Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission in support of “right to get paid less”:

171367 04/12/2018 Freedom To Work Rudolph Farber 100 North Wood St Neosho MO 64850 Community Bank & Trust Banker 4/11/2018 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Because working people shouldn’t be paid enough to have money in the bank?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Freedom to Work? (December 21, 2017)

Campaign Finance: they left “…for lower pay” off their committee name (February 1, 2018)

Campaign Finance: connections (February 20, 2018)

Campaign Finance: monopsony (March 29, 2018)

Campaign Finance: connections (April 10, 2018)

Erics Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission in support of the “right to get paid less” ballot initiative:

C171367 04/10/2018 Freedom To Work McDonald Logistics Inc PO Box 2026 Springfield MO 65801 4/9/2018 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

From the Missouri Secretary of State site:

Name(s) MCDONALD LOGISTICS, INC.
Address 2415 W. Battlefield Rd.
Springfield, MO 65807
Type Gen. Business – For Profit
Charter No. 00440559
Domesticity Domestic

Note the address.

And the annual registration report:

Note the addresses.

In 2016:

C151053 10/07/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI McDonald Logistics, INC PO Box 2026 Springfield MO 65801 10/6/2016 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

A connection.

In 2015:

C141342 CITIZENS FOR KRISTI FULNECKY 8 Day Before General Municipal Election-4/7/2015 Jefferson and Lynn Tynes 420 S Mumsford Ave Springfield MO 65809 Retired 03/24/2015 $50.00

[emphasis added]

In 2014:

C111150 FRIENDS OF TOM SCHWEICH October Quarterly Report Jeff Tynes 420 S Mumford Ave Springfield MO 65809 Springfield Grocer Companies/ President 09/26/2014 $1,000.00

In 2013:

C091243 FRIENDS TO ELECT BILL LANT July Quarterly Report Jefferson Tynes 4759 E. Royal Drive Springfield MO 65809 Springfield Grocer 06/09/2013 $250.00

C111150 FRIENDS OF TOM SCHWEICH October Quarterly Report Jeff Tynes 420 S Mumford Ave Springfield MO 65809 Springfield Grocer Companies 09/25/2013 $1,000.00

Different address, so they may not be the same person.

In 2012:

C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER 30 Day After General Election-11/6/2012 Jefferson Tynes 2415 W. Battlefield Springfield MO 65807 Springfield Grocers/Executive 10/31/2012 $1,000.00

Again, note the address.

Well, somebody was/is interested in a gubernatorial candidate and one of his pet issues.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Freedom to Work? (December 21, 2017)

Campaign Finance: they left “…for lower pay” off their committee name (February 1, 2018)

Campaign Finance: connections (February 20, 2018)

Campaign Finance: monopsony (March 29, 2018)

LABOR MARKET MONOPSONY: TRENDS, CONSEQUENCES, AND POLICY RESPONSES (October 2016) [pdf]

….a firm with monopsony power has the ability to pay lower prices for its inputs (i.e. what it buys). In the important case of labor markets, a monopsonistic employer can pay a lower wage than would prevail in a competitive market without losing all its workers to competing employers. Like monopoly power, monopsony generally leads to economic inefficiency. And in the labor market, it also leads to redistribution from workers to employers.

[….]

… when there are barriers that limit wage competition between firms, market discipline that compels employers to pay the going wage is weakened. In this case, assuming that similarly productive individuals vary in their “reservation wages” (the lowest wage they are willing to accept)—for example, because some must commute from longer distances—a monopsonistic firm faces a choice: it can set the wage high enough to recruit even those with high reservation wages, or it can limit employment to those who are willing to work for less and thereby keep wages low. Economic theory shows that firms with monopsony power have an incentive to employ fewer workers at a lower wage than they would in a competitive labor market. What the monopsonistic firm loses in reduced output and revenue, it more than makes up in reduced costs by paying lower wages. In other words, by recruiting less aggressively, paying less, and sacrificing some employment, employers with monopsony power can shift some of the benefits of production from wages to profits…

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the campaign to promote “right to get paid less”:

C171367 03/28/2018 Freedom To Work Airport Investment Co Inc. 755 S New Ballas Rd Suite 150 St Louis MO 63141 3/27/2018 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Gee, that doesn’t seem like much in comparison. Before yesterday:

C171367 01/05/2018 Freedom To Work A New Missouri Inc. 105 E High St Jefferson City MO 65101 1/3/2018 $750,000.00

C171367 01/06/2018 Freedom To Work New Prime Inc. 2740 N Mayfair Ave Springfield MO 65803 1/5/2018 $10,000.00

C171367 02/01/2018 Freedom To Work A New Missouri Inc. 105 E High Street Jefferson City MO 65101 1/31/2018 $400,000.00

C171367 02/01/2018 Freedom To Work Jennifer Pritzker 104 S Michigan Ave Ste 500 Chicago IL 60603 Tawani Enterprises Inc President/CEO 1/30/2018 $25,000.00

C171367 02/20/2018 Freedom To Work Richard Uihlein 1396 N Waukegan Rd Lake Forest IL 60045 Uline Inc CEO/Chairman 2/20/2018 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

$10,000.00 seems so quaint these days.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Freedom to Work? (December 21, 2017)

Campaign Finance: they left “…for lower pay” off their committee name (February 1, 2018)

Campaign Finance: connections (February 20, 2018)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission from working people for the initiative to repeal “Right to Get Paid Less”:

C171127 03/09/2018 We Are Missouri Laborers’ International Union of N.A. Local No. 42 General Fund 301 South Ewing Avenue St Louis MO 63103 3/9/2018 $50,000.00

C171127 03/09/2018 We Are Missouri Construction & General Laborers’ Local Union No. 660 2633 W. Clay St St Charles MO 63301 3/9/2018 $150,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s collective commitment.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: there are a lot more working people (July 29, 2017)

Campaign Finance: a December to remember (December 20, 2017)

Campaign Finance: this is getting serious (January 27, 2018)

Campaign Finance: teach them well (February 9, 2018)

Campaign Finance: existential threat (March 5, 2018)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, from working people opposed to “Right to Get Paid Less”:

C171127 03/05/2018 We Are Missouri Missouri AFL-CIO General Fund 227 Jefferson St Jefferson City MO 65101 3/5/2018 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’re serious about this. As they should be.