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Campaign Finance: a senate candidate, a lobbyist, a state representative, and a wealthy contributor walk into a bar…

29 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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23rd Senate District, Anne Zerr, campaign finance, Carl Bearden, David Humphreys, Mark Parkinson, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, William Eigel

The punch line isn’t very funny. It is expensive.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for William Eigel’s (r) 2016 23rd Senate District primary campaign:

C151102 11/29/2015 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Self-Employed Manufacturing 11/28/2015 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s a nice round number.

From William Eigel’s (r) October 2015 quarterly campaign finance report:

C151102: Eigel For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 39 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Peters Mo 63376 Established Date: 06/05/2015
[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – October Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $135,581.00
Monetary Receipts + $15,195.00
Monetary Expenditures – $14,287.01
Contributions Made – $500.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $407.99
Ending Money On Hand $135,988.99

[emphasis added]

There’s quite an interesting group sitting around that campaign kitchen table:

C151102: Eigel For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 39 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Peters Mo 63376 Established Date: 06/05/2015
[….]

Candidate Treasurer Deputy Treasurer
William Eigel Carl Bearden Mark Parkinson

Election History
Election Year Primary Outcome General Outcome Political Office
2016 State Senator District 23

That probably doesn’t make Anne Zerr (r) who also running in the 23rd Senate District in 2016 very happy. But, then again, she’s probably not too worried:

C071253: Anne Zerr For Missouri

Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 1191 Party Affiliation: Republican
St Charles Mo 63302-1191 Established Date: 09/28/2007
[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – October Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $168,677.78
Monetary Receipts + $48,285.00
Monetary Expenditures – $4,483.88
Contributions Made – $5,500.00
Other Disbursements – $5,242.05
Subtotal $33,059.07
Ending Money On Hand $201,736.85

[emphasis added]

Pass the popcorn.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: 23rd Senate District – now there are three (June 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: Voilà! An instant campaign in the 23rd Senate District… (June 23, 2015)

Who are the AFP BFFs in the Missouri legislature?

16 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by willykay in Uncategorized

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ALEC, Americans for Prosperity, Andrew Koenig, Delus Johnson, Jared Taylor, Kirk Mathews, Koch brothers, Mark Parkinson

Yesterday I wrote about the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) efforts to scare Missouri GOP legislators into complete submission to its kill-the-income-tax and death-to-all-regulation goals. It strikes me today that it would be worthwhile to list the folks who voted the AFP party line 99% of the time, thus earning an “A+” rating – and probably earning a nice little campaign stash from the Koch brothers who are the AFP’s daddies.

So in short order find below an annotated list of those who want to make Missouri into a Kochestan disaster area similar to that in Kansas. These are the folks whose “lifetime” voting scores agree 99% of the time with AFP druthers; some have only earned a straight “A” for 2015 legislative session while some of those who have slightly lower lifetime scores earned “A+” for the 2015 year, but are not listed below. Individual votes on the legislation that the AFP chose as benchmarks can be found on the scorecard. And the lifetime A+ers are:

Rep. Justin Hill (R-108): Hill, whose first served in the 2015 session, ran in 2014 on campaign themes of no-taxes, lots of guns, and making abortion harder; these themes, especially the tax rhetoric, are reflected in much the legislation he has sponsored, resulting, I assume, in the the AFP high marks he earned during his legislative novitiate.

Rep. Delus Johnson (R-009): Johnson, who in his role as House Majority Whip is a member of the GOP leadership, is a useful ally for the AFP. He keeps a low profile, votes the party line, particularly when it comes to lowering corporate taxes, although he seems to have a real animus against laws requiring motor-cycle helmets. He couches it as deference to Missouri motorcycle tourists from states without such laws, but it probably also reflects the general right-wing “nanny-state” silliness. I gotta admit though, when it comes to his more eccentric interests, he’s got me when it comes to his crusade against the yearly time-shifting caused by daylight saving time. But that’s just me.

Rep. Andrew Koenig (R-099): This piece of work, and I say this with some authority since before the recent redistricting Koenig was my Representative, is running for the State Senate next year. Poor Missouri. For the last several years I’ve followed his never-ending crusade to enact a regressive fair- or flat-tax, and his all-out war against reproductive health choice with great interest (he’s also big on stopping the teaching of evolution in public schools). He really impressed me by literally almost running out of my yard when he was canvassing door-to-door for votes and I responded to his question about choice. I never knew that I was that scary – nobody else runs away.

Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-101): Mathews has served in the lege only since 2014 and seems to have done little of note apart from voting a good anti-tax, anti union line. He ran unopposed in a heavily Republican district and identified “state sovereignty and protection of family values” as his big issues. in other words he’s a tenther, anti-abortion, anti-woman, and anti-gay. He claims to have had lots of experience with Medicaid in his business career, but since none of the key votes identified by the AFP this time around dealt with the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to any real extent, it remains to be seen how this knowledge will pan out in his policy positions.

Rep. Mark Parkinson (R-105): Parkinson has served in the lege since 2008 and apart from his tweeting propensities – he “accidentally shared” a photo of oversized male genitalia last year – he is notable for legislation clamping down on undocumented immigrants; he modeled his legislation on the draconian Arizona laws which according to Parkinson was meant to satisfy the demands of “95% of my constituents” in St. Charles.

Rep. Jared Taylor (R-139): Taylor has served since 2014 and got busy right away trying to cut benefits to children and Missouri’s poor. He has declared that “our state has to balance its budget otherwise we would be in debt, not because we don’t tax enough, but because we spend too much.” But it is his primary sponsorship of HB1285, a right-to-work bill, that likely gilded the Taylor lilly for the AFP. Otherwise, his anti-(women, common-core, union) and pro-guns stance fit the standard rightwing GOP profile.

Rob Veccovo (R-112): Like many of the A+ representatives, Vescovo has only served in the 2015 session so he has had little time to offend the sensibilities of the AFP – but he seems to be on course to keep a high rating, professing the ideology of “of smaller government, less regulations, less taxes, less intrusions and more self-reliance” all of which helps to make a healthy and happy Koch industries corporation as well as jollying up lots of other corporate CEOs.

The folks described above are the superstars of the most recent AFP scorecard. There are a few other high-achievers; I counted seven upon whom a lifetime “A” grade had been bestowed and seven with an “A-” grade. And of course there are lots of “B” grades – AFP seems to grade on the curve.

The State Senate, however, where folks are a bit more responsible, and where they usually have more legislative experience produced no “A” grades other than the three “A-” marks assigned to Senators Ed Emery (R-31), Rob Schaaf (R-34), and Eric Schmitt (R-15). But hey, an A- still represents lots of respectable effort devoted to smoothing the course for Missouri’s annexation to Kochestan.

If you care to cross-check, I think you’ll find lots of the AFP high-achievers are also members of or associated with the corporate front organization, The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – also a Koch enterprise. Ed Emery, ALEC’s man in Missouri, actually boasts of his association with the organization. Any way you look at it, the desires of the emerging American oligarchy as represented by Koch inspired front organizations is well-represented in the Missouri legislature.

Campaign Finance: Voilà! An instant campaign in the 23rd Senate District…

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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23rd Senate District, Anne Zerr, campaign finance, Mark Parkinson, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, William Eigel

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C151102 06/22/2015 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI William Eigel 53 W Meath Ring Weldon Spring MO 63304 Self-Employed Construction 6/22/2015 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

There you have it.

As if there’s just so much grassroots excitement for the impending 2016 23rd Senate District republican primary:

071208 05/27/2015 CITIZENS FOR MARK PARKINSON Mark Parkinson 3429 Indiana Avenue St Charles MO 63303 Missouri House of Representatives Candidate 5/27/2014 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Apparently it’s Anne Zerr’s (r) move next.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: self confidence (May 28, 2015)

Campaign Finance: 23rd Senate District – now there are three (June 18, 2015)

Campaign Finance: 23rd Senate District – now there are three

18 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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23rd Senate District, Anne Zerr, campaign finance, Mark Parkinson, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, William Eigel

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C151102 06/18/2015 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI Robert Eigel 1434 Trafalgar Ct. Centerville OH 45459 Retired 6/16/2015 $6,000.00

C151102 06/18/2015 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI Jeff Culbertson 15573 White Oak Ln Wright City MO 63390 National Skylight Solutions, LLC 6/16/2015 $5,001.00

[emphasis added]

MECID Committee Candidate Treasurer Deputy Treasurer Committee Type Committee Status

C151102 EIGEL FOR MISSOURI WILLIAM EIGEL CARL BEARDEN CANDIDATE Active

[emphasis added]

Carl Bearden?

The candidates in the race with committees:

Committee Name Candidate Party Office Sought Status

ANNE ZERR FOR MISSOURI ANNE ZERR R STATE SENATOR – DISTRICT 23 A

CITIZENS FOR MARK PARKINSON MARK PARKINSON R STATE SENATOR – DISTRICT 23 A

EIGEL FOR MISSOURI WILLIAM EIGEL R STATE SENATOR – DISTRICT 23 A

Pass the popcorn.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: self confidence (May 28, 2015)

Campaign Finance: self confidence

28 Thursday May 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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2016, 23rd Senate District, Anne Zerr, campaign finance, Mark Parkinson, missouri

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Mark Parkinson’s (r) 2016 23rd Senate District campaign:

071208 05/27/2015 CITIZENS FOR MARK PARKINSON Mark Parkinson 3429 Indiana Avenue St Charles MO 63303 Missouri House of Representatives Candidate 5/27/2014 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Okay.

Up to that point:

C071208: Citizens For Mark Parkinson

3429 Indiana Avenue Committee Type: Candidate

St Charles Mo 63303-6480 Party Affiliation: Republican

[….] Established Date: 09/27/2007

[….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – April Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $205.62

Monetary Receipts + $250.00

Monetary Expenditures – $152.00

Contributions Made – $0.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $98.00

Ending Money On Hand   $303.62

[emphasis added]

But wait, Anne Zerr (r) has been a candidate [pdf] in the 23rd Senate District since November:

C071253: Anne Zerr For Missouri

Po Box 1191 Committee Type: Candidate

St Charles Mo 63302-1191 Party Affiliation: Republican

[….] Established Date: 09/28/2007

  [….]

Information Reported On: 2015 – April Quarterly Report

Beginning Money on Hand $75,533.94

Monetary Receipts + $35,825.00

Monetary Expenditures – $7,182.66

Contributions Made – $250.00

Other Disbursements – $0.00

Subtotal     $28,392.34

Ending Money On Hand   $103,926.28

[emphasis added]

Pass the popcorn.

May as well

16 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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General Assembly, Mark Parkinson, meta, missouri

Covering the Missouri House of Representatives from the side gallery puts you in close proximity with the members on the floor. If they want too they can walk over to the side gallery and engage you in conversation.

This afternoon as I was photographing members in the chamber Representative Mark Parkinson (r) noticed me talking a picture of him. He walked over to the side gallery, we shook hands, and we had a pleasant enough conversation. He asked me if the photo would be on the blog.

What the heck, here it is:

Representative Mark Parkinson (r).

Representative Parkinson’s grandfather was recognized by the House in his visit to the chamber yesterday. In our conversation this afternoon Representative Parkinson told me that his grandfather’s previous visit to the House was in the 1930s. I asked him if he had asked his grandfather if he thought the chamber had changed much in appearance. Representative Parkinson replied that his grandfather said that it looked pretty much the same.  

Previously:

Rep. Mark Parkinson (r): great moments in projection (April 10, 2010)

Representative Mark Parkinson (r): I know you are, but what am I? (April 11, 2010)

Reading is fundamental… (October 1, 2011)

It’s all about jobs, right? (Otober 2, 2011)

Jefferson City: in the House – March 21, 2012 (March 21, 2012)

HB 617: you are what you eat (February 16, 2013)

Maybe the second time is the charm (February 17, 2013)

HB 640: ballots don’t kill people, people do

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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guns, HB 640, Mark Parkinson, missouri

Previously:

HB 640: the devil is always in the details (February 20, 2013)

And, we have the details:

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 640

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES PARKINSON (Sponsor), DIEHL, BAHR, FITZPATRICK, FLANIGAN, LEARA, BROWN, KELLEY (127), CURTMAN, DAVIS, REMOLE, SPENCER, CONWAY (104), ROSS, FRAKER, WALKER, FUNDERBURK AND BRATTIN (Co-sponsors).

1678H.02I   D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 571, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the purchase of firearms.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

           Section A. Chapter 571, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 571.069, to read as follows:

           571.069. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a federally licensed firearms dealer shall, consistent with the laws of this state, conduct a federal background check and sell a firearm to any person who has presented one of the following forms of identification to such dealer:

           (1) Identification issued by the federal government, state of Missouri, or a local election authority;

           (2) Identification issued by a Missouri institution of higher education, whether public or private, including a university, college, vocational and technical school;

           (3) A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or other government document that contains the name and address of the individual;

           (4) A driver’s license or state identification card issued by another state; or

           (5) An attestation from two or more federally licensed firearms dealers that they know the individual.

           2. A federally licensed firearms dealer shall run any background check required by federal law once presented with the aforementioned information under subsection 1 of this section.

[emphasis in original]

Gee, where have we seen that language before? Maybe voter ID?

This is interesting:

….Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a federally licensed firearms dealer shall, consistent with the laws of this state, conduct a federal background check…

Uh, does that require a background check? Just asking.

Evidently some people never watched public television when they were little.

HB 640: the devil is always in the details

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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General Assembly, guns, HB 640, Mark Parkinson, missouri

Firearms legislation is definitely a growth industry in the Missouri General Assembly. It’s too bad jobs legislation isn’t.

Representative Mark Parkinson (r) in the House on February 18, 2013.

We patiently await the full text of the bill, introduced yesterday:

HB 640

Establishes the forms of identification that may be accepted by federally licensed firearms dealers

Sponsor: Parkinson, Mark (105)

Co-Sponsor: Diehl, John (089) … et al.

Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2013

LR Number: 1678H.02I

Last Action: 2/19/2013 – Introduced and Read First Time (H)

[….]

Why should Representative Leara (r) get all the national attention, right? Yeah, we know, it’s the republican controlled Missouri General Assembly.

Previously:

HB 162: Tenthers and guns, what could go wrong? (January 15, 2013)

HB 170: so much for “originalism” (January 16, 2013)

HB 276: Shootout at the K-12 corral? (January 27, 2013)

HB 350: “Nobody move suddenly, he’s got a duck and he knows how to use it.” (January 29, 2013)

HB 436: loonier than Wayne LaPierre at a press conference (February 5, 2013)

HB 420: when pie tins are outlawed, only outlaws will have pie tins (February 5, 2013)

This speaking out is kind of a new thing… (February 17, 2013)

Missouri General Assembly: it’s their world, the rest of us only get to live in it (February 18, 2013)

HB 633: we really never do get out of junior high school (February 18, 2013)

HB 1968: reading glasses are optional

23 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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conceal carry, HB 1968, Mark Parkinson, missouri

A bill, filed today:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1968

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES PARKINSON (Sponsor), JONES (89), BAHR, FUNDERBURK, TILLEY, COX, SOMMER, GATSCHENBERGER, FRANKLIN AND FITZWATER (Co-sponsors).

[….]

AN ACT

To repeal section 571.107, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to signs posting private property off-limits for concealed firearms, with penalty provisions.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

[….]

….(15) Any private property whose owner has posted the premises as being off-limits to concealed firearms by means of one or more signs displayed in a conspicuous place of a minimum size of [eleven] fifty-five inches by [fourteen] seventy inches with the writing thereon in letters of not less than [one inch] five inches. ….

[….]

[strike through emphasis added]

Think about that for a moment. Was this bill introduced because someone with a conceal carry permit couldn’t read a posted sign?

To qualify for a conceal carry permit an individual must receive a passing score of 15 of 20 rounds hitting a B-27 silhouette target at seven yards. One of the larger sizes advertised for a B-27 target is 24 x 45 inches.

Think about that for a moment. If this bill passes the required size of a posted no conceal carry sign would be significantly larger than the target someone would have to hit seventy-five percent of the time from a distance of seven yards to qualify for a conceal carry permit.

HB 1963: Where, oh, where did all those Rick Santorum (r) votes come from?

22 Thursday Mar 2012

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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HB 1963, Mark Parkinson, party, Primary, Voter Registration, voting

Beats me.

A bill, introduced yesterday, to have voters register by party and not allow crossover voting in primaries:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1963

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES PARKINSON (Sponsor), JONES (89), TILLEY, SCHOELLER, NANCE, SOMMER, CONWAY (14), McCAHERTY, LONG, KELLEY (126), SCHARNHORST, ZERR, BAHR, CURTMAN AND GATSCHENBERGER (Co-sponsors).

[….]

AN ACT

To repeal sections 115.135, 115.137, 115.155, 115.157, 115.163, 115.225, 115.249, and 115.637, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof nine new sections relating to primary elections, with penalty provisions.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

[….]

4. Any person updating or changing such person’s party affiliation as required under section 115.166 may update or change such party affiliation for the upcoming election at any time before the deadline for registration for such election established in this section. Any update or change to such person’s party affiliation made after the deadline for registration established in this section shall be effective only for subsequent elections.

[….]

3. For all primary elections held after January 1, 2013, any person who is entitled to vote in such primary under this chapter shall be entitled to vote only the official primary election ballot of the political party designated in the person’s voter registration. Any person attempting to vote or voting a primary election ballot of a political party other than that for which the person’s designated party affiliation qualifies the person to vote shall be guilty of a class four election offense as provided in section 115.637.

[….]

3. Any person who fails to designate a party affiliation shall be registered without a party affiliation. The election authority shall notify the person by mail that the person has been registered without a party affiliation and that the person may change or update the person’s party affiliation as provided in section 115.166.

[….]

Who would ever consider crossover voting in a primary?

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