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Campaign Finance: more on Her Future, Her Health PAC – anti-abortion – Amendment 3

04 Wednesday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri Governor

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Amendment 3, anti-abortion, campaign finance, Claudia Kehoe, Her Health Her Future PAC, Mike Kehoe, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

The “final” unofficial results on Amendment 3 via the office of Missouri Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – State of Missouri – General Election, November 03, 2026
Unofficial Results
as of 11/4/2026 3:33:42 PM

Constitutional Amendment No. 3 3214 of 3214 Precincts Reported
YES 941,065 44.511%
NO 1,173,172 55.489%
Total Votes: 2,114,237

[emphasis added]

10 points. With 1,173,172 “NO” votes statewide. Losing by 232,107 votes statewide.

What the Her Future, Her Health PAC, the anti-choice, anti-trans, bigoted, anti-women’s health care group pushing the amendment raised and spent (at 8 days before the election) via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

Over six million dollars. They got pasted. The voters spoke.

One of the who:

[….]
The Her Health, Her Future PAC was launched with one clear and unwavering mission: to defend the dignity of human life and ensure Missourians have the knowledge and necessary tools to stand boldly for the unborn. Missouri has a proud tradition of standing for life, and passing Amendment 3 will build on that legacy by ensuring our laws reflect Missourians’ deeply held pro-life values.
Amendment 3 is a critical step toward strengthening our pro-life protections and safeguarding our state’s future. With the dedication of thousands of pro-life Missourians across the state, we can ensure that Missouri continues to be a state where every mother is supported and every child is valued.”

– First Lady Claudia Kehoe
[….]

PO Box 144, Jefferson City, MO 65109
Paid for by Her Health, Her Future PAC | Claudia Kehoe, Treasurer

From the Missouri Governor web site:

First Lady
Claudia Kehoe
Mike and Claudia Kehoe married in 1989, and together, were blessed with four children. As a young mother, the First Lady quickly recognized the importance of community involvement. She began her volunteer service at St. Joseph Cathedral and Helias Catholic High School. Her work there sparked a deep passion for charitable service, leading her to dedicate nearly 30 years to various nonprofit efforts in central Missouri.

Since taking office, the Governor and First Lady have launched Mansion on a Mission, a community-based initiative dedicated to serving Missourians. Led by the First Family and the Missouri Governor’s Mansion, this initiative partners with organizations across the state to provide resources and support to those in need of a helping hand, bringing the People’s House to their homes.

Mrs. Kehoe has served on the boards of the Mid-Missouri SSM Health Hospital Foundation, the Jefferson City Area YMCA, the United Way of Central Missouri, the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland, JAG-Missouri, and the Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Notably, she played a key role in expanding and enhancing the Buddy Packs Program at the Food Bank, collaborating with local volunteers to support children in need.

Mrs. Kehoe earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Creighton University and a Master of Business Administration from Saint Louis University. She began her professional career in the banking sector, gaining valuable experience with several financial institutions in the St. Louis area.

The Kehoes have called mid-Missouri home for over 30 years and remain active in several local and statewide organizations. In addition to their community work, the Governor and First Lady manage a beef cattle operation on their family farm and enjoy spending time with their family and the many friends they have met on their travels throughout the state

Over six million dollars.

Previously:

Bigots and Anti-choice lunatics spend millions to lose…again (November 3, 2026)

Wasting all that money – at the last minute

01 Sunday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Amendment 3, anti-abortion, blatant hypocrisy, bullshit, gaslighting, mail, missouri

Vote “NO” on Amendment 3.

The anti-choice, anti-trans bigots, anti-women’s health care PAC pushing Amendment 3 on the November ballot sent a another slick mail piece to our household. It arrived in yesterday’s mail:

Pressured? What a load of bigoted bullshit.

Permanent harm? Like no access to healthcare?

There are no “sex change” surgeries on children in Missouri.

Their definition of “common sense” is a complete ban.

“Up yours”
“Against abortion? Get a vasectomy”

We’ve already voted. We voted “NO” on Amendment 3.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Next (August 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: bring a nuke to the fight (September 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: there’s plenty more (September 24, 2022)

Campaign Finance: even more (September 28, 2026)

Campaign Finance: be under no illusion (September 30, 2026)

Campaign Finance: an emphatic “NO” (October 2, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…and they shall sow the public right of way and all the empty lots across the land with their yard signs…” (October 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: that about sums it up (October 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (October 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all that right wingnut money, just to vilify a tiny minority (October 9, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…It’s the only way to be sure.” (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: no quarter (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keeping it up (October 15, 2026)

The current temperature out there (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: you’re next (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Solidarity (October 19, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all-in for the anti-choice propagandists (October 20, 2026)

Wasting all that money (October 22, 2026)

Campaign Finance: – no quarter – “NO” on Amendment 3 (October 23, 2026)

Campaign Finance: saturation (October 26, 2026)

Vote “NO” on Amendment 3.

Iowa, I-80

05 Friday Jun 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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anti-abortion, anti-choice, I-80, Iowa, sign

“SMILE! Your parents chose LIFE!”

But they voted for Donald Trump (r). Three times. So, it’s a wash.

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised?

19 Thursday Sep 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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abortion, Amendment 3, anti-abortion, D. John Sauer, initiative, John Sauer, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, right wingnuts, women's health care, women's reproductive health

Rainmaker.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000628 09/18/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE D John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 Otis Law Group 9/18/2024 $210,000.00

[emphasis added]

Earlier:

C000628 09/04/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE D John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 James Otis Law Group 8/26/2024 $140,000.00

[emphasis added]

000628 06/21/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 James Otis Law Group Attorney 6/20/2024 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

C000628 04/03/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 James Otis Law Group Attorney 4/1/2024 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Business must be good.

“It won’t end here”

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)
Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2024)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Through the right wingnut looking glass

03 Wednesday Apr 2024

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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anti-abortion, anti-choice, campaign finance, John Sauer, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missouri Right To Life PAC, PAC, right wingnut, Trump

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

In January:

Trump’s Bizarre Immunity Claims Should Serve as a Warning
What might be the most disturbing aspect of the oral arguments is how unsettled the law actually is in the area of Presidential powers and accountability.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin

January 10, 2024

“Could a President order seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?” Judge Florence Pan, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, asked D. John Sauer, a lawyer for Donald Trump, in oral arguments on Tuesday. It was a remarkable question for a remarkable political moment, and one that has been a long time coming. Pan was one of three judges on an appeals panel hearing Trump’s argument—which seemed, in varying degrees, to appall them—that the case brought against him by the special counsel, Jack Smith, related to Trump’s actions in the run-up to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, should be thrown out. Trump contends that, in the absence of an impeachment conviction, he is absolutely immune from prosecution for acts related to his official duties as President. Hence Pan’s question about an assassination. “That’s an official act, an order to seal Team 6,” she pointed out.

Sauer stalled and tried to qualify his answer by saying that such a President would need to be, and indeed “would speedily be,” impeached. Pan interrupted to say that that was more easily said than done. “I asked you a yes-or-no question,” she tried again. “Could a President who ordered seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached—would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”

“If he were impeached and convicted first,” Sauer said.

“So your answer is no,” Pan said.

[….]

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000628 04/03/2024 MISSOURI RIGHT TO LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE John Sauer 331 Bryn Wyck Place St Louis MO 63141 James Otis Law Group Attorney 4/1/2024 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

As long as Seal Team Six is not involved, apparently.

Campaign Finance: oxymorons abound

09 Saturday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Uncategorized

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anti-abortion, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

081360 07/08/2022 MISSOURIANS FOR LIFE Missouri Senate Leadership PAC 1200 Lake Saint Louis Blvd Lake Saint Louis MO 63367 7/8/2022 $8,000.00

[emphasis added]

“…Until…”

Everyone for Reproductive Rights – Rally and March at the Capitol – Jefferson City – June 22, 2019

22 Saturday Jun 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Resist, social media

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#resist, anti-abortion, capitol, HB 126, Jefferson City, Mike Parson, missouri, pro-choice, social media

This morning in Jefferson City several hundred individuals showed up at the capitol building (in rainy weather) to protest the radical anti-choice policies and legislation of the republican controlled Missouri General Assembly and Governor Mike Parson (r) and his administration. The rally portion was scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. on the south lawn, but rainy weather moved that portion of the event indoors under the dome.

“We aren’t ovary-acting”

Individuals with their signs started showing up under the dome after going through security shortly after 8:30 a.m.

“I am not your incubator”

The rally and subsequent march to the Governor’s Mansion was initiated by one grassroots individual via social media. The idea snowballed and a permit to demonstrate on the capitol grounds was secured.

“Queen of my own uterus, thank you very much”

The rally under the dome allowed time for individuals to gather, chant, and speak out before the short march to the Governor’s Mansion.

“Keep your rosaries off my ovaries”

“My body, my choice”

“My uterus has more regulations than your gun”

“If you cut off my reproductive choices can I cut off yours?”

“We will not go back”

“Keep your bans off my body”

Speaking.

“Never again”

“If I wanted government in my womb I’d fuck a senator”

“Choice is freedom”

“She had a heartbeat, too”

Handmaid.

Previously:

HB 126 and HB 127: catering to their single issue base (December 3, 2018)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): Alabama, hold my beer… (May 15, 2019)

Gov. Mike Parson (r): New York is shorthand for what? (May 16, 2019)

Medieval (May 17, 2019)

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): post session victory dance over any individal woman’s personal medical decisions (May 17, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the 13th Century GOP in 21st Century America (May 20, 2019)

HB 126: the elephant in the womb (May 24, 2019)

HB 126: “…here for the ratio” (May 25, 2016)

Missouri: Medieval (May 28, 2019)

ACLU: Referendum Petition filed on HB 126 (May 28, 2019)

Women’s Health Care in Missouri – 1, Gov. Mike Parson (r) – 0 (May 31, 2019)

Our nation turns its eyes to Missouri (June 1, 2019)

State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D): Gov. Mike Parson (r) and HB 126 – “…extreme and cruel.” (June 3, 2019)

In the Medieval State of Missouri (June 4, 2019)

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): Emergency! Emergency! (June 7, 2019)

Campaign Finance: fighting HB 126 (June 8, 2019)

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): “…it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less…” (June 12, 2019)

This morning at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City (June 22, 2019)

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