Previously: We Are Women March 4.28.12 – Susan Montee (D) and Courtney Cole (D) (April 19, 2012)

We received the following media release:

[….]

Missouri Women mobilizing to protest against “war on women”

[JEFFERSON CITY]— On Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, women and men from around the state of Missouri will gather for a rally at the Missouri State Capitol Building to say “Enough is Enough.” Speakers slated to appear include Missouri Lieutenant Governor Candidate and past Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee, Missouri 4th Congressional House of Representatives Candidate Teresa Hensley, Planned Parenthood Mid-Missouri Public Policy Manager Michelle Trupiano, and Missouri National Organization for Women (NOW) Vice-President Claire Major. Additional speakers and entertainment will be included.

The event is hosted by Unite Against the War on Women, a new organization rapidly gaining steam nationwide. Concurrent rallies are scheduled for all 50 states that day in a show of strength against recent threats to women’s rights.

“It is essential that we stand up for our rights now and work together against this effort to destroy women’s rights. On April 28th, we will have the opportunity to join a national movement against the war on women. Join us to give your support,” Paula Willmarth, co-leader of Unite Women Missouri stated.

While the immediate impetus for Unite Women is the assault on reproductive rights, the threat to women is inclusive of other concerns, including education, equal pay for equal work, voter suppression and crimes against women and children.

DETAILS FOR THE MARCH:

10:00-10:30am Gather at James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Bldg.

10:30-11:00am Marching East on Main Street to South Lawn of Capitol

11:00am-12:00pm Rally for Unite Women on South Lawn of Capitol

Missouri Endorsers Of UNITE Women include

Capitol Women’s Political Caucus · Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) · Coffee Party USA

Greater Kansas City Women’s Political Caucus · Mid-Missouri Progressive Women · Missouri AAUW

Missouri Federation of Women’s Democratic Clubs · Missouri NOW · Missouri Planned Parenthood · Missouri ProVote

Missouri Women’s Leadership Coalition · Missouri Women’s Political Caucus · Missouri Women’s Network

NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri · NOW – Kansas City Metro · PROMO · Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St. Louis

National Endorsers Of UNITE Women include

Advocates for Youth · A is For · Americans for Separation of Church and State

Breakthrough · Catholics for Choice · Center for Inquiry · Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)

Code Pink – Women for Peace · Coffee Party USA · Feminist Peace Network · iHollaback

Institute for Science and Human Values · Katrina vanden Heuvel (Editor & Publisher “The Nation” Magazine)

9 to 5 – National Association of Working Women · The National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health · National League of Latin American Citizens · National Organizations for Women

National Women’s Political Caucus · Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice · This Slut Votes

Be there. We will.

Previously: Campaign Finance: Teresa Hensley (D) in the 4th Congressional District – FEC First Quarter Report (April 12, 2012)

Vicky Hartzler, the republican incumbent in the 4th Congressional District, filed her first quarter campaign finance report with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on April 15, 2012. She reported raising $140,230.48 in net contributions with $353,819.66 cash on hand. The campaign had operating expenditures of $30,717.96.

FEC FORM 3

REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS

For An Authorized Committee

FILING FEC-777888

1. Vicky Hartzler for Congress

   P.O. Box 415004

   Kansas City, Missouri 64141

   NOTE: Address IS Different than previously reported

   State is Missouri in District: 4

2. FEC Committee ID #: C00464602

3. This report is NOT an AMENDMENT

4. Report Type = APR QUARTERLY

For election on 11/06/2012 in the State of __

Filed 04/15/2012

There were 77 non-memo transactions and 14 memo transactions reported on Schedule A for line 11AI (itemized individual contributions) for a total of $76,050.00.

There were 40 non-memo transactions and six memo transactions reported on Schedule A for line 11C (itemized PAC) for a total of $63,250.00.

There was a reported $930.48 in unitemized contributions [line 11A(ii)]. You can just feel that grassroots momentum.

Let’s take a look at those PAC contributions:

SCHEDULE A

ITEMIZED RECEIPTS

Line #: 11C

Committee: VICKY HARTZLER FOR CONGRESS

Every Republican is Crucial (Eric Pac)

25 E Main St Ste 200

Richmond, Virginia 232192109

03/30/2012 5000.00

21st Century Pac

2052 Lake Audubon Ct

Reston, Virginia 201914808

03/19/2012 1000.00

Citizens for Responsible Government

3101 Broadway St Ste 1000

Kansas City, Missouri 641112474

03/30/2012 2500.00

Buckeye Liberty PAC

1155 21st St NW Ste 300

Washington, DC 200363312

03/30/2012 2500.00

CMR Political Action Committee

PO Box 2485

Springfield, Virginia 221520485

03/30/2012 2000.00

R.O.S.K.A.M. Pac

610 S. Boulevard

Tampa, Florida 33606

03/30/2012 1000.00

Concerned Women PAC

PO Box 66680

Washington, DC 20035

01/23/2012 10.00

Concerned Women PAC

PO Box 66680

Washington, DC 20035

02/14/2012 10.00

Concerned Women PAC

PO Box 66680

Washington, DC 20035

03/06/2012 85.00

Concerned Women PAC

PO Box 66680

Washington, DC 20035

03/30/2012 70.00

American Hospital Association PAC

325 Seventh Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

01/23/2012 1000.00

SBA List Candidate Fund

325 Seventh Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

03/20/2012 55.00

SBA List Candidate Fund

325 Seventh Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

03/26/2012 3000.00

SBA List Candidate Fund

325 Seventh Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

03/30/2012 15.00

Husch Blackwell Pac

4801 Main St Ste 1000

Kansas City, Missouri 641122551

03/15/2012 1000.00

Rolls-Royce North America PAC

1875 Explorer Street Suite 200

Reston, Virginia 20190

03/19/2012 1500.00

General Electric Pac

1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

03/12/2012 1000.00

General Electric Pac

1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20004

03/12/2012 500.00

Farm Credit PAC

50 F St. NW Suite 900

Washington, DC 20001

03/07/2012 2000.00

Farm Credit PAC

50 F St. NW Suite 900

Washington, DC 20001

03/15/2012 1000.00

CenturyLink Employees PAC

150 Fayetteville Street

Raleigh, North Carolina 27601

03/15/2012 1000.00

Lockheed Martin Employees Pac

1550 Crystal Drive

Arlington, Virginia 22202

03/26/2012 1500.00

LMA Pac

10510 NW Ambassador Drive

Kansas City, Missouri 64153

03/30/2012 500.00

Continuing a Majority PAC

5915 Eastman Ave Suite 100

Midland, Michigan 48640

03/30/2012 1000.00

AMO Voluntary PAC

2 W. Dixie Hwy

Dania Beach, Florida 33004

02/14/2012 1000.00

Alliant Techsystems Inc. PAC

1300 Wilson Blvd. STE. 400

Arlington, Virginia 22209

03/19/2012 1000.00

BNSF RailPAC

PO Box 961039

Fort Worth, Texas 76161

03/26/2012 2500.00

PricewaterhouseCoopers Pac

1301 K Street NW Suite 800 West

Washington, DC 20005

03/30/2012 1000.00

General Atomics PAC

PO Box 22930

03/12/2012 1500.00

Employees of Northrop Grumman PAC

3699 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1290

Los Angeles, California 90010

03/12/2012 1500.00

DRS Technologies, Inc. Good Govt. Fund

5 Sylvan Way

Parsippany, New Jersey 07054

03/05/2012 1000.00

United Technologies Corporation PAC

1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW 10th Floor

Washington, DC 20004

03/12/2012 1500.00

NAHU PAC

1212 New York Ave. NW Suite #1100

Washington, DC 20005

02/14/2012 2000.00

Raytheon Pac

1100 Wilson Blvd. Suite 1500

Arlington, Virginia 22209

02/24/2012 1500.00

Raytheon Pac

1100 Wilson Blvd. Suite 1500

Arlington, Virginia 22209

03/12/2012 1500.00

Corn PAC

122 C Street NW Suite 510

Washington, DC 20001

03/07/2012 1250.00

Aecom US Federal PAC

7921 Jones Branch Drive Suite 400

McLean, Virginia 22102

03/12/2012 1500.00

Exelis Employees PAC

1650 Tysons Blvd. Suite 1700

McLean, Virginia 22102

03/12/2012 1500.00

SAIC INC. Voluntary PAC

10260 Campus Point Dr.

San Diego, California 92121

03/20/2012 1000.00

BARTLETT PAC

PO Box 246

Middletown, Maryland 21769

03/26/2012 2000.00

APRO PAC

1504 Robin Hood Trail

Austin, Texas 78703

03/30/2012 1000.00

General Dynamics Corp. PAC

2941 Fairview Park Dr. #100

Falls Church, Virginia 22042

03/30/2012 1500.00

American College of Cardiology PAC

2400 N. ST. NW

Washington, DC 20037

03/30/2012 1000.00

KITPAC

21 N. Meramec AVe 2nd Floor

ST. Louis, Missouri 63105

03/30/2012 5000.00

American Beverage PAC

1101 16th Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20036

03/30/2012 1000.00

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. PAC

300 M Street, SE

Washington, DC 20003

03/30/2012 1500.00

Those concerned right wingnuts don’t appear to be too enthusiastic with the cash.

A silk stocking law firm (trial attorneys!).

Defense industry.

Some of the individual contributions:

SCHEDULE A

ITEMIZED RECEIPTS

Line #: 11AI

Committee: VICKY HARTZLER FOR CONGRESS

Joan Langenberg

49 Conway Close Road

St. Louis, Missouri 63124 Self 03/30/2012 500.00 Author

Marilyn Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 66208 N/A 03/30/2012 2500.00 Homemaker

James Hebenstreit

5828 Pembroke Ct

Mission Hills, Kansas 66208 Bartlett and Company 03/30/2012 2500.00

President

Nicholas Powell

6549 Wenonga Rd

Mission Hills, Kansas 662081764 Colt Energy Inc. 03/30/2012 1500.00

President

Thomas Hall III

2402 W 71st Ter

Prairie Village, Kansas 662083324 University of Kansas 02/24/2012 1000.00

professor

Andrew Blunt

702 Turnberry Drive

Jefferson City, Missouri 65109 Schreiman, Rackers et. al 03/15/2012 500.00

Attorney

Missouri Eagle Forum is an organization well known for its ideological self righteousness.

Mission Hills, Kansas? Don’t they already have their own right wingnut representing them in Congress? And they have to go and invest in ours?

So much for the myth of the liberal university professor. It don’t get much more right wingnut than Vicky Hartzler (r).

Those Blunts?

Let’s take a look at some of the expenditures:

SCHEDULE B

ITEMIZED DISBURSEMENTS

All Listed Line Numbers

Committee: VICKY HARTZLER FOR CONGRESS

Madison Cafe

216 Madison Street

Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

03/15/2012

Political Expense: Food and Beverag 410.25

Capital Enhancement, Inc.

150 Long Road, Ste. 50

Chesterfield, Missouri 63005

01/27/2012

Fundraising Consulting Fee 2630.00

Tour de Force Group

5434 Chieftain Circle

03/15/2012

Political Fundraising Expense 4570.00

Tour de Force Group

5434 Chieftain Circle

02/13/2012

Political Fundraising Expense 2225.00

Dublin Group

7301 W 129th St Ste 100

Overland Park, Kansas 662132635

01/10/2012

Fundraising Consulting Fee 1695.00

What would be a decent ratio of consulting fee to actual result? Just asking.

Johnson County Democratic Central Committee and the Johnson County Democratic Club hosted the fifth annual James Kirkpatrick Heritage Dinner at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Warrensburg.

Tonight the Johnson County Democratic Central Committee and the Johnson County Democratic Club hosted the fifth annual James Kirkpatrick Heritage Dinner at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Warrensburg. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was the keynote speaker and award recipient. A number of statewide and state legislature candidates were in attendance.

Before dinner and the speeches those statewide, state legislature, and local candidates have the time and opportunity to work the room, visiting with engaged Democrats from the local area and surrounding counties.

Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley (D), the Democratic Party candidate in the 4th Congressional District.

Attorney General Chris Koster (D).

Now that’s complete coverage from your Missouri progressive news blog.

Gary Grigsby (D), a Democratic Party candidate in the 51st Legislative District.

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D).

Teresa Hensley’s (D) campaign released a video of Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (r) recent town hall denial about about accepting big oil contributions. Ouch:

[Rep. Hartzler takes some questions from citizens]

Question: How do you and other House Republicans giving tax breaks of five billion per year for oil companies when they had combined profits of a hundred and seventy billion in two thousand eleven? Is this possibly a payback?

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Well, first of all, I’ve never gotten any money from any oil companies, so that doesn’t affect me. That, that question, that last implication…

[rewind]

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Well, first of all, I’ve never gotten any money from any oil companies…

[Fact: Congresswoman Hartzler’s taken $36,850 from the oil and gas industry in her career

Source: Center for Responsive Politics]

[rewind]

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Well, first of all, I’ve never gotten any money from any oil companies…

[Fact: Congresswoman Hartzler’s took $5,000 from ExxonMobil March 11, 2011

Source: Federal Election Commission]

[rewind]

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): …last implication…

[Denying the truth?

What does that imply?]

[Paid for and authorized by Hensley for Congress]

Armed with facts, engaging in a battle of wits with unarmed right wingnuts.

Pass the popcorn.  

Teresa Hensley, the Democratic Party candidate in the 4th Congressional District, had a very good fundraising quarter. In her first quarter campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on April 11, 2012 she reported raising $248,648.16 in net contributions with $234,814.56 cash on hand. The campaign had operating expenditures of $13,583.60.

FEC FORM 3

REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS

For An Authorized Committee

FILING FEC-775090

1. Hensley for Congress

   PO Box 620

   Raymore, Missouri 64080

   State is Missouri in District: 4

2. FEC Committee ID #: C00510404

3. This report is NOT an AMENDMENT

4. Report Type = APR QUARTERLY

Filed 04/11/2012

There were 278 transactions reported on Schedule A for line 11AI (itemized individual contributions) for a total of $177,548.04.

There were twelve transactions reported on Schedule A for line 11C (itemized PAC) for a total of $44,000.00.

There was a reported $29,600.12 in unitemized contributions [line 11A(ii)].

 

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) has scheduled town halls and “meet and greet” events across the 4th Congressional District.

A video by Jerry Schmidt of Representative Hartzler’s (r) April 9, 2012 town hall in Harrisonville, Missouri:

Previously:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the first thing you do when you’re in a deep hole is stop digging (April 10, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): everyone else is piling on (April 10, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the black helicopters will be dropping microchip infested toasters on us (April 8, 2012

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Clinton town hall – April 5, 2012 – part 1 (April 5, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Clinton town hall – April 5, 2012 – part 2 (April 6, 2012)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Clinton town hall – April 5, 2012 – part 3 (April 7, 2012)

Vicky Hartzler (r) at Sedalia Town Hall meeting 4/5/2012 (April 6, 2012)

There’s a new meme in town (hall). Lazy birther.

….Now, Hartzler is an emerging contender for the title of world’s laziest birther, an honor accorded to conspiracy theorists who maximize their nuttery regarding Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth, while minimizing efforts to confirm or deny their theories….

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) after her town hall in Clinton, Missouri on April 5, 2012.

The best story, so far, out of Representative Vicky Hartzler’s town halls yesterday in Butler and Harrisonville (via Facebook):

“I spoke with Hartzler’s press secretary after the meeting and asked him if her birther comments caught him off guard. I also formally requested that she post her birth certificate on her website as I ‘have a lot of doubts’ about it. He gave me an incredulous look and said, ‘Really?’ Now he knows how we felt when we heard her comments.”

Don’t you just love social media?

The birther business from Representative Vicky Hartzler’s (r) town hall in Sedalia, Missouri last Thursday has been making the national news rounds these past few days. There was another remarkable exchange, also mentioned in the Sedalia Democrat report, which possesses an abundance of right wingnut paranoid win.  

At 17:00 in the video:

….Question: …It’s an honor to talk to you. Uh, my concern, one of the concerns, is China. We’re buying military parts for our military from China. We’re buying military parts that do not work. We have closed factories in this country and that’s moved one of the big companies that we’re buying, [inaudible] countries that we’re buying from. [inaudible] We’re buying this stuff, we’re putting it in planes, we’re putting it in our material and it does not work. And they [inaudible].

There are a lot of people in this country that are getting fed up with this. I mean, fed up [inaudible] [Representative Hartzler: “Right.”] And something had better be done. I’m not threatening anybody. What I’m saying is something, I, I know, I follow this, and I know, I know what, I believe I know what I’m talking about.

There’s a line in this country. And I’m on one side of that line, a lot of people are. And there are people [inaudible] on the other side. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. If things don’t change it’s not going to be good. It’s going to be bad. I really believe that.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r): Okay. Excellent. Excellent point. You’re, you’re spot on. I, I joined the, the name of the caucus is China caucus which I wish we’d change, change the name. But basically it’s a watch China caucus. It’s a, it’s a bunch of us who are concerned about China. And on a regular basis we get reports [inaudible] watching what they’re doing.

And I am concerned. They are shipping all the, I’m concerned about the microchips. That they are in many, many of the things that we own. And some of those are embedded, I believe, with, with detection and, uh, capabilities or tracking capabilities. Things that we don’t know. I, I read a report the other day talking how China is the number one spy network in the world. And I thought, we need to have a new, uh, double oh seven James Bond movie, you know, with China as the bad guys, as the spies, because really, it’s true, those movies always portray, uh, Russia or something. But China has the largest spy network, they’re stealing our intelligence from our co, corporations. The article talked about how it’s the largest industrial, um, uh, espionage and, uh, stealing, uh, theft in, in history. And yet, how many people are talking about it, how they’re accessing our intellectual property of our corporations and it’s very concerning.

Just want you to know, it’s supposed to be illegal, uh, you’re supposed to use American products in our military equipment. But, I’m not sure that’s always the case and so I am looking in to that as well, with your concern. To make sure that they’re not using China microchips in our planes or in our tanks or anything else. So, I want to make sure that doesn’t happen. So, I will follow up on that ’cause that is a concern I have as well. So, China is very concerning….

“…Excellent. Excellent point. You’re, you’re spot on…”

Think about that mutual paranoia exchange for a minute. On one hand their stuff doesn’t work, and on the other hand the microchips in the stuff they sell us (that does or doesn’t work?) is are spying on us.

This is a member of Congress and the House Armed Services Committee? We’re doomed.