations and cutting corporate taxes and do exactly NOTHING for union members. You don’t have to guess or imagine about this. He’s already done it.
Yet, Republican party is anti union…Union workers helped the Auto Industry when they were in trouble and yet when they make billions in their first quarter they can not share the wealth….while CEO make tens of millions hundreds times their median worker.
Trump is one of two presidents who left office with fewer jobs than when he entered.
“One was President Hoover and the other was Donald Hoover Trump,” Biden said. “My predecessor promised to be the greatest job president in history. Well, it didn’t really work out that way. He lost 2 million jobs in the course of his presidency.”
“Hawley’s authoritarianism is like a gargoyle lurking over the cathedral, ready to pounce.”
Mitt Romney
How torqued is Running Mouth Man about the BILLIONS in stock buybacks the Big 3 have executed recently, instead of plowing the money into their workers?
And does Hee of the Hawley agree with his Lord and Corpulence that in 3 years, American manufacturers will make zero EV cars, while China makes them all? What is FleetofFoot’s plan to prevent that?
More seriously delivered platitudes, perhaps?
The combined profits of the big three automakers in the US over the last seven years exceeds $250 billion this has nothing to do with climate change mandates old fist pump is just trying to convince you of that he is a fool but he said it so he must believe it I don’t think he’s nearly as brilliant as Mitt Romney and everybody makes him out to be vote him out next year
They’re not buying it.
19 Saturday Aug 2023
Tags
campaign finance, HDCC, health care, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, organized labor, Solidarity, working people
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee Pipe Fitters Local 553 Volunteer Political Fund 8600 Hillcrest Rd Kansas City MO 64138 7/26/2023 $15,000.00
C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee IBEW Local 124 Voluntary Political Fund 301 East 103rd Street Terrace Kansas City MO 64114 7/26/2023 $20,000.00
C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee MHA HealthPAC PO BOX 60 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/14/2023 $10,000.00
[emphasis added]
Well, yes, working people and accessible health care.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: It’s your money and you can do what you want with it (August 19, 2023)
Campaign Finance: Beyond the dreams of avarice (July 19, 2023)
19 Saturday Aug 2023
Posted in campaign finance
Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area PAC 1401 Hampton Avenue Saint Louis MO 63139 8/16/2023 $50,000.00
[emphasis added]
Because the HRCC has always been about for looking after the interests of working people?
10 Tuesday Jan 2023
Tags
19th Senate District, campaign finance, Missouri Ethics Commission, organized labor, PAC, Stephen Webber, working people
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)