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</div><div>Waukesha County Judge Lee Dreyfus Jr. was expected to rule two weeks ago, but the court doesn’t have Microsoft Outlook software, and the judge was unable to view the correspondence in question.</div><div>
</div><div>Attorneys for the GAB have since sent the documents in PDF.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eddie Greim, attorney for conservative activist Eric O’Keefe and the Wisconsin Club for Growth, both plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the GAB overstepped its authority in the unconstitutional John Doe probe, tells Wisconsin Watchdog the judge has yet to issue his decision.</span></div><div>
</div><div>On Sept. 15, the plaintiffs asked the judge to compel the accountability board to turn over communications it had with the Brennan Center for Justice and the Campaign Legal Center.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Attorney Lucinda Luetkemeyer argued the communications could clarify whether the GAB helped the outside groups in writing amicus, or friend-of-the court, briefs in John Doe-related litigation, or whether the groups helped the accountability board.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The GAB should “show what the law is, not what the law should be,” Luetkemeyer told  Dreyfus. “This goes to our theory, that they had an agenda about what the campaign finance law should look like,” not what the law is.</div><div>
</div><div>Luetkemeyer said the firm discovered some of the emails in previous depositions.</div><div>
</div><div>“These communications could be potentially embarrassing to this agency,” the attorney said.</div><div>
</div><div>The GAB helped drive the political investigation based on a widely rejected theory of illegal coordination between Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign and dozens of conservative organizations. In July, the state Supreme Court in a 4-2 ruling declared the investigation unconstitutional and ordered it shut down.</div><div>
</div><div>The Brennan Center is a public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice, according to its website. Like the GAB, the center claims it’s nonpartisan but is widely viewed as a left-leaning organization whose supporters include the ultra-left Democracy Alliance and the Open Society Foundations funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. The Brennan Center received $7.4 million of Soros money from 2000 to 2010, according to Newsbusters.</div><div>
</div><div>CLC claims to represent the public interest in strong enforcement of campaign finance laws. The group has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Soros-funded organizations. In 2010, the Campaign Legal Center joined other liberal groups asking the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of Republican-allied groups. Former IRS official Lois Lerner is accused of leading a campaign to target conservative groups filing as tax-exempt.</div><div>
</div><div>In July, the Wall Street Journal reported that GAB director Kevin Kennedy and Lerner were in contact between 2011 and 2013 — when the GAB assisted partisan prosecutors in investigating scores of conservatives and in raiding several of their homes.</div><div>
</div><div>“Emails we’ve seen show that between 2011 and 2013 the two were in contact on multiple occasions, sharing articles on topics including greater donor disclosure and Wisconsin’s recall elections,” the editorial board wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>John Doe investigators asked the IRS to look into a conservative group that was a primary target of the probe, sources told the Journal.</div><div>
</div><div>In another development involving the GAB lawsuit, the plaintiffs’ attorneys have sent new requests to subpoena Milwaukee County assistant district attorneys David Robles and Bruce Landgraf, as well as Milwaukee County DA investigator Robert Stelter.</div><div>
</div><div>The office, led by Democrat District Attorney John Chisholm, launched the secret John Doe probe in August 2012. Multiple emails show Milwaukee County prosecutors and investigators working with the GAB, which, under law, is prohibited from conducting criminal investigations.</div><div>
</div><div>At the same hearing earlier this month, Dreyfus ruled Landgraf, Robles and Stelter would not have to be deposed.</div><div>
</div><div>RELATED: John Doe prosecutors get a win, practice legal gymnastics again</div><div>
</div><div>The reason, according to the judge, is prosecutorial immunity that effectively protects the prosecutors.</div><div>
</div><div>While Dreyfus acknowledged Wisconsin is a “wide-open discovery state,” the attorneys for O’Keefe and his Wisconsin Club for Growth cannot “depose people who are not part of” the lawsuit.</div><div>
</div><div>In short, the district attorney’s files on the John Doe probe are “not discoverable,” at least in this lawsuit, Dreyfus said.</div><div>
</div><div>Greim argued the plaintiffs are only seeking to answer questions on “division of duties” in the probe, among other matters that do not directly relate to John Doe evidence. Those process questions, the attorney said, are important in determining GAB’s ultimate involvement.</div><div>
</div><div>He said the latest requests for depositions are “more narrow.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Also, the plaintiffs’ are seeking the release of 180 pages of documents now protected under a secrecy order.</div><div>
</div><div>The GAB wants to keep many of those exhibits under seal, claiming they are supposed to be shielded under the accountability board’s confidentiality clause and the secrecy order in the John Doe.</div><div>
</div><div>It appears the GAB would rather not have embarrassing emails out in the public domain, much like the conservative targets of their investigation. Although some of those individuals, who haven’t been charged with wrongdoing, had their personal lives placed on public display through document dumps by a judge who worked closely with the prosecutors.</div><div>
</div><div>“We want to amend the protective order so that everything could be released, subject to the identification of the targets. The GAB has opposed that. We have until Friday to reply,” Greim said.</div><div>
</div><div>Many of the current questions before the court are expected to be argued at a scheduled hearing Oct. 7.</div><div>
</div><div>Greim said the plaintiffs plan to take the lawsuit to trial “as soon as the court can get us in.”</div><div>
</div><div>He said it’s likely much of the information being suppressed now will eventually come out in a trial.</div><div>
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</div><div>“The public has a right to know. That’s why we have open court proceedings, why we have open records,” Greim said.</div><div>no lnx</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/09/16/gab-brennan-center-lawsuit-n8329" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://townhall.com/watchdog/wisconsin/2015/09/16/gab-brennan-center-lawsuit-n8329&ved=2ahUKEwj0tdXqzfDdAhVO5awKHXKgCuwQFjAHegQIBBAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Did the GAB 'illegally coordinate' with left-leaning groups? - Townhall</a></h3>
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</div><div><b>As Gov. Eric Greitens spent the holiday weekend grappling with the fallout from allegations of blackmail, one of his top staffers traveled to Florida to “party” with the president.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Lucinda Luetkemeyer, the governor’s counsel, posted a photo to her private Instagram account Saturday night of herself and three other women at party at Mar-a-Lago, a Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump.</div><div>
</div><div>“Party with POTUS,” she captioned the post.</div><div>
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</div><div> maralago</div><div>Lucinda Luetkemeyer (far right), Gov. Eric Greitens’ counsel, posted a photo of herself Saturday at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Florida resort.</div><div>Lucinda Luetkemeyer Instagram</div><div>Trump faced criticism for spending the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend at the resort rather than conducting service projects as predecessors from both parties had during the past two decades.</div><div>
</div><div>The governor’s office would not make Luetkemeyer available for an interview about her trip to the president’s resort on the weekend following the scandal.</div><div>
</div><div>Greitens, who has several connections to Vice President Mike Pence, has been a close ally of the Trump administration during his first year as governor.</div><div>
</div><div>“The Governor did not travel to Florida during the weekend,” Parker Briden, the governor’s spokesman, said in an email. “Lucinda was at a private event this weekend and not traveling for official business. She did not meet with the President.”</div><div>
</div><div>Briden did not answer a question about whether any other members of the governor’s staff were at Mar-a-Lago during the holiday weekend.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Luetkemeyer, the governor’s taxpayer-paid attorney, became the subject of controversy this week after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that she had contacted the attorney representing the ex-husband of the woman the governor allegedly blackmailed prior to the story airing on KMOV-TV in St. Louis.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The ex-husband’s attorney, Albert Watkins, has said that he interpreted Luetkemeyer’s call as an effort to do damage control and prevent the story from getting out. He called that inappropriate, noting Luetkemeyer’s status as a state employee.</div><div>
</div><div>State law forbids the governor from using state dollars to defend himself against the alleged blackmail. He is now being represented by a private law firm in the matter.</div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2UakRZm-DqYJ:https://moscout.squarespace.com/daily-updates-1/%3Foffset%3D1495027560942+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:2UakRZm-DqYJ:https://moscout.squarespace.com/daily-updates-1/%253Foffset%253D1495027560942%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj0tdXqzfDdAhVO5awKHXKgCuwQIDAJegQIAxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Eric Greitens' staffers who admitted to using the Confide application that deletes messages after they are read.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hawley had previously identified the eight staffers interviewed as part of his investigation, but his office had not acknowledged until today the five Greitens aides who said they "used Confide to discuss matters relating to their government employment."</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">The five staffers were general counsel Lucinda Luetkemeyer, special counsel Sarah Madden, deputy chief of staff Nick Maddux, policy director Will Scharf and deputy policy director Logan Spena.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2ZmPVFsdFgIJ:https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2018/01/tkc-reader-show-me-50-shades-of.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:2ZmPVFsdFgIJ:https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2018/01/tkc-reader-show-me-50-shades-of.html%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwj93Pj5zPDdAhUH1qwKHbVoDukQIDACegQIBxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px;">No evidence: </span></font></span></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/01/no-sign-greitens-his-office-broke-law-sending-self-destructing-texts-hawley-says/387252002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">No sign Greitens or his office broke law by sending self-destructing texts, Hawley says</a></font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px;">Outside the Capitol: </span><a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/21/gov-greitens-allies-still-have-confide-accounts-following-capitol-purge/355085002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gov. Greitens, allies still have Confide accounts following Capitol purge</a></font></span></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The on-record revelation from Hawley's office comes more than a month after the Republican attorney general concluded a report on how the app was used by Greitens' senior staff.</font></p><div class="partner-placement partner-spike partner-placement-visible" data-ad-placement="native-article_link" data-ad-sizes="[" fluid="fluid" id="ad-position-54" data-monetization-id="native-article_link" data-monetization-sizes="fluid,3,3" style="display: block; opacity: 1; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000" /><div class="ad-slot"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000" /></font></font></font><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is unclear why Hawley's office waited until Thursday to release the names, which the News-Leader requested almost a month ago.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hawley's office said there was no evidence the governor or his senior staff broke the law. However, he has been criticized for his handling of the investigation, including by Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat who views Hawley as her likely November challenger.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px;">No pushback: </span><a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/16/hawleys-investigators-feared-challenging-greitens-executive-privilege-claim-could-set-court-preceden/431434002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hawley's office didn't challenge Greitens' executive privilege claim, fearing backfire</a></font></span></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span class="exclude-from-newsgate"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin-right: 3px;">More: </span><a data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a" href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/20/hawleys-office-not-unusual-greitens-lawyer-monitored-staffs-confide-interviews/442094002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hawley's office: 'Not unusual' that Greitens' lawyer monitored staff's Confide interviews</a></font></span></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The release is also a day after lawmakers released a report saying that the woman with whom Greitens had an affair in 2015 testified that Greitens had slapped her and initiated a sexual encounter while she was in tears</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">r lawmakers released the report, Hawley's office issued a statement calling for Greitens to resign. Greitens has not done so, continues to deny criminal wrongdoing and vows that he will be vindicated after his upcoming trial.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missouri yet to hire full-time Medicaid director</font></span></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It has been more than one year since Missouri has had a full-time director for its Medicaid program.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services told the News-Leader on Thursday that no leader has been hired to replace former director Joe Parks, who retired from the department Dec. 31, 2016.</font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Missouri's MO HealthNet Division has been led by two acting directors. Currently, the acting Medicaid director is Jennifer Tidball, who has served as DSS' deputy director and the state's acting Medicaid director since Aug. 5. </font></p><p class="p-text" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DSS had received 12 applications for the position as of Jan. 26.</font></p><p class="p-text p-text-last" id="article-body-p-last" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Medicaid is a large and growing portion of Missouri's $28 billion budget</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/vp-pence-s-top-aide-tied-to-greitens-targeted-in/article_df92b3e1-494b-51cb-b9d8-678d62aab56f.html">https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/vp-pence-s-top-aide-tied-to-greitens-targeted-in/article_df92b3e1-494b-51cb-b9d8-678d62aab56f.html</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div> Jul 11, 2018 (…)</div><div>
</div><div> Vice President and Missouri governor visit vandalized cemetery</div><div>Vice President Mike Pence and Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens walks through the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, after viewing some of the damage done the previous weekend when more than 150 headstones were overturned. Photo by J.B. Forbes, jforbes@post-dispatch.com</div><div>
</div><div>JEFFERSON CITY • T<b>he chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence discussed soliciting contributions from “restricted donors” while he was advising future Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ 2016 campaign, according to a complaint filed Tuesday with the state’s ethics commission.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Nick Ayers</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The complaint also says that Greitens for Missouri, which Pence chief of staff Nick Ayers advised, “funneled” donations through 501(c)(4) nonprofits, which do not have to reveal donor identities</span>.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One potential donor, according to an email a Missouri House investigative committee obtained, was employed by a company that “manages money for the state of Missouri” — and could thus be barred by federal law from donating to political campaigns.</span></div><div>
</div><div>It is unclear to what extent, if any, Ayers was involved in discussions with that particular donor. But an email from 2015 shows that Ayers was in contact with the Greitens campaign about a “restricted donor.”</div><div>
</div><div>The revelation is contained in a 24-page complaint by Rep. Jay Barnes, R-Jefferson City, who led the now-defunct House committee that was collecting evidence to determine if Greitens should be impeached and removed from office.</div><div>
</div><div>Greitens, who was enmeshed in multiple scandals and had faced two potential felony court cases that were later dropped, resigned on June 1 after 17 tumultuous months in office. Greitens’ whereabouts have been unclear since he moved out of the Governor’s Mansion.</div><div>
</div><div>Barnes asked the ethics panel to investigate several alleged campaign infractions by Greitens and his campaign. The complaint singles out three close advisers: Ayers, fundraiser Meredith Gibbons and campaign manager Austin Chambers.</div><div>
</div><div>Barnes wrote that the committee obtained a June 27, 2016, email to Gibbons from an undisclosed “early supporter and fundraiser of Greitens.” The person writes to Gibbons that “I’m pretty sure he’s not allowed to give,” because “[redacted] manages money for the state of Missouri”.</div><div>
</div><div>“Eric can mention the 501(c)(4) if applicable, but no idea how [redacted] will react to that,” the email says.</div><div>
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</div><div>Complaint against Greitens for Missouri and A New Missouri, Inc. presented to the Missouri Ethics Commission</div><div>
</div><div>It is unclear from Tuesday’s complaint who the prospective donor was, and whether the donor ultimately cut a check to help propel Greitens to office. But Barnes wrote that on June 29, 2016, two days after the email<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, a 501(c)(4) group called Freedom Frontier donated $500,000 to LG PAC, the mysterious entity that spent more than $4 million to attack Greitens’ competitors in the 2016 primary.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Though the Greitens campaign denied coordinating with LG PAC, Ayers filed a financial disclosure form last year that said he worked for Freedom Frontier during the 2016 campaign.</div><div>
</div><div> White House debating how to deal with Greitens, a man who refuses to quit</div><div>White House debating how to deal with Greitens, a man who refuses to quit</div><div>"There's been interest from the White House about how this is playing out politically in Missouri," said one Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</div><div>
</div><div>In addition, Barnes said that on Dec. 4, 2015, Ayers and Gibbons exchanged emails about a “restricted donor,” though the two do not elaborate.</div><div>
</div><div>“There is a restricted donor that we’d like for you to reach out to when you have time,” Gibbons wrote to Ayers. “I can explain more over the phone.”</div><div>
</div><div>“Will buzz you soon re: restricted donor,” Ayers replied.</div><div>
</div><div>Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer advocacy organization, said if a “restricted” person ended up donating to Greitens’ cause, the person could have violated federal pay-to-play rules.</div><div>
</div><div>He said there is a “long history” of financial firms attempting to win government business by “making campaign contributions to endear themselves to those who are responsible for rewarding the contracts.”</div><div>
</div><div>Alyssa Farah, press secretary for Pence, defended Ayers in a statement issued Tuesday evening: “This is a complaint lodged against former clients of Mr. Ayers, who has always complied with federal and state campaign finance laws meticulously, and did so in this instance as well,” Farah said.</div><div>
</div><div>Catherine Hanaway, attorney for Greitens’ campaign, said in an emailed statement that the complaint was “full of false accusations.”</div><div>
</div><div>Hanaway wrote: “The Greitens for Missouri campaign never attempted to solicit or receive campaign contributions from prohibited sources. There was never any attempt by staff or consultants of the Greitens Campaign to violate campaign finance law. Missouri law was not violated — period. Any suggestion otherwise is completely false, and the facts prove that.”</div><div>
</div><div>Chambers could not be reached for comment Tuesday.</div><div>
</div><div>In a joint statement, two of the three Democratic members of the 10-member committee — Reps. Gina Mitten of Richmond Heights and Tommie Pierson Jr. of St. Louis — said they were confident the ethics commission would determine that punishment is warranted.</div><div>
</div><div>“With the ethics complaint that has been filed based on the work of the House investigative committee, the Missouri Ethics Commission has overwhelming evidence to conclude that Eric Greitens, his campaign committee and affiliated dark money organization broke state campaign finance laws,” the statement noted.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Other infractions</b></div><div><b>Barnes alleges several campaign infractions by the disgraced former chief executive, including that Greitens failed to form a campaign committee after spending $500 on his statewide bid and that he did not report the $4 million spent by LG PAC as an in-kind contribution.</b></div><div>
</div><div> A letter Greitens' GOP rival sent before the 2016 election foreshadowed issues to come</div><div>A letter Greitens' GOP rival sent before the 2016 election foreshadowed issues to come</div><div>"Missouri voters are wondering: To whom are you, as the next Governor of our state, beholden?" then-Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder wrote to the future governor in October 2016.</div><div>
</div><div>He said the Greitens campaign violated Missouri law by purposefully concealing the ultimate source of the $4 million spent by LG PAC, as well as the source of a $1.97 million donation to the Greitens campaign from the opaque group called SEALs for Truth.</div><div>
</div><div>Barnes also released a Nov. 17, 2015, email exchange between Chambers and Gibbons, in which the two discuss directing two Democratic donors to an unknown 501(c)(4) “so that they don’t appear on our reports,” Chambers said.</div><div>
</div><div>Evidence the House committee obtained “strongly suggests that Greitens for Missouri engaged in activity purposefully designed to conceal donor identities,” Barnes wrote.</div><div>
</div><div>Though the ethics commission can only consider civil punishment for breaches of campaign finance law, the complaint also mentions another possible violation of state law: using taxpayer resources for political purposes.</div><div>
</div><div>Barnes said that “upon information and belief” Greitens’ taxpayer-paid general counsel Lucinda Luetkemeyer “regularly attended meetings” with the Greitens campaign and A New Missouri, Greitens’ political nonprofit. State employees are barred from political activities while they are on the clock.</div><div>
</div><div>The Post-Dispatch reported in January that Luetkemeyer was on a fact-finding mission in the hours before news broke that Greitens had an extramarital affair with his hairdresser in 2015. Luetkemeyer did not respond to an inquiry on Tuesday.</div><div>
</div><div>Barnes also said that once in office, Greitens formed A New Missouri to skirt campaign donation limits and purposefully conceal the identities of donors.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Barnes said last year’s formation of A New Missouri to support Greitens’ agenda </b>was in response to the 2016 passage of a statewide referendum that placed caps on campaign contributions at $2,600 per election.</div><div>
</div><div>“The principals of Greitens for Missouri set up A New Missouri Inc. for the purpose of evading the newly-enacted campaign finance laws in Amendment 2,” the complaint says.</div><div>
</div><div>That, Barnes said, violates the state constitution, which bars people from using fake names to contribute money to political causes.</div><div>
</div><div>Two Post-Dispatch reporters visited the downtown Jefferson City offices of A New Missouri on Tuesday. The organization shares office space with Greitens’ campaign committee. The reporters rang a doorbell, but no one answered. It appeared that no one was at the office.</div><div>
</div><div>It is not uncommon for governors throughout the United States to use similar dark money groups.</div><div>
</div><div>According to a June report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, more than one in three governors holding office as of Jan. 31, 2017, can be linked to 501(c)(4) groups.</div><div>
</div><div>Of those, 70 percent did not voluntarily disclose their donors to the public, the CREW report noted.</div><div>
</div><div>Noah Bookbinder, executive director of the left-leaning group, said the unchecked spending allows special interest groups and wealthy donors to exert influence on the political process.</div><div>
</div><div>“Shadow governance groups allow governors to benefit from unlimited spending by sources unknown to the public — but possibly known to them,” Bookbinder said. “This is a growing, cutting-edge way for secret money to influence politics, and we need to start paying more attention to it.”</div><div>
</div><div>Other governors with similar organizations include Ohio’s John Kasich, New York’s Andrew Cuomo and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker.</div><div>
</div><div>The registered agent for A New Missouri is Robin Simpson of Monroe City. Simpson, who was appointed by Greitens to serve on the Missouri Lottery Commission, has not responded to telephone messages.</div><div>
</div><div>The ethics commission does not comment on pending complaints.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">slt</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Messenger: From Montana to Missouri, dark money is bipartisan scourge on American political system</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Aug 30, 2018 (…)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twitter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Email</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> tmessenger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tony Messenger</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tishaura Jones and Paul DeGregorio make a political odd couple.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jones, the treasurer of the city of St. Louis, is a Democrat known for her progressive politics. DeGregorio, a former director of the St. Louis County Election Board, is a lifelong Republican.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This month, they found common ground.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I know your father,” DeGregorio said to Jones as they sat down for a panel discussion in a back room at Three Kings Public House on Delmar Boulevard.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The panel’s focus was dark money, that plague of the American political system by which wealthy individuals and corporations hide their intentions to control politicians and fool voters by giving millions of dollars to untraceable nonprofit committees. Those donations then are sent to candidates or other political action committees, thus making it next to impossible for voters to know who is trying to buy their votes. I was on the panel, too, along with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">attorney Elad Gross, who is suing the former dark money committee called A New Missouri that contributed to the rapid rise and fall of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a younger man, DeGregorio worked on the campaign of former Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft, a Republican. That’s where he met Virvus Jones, Tishaura’s father. The Democrat crossed over to support Ashcroft in 1984.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A generation later, DeGregorio and Jones are joining together to support an anti-corruption initiative that in some ways has its roots in Ashcroft’s election more than three decades ago. Amendment 1 is the bipartisan initiative pushed by Clean Missouri that would limit campaign contributions, require a two-year cooling off period before lawmakers become lobbyists, reduce political influence in legislative redistricting, limit lobbyists gifts, and increase legislative transparency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is the most comprehensive statewide ethics initiative since Ashcroft first tried to create the Missouri Ethics Commission in a 1990 initiative. That proposal was dropped from the ballot because it violated constitutional requirements that an initiative not cover too many unrelated topics. Opponents have filed a similar lawsuit against Amendment 1, though its organizers are confident they will survive the legal challenge. Each of the provisions modifies Article III of the Missouri Constitution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeGregorio and Jones both support Amendment 1, but that’s not the primary reason they were on a panel that day.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> It was to talk about director Kimberly Reed’s “Dark Money” documentary. The film, which premieres on Nine Network in October, focuses on a legal and political dispute in Montana over wealthy outsiders trying to buy influence by electing lawmakers in that state with dark money. There is a cameo by<b> Missouri attorney Lucinda Luetkemeyer,</b> who sought to protect the dark-money interests who don’t want voters to know who is trying to buy their elected officials.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Spoiler alert: Luetkemeyer lost in Montana.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Not long after that, Greitens appointed her as his lead attorney in his short-lived administration, where she lost again.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeGregorio campaigned for Greitens. But he turned against the governor over dark money, a scourge of secrecy he had been decrying long before the phrase became part of the political lexicon.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The insidious nature of dark money is everywhere these days in Missouri politics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unknown forces are pouring millions of dollars into campaign ads in the race for U.S. Senate between Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, and Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican. The ads, which come from outside groups, tend to be more dishonest and full of hyperbole, because it’s easier to lie when nobody can identify who you are. A Washington Post analysis of a recent pro-Hawley ad, for instance, called it “misleading” and a “smear campaign.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Luetkemeyer is out of government, but her husband, Tony, won a Republican state senate primary awash in dark money. He was backed by much of the same coalition that backed Greitens, and some of the same people now battling Amendment 1, including the law firm where Luetkemeyer used to work.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even Amendment 1’s backers can’t avoid the taint of dark money, taking in more than $300,000 from two organizations that don’t disclose their donors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That won’t stop DeGregorio and Jones from supporting the initiative. These two political veterans remember when the art of compromise was a more common attribute in a political system that these days is highlighted by extreme dysfunction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s not just Montana,” investigative reporter John Adams says of dark money in the movie.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, it’s not. It’s Missouri, Wisconsin, Florida and every place in between.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Montana, the people fought back, and they won.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missouri’s opportunity to join the fight is coming.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article215843960.html">https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article215843960.html</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="published-date-widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; font-family: " mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p class="published-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span id="update_date" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 02, 2018 10:56 AM</font></span></p></div><div class="dateline-storybody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " mcclatchy="McClatchy" sans="Sans" arial="Arial" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div id="story-target" class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="content-body-" class="content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hundreds of thousands of dollars are pouring into a race for a state Senate seat representing Platte and Buchanan counties, roiling an already contentious Republican primary and fueling accusations of corruption and cronyism.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-way GOP primary has featured withering attacks from both sides and at one point even <a href="https://themissouritimes.com/50875/amid-filing-controversy-scot-van-meter-withdraws-from-missouri-senate-race/" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">included a third candidate</a> who was a Democrat widely viewed to have gotten in the race to play spoiler.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And nearly two years after voters imposed campaign contribution limits on political candidates, the race is another clear demonstration of the rising influence in Missouri of outside spending groups that aren’t bound by those contribution restrictions.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On one side of the primary is Tony Luetkemeyer, a lawyer from Parkville and first-time candidate for public office.  On the other is Harry Roberts, an insurance salesman from St. Joseph who is Buchanan County’s presiding commissioner.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two are facing off for the GOP nomination in a district represented for the last eight years by Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph, who will be forced from office in January because of term limits.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November, the winner will take on Kansas City Democrat Martin Rucker, who is unopposed in his primary.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luetkemeyer says he’s running as a political outsider, vowing to take on “politics as usual” in the Missouri Statehouse and focus on job creation and public safety if elected. He has raised around $470,000 since entering the campaign last year and has $78,000 cash on hand.</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts points to his record in county government, saying it demonstrates that he’s a conservative who will ensure “Jefferson City functions more like northwest Missouri and less like Washington, D.C.” He has raised $317,000 and has $44,000 cash on hand.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But with voters set to head to the polls Aug. 7, the real money in the race is coming from a political action committee called Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">t’s been spending big over the last month to tip the scales in Luetkemeyer’s favor.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since forming in late June, Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund has raised $750,000, more than half of which came from a nonprofit that isn’t required to disclose its donors — so-called dark money. It so far has spent roughly $250,000 boosting Luetkemeyer and attacking both Roberts and Schaaf, who endorsed Roberts in the primary.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Almost all of the money that the PAC spent went to companies owned by GOP consultant Jeff Roe.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roe’s consulting firm is also working directly for Luetkemeyer’s campaign.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schaaf is crying foul, accusing Luetkemeyer and Roe of coordinating PAC attacks, an allegation of illegal behavior both men vehemently deny.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“How can there not be coordination?” Schaaf <a href="https://twitter.com/robschaaf/status/1024255216592543744" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted this week</a>. “Both Luetkemeyer’s campaign and the PAC sending out all the mailers for him use Jeff Roe’s Axiom Strategies.”</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schaaf has filed <a href="https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/state/schaaf-files-ethics-complaint-says-dark-money-trying-to-influence/article_8bc71b57-7e90-578c-9ee5-e0283c6e3f2c.html" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">a complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The outside spending should be a warning to voters, Roberts said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think we’re seeing a lot of possible corruption coming in from outside this district,” he said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roe said when his companies are employed by both a PAC and a candidate in a particular race, “we go to great lengths to ensure proper firewalls are in place to prevent any coordination.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s important to know I have only met Tony once, last year,” Roe said, “and I am not involved with his campaign.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luetkemeyer said the claims of coordination are false, “the type of thing a desperate, losing campaign talks about.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How an independent group spends its money is “outside my control,” Luetkemeyer said. Besides, he said, when he talks to voters, “none of them care about the money being spent in this election.”</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts wants to focus on campaign contributions, Luetkemeyer said, because his record includes voting to raise taxes, increase the county’s budget and <a href="http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/county-officials-will-get-pay-raises-in-future/article_bc84ad9e-8eb6-5663-80b1-f96235ba7e25.html" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">give local elected officials a pay hike</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“My opponent has time and time again shown that he is interested in helping a small group of political elite,” he said. “He’s not a conservative, and I think if he’s elected, we’ll get more of the same.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts says Luetkemeyer is purposefully distorting his record.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, Roberts says, he voted to place a sales tax hike on the ballot in 2016 to pay for a portion of long overdue Missouri River levee repairs. Nearly 80 percent of Buchanan County voters <a href="http://www.newspressnow.com/elections/local/sales-tax-wins-landslide-victory/article_4edd202b-9348-5433-9c69-97c5037d00a5.html" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">approved the tax hike to help prevent flooding at the Missouri Air National Guard</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Lies and propaganda are being spread by my opponent,” Roberts said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his part, Roberts hasn’t refrained from taking shots of his own.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A TV ad his campaign aired recently says “Big city lawyer Tony Luetkemeyer supports legalizing drugs.” The accusation is based on a <a href="https://www.themaneater.com/stories/outlook/cannabis-rally-held-columbia-first-time" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">15-year-old quote about marijuana decriminalization Luetkemeyer gave a student newspaper</a> when he was a freshman at the University of Missouri.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luetkemeyer called the ad “<a href="http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/roberts-hits-the-airwaves-criticizes-luetkemeyer/article_e3d68fe2-65a6-5ed5-bdec-c368530c654c.html" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">gutter politics</a>.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Roberts also has a political action committee throwing its support behind him as well.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, a group called CL PAC disclosed it was spending $25,000 on TV ads in the race. While its ethics reports didn’t include the required disclosure of which candidate the money was designed to support or oppose, the PAC later confirmed it was in support of Roberts.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CL PAC is run by Jim Lembke, a former GOP state senator from St. Louis County who serves as Schaaf’s legislative chief of staff.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lembke said the PAC, which he formed in 2017, is “active in races where we believe there’s a candidate that has constitutional conservative values.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also said there has been no coordination between his PAC and the Roberts campaign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m fire-walled off,” he said. “I can’t talk to anybody who is on their campaign.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year the PAC has received $200,000 in contributions from St. Louis businessman David Steward. Last week it got a $27,500 check from a Washington, D.C., nonprofit called <b>American Federation for Children.</b></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The nonprofit, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/02/betsy-devos-founded-group-lobbies-congress-for-d-c-voucher-program-extension/?utm_term=.74acc87b2be8" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">founded by the billionaire family of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos</a>, calls itself “the nation’s leading school choice organization.</b>”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strangely, on the same day it contributed $27,500 to CL PAC, American Federation for Children also donated the same amount to the pro-Luetkemeyer Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite CL PAC’s last minute spending, the 300-pound gorilla in the race is Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unlike candidates, PACs are not bound by campaign contribution limits that voters implemented in 2016.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of the $750,000 raised by Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund since late June, $450,000 came from a Washington, D.C., nonprofit called U.S. Term Limits Inc.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts says he was contacted by the group to sign its pledge to support term limits for elected officials, and he did. Now, he wonders why it is spending so heavily to defeat him in a state Senate primary. And he wonders where the group’s money is coming from.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesman for U.S. Term Limits, which isn’t required to disclose its donors, didn’t respond to a request for comment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts is also quick to note that Luetkemeyer and the money behind his candidacy have numerous connections to former Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican who <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article212114314.html" target="self" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">resigned from office June 1 under a deluge of scandals and accusations of criminal misconduct</a>.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the scandals that led to Greitens’ resignation after only 17 months in office were allegations that he <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article213794074.html" target="self" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">illegally used a nonprofit to launder campaign donations </a>to hide the identity of donors.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luetkemeyer’s wife, Lucinda, was Greitens’ general counsel, the second-ranking position in the governor’s office. And Roe’s companies ran Greitens’ public relations and lobbying campaign during the months he worked to stave off impeachment.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among those putting money into the race is St. Joseph businessman Stan Herzog. He gave Greitens $650,000 during the 2016 campaign and spent $90,000 in 2017 on the former governor’s travel. He also <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article137209643.html" target="self" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">purchased the building in Jefferson City that housed Greitens’ dark money nonprofit</a>, A New Missouri Inc.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this month, Herzog donated $99,978 to a group called Missouri Alliance for Freedom-Grace River PAC and $100,000 to American Democracy Alliance-Ridgely PAC.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Both PACs were <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article183534901.html" target="self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">heavily involved in the state Senate campaign in Jackson County last year</a>, and Missouri Alliance for Freedom sued Schaaf unsuccessfully, <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article194025629.html" target="_self" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">claiming he was violating the state’s open records laws</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Both PACs also have ties to the Kansas City law firm of Missouri Republican Party Chairman Todd Graves — a staunch Greitens ally. Lucinda Luetkemeyer worked at Graves’ firm before joining Greitens’ administration</b>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week, Missouri Alliance for Freedom donated $100,000 to the Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund. Around the same time, American Democracy Alliance donated $50,000.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missouri Senate Conservatives Fund has also gotten $75,000 from Joplin businessman David Humphreys, who gave Greitens $2 million in 2016 but earlier this year broke with the governor and called for him to resign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luetkemeyer said trying to tie him to the former governor is a cheap stunt. He said he personally had no relationship with the former governor other than the fact that his wife was his general counsel.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“My campaign is focused on the future,” Luetkemeyer said, “not the past.”</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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