Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the republican PAC funded by the family associated with Tamko:

C151174 10/26/2016 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI David Humphreys P O Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products Executive 10/24/2016 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Gee, maybe there’ll be a lot more dark and foreboding television ads right before the election. You think?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Account…ability (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 2 (February 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 3 (March 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Tamko! (June 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: the right to spend as much as you want to influence elections in Missouri (August 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: just keep writing those $1,000,000.00 checks (September 27, 2016)

For almost everyone else this would be going in the wrong direction.

Eric Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 10/18/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Sarah Humphreys Atkins 220 W. 4th St Joplin MO 64802 Tamko Building Products Consultant 10/18/2016 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Grassroots! Not. At least it’s transparent, right?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, like they couldn’t come up with another $25,000.00? (July 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not exactly a paragon of transparency (August 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: just passing through (August 26, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Who’s that for? (September 17, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Oh, like anyone is surprised? (September 19, 2016)

Campaign Finance: maybe it all depends on what your definition of “grassroots” is (September 30, 2016)

Campaign Finance: let’s go for the record (October 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: the journey continues, one $1,000,000.00 check at a time (October 6, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Who benefits? (October 9, 2016)

Campaign Finance: You were expecting something else? (October 14, 2016)

Campaign Finance: with impunity, because they can (October 15, 2016)

Think of it as a media buyer full employment stimulus package.

In the Missouri Constitution:

BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 29
Organized labor and collective bargaining.
Section 29. That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a family funded PAC:

C151174 09/27/2016 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI Sarah Humphreys Atkins 4713 Rock Springs Rd Arlington VA 22207 TAMKO Building Products Quality Consultant 9/27/2016 $1,000,000.00

[emphasis added]

The Tamko Building Products family.

It’s about “right to get paid less” – they spend their money going after legislators (including republicans) who support issues sympathetic to organized labor. You know, working people. And, they also ran a lot of ads against Chris Koster (D) – someone else who makes no apologies for supporting organized labor.

$1,000,000.00 is a lot of money. But, in the current saturated market, is there any TV ad time left? And if there is, will anything cut through the escalating noise? Just asking.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Account…ability (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 2 (February 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 3 (March 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Tamko! (June 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: the right to spend as much as you want to influence elections in Missouri (August 25, 2016)

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.

Jay Ashcroft (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Jay Ashcroft’s (r) 2016 campaign for Secretary of State:

C151004 09/22/2016 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI CNS Corporation 500 E 9th Street Kansas City MO 64106 9/21/2016 $35,000.00

C151004 09/22/2016 ASHCROFT FOR MISSOURI David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products resident/CEO 9/20/2016 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

Tamko!

For some.

Erics Greitens (r) [2016 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 09/21/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI David Humphreys PO Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 Tamko Building Products Executive 9/21/2016 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well, it does save the campaign on thank you note postage.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, like anyone is surprised? (September 19, 2016)

It’s their world, the rest of us get to live in it.

Lest we forget, in the Missouri Constitution:

BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 29
Organized labor and collective bargaining.
Section 29. That employees shall have the right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for a family funded PAC:

C151174 08/25/2016 COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI David Humphreys P O Box 4050 Joplin MO 64803 TAMKO Building Products Executive 8/24/2016 $1,000,000.00

[emphasis added]

Before the August primary the very same PAC ran ads against selected candidates (from the PAC’s July 2016 campaign finance report):

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION
DIRECT EXPENDITURE REPORT
COMMITTEE FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN MISSOURI [pdf] 7/14/2016

Chris Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 Governor [opposed] 4/25/2016 $240,944.00

Chris Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 Governor [opposed] 4/25/2016 $42,000.00

Chris Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 Governor [opposed] 4/27/2016 $36,940.00

Chris Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 Governor [opposed] 6/7/2016 $511,090.00

Chris Koster PO Box 1551 Jefferson City MO 65102 Governor [opposed] 6/29/2016 $96,660.00

Kevin Corlew PO Box 28443 Kansas City MO 64188 State Rep – Dist 14 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $12,472.00

Nick King 1937 Current St Liberty MO 64068 State Rep – Dist 17 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $12,472.00

Bill Kidd 1820 N Ashley Drive Independence MO 64058 State Rep – Dist 20 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $9,052.00

Sheila Solon 2402 Stonecreek Ct Blue Springs MO 64015 State Rep – Dist 31 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $9,052.00

Anne Zerr PO Box 1191 St Charles MO 63302 State Rep – Dist 23 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $14,710.00

Crissy Sommer 901 Boone’s Lick Rd St Charles MO 63301 State Rep – Dist 106 [opposed] 6/14/2016 $10,710.00

That’s a lot of advertising. Right to get paid less anyone?

Chris Koster (D) can probably expect a whole lot more.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Account…ability (February 23, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 2 (February 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Account…ability – part 3 (March 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Tamko! (June 3, 2016)