MOScout Daily Update: House Battleground Update - Gov Appt Sweepstakes - Wieland Now - Taylor OA Beef and more...
Quick update before the long weekend…
Updated House Battleground Report
I’ve made some small updates to the House Battleground Report. See it here.
· I added in some missing biographical information, added current cash on-hand numbers, and cut a couple districts from the “battleground” designation…
· Moving House 16 (incumbent Rep. Chris Brown) to “likely safe Republican,” and House 21 (incumbent Rep. Robert Sauls) to “likely safe Democratic.”
And the 2022 Watch Spreadsheet has been similarly updated. Find it here.
Wieland Now
Sen. Paul Wieland terminated his candidate committee, and opened a new one, seeded with the $23,000 left over from his last campaign. The new committee, Wieland Now, is for a “Countywide Jefferson County” race in 2024.
Wieland lost his bid to be Jefferson County Executive last month amid oodles of money spent against him seemingly tied to his scruff-up with Todd Graves during the appointment process.
· We’ll see if Wieland has anything to say about that on the Senate floor during Veto/Special Session...
Gov Appt Sweepstakes
One 2nd floor watcher thinks that Sen. Lincoln Hough won’t make the short list for treasurer.
His guesses in the Parson Appointment Sweepstakes to take place this winter…
· He thinks Parson will choose Kalena Bruce – just off her third place finish in the 4-CD race – for that spot.
· And he sees the AG short list as: Eddie Greim (see bio), Tim Garrison (see bio), and Andrew Bailey (see bio).
Anti-Amendment 3 Group
Post-Dispatch reports that opponents to the marijuana legalization initiative petition have coalesced and formed No On Amendment 3. (I couldn’t find a committee formed with the Missouri Ethics Commission yet).
Among the proposal’s detractors is former Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder… “The Amendment 3 campaign is raising and spending millions of dollars to trick Missourians into passing a proposal that would never survive the deliberative and transparent process of the Missouri General Assembly,” Kinder said in the release. “Conservatives will be outraged by the way this proposal attempts to subvert the will of the people.”
More on Taylor’s OA Beef
A lawyer responds… I like [Rep. Jered] Taylor, but the plain language of his personal privacy protection act states that a government agency (which includes OA) cannot release any data that would identify someone as a member, supporter, volunteer of, or donor to a 501(c). Many state contract documents contain this exact information. OA will now have to manually review and redact any 501(c) identifying data before they can post those documents online; that is why they had to take down the contract website. He is correct, it does not impact the ability to Sunshine those same documents; the impact is that the documents now have to be manually reviewed and possibly redacted before they can be available to the public. The impact of this new law on other state agencies should not be ignored; this is having unintended consequences and creating a burden on state agencies.
Scoop: Hummel-Martin Infanticipating
How did I do land this one? I zipped by the Trudy Valentine meet-and-greet in St. Louis last night, and spied Sarah Martin sucking down a soda. My reporter’s antennae told me something was up. Martin in Milo’s drinking something non-alcoholic??.. Lobbyist Sarah Martin and former Sen. Jake Hummel are expecting a new baby in February…
$5K+ Contributions
Safer Families for Missouri - $8,600 from Dollar, Burns, Becker & Hershewe, LC.
Safer Families for Missouri - $8,600 from Langdon & Emison, LLC.
Safer Families for Missouri - $7,500 from Anita Robb.
Safer Families for Missouri - $7,500 from Gary Robb.
Catalyst PAC - $13,000 from Sports Betting Alliance (Lubbock TX).
Missouri Leadership Fund - $40,000 from Accel Entertainment Gaming LLC (Bollingbrook IL).
Missouri C PAC - $25,000 from Protection Plus LLC.
MIC PAC - $25,000 from The Travelers Indemnity Company (Hartford CT).
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $8,850 from Bill Hardwick for Missouri.
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $15,000 from Enterprise Holdings Inc PAC.
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $7,332 from Missouri United.
Viceroy PAC - $25,000 from Golden Entertainment.
Lobbyist Registrations
Jim Gwinner deleted Signify Health.
Brent Hemphill deleted Missouri Soybean Association.
Will Marrs and Kelli Richardson deleted Missouri Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Rep. Phil Christofanelli, and Amy Pridmore.
Saturday: Adam Crumbliss, and Warren Wood.
Sunday: Emily van Schenkhof, and Jane Cunningham.
Labor Day: Jack Danforth, Kate Casas, John Gaskin III, Rachel Storch, Jenee Lowe, and
Lana Ladd Baker.
MOScout Schedule
I’m off the long Labor Day weekend. No editions on Saturday, Sunday or Monday. See you Tuesday!!