MOScout Daily Update: 2024 War-Chests - IE PAC Update - House Battleground Update - Burlison's Bundle - Piper Phenom and more...
Money Talks… 2024
Eyeballing the war-chests of termed legislators, here’s who may be in the mix when talk turns to 2024 statewide elections…
Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer… $883,476 COH, and $334,365 in his PAC.
Speaker-elect Dean Plocher… $460,151 and $617,691 in his PAC.
Speaker Rob Vescovo… $118,192 COH, and $467,475 in his PAC.
Sen. Lincoln Hough… $199,416 COH, and $389,730 in his PAC.
Sen. Sandy Crawford… $279,690 COH, and $61,734 in her PAC.
Rep. Cody Smith… $193,775 COH, and $95,812 in his PAC.
Sen. Bob Onder… $206,635 COH, and $32,297 in his PAC.
Sen. Holly Rehder… $152,904 COH.
Sen. Denny Hoskins… $98,559 COH, and $105,813 in his PAC.
And on the Dem side…
Sen. John Rizzo… $316,453 COH, and $270,536 in his PAC.
Sen. Lauren Arthur… $309,490 COH, and $101,081 in her PAC.
Former Sen. Scott Sifton… $298,442 COH.
Sen. Brian Williams… $207,152 COH, and $109,175 in his PAC.
Gubby 2024
· Jay Ashcroft raised $55,123; spent $13,436; and has $580,680 on-hand.
His associated PAC, Committee for Liberty raised $358,000; spent $24,048; and has $1,306,081 on-hand.
· Mike Kehoe raised $92,775; spent $36,256; and has $592,957 on-hand.
His associated PAC, American Dream PAC, raised $178,725; spent $44,291; and has $1,211,179 on-hand.
· Meanwhile, Bill Eigel raised $19,050; spent $2,412; and has $137,913.
His associated PAC, Believe in Life and Liberty, raised $160,613; spent $58,021; and has $270,367 on-hand.
What It Means
Eigel recently kicked off his exploratory campaign. Even though it seems early, he’s late compared to the other campaign – and $1M behind in PAC money.
House Battleground Report Update
I’ve updated the “House Battleground” report. Find it here.
There are no ratings changes. I will make forecasts next week on these races.
· What’s new: fundraising numbers from the October quarter, and more in-depth numbers on the partisan lean of each district.
IE PAC Update
I’ve updated the listing of independent expenditure PACs and which candidate they’re associated with. Unless otherwise noted, the cash on-hand figures are from the recent October filing.
As a reminder, candidates raise money for these political action committees in sums unrestricted by candidate contributions limits. However, the PACs must spend the money independently – with no direction from the candidate.
The Piper Phenom
Jess Piper, the social media maven who calls herself a “dirt road Democrat” and has built an audience on Twitter and TikTok, raised another $30K in the last quarter. That brings her total amount raised this cycle to $227,778!
One Dem says the party needs 163 Pipers… I think you missed the point a little bit about Jess Piper. She is doing a couple of things that are really good. Forget the donors, she is giving rural Dems two things: 1) the courage to run and speak out in deeply red districts and 2) a road map of how to talk about progressive issues to rural voters. It may not matter to her district but if we had 163 Jess Pipers, I don’t think we would be in the super minority…and if you have candidates run in rural districts that are willing to have conversations like she does, you may steal a couple districts…and then you encourage more. We have to start somewhere and it can’t be only in swing districts…and if some of those candidates can raise their own money, even better.
Burlison’s Bundle
Sen. Eric Burlison is headed to DC, having won his congressional race. But one hot question: how will dispose of his state war-chest?
His candidate committee, Friends of Eric Burlison, has $435,282 in its bank account.
Burlison says he hasn’t decided yet. He could deliver to a favorite local charity, or he could dole out to aspiring Republican candidates across the state. Or he could try to implement pro rata refunds donor. We’ll see…
No $$$ on A4
Amendment 4 is the ballot question before voters in November concerning the funding of the Kansas City Police Department.
The committee supporting the measure, Missourians for Safer Streets (treasurer Chris Vas), and the campaign committee opposing it, No on 4 (treasurer Alvin Brooks), haven’t done any significant fundraising.
They both filed “limited activity” reports. That means they hasn’t raised of spent more than $500.
Lobbyists Registrations
Steven Tilley, Thomas Robbins, Brittany Hyatt Robbins, and Christopher Schoeman added Warrenton Oil Co.
David Linton deleted Jefferson County Public Sewer District.
$5K+ Contributions
Craig Fishel For State Representative - $15,000 from Craig Fishel.
Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from OWG III LLC.
Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from OWG I LLC.
Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from OWG V LLC.
Jackson County Leadership PAC (pro-Cierpiot) - $10,000 from Rex Sinquefield.
Jackson County 4 Kids - $10,000 from St Lukes Health System.
Jackson County 4 Kids - $10,000 from Jewish Family Services.
MO Republican Party - $20,000 from Growth and Opportunity PAC.
Make Liberty Win Missouri - $36,387 from Make Liberty Win Federal.
Freedom Incorporated - $10,000 from JCDC Truman Political Action Committee.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Rep. Patricia Pike, and John Lamping.