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Campaign Finance: restocking the cupboard

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

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

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the republican state senate campaign committee:

C071094 11/07/2017 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Smithfield Foods Inc. PO Box 9004 Smithfield VA 23431 11/7/2017 $20,000.00

C071094 11/07/2017 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Anheuser Busch Companies One Busch Place St Louis MO 63118 11/7/2017 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’ll always have all the money they need.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: anticipation (November 1, 2017)

Campaign Finance: asĀ usual (November 2, 2017)

Campaign Finance: Pass the Dutchie…

12 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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…on the right hand side.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141013 02/11/2014 EASTERN MISSOURI SENATE PAC Missouri Senate Campaign Committee PO Box 754 Jefferson City MO 65102 2/11/2014 $100,000.00

C141014 02/11/2014 SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SENATE PAC Missouri Senate Campaign Committee PO Box 754 Jefferson City MO 65102 2/11/2014 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well, that’s certainly a lot of money.

Who’s who?:

C141013: Eastern Missouri Senate Pac

3220 W Edgewood Ste E Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65109

[….] Established Date: 01/16/2014

  Termination Date:

Treasurer Deputy Treasurer

Derrick Good John Sheehan

[….]

[emphasis added]

And:

C141014: Southwest Missouri Senate Pac

3220 W Edgewood Ste E Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65109

[….] Established Date: 01/16/2014

  Termination Date:

Treasurer Deputy Treasurer

Miles Ross John Sheehan

[….]

[emphasis added]

And who contributed that money to these PACs?:

C071094: Missouri Senate Campaign Committee

Po Box 754 Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65102-0754

[….] Established Date: 04/10/2007

  Termination Date:

Treasurer Deputy Treasurer

Tony Feather John Sheehan

[….]

[emphasis added]

You’d think it’d be easier just to write the checks from one source.

They do have resources to spend:

C071094: Missouri Senate Campaign Committee

Po Box 754 Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65102-0754

[….] Established Date: 04/10/2007

  Termination Date:

Information Reported On: 2014 – January Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $281,957.19

Monetary Receipts + $223,310.00

Monetary Expenditures – $49,412.33

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $173,897.67

Ending Money On Hand   $455,854.86

[emphasis added]

A few of the contributions:

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED – SUPPLEMENTAL



MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
[pdf] 1/15/2014

Committee To Elect Ron Richard

PO Box 2523

Joplin MO 64803

11/4/2013

$10,000.00

Dempsey for Senate

Two Westbury Dr.

St. Charles MO 63301

11/4/2013

$6,000.00

QC Holdings Inc.

9401 Indian Creek Pkwy Ste 1500

Overland Park KS 66210

11/14/2013

$15,000.00

Consumer Lending Alliance Inc.

92 Royster Drive

Crawfordville FL 32327

11/16/2013

$5,000.00

Citizens for Ryan Silvey.

PO Box 10626

Gladstone MO 64188

11/18/2013

$10,000.00

Enterprise Holdings Inc. PAC

600 Corporate Park Drive

St. Louis MO 63105

11/26/2013

$1,000.00

Advance America

135 N Church Street

Spartanburg SC 29306

12/12/2013

$5,000.00

Dempsey for Senate

Two Westbury Dr.

St. Charles MO 63301

12/12/2013

$4,000.00

[emphasis added]

And a whole bunch more.

Since that quarterly report:

C071094 01/07/2014 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Grow Missouri 308 E High St. Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 1/6/2014 $25,000.00

C071094 01/22/2014 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Silvey for Missouri PO Box 10626 Gladstone MO 64188 1/22/2014 $40,000.00

Yep, republicans will always have the money the need and more.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: paying Peter, who then pays Paul (January 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: “…pawn to queen’s bishop three…” (January 14, 2014)

9 lines from e-mails opposing the NewNewNew Senate Redistricting Map

13 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2012 elections, Redistricting, State Senate

As you may have noticed in the last 10 months of Senate redistricting, the process of redistricting has been hard to figure out in regards to the Senate.

After the passage of a Tentative Map on February 23rd, the window for public comment opened. Every e-mail except a few were negative. Most hit the same general points pushed by Republicans like Jim Lembke and Jane Cunningham, and there were a lot of people in the New 10th who weren’t happy either.

Presenting 10 comments from the hundreds of e-mails which stood out for various reasons.

1. (2/27/2012) I heard a comment by one of the commissioners that he did not believe this would give an advantage to either of

the political parties. “Show Me Progress” thinks otherwise –

http://www.showmeprogress.com/…

Whoops, guess we should have kept quiet for longer.

2. (2/27/2012) This is a real bummer. I don’t want to be represented by someone living 150 miles away.

Yeah, but until they elect all the Senators in years ending in 2, you’re gonna get that somewhere in Missouri. The 7/10 split is a more public and well-known example of that. But the current 3rd district was represented for 2 years by a St. Louis area Senator from 2003 to 2005 and four counties went 6 years between electing Senators. In the 7/10 split, every county in the new 10th was in an even-numbered district and elected a Senator in 2010. In the 1990s, the 28th Senate district was split in two and dispersed between the 12th and 18th districts. Thus Steve Danner was the Senator representing the Southwest Missouri from 1993 to 1995.

So, you look at the history, and Missouri has done far worse if you look at just the Senatorial districts and disregard the Senators and de-facto Senators.

As to the reaction to Jolie Justus’ de-facto stint representing East-Central Missouri. I guess we could tally to see how many respondents correctly spelled her last name.

3. (3/4/2012) Senate District 7 (Cunningham Republican, Chesterfield) in St. Louis County which is up for election this year was arbitrarily moved across the state to a very urban, Democrat district in Kansas City that previously had an even number and was therefore not up for election.

This appears purposeful to increase the Democrat vote in a very liberal area for the upcoming

critical national and state elections not to mention provide an extra Democrat senator for

the next two legislative sessions.

Who knew that a likely to be unopposed (or minimally opposed) Democratic State Senate candidate in Kansas City was going to lead to a turnout spike in the city? The second part is technically correct, we get a free Senator for 2 years, which would be awesome if we got enough Senators to mount a filibuster. But our Senate caucus can field a baseball team in 2013.

4. (3/5/2012) The population numbers in St. Louis City and County were changed enough to yield only one Republican Senator from the area in the near future rather than the present four. Without having vigorous Republican senate campaigns in St. Louis County, the needed 150,000 votes needed to win statewide elections for Republicans is lost. This map is clearly a Democrat’s and a liberal’s dream map and unfortunately the Republicans on the Commission gave away the store.

(…)

The clear advantage given away to the Democrats for the national and statewide campaigns (Obama, McCaskill, Nixon) by transferring District 7 into downtown Kansas City to energize that liberal population not only for the Democrat primary but the general election. It is hard to imagine Republicans would vote to so benefit the Democrats in such a critical election year.

If you actually look at the St. Louis election results, you’ll be amused at the calls of how unfair it is that St. Louis County wouldn’t mostly be represented by Republicans. Oh no. An area that hasn’t been won by a statewide Republican since 2000 won’t have a majority of the Senate delegation.

Also, we covered the mass conspiracy to energize the liberals with an easy District 7 win.

5. (3/5/2012) Missouri’s proposed re-districting unfairly puts Republicans up for re-election in districts disproportionately populated by Democrats. State population migration to these newly enhanced Democratic districts further disadvantages Republican candidates with the additional potential of a loss of seats.

(plays a violin)

This is a deviation from the usual talking point that people are migrating to Republican areas.

“Oh no, we won’t be able to keep a 26-8 advantage in the Missouri Senate. How unfair!”

6. (3/6/2012) Please say “no” to the new State Senatorial map. Do not succumb to the governor. The map is heavily in favor of the Democratic party. It is unfair to St. Louis County residents by producing more Senators from urban areas with lower populations.

I would be very disappointed to think that my Republican Representatives are intentionally trying to push the election in favor of Obama cronies, who are bringing the demise of our country and our freedoms as we have known them since the beginning, to our country. Our children and grand-children’s futures are at stake in this next election.

Forget about infighting and do the right thing for Missouri residents and our country and say “yes” to the previous judicial map.

I can’t imagine how this line of debate didn’t succeed.

7. (3/7/2012) Please drop the uncontitutional map in Senate District 10. We do NOT want Senator Justus from Kansas City to be our senator. We did not vote for such a man!

Not sure if a subtle slur or total confusion.

The e-mails on the 7th, 8th, and 9th mainly involve people using the commission to just adopt the “2nd judicial commission map”, which is likely not constitutional anyways. Some of the e-mails advised a small fix in Springfield, which looks to have been acknowledged. One e-mailer suggested she would move to South America if Obama was re-elected.

8. (3/8/2012) Sir, I’ve been reading several article’s that are saying that the “New” redistricting maps will leave us Rural Missourians, basically, at the mercy of the Big City voters. Please do not think that us Rural People are just peons that do not know what is happening. In other words, we are not dummies that can’t read or write and/or know who we want to be our Representatives and Senators. I’ve been requested to ask you and your Commission to stay with the Second Judicial Commission Map, basically, so that we,as Rural Voters, do not have the Large City Voters telling us what to do. I thank you for your time.

“I’ve been requested to ask you” is probably not an ideal line to include in the e-mail when they’ve already gotten a variety of e-mails saying the exact same thing. Extra points for saying that, then saying that the big cities will tell us what to do. Yeah, they’re really dominating the Senate, aren’t they.

The whole Urban/Rural thing is a traditional redistricting problem which was handled in the 60s after the One-Man/One-Vote decisions. Once upon a time in Missouri, Worth County had a State Representative.

In the 2002 map, 12 districts were in Jackson County or St. Louis City/County. In the 2012 map, 11 districts were in Jackson County or St. Louis City/County. So if this map was a scheme to put down the Rural people, they sure did it subtlely.

Granted, judging by the addresses of the people bringing up the tyranny of urban districts crushing the suburbs, a lot of them are from Suburbs. The last quote was from a Rural Area though, from Bloomfield in Stoddard County, which was in the same district on the 2nd Judicial Map and the Tentative Map.

9. (3/8/2012) How can any responsible senate committee take a highly republican and
rural district like District 7 in Chesterfield and

move it to an urban, Democratic district 200 miles away?

Chesterfield? rural area? yeah, 70 years ago it was. Now? Not quite.

Barring more successful lawsuits, the Senate Redistricting Saga is over. And despite hundreds of e-mails saying the same thing, the vote went from 8-2 to 10-0. Amazing how trying to appeal to partisanship failed to swing the 4 pro-map Republicans away from their map. Amazing.

Now we live in a tyrannical state where Democrats have a shot at 10 of 34 Senate seats. Maybe 13 or 14 if the Republican partisans move to South America in 2013. Get your duct tape.

Giant Wrench thrown into 2012 State Senate Elections

17 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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The Redistricting and Re-Redistricting of the Senate got shot down today by the Missouri Supreme Court due to having too many splits of Jackson and Greene Counties and the attempted replacement of the first Map. The MO Supremes also directed the Congressional Redistricting case to a trial court with a deadline of February 3rd.

So, the Senate Maps are going to another Citizens Commission, and the candidate filing opens on February 28th. Really. (Some dispute as to what is next, KY3 says a judicial commission, even after the decision overruled their ability to revise their map.)

Remember, the map being rejected for violating the Missouri Constitution was drawn by judges. Oops.

Read Teichman v. Carnahan

Quick and Dirty analysis of population changes in State House/Senate districts

25 Friday Feb 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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The headlines out of the Census data release include SW Missouri is growing, St. Louis isn’t growing and Kansas City gets to be the largest city in Missouri. But what about the current State House and Senate districts (used for the 2002 through 2010 elections and due to be modified for 2012 through 2020)?

The ideal population for a Missouri Senate district in the next redistricting is around 176145.

Three districts are over 200,000 people: SD2 (St. Charles/Lincoln), SD20 (Counties surrounding Springfield, but not Springfield), and SD8 (Blue Springs/Lee’s Summit).

Three districts are under 150,000 people: SD14 (North St. Louis County), SD9 (Kansas City) and SD4 (St. Louis City).

For those wondering, these districts have around 186,000 people or more right now: SD17 (Clay County), SD29 (Stone, Taney, Lawrence, Ozark, McDonald, Barry Counties), SD31 (Johnson, Cass, Bates, Vernon Counties), SD26 (Franklin, Warren, West County STL), SD16 (Rolla, Pulaski County, Dent County, Gasconade County, assorted other places), and SD19 (Boone and Randolph Counties)

These districts have 166000 or fewer people: SD21 (Lafayette, Saline, Ray, Carroll, Cooper, etc), SD7 (STL County, in-between West and North County), SD10 (Kansas City, shaped like an overhead projector), SD18 (Northeast Missouri), SD13 (North County STL), and SD5 (STL City).

State Senate redistricting splits very few counties (Jefferson, Greene, Clay, STL County, STL City, and Jackson County). Soon people will mess around with the countyswapping needed to get a map that doesn’t violate one-man one vote.

Amongst districts entirely in one county, SD22 (McKenna, termed out in 2014) is almost exactly fine as it is. SD3 (Engler, termed out) needs a few thousand more people. SD33 (Purgason, termed out) needs to shed some population, which would go to SD3 or SD25 (Mayer, termed out). SD27 (Crowell, termed out) also needs some more people. Sensing a trend in the area’s legislative team?

Jackson County is 30,000 below the ideal population to support four state senate districts, so one of the four districts should go into another county. In an ideal world.

As for the State House.. the ideal district will have 36742 people in it. The districts we have in place vary from 72365 people (HD13) to 27412 (HD61). The Math experts reading this can deduce that HD13 could almost be split in 2 and be legal (as of now, it’d need to be split in two with some parts taken from other populated St. Charles County districts).

The House districts with under 30000 people are HD43 (KCMO), HD64 (STL), HD41 (KCMO), HD60 (STL), HD57 (STL), and HD61 (STL). The least populated district not in Jackson County or the city of St. Louis is HD78 (30572 people) in Northwest STL County. HD162 (New Madrid) has 31602 people.

Eight House districts have between 45769 and 58725 people. The biggest of these is HD35 in Clay County. HD19 in Calloway County has almost 50,000 people. HD134 in Greene County has 48531. HD11 (Lincoln County) has over 48,000 as well. HD142 (Christian/Taney Counties) has 47928 people. HD24 (Boone County, Chris Kelly) has 46896 people. HD141 (Christian, Lawrence and Stone Counties) has 46328 people and HD38 (Clay County) had 45769.

61 of 163 districts are above the ideal total of 36742. Keep in mind that these districts were all around 34K when drawn after 2000. Things change. So essentially there’s going to be some creative line drawing to get the suburbs and SW MO under 37K while getting the urban districts up to the totals needed.

The number of districts in KC and STL is probably gonna go down as well. Jackson County can fit around 18 districts into the county, down from the 19 Jackson County districts after 2000. STL City can fit 8 districts completely in the city limits with room to make up the majority of a district with STL County. Right now STL City has 8 whole districts, 3/4ths of a district, and half of a 10th district.

For the sake of comparison, St. Charles County can now fit 9 whole districts with the majority of a 10th, up from having 8 entire districts.

Feel free to dig around the American Factfinder website to figure out more about the results of the 2010 Census.

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