MOScout Daily Update: MedEx Ads - Mantovani Ad - Moon PAC Gets $$$ - Big Schupp Number - Updated IE PAC List and more....
Yes on 2 Ads: Bring Our Tax $$$ Home
The pro-Medicaid expansion campaign release a slew of ads. Find them here.
This one argues that our tax money is already going to fund Medicaid expansion in other states, why not get our share? That’s a recurring theme in most of the ads. It’s a counter argument to the anti-MedEx contention that expanding the program will “cost” Missourians.
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If an actual opposition campaign emerges, the expectation is that it will be a late onslaught. We’ll see…
eMailbag on Rex and MedEx
· The No on 2 campaign site is just bizarre… they have Kehoe, who has tried to raise taxes at the ballot TWICE whining about a fictional tax hike here.
· I have spoken to several education reform Democrats who are not happy about what Rex is doing on Medicaid expansion. Also, how much bad advice can one person continue to take. Gov. Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas literally enacted and has sustained tax cuts due to the saving caused by Medicaid expansion…
· Food for thought relating to the idea that if Sinquefield kills Medex it could have repercussions to tax and education reform: There has been no education reform and precious little tax cutting the past four years. You can’t threaten folks that you’ll kill tax and education reform if that is what basically happens every year regardless…
· [Yesterday’s emailer] appears to be speaking for the Gov, Lt Gov and Budget Chairs, stating (going far beyond implying) that those who support MedEx will have a “united front” to deal with (aka - hell to pay) when they return to the Capitol halls in 2021. So let’s ask the Gov and Lt Gov and Budget Chairs. Is the author speaking on your behalf and will the proponents experience your wrath as a “united front” in January?
Schupp Announces Another Very Strong Quarter
The press release: State Senator Jill Schupp, candidate for Congress in Missouri's 2nd district announced today that her campaign raised more than $800,000 from April to June. She is closing out the second quarter with more than $1.5 million cash-on-hand… Since launching in December, more than 7,000 individuals have contributed to the Schupp campaign with more than 83% of contributions coming from Missouri. Schupp outraised Rep. Ann Wagner, the incumbent, in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020…
Meanwhile
Team Wagner hasn’t released their recent quarterly fundraising, but they’ve shown plenty of cash in the bank. And this will be the first time Wagner has an opponent with an actual voting record. Look for plenty of contrast pieces from the Wagner campaign highlighting “liberal” Schupp voting – going back to her days when she served on the local school board.
Mantovani Ad
See the first Mark Mantovani ad here. It’s pretty straight forward. With pictures of Jake Zimmerman and Sam Page flashing on the screen the narrator says “Career politicians haven’t gotten it done… Democrat Mark Mantovani. Real leadership for a change.”
Galloway’s $$$ More than Anti-Trump
One astute reader tells me that I shouldn’t simply chalk up Nicole Galloway’s huge fundraising number to anti-Trump sentiment. She may just be better at virtual campaigning than the governor.
On a Zoom fundraising call, “she was incredibly effective. Maybe more so on the screen than in person. Or maybe she’s used to the viral campaign trail. Or both. She was articulate, confidant and energetic and made a great impression… I’m not saying she’s going to win but I think she’ll be a more formidable candidate in her own right. [Parson’s] proving to be less so… and the rural areas of Missouri, we know, aren’t as plugged in so he could have trouble getting his message out beyond the Capitol corridor….”
Moon PAC Gets $50K
In the large contributions (below), the pro-Mike Moon PAC received $50K from Onder Law. It was surprising to many to see trial attorney money backing Moon.
One theory: “They support Moon so he can blow up the Senate and stop tort reform.”
But: It will be an interesting contrast of Moon getting “out of district, liberal special interest money” from trial attorneys vs. Cole, a former prosecutor who got the death penalty for a cop killer…
Messenger Zings Pelopidas
Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger zings Pelopidas for taking the PPP money while simultaneously working against Medicaid expansion.
[Travis] Brown, who lives in Florida, by the way, is working to prevent Missouri from joining the majority of states and the District of Columbia that have given their most vulnerable residents better access to the Affordable Care Act. On Monday, he reported an $18,982 “in-kind” donation to the No on 2 in August committee started by one of his employees. That means Pelopidas employees are working against Medicaid expansion.
And they appear to be using federal money to do it.
In April, according to federal records released this week, Pelopidas received a loan of up to $1 million from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, which was passed by Congress to help small businesses get through the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The loans are forgivable if companies meet certain qualifications, mostly that they use the money to maintain employees and keep their companies going….
IE PACs Updated
Three more independent expenditure PACs were added to the master list. Find that list here.
· B PAC – Brian Williams.
· Conservative Leadership of Ozarks – Karla Eslinger.
· H-PAC – Dan Houx.
$5K+ Contributions
Missouri SMART TD PAC - $10,000 from SMART TD PAC (Ohio).
Lathrop Gage Consulting Political Action Committee - $65,000 from Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits of Missouri.
Living Well PAC - $24,500 from MARF.
Table Rock Conservative PAC - $50,000 from Onder Law LLC.
MO Opportunity PAC - $50,000 from Centene Corporation.
Voters for Good Government - $15,000 from Electrical Workers Voluntary Political.
Truth in Campaigns - $10,000 from Alliance for Progress LLC.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Marsha Haefner, Richard Martin, Jeff Aboussie, and Nick Robinson.