Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C232370 04/02/2023 Malek for Missouri Vivek Malek 800 Stone Bridge Springs Dr Wildwood MO 63005 State of Missouri State Treasurer 3/31/2023 $100,000.00
[emphasis added.
Well, okay.
02 Sunday Apr 2023
Posted campaign finance
inToday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C232370 04/02/2023 Malek for Missouri Vivek Malek 800 Stone Bridge Springs Dr Wildwood MO 63005 State of Missouri State Treasurer 3/31/2023 $100,000.00
[emphasis added.
Well, okay.
30 Wednesday Mar 2022
Posted social media
inToday, from Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick (r):
Scott Fitzpatrick @FitzpatrickMO
What is a more stupid idea than taxing unrealized gains?
8:42 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Yes, he did. There was much hilarity in the responses:
Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
[….]
You.Doing this.
[….]
Schools left ‘scrambling’ after Missouri treasurer tied bond deals to AG’s COVID demands [….]
9:47 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Crystal Quade @crystal_quade
[….]
Banning books?
8:59 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Ashley Aune @Ashley4MO
[….]
Treating LGBTQ+ Missourians like second class citizens?
9:00 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Keri Ingle @RepKeriIngle
[….]
Storming the US Capitol in a failed attempt to overthrow an election?
8:56 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Constantly whining about progressive blue states while living off of what they pay into the federal government.
This tweet, it would seem.
No joke. Every response to this tweet is a salient point that hits like a slap of reality.
Kneeling to a man who asked the Russian dictator who’s actively committing war crimes to help him overthrow a duly elected American president.
Censoring students and teachers
Policies that result in generations of Missourians unable to get a good job at a good wage because they grew up with four-day school weeks, the lowest paid teachers in America, and a Legislature more concerned with banning books than helping kids. #moleg
Putting bounty on womens heads for wanting body autonomy
Attempting to ban Missouri residents from getting abortions out of state?
Eating horse paste and drinking your own urine?
Trying to make laws about what Missourians are and are not allowed to do in other states, like access basic reproductive healthcare. #MOdeservesbetter
A 7-1 congressional map
Having an idea that snitching out your neighbors can net you some cash
Raging against big government while legislating women’s and lgbtq rights?
Perhaps that whole thing when you threaded schools and their bond funding…
Eric Schmitt
We see what you did there.
Voting for MO GOP.
Decades of disinvestment in public education?
Not understanding how public bond debt works when you are a state treasurer.
Blackmailing school districts is up there.
Cutting taxes on the wealthy. That’s more stupid, but we’ve done that already.
Convincing a bunch of your voters to die from a preventable disease.
Wow, Scott. You really opened up a can of worms with that question. Maybe consider some of the answers.
Asked and answered.
29 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted campaign finance
in01 Sunday Nov 2020
Posted Uncategorized
inTags
4th Congressional District, campaigning, Lindsey Simmons, masks, missouri, state treasurer, Vicky Lorenz Englund, Warrensburg
Yesterday afternoon at the Warrensburg stop in a campaign tour across the 4th Congressional District:
Lindsey Simmons (D) in the 4th Congressional District.
Vicki Lorenz Englund (D) for State Treasurer.
24 Wednesday Apr 2019
Posted campaign finance
inThe April quarterly campaign finance reports are due at the Missouri Ethics Commission.
C121051: Fitzpatrick For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Po Box 701
Shell Knob Mo 65747
Party Affiliation: Republican
Established Date: 02/01/2012
[….]
Information Reported On: 2019 – April Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $130,927.71
Monetary Receipts + $9,550.00
Monetary Expenditures – $13,851.11
Contributions Made – $0.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal ($4,301.11)
Ending Money On Hand $126,626.60
[emphasis added]
Meh.
The contributions:
Okay, so no “grassroots” supporters are snowing the campaign accountant under with $10.00 checks.
All of the itemized contributions:
MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED – SUPPLEMENTAL
Fitzpatrick for Missouri 4/15/2019Dan Amsden 1415 Thomas Mason Place Manchester MO 63011 Retired 3/29/2019 $100.00
John Rowe 700 West 31st Street, Unit 1602 Kansas City MO 64108 Speedy’s Convenience Store — Owner 3/29/2019 $250.00
New Monarch Realty LLC 120 North Main Street St Charles MO 63301 3/29/2019 $250.00
Mark Milton 440 Medina Drive St Louis MO 63122 Self-Employed — Attorney 3/29/2019 $250.00
Birch Mullins 201 South Warson Road St Louis MO 63124 Baur Properties — Executive 3/29/2019 $500.00
Commerce Bancshares Inc PAC P.O. Box 419248 Kansas City MO 64141 3/29/2019 $500.00
Chuck Singleton P.O. Box 3166 Englewood CO 80155 Executive — Republic Financial 3/29/2019 $2,500.00
Rudolph Farber 100 North Wood Street Neosho MO 64850 Community Bank and Trust 3/29/2019 $2,600.00
Enterprise Holding Inc PAC 600 Corporate Park Drive St Louis MO 63105 3/29/2019 $2,600.00
March 29, 2019 was a nice day. Apparently it was the only fundraising day of the quarter. Seriously?
Some of the expenditures:
MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM
Fitzpatrick For Missouri 4/15/2019Victory Enterprises 5200 30th Street SW Davenport IA 52802 1/11/2019 Consulting $2,745.00
Victory Enterprises 5200 30th Street SW Davenport IA 52802 1/25/2019 Consulting $2,250.00TAC Air P.O. Box 1481 Texarkana TX 75504 2/21/2019 Fuel $140.16
Creve Coeur Airport 3127 Creve Coeur Mill Road St Louis MO 63146 3/1/2019 Fuel $163.21
Lee’s Summit Municipal Airport 2751 Northeast Douglas Street Lees Summit MO 64064 3/10/2019 Fuel $148.18
Springfield Flying Service 2546 East Division Springfield MO 65803 3/22/2019 Fuel $153.04
Springfield Flying Service 2546 East Division Springfield MO 65803 3/23/2019 Fuel $245.47
Consultants and aviation fuel. What, no t-shirts?
21 Friday Apr 2017
Posted campaign finance
inThe April quarterly campaign finance reports are in.
Missouri Ethics Commission – Contributions Received – Supplemental – Schmitt for Missouri – 4/17/2017
At the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C071320: Schmitt For Missouri
Committee Type: Candidate
Party Affiliation: Republican
[….]
Established Date: 10/12/2007
[….]
Information Reported On: 2017 – April Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $203,781.68
Monetary Receipts + $41,317.06
Monetary Expenditures – $29,291.05
Contributions Made – $475.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $11,551.01
Ending Money On Hand $215,332.69
[emphasis added]
It’s a better fundraising quarter than Governor Greitens’ (r).
MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED – SUPPLEMENTAL
4/17/2017 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI
AMECPAC PO Box 1645 Jefferson City MO 65102 12/8/2016 $1,000.00
Missouri Republican Party 105 E High St. Jefferson City MO 65101 12/9/2016 $748.33
Collinsville Acquisitions, Inc. 8025 Forsyth Blvd. St Louis MO 63105 12/7/2016 $1,500.00
Kevin K Knasel 1 Claychester Dr St Louis MO 63131 Super Market Merchandising 12/7/2016 $5,000.00
Thompson Coburn LLP One US Bank Plaza St Louis MO 63101 12/7/2016 $5,000.00
Apex Oil Company, Inc. 8235 Forsyth Blv, Ste 400 St Louis MO 63105 12/7/2016 $5,000.00
Pro Air LLC PO Box 1210 Sikeston MO 63801 12/5/2016 $1,248.00
Janice E Hetland 1470 Reauville Dr St Louis MO 63122 Lathrop & Gage — Attorney 12/29/2016 $500.00
James G Koman 8025 Forsyth Blvd St Louis MO 63105 Elm Tree Funds 12/7/2016 $1,500.00
Lodging Hospitality Management 111 Westport Plaza St Louis MO 63146 12/7/2016 $10,000.00
KP Development, LLC 8025 Forsyth Blvd. St Louis MO 63105 12/7/2016 $1,500.00
Susan R Ludeman 15 Pine Valley Dr. St Louis MO 63124 Homemaker 12/7/2016 $5,000.00
Roy Pfautch 52 Portland Pl St Louis MO 63108 Civic Service 3/31/2017 $2,600.00
Building Consultants, LLC 8025 Forsyth Blvd. St Louis MO 63015 12/7/2016 $1,500.00
Jerry Kiske 1401 Jamaica Ct St Louis MO 63122 Mulligan Printing 1/6/2017 $755.00
That’s just so grassrootsie.
Some of the expenditures:
MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM
4/17/2017 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI
The Capitol Grill 201 W Capitol Ave. Jefferson City MO 65101 1/9/2017 Event Catering $213.30
Capital Enhancement, Inc. 150 Long Rd, Ste 50 Chesterfield MO 63005 3/1/2017 Fundraising $7,575.00
Sapore Italian Cafe 451 S Kirkwood Rd Kirkwood MO 63122 1/20/2017 Event Catering $3,151.93
Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 3/2/2017 Fundraising $1,910.95
Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 3/31/2017 Event Planning $628.57
Meh. So much for efficiency.
30 Sunday Oct 2016
Posted Uncategorized
inTags
On Saturday afternoon Missouri Democrats held a get out the vote kickoff rally at Congressman Emanuel Cleaver’s campaign office in Kansas City. Several statewide office holders and candidates, local office holders and candidates, and approximately two hundred activists and volunteers were in attendance.
Judy Baker (D), the party’s nominee for State Treasurer, speaking at a GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016.
Judy Baker, the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer:
Also:
Jason Kander (D) – GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016 (October 30, 2016)
Chris Koster (D) – GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016 (October 30, 2016)
Russ Carnahan (D) – GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016 (October 30, 2016)
Mayor Sly James (D) – GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016 (October 30, 2016)
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) – GOTV kickoff rally in Kansas City – October 29, 2016 (October 30, 2016)
11 Sunday Sep 2016
Posted Uncategorized
inOn Saturday statewide candidates were traveling, dropping in, and speaking at events across the state. Judy Baker, the Democtaic Party nominee for State Treasurer, made one such stop on Saturday evening at a picnic sponsored by Cass County Democrats in Belton, Missouri.
Judy Baker, the Democratic Party nominee for State Treasurer, speaking to Cass County Democrats in Belton, Missouri – September 10, 2016.
Judy Baker (D): ….I’m Judy Baker and I’m running for Treasurer of the State of Missouri. A lot of you don’t know me ‘cause I see new faces and I met some new people.
And the most important thing for you to do is remember my name when you’re talking with your neighbors and when you go into the voting booth. So I’m gonna make you say my name. What is my name? [voices: “Judy Baker.”] I’m gonna make you say it at the end, too, so don’t forget it.
I want to tell you little bit about my race, about me. Uh, but mostly I want to talk with you about we’re gonna do this together. Uh, I am the sixth race down [on the ballot] and the most important thing for us to do is, of course, other people go into the booth, right, and they vote for president and they vote for governor and vote for their United States senator and they get all the way down to Gordon [Christensen] [laughter] and then they start dropping off. Our most important thing to do if we want to sweep this state blue, and I do mean sweep it, all, all of the statewide races we’re gonna have to get people down the ticket and care about the person in number six. That’s me. All the way down the ticket.
So that’s what I’m asking you to do, is to talk about folks all the way down the ticket. Okay, not just me, but all of us, all the way down the ticket. And we’ll do our job to help you be proud of who you’re talking about.
So I talked with you back in June or so, when we were at that dinner, about the State of Missouri and the poverty that we have and we have children who are food insecure and we have people who can’t save for their future and what we’re going to do about it. And we talked, remember we talked about, is that the Missouri we want? And you said, no. And that we’re going to build the Missouri that we want together. And I’m continuing that quest.
I’m working under a banner of build access, build lives. I love audience participation, so I’m gonna say build access. You say build lives. Build access [voices: “Build lives.”]. What do I mean by that? I men, a lot of what labor has done for us, what unions and collective bargaining has done for us, is to give us weekends, and to give us paid time off, and to give us health care, to give us retirements, and to give us a collective voice.
Building assets in one’s life is having those things. And how do you save for a future if, if you don’t have health care? How do you save for college if you don’t have a good education? I mean these are the things that are fundamental to us building assets in our lives. As State Treasurer I’m gonna make my whole tenure there about economic opportunity for all and how we help Missourians build assets. Build assets, build lives. That’s what we’re going to do.
Now, my opponent is so very different in this regard. My opponent is talking about Trump, it’s almost like he’s adopted Trump tactics. Do we love Donald Trump? [voices: “No.”] He has Trump tactics. And he’s already started attacking me which probably means that I’m closer than I think to him [laughter]. He probably has internal polling that shows that he’s got to start attacking me so early. Which makes me feel good. [laughter] Sort of.
He has started talking in the same vein as Trump. He’s trying to scare people. He’s trying to make them anxious, he’s trying to make them feel like, you know, Democrats don’t have anything going on. I’m here to tell you today that we in this country, in this state, do not need fear. We need courage. They are breeding fear and anxiety. It’s just making us weak. If they think they’re making us stronger by making us afraid they are dead wrong. We need courage and optimism in this state and that’s I’m spreading everywhere I go.
As state treasurer I want to do children’s savings accounts so children learn to save early and they get financial literacy [inaudible] for K-12 so they can build a future and start talking to their parent’s about it. What I’m I gonna be when I grow up? I’ve heard a, a joke just recently that a person, when asked, you know, uh, some, some folks at an elementary school, what do you want to be when you grow up? And they said, you know, a teacher, a nurse, a doctor, and a firefighter, and a police officer, and, you know, kind of all the, the usual and they got to one little kid that was very, very, uh, nicely dressed . What do you want to be when you grow up? He says, a lobbyist. [laughter] That’s what my opponent wishes everyone would grow up to be because he has taken so much money from so many people [inaudible] favors. We’re gonna make sure that the people who vote, are voting know what he does. Hoe he votes for lobbyists and doesn’t take care of people.
That’s what I’m gonna do and you know that. You know my heart and you know that my heart is as a public servant. And I will continue that as state treasurer.
Uh, so I’m gonna ask you to help. This really important that we get out and do what we need to do. I’m gonna tell you a short story. There was a man that was, uh, talking to his, his grandchildren and he was talking about his farther. And he said, my father used to go in town, um, and sell vegetables. That’s what his mother and dad made money on. We would go with them, we would go in town and sell vegetables and they, they got their chickens from a man named Freddie. And one day Freddie left the chickens while they were in town selling vegetables and all the chickens got away. And he says, aw, when I see Freddie I’m gonna make sure I give him a piece of my mind. He shouldn’t have left the chickens out on the doorstep. I had to send the kids all over the countryside to pick them up. And indeed when he did see Freddie again he says, why the heck did you do that? I had to send the kids out, they gathered up all the chickens, and they could only, they spent all afternoon, they could only find eleven. And Freddie said, well that’s actually pretty good. I only left six. [laughter]
So, that is to say there’s a lot more people who think like we do about these issues out there. We just gotta get them to the polls. We gotta go out, we gotta find them. If we don’t know what our limits are we can do better than we’ve ever done before. I’m asking you to do that [in audible] down that ticket also for the whole slate. All the way to Judy Baker for treasurer. What’s my name? [voices: “Judy Baker.”] Thank you all so very much [applause]….
23 Tuesday Aug 2016
Posted campaign finance
inYesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Judy Baker’s (D) 2016 campaign for State Treasurer:
C151178 08/22/2016 BAKER FOR MISSOURI CHIPP Political Account 1401 Hampton Ave 3rd Floor St Louis MO 63139 8/22/2016 $100,000.00
[emphasis added]
And it comes from working people.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: Oh, yes, there is a big difference. (August 12, 2016)
Campaign Finance: no question (August 13, 2016)
Campaign Finance: with working people (August 14, 2016)
10 Friday Jun 2016
Posted campaign finance
inYesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Schmitt’s (r) 2016 campaign for State Treasurer:
C071320 06/09/2016 SCHMITT FOR MISSOURI Cheyenne International LLC 701 South Battleground Ave Grover NC 28073 6/9/2016 $15,000.00
[emphasis added]
Not that he needs it.
Previously:
Campaign Finance: smoke gets in our eyes… (April 26, 2012)
Campaign Finance: Somebody has a favorite… (February 26, 2016)
Campaign Finance: nothing says ‘grassroots campaign’ like $500,000.00 from a single contributor (March 23, 2016)