Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, Governor Jay Nixon (D) continues to rake in the campaign contributions:

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Stephen F Meyerkord 13004 Sunny Dawn Court Saint Louis MO 63127 Meyerkord & Meyerkord, LLC Attorney 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Schultz & Summers Engineering, Inc. 3287 Bagnell Dam Boulevard Lake Ozark MO 65049 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Michele M Schaefer 5260 S. Holland Avenue Springfield MO 65810 Mercy Health Administrator 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

There’s quite a lot more:

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Gori, Julian & Associates, PC 156 N. Main Street Edwardsville IL 62025 3/29/2012 $25,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Carolyn Noland 1516 Wellington Way Liberty MO 64068 None Homemaker 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Citizens For White 9703 N. Kenwood Court Kansas City MO 64155 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kevin A Graham 1505 Glen Brook Lane Liberty MO 64068 Flook & Graham, PC Attorney 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kurt D Pycior 1786 SW Summit Valley Drive Lees Summit MO 64081 Pycior + Co President 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI White Goss Bowers March Schulte & Weisenfels, PC 4510 Belleview Avenue Suite 300 Kansas City MO 64111 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Law Office of Lyle M. Gregory 309 S. Washington Street Raymore MO 64083 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI William H Bates 720 W. 44th Street Apt. 3007 Kansas City MO 64111 Lathrop & Gage LLP Attorney 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Jerry D Riffel 3701 Valentine Road Kansas City MO 64111 Lathrop & Gage LLP Attorney 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Timothy K McNamara 626 W. 58th Street Kansas City MO 64113 Lathrop & Gage LLP Attorney 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI McClelland Law Firm, PC 200 Westwoods Drive Liberty MO 64068 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Friends of Greg Canuteson 20 E. Franklin Street Liberty MO 64068 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lathrop & Gage LLP 2345 Grand Boulevard Kansas City MO 64108 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Diane D Bradshaw 1231 Huntington Road Kansas City MO 64113 None Homemaker 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kansas City Power & Light Company PO Box 418679 Kansas City MO 64141 3/29/2012 $10,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Hackley Associates PO Box 40 Oak Grove MO 64075 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Fred Palmer 57 Fair Oaks Drive Saint Louis MO 63124 Peabody Energy Senior VP of Government Relations 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lynn Britton 1117 Shepard Oaks Drive Wildwood MO 63038 Mercy Health CEO 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Lloyd J Carmichael 2659 E. Normandy Street Springfield MO 65804 Carmichael & Neal, PC Attorney 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Marie Carmichael 908 S. Augusta Drive Springfield MO 65809 Affordable Homes Realtor 3/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/31/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Marie Glancy 25 Ladue Terrace Saint Louis MO 63124 Mercy Health Chief Advocacy Officer 3/29/2012 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

And yesterday, for Governor Nixon:

C001135 03/30/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Jack M House 337 Mason Ridge Drive Saint Charles MO 63304 The Boeing Company VP of Supplier Management 3/28/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/30/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Evans Richardson 16600 Jamestown Forest Drive Florissant MO 63034 The Boeing Company Director of Government Relations 3/28/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/30/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sam Cook 238 Madison Street Jefferson City MO 65101 Central Bank Senior Chairman 3/28/2012 $1,000.00

Yesterday, Dave Spence (r) had a few contributions:

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Harold Wiese 2 Fair Oaks St Louis MO 63124 WieseUSA Bus Mgr 3/30/2012 $5,000.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR John Gentry 423 N. Campbell Ave. Springfield MO 65806 Positronics President 3/30/2012 $5,000.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Drury Development Corp. 721 Emerson Road Ste. 200 St Louis MO 63141 3/30/2012 $10,000.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Marion Oertli 12764 Spruce Pond Dr. St Louis MO 63131 Self Homemaker 3/30/2012 $1,250.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Menlo Smith 15009 Manchester Rd. #284 Ballwin MO 63011 Sunmark Capital Chairman 3/30/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Douglas Mertzlufft 4815 Forder Oaks Ct. St Louis MO 63129 Guarantee Electrical CFO 3/30/2012 $1,250.00

C111205 03/30/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Paul Vogel 25 Deerfield Rd. St Louis MO 63124 Argos Partners LLC Executive 3/30/2012 $2,500.00

Not quite in the same volume.

This past week, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 03/16/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Carlos A Perez 1415 S. Fairway Avenue Springfield MO 65804 Retired Retired 3/14/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/16/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kim Day 2328 Celebration Avenue Springfield MO 65809 Mercy Health President of Central Region 3/14/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/16/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Dennis A Muilenburg 34 Country Club Drive Edwardsville IL 62025 The Boeing Company Executive Vice President 3/14/2012 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

Oh, yes, there’s a lot more:

C001135 03/17/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI David L Steward 309 Wyndmoor Terrace Court Town and Country MO 63141 World Wide Technology Chairman 3/15/2012 $10,000.00

C001135 03/17/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Christopher M Chadwick 482 Pine Bend Drive Wildwood MO 63005 The Boeing Company President of Boeing Military Aircraft 3/15/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/19/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Richard A Mendenhall 2212 Shepard Boulevard Columbia MO 65201 RE/MAX Boone Realty Real Estate Agent 3/17/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/20/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI John Wright 9195 W. Graham Road Rocheport MO 65279 Rollins Capital Investor 3/18/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/21/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Kevin Cantwell 5568 Hennsley Circle Weldon Spring MO 63304 Big River Telephone CEO 3/19/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/21/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Edward Pinegar 850 Farm Road 56 Springfield MO 65803 Pinegar Chevrolet Owner 3/19/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/21/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Andrew O Brien 815 Geyer Avenue Saint Louis MO 63104 O’Brien Law Firm Attorney 3/19/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/21/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Dominium Development Acquisition, LLC 2905 Northwest Boulevard Suite 150 Plymouth MN 55441 3/19/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/21/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Shannon Sock 6319 Waterman Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 Mercy Health Executive Vice President 3/19/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/22/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Benchmark HM LLC 1795 Clarkson Road Suite 200 Chesterfield MO 63017 3/20/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/22/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI UFCW Local 655 Elect Political Fund 300 Weidman Road Ballwin MO 63011 3/20/2012 $10,000.00

C001135 03/22/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 36 2319 Chouteau Avenue Suite 100 Saint Louis MO 63103 3/20/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/22/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI William Showalter 2126 Kehrs Ridge Drive Chesterfield MO 63005 Mercy Health Vice President & CIO 3/20/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Robert M Robuck 418 Crystal View Terrace Jefferson City MO 65109 Central Bank Chairman 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PO Box 1088 Ridgefield CT 06877 3/21/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Bristol-Myers Squibb Company PO Box 840769 Houston TX 77284 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Thomas Hale 12749 Topping Acres Saint Louis MO 63131 Mercy Health Medical Director – Center for Innovative Care 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Debra L Rub 2024 Kingspointe Drive Chesterfield MO 63005 The Boeing Company VP of Missiles & Unmanned Airborne 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Central Bancompany PAC 238 Madison Street Jefferson City MO 65101 3/21/2012 $5,675.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Cathy Steele 1006 Orchard Lakes Drive Saint Louis MO 63146 Self Attorney 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI David L Steward II PO Box 1724 Maryland Heights MO 63043 Lion Forge, LLC CEO 3/21/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Flotron & McIntosh, LLC PO Box 2051 Jefferson City MO 65101 3/21/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Johnston & Associates, Inc. 904 W. Main Street Suite 100 Jefferson City MO 65109 3/21/2012 $1,250.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Bruce H Wilson 3704 Shadow Glen Court Columbia MO 65203 Retired Retired 3/21/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/23/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI West Gate JC, LLC 302 Campusview Drive Suite 203 Columbia MO 65201 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

And Dave Spence (r), in the same time frame?:

C111205 03/16/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Philip von Gontard 9762 Old Warson Road St Louis MO 63124 Self Financial Advisor 3/16/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Al Koller III 1227 Devonworth Chesterfield MO 63017 Koller Enterprises President 3/21/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Eugene Johnson Jr 61 Fair Oaks St Louis MO 63124 Anheuser-Busch Sales 3/21/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Kimberly Diederich 6 Countryside Lane St Louis MO 63131 Self Homemaker 3/21/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/23/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Derek Glanvill 552 Eagles Nest Ct. Wildwood MO 63011 McCarthy Building Companies President & COO 3/23/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/23/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Woodard Cleaning & Restoration Inc. 2600 Creve Coeur Dr. St Louis MO 63144 3/23/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/23/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Content180 LLC 111 West Pacific Ave. St Louis MO 63119 3/23/2012 $5,000.00

C111205 03/23/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Chase McKeague 111 West Pacific Ave. St Louis MO 63119 Chase and Company Principal 3/23/2012 $5,000.00

What, nothing from organized labor (working people!)?

There is a difference.

Previously: Campaign Finance: on any given Sunday (March 11, 2012)

At the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C001135 03/08/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI William A Peck 32 Huntleigh Downs Saint Louis MO 63131 Washington University Director of Center for Health Policy 3/6/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/08/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI James Carrington 8025 Maryland Avenue Clayton MO 63105 Danforth Plant Science Center President 3/6/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/09/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI John McDonnell 1 Serendipity Lane Saint Louis MO 63131 Retired Retired 3/7/2012 $2,000.00

C001135 03/09/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Robert Lee Stanton 800 Stanton Drive Rock Port MO 64482 Self Farmer 3/7/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/09/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Roger Johnson, PC 510 W. 6th Street Joplin MO 64801 3/7/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/09/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Gary W Pulsipher 2613 Water’s Edge Boulevard Joplin MO 64801 St. John’s Mercy Hospital President 3/7/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/09/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Gary R Evans 3004 Woodkirk Lane Columbia MO 65203 Mid-Missouri Properties Owner 3/7/2012 $1,000.00

[emphasis added]

It just doesn’t ever stop. Heh.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: take that, Dave, and everybody else (March 7, 2012)

Dave Spence (r): campaign staff – another social promotion (March 6, 2012)

Campaign Finance: your turn, Governor Nixon (D) (March 5, 2012)

Campaign Finance: early March salvo (March 5, 2012)

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C111205 03/08/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Simon Katz 7914 Park Dr. St Louis MO 63117 Simons Jewelers Owner 3/8/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/08/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Paul Fleischut 100 N. Broadway 17th Floor St Louis MO 63102 Senniger Powers Patent Attorney 3/8/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/08/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR William Holekamp 6767 North Ocean Blvd. Ocean Ridge FL 33435 Holekamp Capital President 3/8/2012 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Maybe dropping $50,000.00 on the republican governor of Florida is considered a waste of money. Heh.

Previously: “We don’t approve of what he did, except we do.” (February 1, 2011)

From a Dave Spence (r) gubernatorial campaign press release:

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                    

Contact: Stacy Washington

March 5th, 2012                                

(314) 395-9392

Spence Campaign Opens New Office Location and Announces Key Staff

….”We are committed to building the best voter turnout operation of this election cycle, and our new office will be a hub for volunteers in the initial phase of the campaign,” said Spence.  “My knowledgeable and eager campaign team comes from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.  I am confident in their ability to get our pro-jobs message out to the voters by organizing and energizing the grassroots leaders that help win elections,” Spence added….

….Robert Knodell is Deputy Campaign Manager for Political Operations after serving for the past year as Political Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  Robert was Executive Director of the Missouri House Republican Campaign Committee for four years in which Republicans made historic gains in the State House.

Knodell will team with two well-known grassroots leaders in the Spence political effort….

[emphasis added]

The Spence campaign must really like robocalls:

“We don’t approve of what he did, except we do.” (February 1, 2011)

Talk about failing upward. Remember this, one of the ugliest campaign attacks of the 2010 election?:

Female voice: This is an urgent alert for all Christian families. Before you vote you should know that state representative candidate Courtney Cole has taken hundreds in campaign donations from a representative of the hard core pornography industry, including gay pornography. By allowing her Democratic campaign to be funded by those who are involved with and support hard core pornography Courtney Cole clearly does not share our Christian family values. On election day stand up for what’s right and decent by voting no on Courtney Cole. Paid for by House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc.

[emphasis added]

Who was responsible for that?:

HRCC robocall in the 121st Legislative District: desperation and homophobia (October 27, 2010)

….The folks in the HRCC who paid for this robocall were walking with Denny Hoskins (r-noun, verb, CPA) and wearing his campaign t-shirt in last weekend’s homecoming parade in Warrensburg:

Dave Hageman, Missouri Executive Director of Victory Enterprises (left) and

Robert Knodell, Executive Director of the House Republican Campaign Committee (right)

That makes it difficult for Denny Hoskins (r-noun, verb, CPA) to distance himself from the HRCC, don’t you think?….

[emphasis added]

Robo calls accuse candidate of porn ties

Posted: 10.28.2010 at 11:49 AM Updated: 10.29.2010 at 9:30 AM

….The message says it’s paid for by the House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc. That is not the Missouri Republican Party. I called the campaign committee and left messages, and didn’t hear anything back. KHQA did get a statement from the Missouri Republican Party. It says it did not authorize, approve, or pay for this campaign activity….

[emphasis added]

Ooh. The Missouri republican Party was so upset that they disavowed any knowledge of the robocall. Wink, wink.

Today we find out that maybe the Missouri republican Party does approve (via Randy Turner at The Turner Report) because they gave Robert Knodell a new job:

…Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, announced today that Robert Knodell will join the MOGOP as Political Director. Knodell will be in charge of legislative outreach and grassroots organization throughout the state as we build upon our 2010 victories at the federal, state, and local levels and move forward into the 2012 election cycle.

Knodell, a Poplar Bluff native and graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, has spent the last four years as Executive Director of the House Republican Campaign Committee. During his time at the HRCC, Republicans have made historic gains in the State House. Thanks to strong candidate recruitment and outstanding campaigns, the GOP now holds an unprecedented 106-57 majority in that chamber…

[emphasis added]

They left out the stuff about dog whistle homophobic and “family values” attack robocalls. I wonder why. They said they didn’t approve.

Maybe it was a social promotion.

Previously:

HRCC robocall in the 121st Legislative District: desperation and homophobia (October 27, 2010)

The Missouri HRCC steps in it with homophobic robocalls (October 28, 2010)

Tilley (r) on HRCC robocalls: Uh, that didn’t go very well, did it? (October 28, 2010)

Tilley (r) on HRCC robocalls: “But, but, the Democrats are mean to us…” (October 29, 2010)

Tilley (r), the HRCC robocalls, and the media: “…testing, testing, testing, is this thing on?” (October 29, 2010)

Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal Headline: “GOP robocall attacks Cole’s ‘family values'” (October 29, 2010)

Campaign Finance: old media needs to learn to do some freakin’ research (October 29, 2010)

I guess I’m going to have to go with “No Comment” (October 29, 2010)

Another Democrat fights sleazy robocalls (October 30, 2010)

HRCC? What HRCC? I ju
st like their swag… (October 30, 2010)

Missouri’s HRCC and the robocalls: follow the money (October 31, 2010)

HRCC? What HRCC? I’ve never heard of them… (November 1, 2010)

I see nothing! I know nothing! (November 24, 2010)

HRCC? What HRCC? I’ve never heard of them, part 2 (December 2, 2010)

Yep, another social promotion.

Missouri voters and Governor Jay Nixon (D) should probably expect a lot of interesting robocalls in the upcoming election.

Ping pong, anyone?

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR John Ross Jr 31 Glen Eagles Dr. St Louis MO 63124 Self Commercial Real Estate 3/5/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR John Capps 12 Huntleigh Woods Dr. St Louis MO 63131 Suntrup Kia of West County Auto Dealer 3/5/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR David Sindelar 10630 Ballantrae Dr. Frontenac MO 63131 Viasystems CEO 3/5/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Edward Baur 9008 Haverford Terrace St Louis MO 63117 Retired Retired 3/5/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Steven Hays 12334 Ironstone Rd. Des Peres MO 63131 RubinBrown LLP Partner 3/5/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/05/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Frank Guyol III 9707 Conway Rd. St Louis MO 63124 Ronnoco Coffee Co. Executive 3/5/2012 $2,500.00

[emphasis added]

Interesting demographic.

Previously: Campaign Finance: early March salvo (March 5, 2012)

At the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C111205 03/01/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Robert Holmes Jr 88 Lake Forest Dr. St Louis MO 63117 The Private Bank Executive 3/1/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/01/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Robert Elsperman 1103 Corrington Ct. Town and Country MO 63017 Tarlton Contractor 3/1/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 03/01/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Douglas Woodruff 11 Claychester Dr. St Louis MO 63131 DFC Group Inc. Consultant 3/1/2012 $2,000.00

C111205 03/01/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Equis Hospitality Management LLC 1034 Brentwood Blvd. Ste. 2020 St Louis MO 63117 3/1/2012 $2,500.00

[emphasis added]

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Jennifer Yocham Poersch 608 Woodland Terrace Alexandria VA 22302 Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates Senior Vice President 2/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Martin Sellers 707 W. Allens Lane Philadelphia PA 19119 Sellers Dorsey CEO 2/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Nixon Peabody LLP 1100 Clinton Square Rochester NY 14604 2/29/2012 $2,500.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Mark Jess 1600 Genessee Street Suite 842 Kansas City MO 64102 Employee Rights Law Firm Attorney 2/29/2012 $10,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Jacqueline Mesa 5327 Allandale Road Bethesda MD 20816 Commodity Futures Trading Commission Director of Office of International Affairs 2/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Friends of Bud Cramer PO Box 2621 Huntsville AL 35804 2/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Charles Hatfield 1825 Chelle Court Jefferson City MO 65101 Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attorney 2/29/2012 $750.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI John Blandford 5716 N. Kings Highway Alexandria VA 22303 Self Consultant 2/29/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/02/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Fred Palmer 57 Fair Oaks Drive Saint Louis MO 63124 Peabody Energy Senior VP of Government Relations 2/29/2012 $5,000.00

C001135 03/03/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Pfizer, Inc. 235 E. 42nd Street New York NY 10017 3/1/2012 $12,000.00

C001135 03/04/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI John Christiansen 1021 W. 67th Terrace Kansas City MO 64113 Self Attorney 3/2/2012 $1,000.00

C001135 03/04/2012 JAY NIXON FOR MISSOURI Sellers-Sexton Ford 341 VFW Memorial Drive Saint Robert MO 65584 3/2/2012 $4,359.11

[emphasis added]

No contest.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Jennifer Bukowsky 810 E. Walnut St. Columbia MO 65201 Self Attorney 2/28/2012 $750.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Andrew Thome 21 Danfield Rd. St Louis MO 63124 JW Terrill President 2/28/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Kevin Maher 27 Upper Ladue Rd. St Louis MO 63124 St. Charles Automotive President 2/28/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Caryn Lamping 2 Waron Hills St Louis MO 63124 Self Homemaker 2/28/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Steven Trulaske Sr 7700 Forsyth Blvd. Ste. 1220 St Louis MO 63105 True Manufacturing Co. Executive 2/28/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Hal Ball 11 Kirken Knoll Dr. St Louis MO 63131 Hilliker Corp. VP/Principal 2/28/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Hilliker Corporation 2001 South Hanley Ste. 300 St Louis MO 63144 2/28/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR LUXCO 5050 Kemper Ave. St Louis MO 63139 2/28/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 02/28/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Robert Byrne Jr 18 Manderleigh Est St Louis MO 63131 Huntleigh/Byrne Executive 2/28/2012 $2,000.00

[emphasis added]

Okay.

And, at the Missouri Secretary of State, also today:

UNOFFICIAL Candidate Filing List

Primary

Ballot Placement: First day filers (2/28/2012) selected a number by random drawing to determine their placement on the primary ballot. After the first day, all candidates are placed on the ballot in order of their filing.

All Candidates and parties are listed in ballot order.

Governor

Democrat

Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon 100 MADISON ST

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65101 572 2/28/2012

4:19 p.m.

Leonard Steinman 110 N LINCOLN ST

JEFFERSON CITY MO 65101 918 2/28/2012

12:03 p.m.

Republican

John D. Weiler 1740 CHERRY BLOSSOM CT

PEVELY MO 63070 215 2/28/2012

10:51 a.m.

David “Dave” Spence 2021 WARSON RD S

ST LOUIS MO 63124 236 2/28/2012

8:30 a.m.

Bill Randles P.O. BOX 734

LIBERTY MO 64069 454 2/28/2012

9:39 a.m.

All that money and the luck of the draw doesn’t get you top ballot placement. Bummer. Maybe the U.S. Supreme Court could do something about that.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Missouri GOP gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence and Mitt Romney, who is sorta, kinda, occasionally, the leading GOP presidential candidate, have lots in common:

1. Spence is rich and Romney is rich (though to be fair, Romney isn’t just rich, he’s super-rich).

2. Given the newfound media concern about the growing financial chasm between the 99% and the 1%, both want to downplay that fact. Spence and his surrogates (i.e., Peter Kinder) emphasize the self-made millionaire angle. Ditto Romney –  when he isn’t choking on his silver spoon. Who could forget Mitt’s stories about his days as an unemployed millionaire. Or the Mitt who’s qualified to feel our pain because he’s lived in the “real streets of America,” which he apparently confuses with the private streets in a spate of exclusive, gated communities.

3. Both Romney and Spence have what we euphemistically refer to as a problem with the truth:

— Romney has a particularly rich record in this regard. So much so that Steve Benen began keeping track of Mitt’s fibs on a weekly basis at the Washington Monthly; you can find some of those compilations here, here and here. Benen has continued collecting Mitt’s whoppers in his new job at The Maddow Blog, where he posts them each Friday (read the last two weeks’ worth here and here).

— Although he has been in the public eye for a much shorter time, Spence is no piker when it comes to concocting convenient narratives. We all know the story of his home economics degree by now, and we also know that, contrary to what he tried to imply, he meant to deceive and he’d been doing so for some time. If that isn’t enough, Spence’s effort to evade responsibility for the TARP misadventures of Reliance Bank while he sat on the Board of Directors – from which he profited handsomely – smells just about as fishy.

4. Both men like to brag that they have demonstrated that they have what it takes to govern because they were successful businessmen. Remember the last CEO who was elected president? A genial go-getter named Herbert Hoover who managed to dig the great depression even deeper with his conservative business management ideas.

As far as that goes, we’ve already seen that, in Romney’s case, running a for-profit didn’t translate that well into running a state. There are, believe it or not, differences between government and the world of finance. During his stint as Governor of Massachusetts, which was flattened by the 2001 recession, the state ranked 47th in job creation.

Whether or not Spence would do better is, of course, moot, but the ideas he’s putting out there on the topic of jobs don’t suggest that he’ll bring anything to the table that you couldn’t find by tapping any run-of-the-mill GOP hack.

So there you have it. Big-time presidential Tweedledum and (relatively) small-time gubernatorial Tweedledee.* A couple of millionaires who, now that they have time to kill after feathering their nest in the world of finance, want to feather their caps in the public sphere.

*Slightly edited for clarity.  

A republican candidate for governor of Missouri pandering to the 27% today, via Twitter:

Dave Spence @spenceformo

Gov. Nixon fails to protect Religious Liberty. Is this right for Missouri? Sound-off here and RT our Poll! #MOGOV [….] 11:42 AM – 21 Feb 12

At Dave Spence’s (r) campaign web site: “Governor Nixon opposes rules that protect Religious Liberty from Obamacare. Do you support this?”

Uh, quite probably:

February 14, 2012 6:30 PM

Poll: Most back mandating contraception coverage

….According to a survey, conducted between Feb. 8-13, 61 percent of Americans support federally-mandated contraception coverage for religiously-affiliated employers; 31 percent oppose such coverage.

The number is similar among self-professed Catholics surveyed: 61 percent said they support the requirement, while 32 percent oppose it….

Dave Spence can’t think he’s appealing to Independents or Democrats. But that appears to be a problem for many republican candidates:

CBS News Polls: 2/14/12

….q41 Do you think the Republican presidential candidates have been mostly talking about issues that matter to all Americans, or mostly talking about issues that mainly matter just to Republicans?

** REGISTERED VOTERS **

*** Party ID ***

Matter to all Americans

Total – 33%

Rep – 61%

Dem – 14%

Ind – 28%

Mainly to Republicans

Total – 58%

Rep – 29%

Dem – 78%

Ind – 62%

DK/NA

Total – 9%

Rep – 10%

Dem – 8%

Ind – 10%

[emphasis added]

Distraction by wedge issue is a feature, not a bug.

Why they fight, today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C111205 02/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Patrick Heath 704 Havenwood Ct. St Louis MO 63122 ALMCO Sales 2/21/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 02/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Tracy Hart 56 Hill Dr. Glendale MO 63122 Tarlton Contractor 2/21/2012 $1,000.00

C111205 02/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Parker Condie Jr 8 Colonial Hills Dr. St Louis MO 63141 Coin Acceptors Executive 2/21/2012 $2,500.00

C111205 02/21/2012 SPENCE FOR GOVERNOR Chemline Inc. 5151 Natural Bridge St Louis MO 63115 2/21/2012 $5,000.00

They can’t care about contraception, can they?