Our household received this campaign piece in yesterday’s mail:

As if Newsmax is credible for anything?

Yes, yes, let’s talk about Kansas.

Any bets on quotes taken out of context?

Improve Missouri education and healthcare? If you define that as gutting public education and keeping hundreds of thousands of people from affordable access to healthcare.

The twenty-something campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit (October 22, 2014)

Is there anyone left on the planet who seriously believes that right wingnut republicans want people to have greater access to healthcare? Any twenty-something campaign consultant who shovels this mail is either delusional or a sociopath.

Yes, it’s the PAC with the blimp that confuses supporters of legalization:

The Rex Sinquefield funded PAC Grow Missouri’s moving billboard at

the University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport near Warrensburg [file photo].

And the money comes from:

How “a broad based coalition” is now defined in Missouri and America (September 12, 2014)

[….]

The Grow Missouri PAC’s “broad based coalition” consists of $6,045,000.00 from Rex Sinquefield (in blue)

and $22,000.00 (in-kind) from Pelopidas LLC over the fourteen month existence of the PAC.

[….]

Welcome to Missouri and America in the 21st century.

But we repeat ourselves. So do they.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: how astroturf (the fake grassroots) works (August 1, 2013)

Campaign Finance: teachers are evil, except when they save kids from a tornado or a crazed gunman (May 24, 2013)

Campaign Finance: using a lot of money to beat up on teachers (May 28, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Bah, humbug! (December 25, 2013)

Campaign Finance: here’s $31,000.00, go beat up on public school teachers (February 26, 2014)

Campaign Finance: a contribution of only $20.00 is a stronger statement (April 25, 2014)

“…We smiled and waved, sittin’ there on that sack of seeds.” (September 20, 2014)

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys (October 1, 2014)

Follow the blimp, then check the area for concentrations of hot air… (October 11, 2014)

The twenty-something campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit (October 22, 2014)

Campaign Finance: maybe the blimp is running out of gas (October 24, 2014)

Our household received this campaign piece in today’s mail:

Because Kansas is doing so well? Right.

Conservative candidates need your help to make Missouri’s Economy strong again. Liberals and special interests are relentlessly trying to make it harder to run a business; they want to raise taxes to fund government, create unnecessary red tape and drive up costs that slow success.* They are counting on low voter turnout to make it happen. It’s your civic duty to vote on November 4th.

Go tell it to Kansas.

Yeah, irony of ironies, they refer to the travesty that is SB 509.

And this is particularly rich (pun intended):

….WHAT ARE WE VOTING FOR?: [….] Greater Access to Healthcare….

Is there anyone left on the planet who seriously believes that right wingnut republicans want people to have greater access to healthcare? Any twenty-something campaign consultant who shovels this mail is either delusional or a sociopath.

Yes, it’s the PAC with the blimp that confuses supporters of legalization:

The Rex Sinquefield funded PAC Grow Missouri’s moving billboard at

the University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport near Warrensburg [file photo].

And the money comes from:

How “a broad based coalition” is now defined in Missouri and America (September 12, 2014)

[….]

The Grow Missouri PAC’s “broad based coalition” consists of $6,045,000.00 from Rex Sinquefield (in blue)

and $22,000.00 (in-kind) from Pelopidas LLC over the fourteen month existence of the PAC.

[….]

Welcome to Missouri and America in the 21st century.

Great moments in political branding:

Jeff Mazur ‏@jmaz

Informing fellow #Mizzou X Lot tailgaters that #GrowMO blimp hovering above is part of dope legalization campaign. [….] 1:21 PM – 20 Sep 2014

Scott Charton ‏@ScottCharton

@jmaz One of Rex’s consultants Tweeted that he is piloting. Does that make Rex head of the Joint chiefs? 4:02 PM – 20 Sep 2014

Scott Howes ‏@tmsnbb

Pit stop in Cape [….] #GrowMO #Missouri should let the farmers grow hemp to make money 10:27 AM – 19 Sep 2014

Sean Nicholson ‏@ssnich

Real texts as #GrowMO blimp arrives in Jeff City: “Can’t read what is says…” “Looks like it is going to crash at any moment.” 3:59 PM – 19 Sep 2014

Sarah Nussbaum ‏@saratastic

I want to legalize marijuana as well! #GrowMo 4:48 PM – 20 Sep 2014

Heh.