MOScout Daily Update: The Final Flurry of Attacks - 3rd Party PAC Spreadsheet - Law and Order and more...

Final Flurry

·         In Senate 3: Josh Barrett is getting extra attention in the final days.  A small claims suit was filed against him for failing to pay a contractor.  See the paperwork here.

·         In Senate 5: A mailer (see it here) attacked two of the men (Haas and Roberts) in the race for “behaving badly” and offered two women (Green and Sherod) as suitable candidates.  See the website (see it here) says it’s paid for by Missouri Values (see their paperwork here).

·         In Senate 27: Kathy Swan is continuing to unleash hard hitting ads against Holly Rehder.  This one takes aim at her missed votes.  See it here.

·         In St. Louis County: Sam Page unveiled endorsements from former County Executive Charlie Dooley and former St. Louis City mayor Francis Slay.

Third Party Support

I compiled a spreadsheet of third-party PACs support and opposition for Senate candidates.  See it here. I pulled the information from the MEC website, but it still looks incomplete to me, like some PACs haven’t reported some of their activities.  Also, I didn’t include non-committee expenditures.  Here’s how much PACs spent for and against candidates.

Senate 3

Scism:  $39,750 supporting; $33,447 opposing.

Barrett: $95,181 supporting; $0 opposing.

Gannon: $5,735 supporting; $53,219 opposing.

Senate 25       

Bean: $209 supporting; $65,077 opposing.

Cookson $9 supporting; $5,369 opposing.

Justice: $62,854 supporting; $19,839 opposing.

Shawan: $19,884 supporting; $25,197 opposing.

Senate 27

Rehder: $132,087; $14,510 opposing.

Swan: $90,979 supporting; $109,020 opposing.

Senate 29

Cole: $137,611 supporting; $95,250 opposing.

Moon: $120,506 supporting; $0 opposing.

Senate 31       

Bondon: $144,006 supporting; $91,679 opposing.

Brattin: $196,172 supporting; $8,438 opposing.

Yarberry: $9 supporting; $0 opposing.

Senate 33       

Eslinger: $51,156 supporting; $40,214 opposing.

Kelly: $0 supporting; $40,214 opposing.

Ross: $158,617 supporting; $0 opposing.

Oops

With third party support the campaigns can’t coordinate, and that means you don’t always get what you’d like.  This mailer for example for Richard West has him running in House 64.  He’s not.  He’s running in House 63.  I’m told they actually sent it to the wrong district as well, but who knows.

More on Law and Order

Readers write in about the pivot to violent crime…

·         On the Parson and Trump “pivots”: Trump and Parson are trying to appeal to the suburbians, by going with “keeping low income housing out” and “law and order”. Do their teams realize that black people live in the suburbs now? And that white people are a part of the protests? Keeping his eyes off the COVID issue, may back fire on Parson when kids aren’t going back to school and parents have to figure out what to do with them.

·         While virus cases are going up, deaths in Missouri really aren’t. But murders in KC and STL sure are. July will be the highest murder count in STL history and KC is on track for its highest murder year in history. It’s not about what voters want the most. It’s about what you can give voters that your opponent can’t. If Parson fights on Covid he is fighting a challenger who can say whatever she wants and a pandemic that is completely uncontrollable and unpredictable. If he fights in the law and order space he has a clear contrast that people believe.

And

The New York Times “Upshot” looks at the suburban play.  See it here.

These are not the American suburbs of the 1960s (and they have a lot fewer housewives). The scale of urban violence and the threats to that suburban lifestyle are a faint echo of that time.

And while polling shows that suburban voters disapprove of the president’s job in general… Suburban voters disapproved of Mr. Trump’s handling of recent protests and race relations by an even wider margin…

Lobbyists Registrations

John DeStefano and Meghan McCann added IGT.

Jake Silverman terminated his registration.

$5K+ Contributions

Believe in Life and Liberty - BILL PAC - $10,000 from Invenergy Transmission LLC.

Heartland Action PAC - $10,000 from Crestwood Square Associates.

No on 2 in August - $5,400 from Pelopidas, LLC.

Missouri Club for Growth Political Action Committee - $10,000 from Grow Missouri.

Western Missouri Leadership Fund - $25,000 from Taxpayer in Support of Public Education.

Civil PAC - $30,000 from Public School Allies.

Birthdays

Happy birthdays to Bev Randles, Dan Engemann, and Larry Wilson.