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Campaign Finance: the smell of fear and popcorn

30 Tuesday Jul 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the PAC propping up right wingnut Andrew Bailey (r) in the republican Attorney General primary:

C222296 07/30/2024 Liberty and Justice PAC Cheyenne International LLC 120 S Central Ave St Louis MO 63105 7/30/2024 $20,000.00

C222296 07/30/2024 Liberty and Justice PAC Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C. 11161 Overbrook Road Leawood KS 66211 7/29/2024 $250,000.00

C222296 07/30/2024 Liberty and Justice PAC D & R Morgan Property, LLC 112 South Hanley Road Clayton MO 63105 7/29/2024 $15,500.00

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What they and Rex Sinquefield are paying for – via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

All for Andrew Bailey (r):

Up to yesterday the Liberty and Justice PAC has spent a total of $4,967,221.87 on Andrew Bailey (r).

You get what you pay for:

Judge rules Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey can be questioned under oath
By: Jason Hancock – July 26, 2024 2:30 pm

A Clay County judge on Friday refused to reverse her order from earlier this month that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey answer questions under oath about conversations with a local official that may have violated legal ethics rules.

Judge Karen Krauser ordered Bailey to sit for a deposition after it was discovered he and a deputy met with a member of the Jackson County Legislature without the knowledge of the county’s attorneys.

Bailey filed a lawsuit in December over Jackson County’s property assessment process, and the Jackson County Legislature is a named defendant.

The meetings appear to have violated the rules of professional conduct set out by the Missouri Supreme Court, which prohibit attorneys from meeting with individuals involved in a lawsuit without the consent of their lawyer. Krauser ordered Bailey to answer questions under oath about the meetings from Jackson County’s attorneys.

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Pass the popcorn:

Previously:

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce higher (July 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more bounce for the buck (July 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: fast turn around

27 Saturday Jul 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C242989 07/27/2024 Missouri First Conservative PAC DACA Partners III LP 2 Huntleigh Woods St Louis MO 63131 7/26/2024 $300,000.00

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That’s a lot of money.

It’s a new PAC:

In their July 27, 2024 “Twenty-four Hour Expenditure Report”:

A new PAC takes out a $300,000.00 loan (with interest!) to fund direct mail against two of the six right wingnut republican Lieutenant Governor candidates. Go figure.

Holly Rehder (r) [2013 file photo].

You think Holly Rehder (r) is insulted about the penny difference? Just asking.

Via the Missouri Secretary of State’s office:

Certified Candidate List
2024 Primary Election

Lieutenant Governor
Republican

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Holly Rehder 380 NATCHEZ TRACE SCOTT CITY MO 63780 324 2/27/2024

Dave Wasinger 11939 MANCHESTER ROAD SUITE 317 DES PERES MO 63131 348 2/27/2024

Lincoln Hough 662 S KICKAPOO SPRINGFIELD MO 65804 431 2/27/2024

Paul Berry III 11932 BARBARA MARYLAND HEIGHTS MO 63043 491 2/27/2024

Tim Baker PO BOX 122 ROBERTSVILLE MO 63072 3/1/2024

Matthew E. Porter 4577 AUSTIN KNOLL CT. SAINT CHARLES MO 63304 3/26/2024

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DACA Partners III LP 2 Huntleigh Woods St Louis MO 63131? Also via the Missouri Secretary of State’s office:

Heh. David Wasinger (r).

Pass the popcorn.

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican

26 Friday Jul 2024

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In the mail from a PAC propping up Dan Houx (r) in the 31st Senate District primary:

A nice reminder that right wingnuts have controlled the Missouri General Assembly for over twenty years.

“…funding the National Guard at our Southern Border”

What did Arkansas ever do to us?

“Protecting our kids from liberal indoctrination in our schools”

He doesn’t want them to read, you know, books.

“Defend the 2nd Amendment and voted repeatedly to guarantee Missourians right to conceal and carry”

….In an average year, 1,288 people die and 2,312 are wounded by guns in Missouri. Missouri has the 8th-highest rate of gun violence in the US….

….In Missouri, the rate of gun deaths increased 70% from 2011 to 2020, compared to a 33% increase nationwide. The rate of gun suicides increased 37% and gun homicides increased 130% compared to a 12% increase and 70% increase nationwide, respectively….

“Balanced Missouri’s Budget…”

Missouri’s budget is balanced every year. It has to be. It’s a constitutional requirement.

“Keeping boys out of girls’ sports”

Yeah, like we’re all really worried about that.

“Made Missouri the most-pro-life state in the nation and defunded Planned Parenthood”

All by himself. Uh, Planned Parenthood provides health care services to women. Cutting that access is nothing to brag about.

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican.

Campaign Finance: You get what they pay for

25 Thursday Jul 2024

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Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

We’ve been inundated republican primary mail pieces. Inundated is an understatement. Someone is spending a lot of money.

One right wingnut’s state senate primary bid in particular:

And:

Those mailings were paid for by AFC Victory Fund with a return address in Dallas, Texas.

At the Missouri Ethics Commission:

243038 07/11/2024 AFC Victory Fund AFC Victory Fund 228 S Washington St Ste 115 Alexandria VA 22314 7/9/2024 $633,500.00

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Another set of mailings on behalf of Rick Brattin (r), funded by yet another right wingnut PAC:

And:

And:

And, the pièce de résistance:

Which is it? Did Rick Brattin (r) sell our farmland to China, or not? It’s hard to tell these days, right wingnut republican orthodoxy keeps changing.

These mail pieces were paid for by True Patriot PAC with a return address in Jefferson City, Missouri. And where did they get their money (via the Missouri Ethics Commission)?:

C201494 06/26/2024 True Patriot PAC Conservative Justice PAC 222 West Columbia Street Farmington MO 63640 6/26/2024 $20,000.00

C201494 07/08/2024 True Patriot PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/8/2024 $25,000.00

C201494 07/11/2024 True Patriot PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/11/2024 $25,000.00

C201494 07/11/2024 True Patriot PAC Herzog Contracting Corp PO Box 1089 Saint Joseph MO 64502 7/11/2024 $25,000.00

C201494 07/17/2024 True Patriot PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/17/2024 $25,000.00

C201494 07/17/2024 True Patriot PAC Paladin PAC PO Box 161 Wright City MO 63390 7/17/2024 $6,000.00

C201494 07/24/2024 True Patriot PAC Safe Streets Safe Communities 6218 Georgia Ave NW Suite 1-847 Washington DC 20011 7/23/2024 $47,000.00

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Aside from mailings funded by different PACS and a blatant campaign franking piece paid for by Missouri taxpayers what do you think Rick Brattin’s campaign is spending money on? Yard signs? Just asking.

Previously:

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r) (July 25, 2022)

Are you certain it wasn’t Rick Brattin (r)? (February 3, 2023)

Rick Brattin (r) and his franked list of personal phobias (July 3, 2024)

Campaign Finance: we’re talking serious money

05 Friday Jul 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232590 07/05/2024 Hamra for Missouri Michael Hamra 1855 S Ingram Mill Rd Springfield MO 65804 Hamra Enterprises Executive 7/3/2024 $250,000.00

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Previously:

C232590 01/03/2024 Hamra for Missouri Michael Hamra 1855 S Ingram Mill Rd Springfield MO 65804 Hamra Management CEO 12/30/2023 $250,000.00

C232590 04/01/2024 Hamra for Missouri Michael Hamra 1855 S Ingram Mill Rd Springfield MO 65804 Hamra Management CEO 3/31/2024 $250,000.00

C232590 06/29/2024 Hamra for Missouri Michael Hamra 1855 S Ingram Mill Rd Springfield MO 65804 Hamra Management CEO 6/28/2024 $250,000.00

That’s one vote.

Certified Candidate List
2024 Primary Election

Governor
Democratic

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Eric Morrison 1126 NE DELTA SCHOOL RD STE. B LEES SUMMIT MO 64064 53 2/27/2024

Crystal Quade 210 WEST COMMERCIAL ST. STE. C SPRINGFIELD MO 65803 300 2/27/2024

Sheryl Gladney 2305 FOX CHASE DR ST. CHARLES MO 63301 363 2/27/2024

Hollis L Laster 5801 BERMUDA DR NORMANDY MO 63121 3/18/2024

Mike Hamra 1855 S. INGRAM MILL RD. SPRINGFIELD MO 65804 3/25/2024

Campaign Finance: pass the popcorn

29 Saturday Jun 2024

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

222309 06/29/2024 Citizens for Scharf William Scharf 8125 Stratford Dr Clayton MO 63105 Self Attorney 6/28/2024 $500,000.00

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In this particular instance it’s Citizen for Scharf.

Certified Candidate List
2024 Primary Election

Attorney General
Republican
Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Will Scharf 6642 CLAYTON ROAD #201
RICHMOND HEIGHTS MO 63117 208 2/27/2024

Andrew Bailey P. O. BOX 491
JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102 888 2/27/2024

We’re rooting for a scoreless tie.

What are we going to do now with all those file photos?

02 Tuesday Aug 2022

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Nope.

rachel @rachel_schnelle
I am currently at the watch party for Vicky Hartzler, as results come trickling in.
@kcur
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10:46 PM · Aug 2, 2022

In the republican party U.S. Senate primary:

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 02, 2022
Unofficial Results
as of 8/2/2022 11:12:04 PM

State of Missouri – Primary Election, August 02, 2022

Office/Candidate Name Party Votes % of Votes
U.S. Senator 3439 of 3592 Precincts Reported

Patrick A Lewis Republican 5,483 0.931%
Eric Schmitt Republican 268,326 45.575%
Billy Long Republican 27,207 4.621%
Eric Greitens Republican 112,891 19.174%
Bernie Mowinski Republican 1,417 0.241%
C.W. Gardner Republican 1,746 0.297%
Deshon Porter Republican 1,387 0.236%
Vicky Hartzler Republican 131,750 22.378%
Dave Sims Republican 1,743 0.296%
Mark McCloskey Republican 17,483 2.969%
Eric McElroy Republican 2,493 0.423%
Dennis Lee Chilton Republican 642 0.109%
Robert Allen Republican 1,822 0.309%
Dave Schatz Republican 6,741 1.145%
Hartford Tunnell Republican 553 0.094%
Kevin C. Schepers Republican 602 0.102%
Rickey Joiner Republican 962 0.163%
Robert Olson Republican 959 0.163%
Russel Pealer Breyfogle Jr Republican 589 0.100%
Darrell Leon McClanahan III Republican 992 0.168%
Curtis D. Vaughn Republican 2,971 0.505%
Party Total: 588,759

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Probably should have stayed with the 4th Congressional District.

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

东方红

29 Friday Jul 2022

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We get mail.

Perhaps our favorite image to date from among all of the 2022 republican primary campaign mailings in Missouri:

We’ve received several mail pieces paid for by a right wingnut Federal Super PAC that attack Rick Brattin (r). Not that we’re complaining. This is today’s edition:

Blah, blah, blah, RINO. Blah, blah, China, blach, blah, America last.

Blah, blah, Never-Trumper. Blah, blah, China. Blah, blah, Chinese Communist Companies. There’s an oxymoron for you – Communist Corporatist Capitalists.

So much for Ronald Raygun’s© Eleventh Commandment.

Previously:

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r) (July 25, 2022)

Paid for by somebody else…in New Hampshire

28 Thursday Jul 2022

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We get campaign mail.

Former newsreader Mark Alford (r) is one of a sea of right wingnut republicans running in the republican primary for the open seat in Missouri’s 4th congressional District.

Burn pits, anyone? Universal access to affordable healthcare? Gun violence? Death penalty? If Mark Alord (r) wins the primary will the election be “secure”? If he loses the primary will it be “stolen”? Just asking.

As opposed to “the liberals on the right”?

Try “Whip Inflation Now”. That worked out so very well.

First in what way? Like this?:

Previously:

Just two questions. For now. (October 27, 2021)

Uh, a few more questions (November 2, 2021)

Retail politics (June 1, 2022)

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r) (July 25, 2022)