MOScout Daily Update: Veto Session Fundraisers - IE PAC Listings + COH - Leadership Meets Today - Warehouse Bottlenecks and more...
Leadership Meeting Today
Legislative leaders from both chambers are slated to meet again today. It’s a follow-up to their meeting last week as they try to plot a course for the governor’s special session on tax cuts and agricultural tax credits.
Veto Session Fundraisers
I’ve diligently tried to put together a comprehensive list of all the fundraisers happening in Jefferson City for the Veto Session. The listing is at the end of this update. But it can also be found here. Feel free to download, print out, share, etc.
And of course, let me know if I’ve missed anything. If so, I’ll put out an update next week.
IE PAC List Updated
I’ve updated the list of Independent Expenditure Committees. These are the PACs that politicians can raise money for without regard to the candidate committee dollar limitations. But they cannot direct how the PACs spend the money. The expenditures must be independent from the candidate. In other words, choose your mind-melding treasurer wisely.
At the suggestion of a reader, I’ve added the most recent cash on-hand figures for each PAC as well. (Many did not have to file 30 Day After reports, for example). They’re listed both by PAC name, and candidate name.
Situational Awareness: Warehouse Capacity Troubles
Wall Street Journal reports: The struggle for shipping capacity that has been a hallmark of pandemic-era snarled supply chains is shifting inland, with the transportation equipment crucial to moving goods growing increasingly difficult to find. Logistics executives say sea containers and the steel trailers needed to ferry goods on trucks are being tied up for weeks at a time while companies store goods on the equipment because warehouses are brimming to capacity.
· According to company data, CCM’s trailers earlier this month around Kansas City and St. Louis were tied up under equipment for an average of almost 33 days, up from about 20 days at the start of the summer and about 10 days before the pandemic.
Zagier to Cooley
Press release: A veteran Missouri political strategist and former longtime Associated Press journalist has been named Vice President of Cooley Public Strategies, company principal Dave Cooley announced Thursday.
Alan Zagier joins CPS from Tightline Public Affairs in St. Louis, where as a principal since 2019 he worked on issues advocacy and campaigns ranging from education and healthcare to land use and state and local initiative petition ballot measures.
MO Pro Life
News Tribune reports on the emergence of Missouri Pro Life last cycle to counterbalance the endorsements by Missouri Right to Life. Read it here.
Former Rep. Kevin Corlew makes a cameo…
· The group also filed a statement of committee organization with the Missouri Ethics Commission on July 18, creating the Missouri Pro Life PAC. The PAC remains active but hasn't filed any reports and doesn't have any officers reported, besides Amy Corlew, Kevin's wife. Amy Corlew is also listed as the treasurer on the group's website. There are no other individuals listed on the website or MEC filings. In an email to the News Tribune, Kevin Corlew said he is not directly affiliated with Missouri Pro Life, but provided legal counsel in the group's formation.
Yikers: Worst in Nation
Missouri Independent reported that “a federal report released Thursday shows that Missouri ranks at or near the bottom nationally in terms of processing Medicaid applications in the federally-permitted time.”
· The federal government requires states to process applications within 45 days. Roughly four in every five Medicaid applications in Missouri took longer than 45 days to process over this period, eight times the national average. A year earlier, before the state expanded Medicaid, only around 2% of applications took longer than 45 days to process.
$5K+ Contributions
Missouri Forward PAC (pro-Rowden) - $10,000 from Missouri Amusement Machine Operators LLC.
Missouri Forward PAC - $10,000 from Missouri Soybean Association.
Missouri Forward PAC - $10,000 from Penn National Gaming, Inc.
Missouri Forward PAC - $7,500 from RQC PAC.
Missouri Forward PAC - $7,500 from MO DSV PAC.
RightDirection PAC - $140,000 from Missouri Forward.
Committee for Liberty (pro-Ashcroft) - $15,000 from Ryan Binkley (Dallas TX).
Committee for Liberty - $50,000 from Jennifer Bukowsky.
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $5,700 from Citizens to Elect Bruce Degroot.
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $6,000 from Marion County Republican Central Committee.
Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from Standard Wellness Missouri LLC.
Buchanan County Citizens for Al Purcell - $7,788 from Annie Purcell.
Hagin For Missouri - $6,000 from Benjamin Hagin.
Jackson County 4 Kids - $6,000 from Jewish Vocational Services.
Kummer for STL - $59,208 from Mark Kummer.
Lobbyist Registrations
Jean Evans added DSL Consulting Group.
Richie Crawford added Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
Tricia Workman and Michael Gibbons added Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Garrett Webb deleted Independence Power & Light.
Bridget Therese Sanderson deleted Environment Missouri.
Phillip Scaglia deleted Evergy.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Sarah Wood Martin, and Sam Murphey.
Veto Session Fundraisers
Monday – September 12
4 – 6PM
Sens. Jason Bean, Justin Brown, Lincoln Hough, Cindy O'Laughlin, Tony Luetkemeyer, and Holly Rehder – Home of Rich AuBuchon.
Tuesday – September 13
Noon – 1:15PM
Reps. Jon Patterson and Chad Perkins, and Rep-elects/candidates Doyle Justus, Ben Keathley, Chris Lonsdale, Jeff Myers, and Melanie Stinnett – Missouri Relators, 100 East High Street.
1:30 – 2:45PM
Reps. Travis Smith, Terry Thompson, Ron Copeland, Bennie Cook and Jamie Burger, and Rep-elect/candidates John Voss, Wendy Hausman, Tara Peters, Cameron Bunting Parker, Donnie Brown and Dane Diehl, with special guest Speaker-elect Dean Plocher – Missouri Realtors Office, 100 East High Street.
4 – 5:30PM
Sen-elect Travis Fitzwater – Canterbury Hill Winery, 1707 S Summit Dr, Holts Summit, MO.
Sen. Andrew Koenig, Sen-elect Ben Brown, and Rep. Jim Murphy – 100 East High Street, 2nd Floor.
Sens. Rick Brattin and Bill Eigel – Missouri Independent Bankers Association, 108 B East High Street, Upstairs.
4 – 6 PM
Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman – 107 East High Street, Third Floor.
Reps. Brenda Shields, Bill Falkner, Rudy Viet, Craig Fishel, Greg Sharpe, and Peggy McGaugh - 101 East High Street, 1st floor.
4:30 – 5:45PM
Reps. Darrell Atchison, Hardy Billington, David Evans, Willard Haley, Brad Hudson, Bruce Sassman, and Dean VanSchoiack, with special guest Dean Plocher – Missouri Realtors, 100 East High Street.
4:30 – 6PM
Speaker-elect Dean Plocher, Budget Chair Cody Smith, Reps. Dan Houx and Jeff Knight – Bar Whiskey, 112 East High Street.
Rep. Jon Patterson, and Rep-elect/candidates Brad Christ, Wendy Hausman, Justin Hicks, Tom Hustler, Phil Oehlerking and Travis Wilson – Bar Vino, 204 East High Street.
Rep. Jim Murphy and Rep-elect/candidates Sherri Gallick, Holly Jones, Bob Mahacek, and Cameron Parker – Bar Vino, 204 East High Street.
5 – 6:30PM
Sens. Mike Bernskoetter and Rusty Black – Madison’s Café, 216 Madison Street.
6PM
House Democratic Campaign Committee (House Dems) – Bones, 210 Commercial Ave.
6 – 7PM
Sen-elect Jill Carter – Bar Whiskey, 112 East High Street.
6 – 7:15PM
Reps. Rick Francis, Mike Henderson, Barry Hovis, Mike McGirl, and Dale Wright – Missouri Realtors, 100 East High Street.
6 – 7:30PM
Reps. Nick Schroer, Phil Christofanelli, Tony Lovasco, Adam Schnelting, Adam Schwadron, and Richard West, and Rep-elect/candidates Tricia Byrnes, Wendy Hausman, Justin hicks, Dave Hinman, Mark Matthiesen, and Travis Wilson – Missouri Independent Bankers Association, 108 B East High Street, Upstairs.
Reps. Kurtis Gregory and Travis Smith, and Rep-elect Dane Diehl – Bar Vino, 204 East High Street.
7:30 – 9PM
Sen. Lincoln Hough, Sen-elect Curtis Trent, Reps. Bishop Davidson, Bill Hardwick, and Alex Riley – 100 East High Street, 2nd Floor.
Speaker-elect Dean Plocher, Reps. Bennie Cook and Mike Haffner, and all the Republican House candidates – Missouri Realtors Association, 100 East High Street.
Wednesday – September 14
7:30AM
Reps. Cyndi Buchheit-Courtway, Chris Dinkins, Ann Kelly, Hannah Kelley, Peggy McGaugh, Brenda Shields, and Lisa Thomas, with special guest LG Mike Kehoe – 112 East High Street.
7:30 – 8:30AM
Sen. Mike Cierpiot – Sweet Smoke BBQ, 127 East High Street.
8 – 9 AM
Rep. Mike Haffner – Jefferson City Country Club.
Sen. Karla Eslinger – Jefferson City Country Club.
Sen. Denny Hoskins – Jefferson City Country Club.
Rep. Dave Griffith – Jefferson City Country Club.
8 – 9:30AM
Sen. Elaine Gannon – The Grand Café, 107 East High Street.
8 – 10AM
Sen. Sandy Crawford – 101 East High Street, 1st Floor.
9 – 10:30AM
Majority Forward (Senate Dems) – Heartland Credit Union Association, 223 Madison Street.