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

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

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131097 12/23/2014 GROW MISSOURI TeachGreat.Org 308 E. High Street Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 12/22/2014 $19,141.10

[emphasis added]

It’s a monetary contribution. We checked.

C121045: Teachgreat.Org

308 E High St Ste 301 Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65101

[….] Established Date: 01/27/2012

[….]

Information Reported On: 2014 – 30 Day After General Election-11/4/2014

Beginning Money on Hand $33,685.01

Monetary Receipts + $10.09

Monetary Expenditures – $9,318.04

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     ($9,307.95)

Ending Money On Hand   $24,377.06

[emphasis added]

Not much left after that. We’ll see if there’s anything after the next quarterly report.

C131097: Grow Missouri

308 E High St Ste 301 Committee Type: Political Action

Jefferson City Mo 65101

[….] Established Date: 07/08/2013

[….]

Information Reported On: 2014 – 30 Day After General Election-11/4/2014

Beginning Money on Hand $1,527,083.78

Monetary Receipts + $0.00

Monetary Expenditures – $120,556.29

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     ($120,556.29)

Ending Money On Hand   $1,406,527.49

[emphasis added]

There’s plenty enough there to bring back the blimp.

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)

The campaign consultants who spend Rex Sinquefield’s money think your stoopit – part 2 (October 28, 2014)

Free advertising.

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

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

On starting the initiative petition process for the legalization of marijuana in Missouri (via Facebook):

John W. Payne

13 hrs · St. Louis, MO

In the last 36 hours, I have done interviews with KMOX, the International Business Times, KMOV, Columbia Missourian, KCOU, Saint Louis Public Radio, KTRS, KMBZ, KFVS-12, Kansas City Business Journal, Kansas City Public Radio, and a little newspaper outlet called the Washington Post.

Probably my favorite exchange throughout the whole process was when Jonathan Weir at KMBZ called this morning and right before we went live, he said, “So you guys turned in the petition and now you have some sort of blimp over here. Is that right?”

The libertarians are probably really happy about all that free advertising.

It would be Karma for a St. Louis billionaire’s legacy to consist solely of the state of Missouri populated in the near and distant future by undereducated stoners working minimum wage jobs.

That’s a feature, not a bug, right?

Previously:

Not so fast on grounding that blimp… (November 6, 2014)

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

It looks like I took to Twitter too soon:

Michael Bersin ‏@MBersin

To make the astroturf PAC mailings and TV ads stop. Plus, I want to ground the blimp. #WhyImVoting

5:22 AM – 4 Nov 2014

The first proposed initiative petition for the 2016 election cycle is:

2016-001

Submitted by:

Dan Viets

Show-Me Cannabis Regulation

15 N. 10th Street

Columbia, MO 65201

[….]

Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:

One new section is adopted to be known as Article I, section 36 and to read as follows:

35(a) 1. Citizens over the age of twenty-one years shall have the right to engage in the production, sale, distribution, and consumption of marijuana and the manufacture of goods from hemp….

[….]

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

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

Bring back the blimp!  

Hoover: Kent is a legacy, Otter. His brother was a ’59, Fred Dorfman.

Flounder: He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.

Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case.

Otter, Boon: Like Fred.

A Rex Sinquefield funded PAC dropped even more money on the legacy in the 24th Senate District race (yesterday, via the Missouri Ethics Commission::

C141179 10/31/2014 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI Grow Missouri 308 E High Street Jefferson City MO 65101 10/31/2014 $112,013.00

[emphasis added]

It was an in-kind [pdf] contribution. Maybe it was a Halloween ride on the blimp.

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

the University of Central Missouri’s Skyhaven Airport near Warrensburg this morning.

Heh.

Previously:

Jill Schupp (D) versus the legacy (r) in the 24th Senate District (October 25, 2014)

Campaign Finance: paving the legacy’s path to the Senate in gold (October 19, 2014)

Campaign Finance: polling, polling, polling… (September 24, 2014)

Campaign Finance: all in on the legacy (September 23, 2014)

Campaign Finance: supporting the legacy in $10,000.00 increments (September 5, 2014)

Campaign Finance: legacies (August 27, 2014)

“He said legacies usually get asked to pledge automatically.” (August 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: all that money in the 24th Senate District republican primary (August 3, 2014)

Campaign Finance: 24th Senate District – July quarterly campaign finance reports (July 18, 2014)

Campaign Finance: end of quarter confidence in the 24th Senate District (July 3, 2014)

Campaign Finance: 24th Senate District – April quarterly campaign finance reports (April 19, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Friends of the family?  (April 11, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Make room for daddy? (April 7, 2014)

Campaign Finance: trying to catch up in the 24th Senate District (March 31, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Schupp (D) and Lamping (r) in the 24th Senate District – 4th quarter 2013 (January 15, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Schupp (D) and Lamping (r) in the 24th Senate District – 3rd quarter 2013 (October 21, 2013)

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

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

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, from one right wingnut astroturf PAC to another:

C131097 10/24/2014 GROW MISSOURI TeachGreat.Org 308 E High St Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 10/23/2014 $225,000.00

[emphasis added]

Our household received this piece in the mail today:

Another mailing from the Grow Missouri PAC funded by Rex Sinquefield.

Tell it to Kansas.

Heh. They wrote “flick”. That probably makes the legalization folks smile.

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)

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

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

In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

‘Grow More’ public listening events not so public

By Alex Stuckey

JEFFERSON CITY • Missourians who spot a 200-foot-long blimp over their city may wonder about the hashtag “#GrowMo” splashed on its side.

If not for the “Create a Great State” slogan penned above it, onlookers might think it’s an advertisement for Grow More, which advocates for legalizing marijuana in Missouri – and shares the same hashtag.

But it’s not. The blimp promotes a statewide listening tour put on by Grow Missouri, a group backed by wealthy investor Rex Sinquefield. The group’s website asks people to share their ideas on how to “Create a Great State.” It also asks visitors to “come to events.”

When and where those events are held is anyone’s guess – and some of them aren’t open to the public….

Seriously, is anyone surprised?

Previously:

“…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)