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Campaign Finance: yet another right wingnut high dollar shell game

01 Thursday Aug 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Attorney General, campaign finance, Club for Growth Action, Defend Missouri PAC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts, Will Scharf

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a right wingnut PAC:

C232453 08/01/2024 Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee Paul Singer 340 ROYAL POINCIANA WAY Suite 317-150 Palm Beach FL 33480 Elliott Investment Management Co-CEO/President/Co-CIO 8/1/2024 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

What they’re paying for – via Missouri Ethics Commission “Amended 8 Day Before Primary Report” – August 1, 2024:

And, in turn, the Defend Missouri PAC pays for this:

And those hysterical television ads.

The right wingnut republican primary for Attorney Genral has been lit.

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: salting the Earth (July 31, 2024)

Campaign Finance: making the rubble bounce higher

25 Thursday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Club for Growth, Defend Missouri PAC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts, Will Scharf

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a PAC propping up Will Scharf (r) in the republican Attorney General primary:

C232374 07/25/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 Dogwood Farm Lane New Bloomfield MO 65063 7/25/2024 $1,620,000.00

C232374 07/25/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 Dogwood Farm Lane New Bloomfield MO 65063 7/24/2024 $1,050,000.00

C232374 07/25/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 Dogwood Farm Lane New Bloomfield MO 65063 7/24/2024 $395,000.00

C232374 07/25/2024 Defend Missouri The Concord Fund 8300 Boone Blvd Vienna VA 22182 7/25/2024 $1,100,000.00

[emphasis added]

$4,165,000.00 in one day. From who? Think about that for just a brief second.

And:

C232453 07/25/2024 Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee Club for Growth 2001 L Street Washington DC 20036 7/24/2024 $300,000.00

[emphasis added]

Pass the popcorn.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: predictable (July 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: You get what they pay for

25 Thursday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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31st Senate District, AFC Victory Fund, Conservative Justice PAC, gaslighting, Herzog Contracting, mailings, missouri, PACs, Paladin PAC, Primary, Rex Sinquefield, Rick Brattin, right wingnuts, The True Patriot PAC

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

[emphasis added]

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

[emphasis added]

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: What else is new?

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, Rex Sinquefield, right wingnut

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190908 07/17/2024 417 PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/17/2024 $25,000.00

C232470 07/17/2024 Cultivating Freedom PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 7/17/2024 $25,000.00

C232464 07/17/2024 Independence PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 7/17/2024 $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

[emphasis added]

Follow the money. There’s so much of it.

Campaign Finance: shell game

17 Wednesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Club for Growth Action, Defend Missouri PAC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232453 07/17/2024 Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee Club for Growth 2001 L Street Northwest Suite 600 Wahington DC 20036 7/16/2024 $1,000,000.00

C232374 07/17/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 Dogwood Farm Lane New Bloomfield MO 65063 7/17/2024 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Just passing through, eh?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Florida men (January 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a very busy day

09 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, Rex Sinquefield, right wingnut

Trickle down (depending on how you define it).

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222273 07/09/2024 Missouri Leadership PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/9/2024 $15,000.00

[emphasis added]

C000953 07/09/2024 MO Republican Party Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 7/9/2024 $27,400.00

C000953 07/09/2024 MO Republican Party Jeanne Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 7/9/2024 $27,400.00

[emphasis added]

C190942 07/09/2024 Growth and Opportunity PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 7/9/2024 $25,200.00

[emphasis added]

C222296 07/09/2024 Liberty and Justice PAC Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield 224 Bent Walnut Ln Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 7/9/2024 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

Andrew Bailey (r) must really need the money. There is a primary.

Pass the popcorn.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Minneapolis and other distant places (April 1, 2023)

Things > People (May 17, 2023)

Who? What? Who? (May 23, 2023)

Mandamus (July 22, 2023)

Campaign Finance: friends in Missouri (June 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a little money here, a little money there

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Uncategorized

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campaign finance, Club for Growth, Concord Fund, Defend Missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnut

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, just sharing the wealth:

232374 07/02/2024 Defend Missouri Club for Growth Action – Missouri Federal Committee 1700 DOGWOOD FARM LANE NEW BLOOMMFIELD MO 65063 7/2/2024 $700,000.00

[emphasis added]

From what? Arkansas? Just asking.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: You think it’s a typo? (June 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: adding it up (June 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: …the matter with Missouri… (June 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: slick

02 Tuesday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, right wingnuts

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190996 07/02/2024 Conservative Leaders of Missouri Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C171235 07/02/2024 Missouri Senior PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C131007 07/02/2024 Missouri Growth PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C151156 07/02/2024 MO Majority PAC LLC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C171229 07/02/2024 Missouri C PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

C141393 07/02/2024 Missouri AG PAC Warrenton Oil Company 2299 South Spoede Truesdale MO 63380 7/2/2024 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Spreading the…wealth, apparently.

Campaign Finance: trickle down

01 Monday Jul 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs, Rex Sinquefield, right wingnut

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232545 07/01/2024 Red Hawk PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 7/1/2024 $25,000.00

C232470 07/01/2024 Cultivating Freedom PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 6/29/2024 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

If by “trickle” you mean $25,000.00.

Campaign Finance: old method

14 Friday Jun 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PACs

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190996 06/14/2024 Conservative Leaders of Missouri New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

C171235 06/14/2024 Missouri Senior PAC New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

C141393 06/14/2024 Missouri AG PAC New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

C171229 06/14/2024 Missouri C PAC New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

C131007 06/14/2024 Missouri Growth PAC New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

C151156 06/14/2024 MO Majority PAC LLC New Day Healthcare 1839 E. Independence St Suite K Springfield MO 65804 6/13/2024 $40,000.00

[emphasis added]

Ironically, spreading the wealth.

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