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Arnold Councilman Delinquent On His Taxes

Death and Taxes.  There is an age-old adage that says those two things are the only things you cannot avoid in life.  Apparently this rule of thumb does not apply to politicians.  We've all heard the stories before of elected officials not paying their taxes.  The most publicized cases are on the Federal level.  Stories like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's inability to figure out TurboTax, or New York Congressman Charlie Rangel's tax evasion scandal, makes us scratch our head.  This problem is not only a problem on the national stage, but on the local political scene as well.  The latest incident involves current Arnold City Councilman, and candidate for Rock Township Ambulance Board, Randy Crisler.

On March 1st of this year, the Missouri Department of Revenue filed a lien against Mr. Crisler and his wife for $662.72 of taxes owed.  The court does not list the years in which Mr. Crisler was delinquent. 

Now let's be honest.  A lot of people have been late paying their taxes at one time or another.  However, it's one thing to be notified that you are delinquent.  It's another to completely ignore the situation, and require the Missouri Department of Revenue to pursue a lien against you to recoup the money.  Especially when you are an elected official.

And especially when you are a certain elected official that proposed to sue the Rock Township Ambulance District for tax money that the City claims it is owed.  Pardon me if I don't find Mr. Crisler's actions a little bit hypocritical.  I mean, it's very clear that the whole time he was trying to persuade the City Council to sue the Ambulance District, he fully knew he was delinquent on his own personal taxes.

Then there is that pesky State Statute 115.342, which states that "any person who files as a candidate for election to a public office shall be disqualified from participation in the election for which the candidate has filed if such person is delinquent in the payment of any state income taxes, personal property taxes, real property taxes..."  Then there is the Candidate's Affidavit of Tax Payments which all candidates for offices, large or small, must file.  You basically swear (under the penalty of perjury) that you do not have any delinquent taxes at the time you file for office. 

At the very least, Mr. Crisler should be disqualified from his upcoming Ambulance Board race.  At the very most, and in my opinion, he should be removed from the Arnold City Council.  For too long, the political process has been smeared by politicians who do not  play by the rules.  Politicians who feel they are above the law and answer to nobody.  This must stop if we are truly going to get back to the Republic our Founders intended.  "We are a nation of laws, ...not men", a wise first President once wrote.  If we cannot trust the people we elect to tell the truth and follow those laws, then what can we trust them to do? 

Coffee Party Astroturfer Baxter Swilley Has Missouri Roots

Dan Riehl notices a bit of coffee party astroturf from a Democratic political operative in Chicago named Baxter Swilley.  From this link we see a press release that is identical to one in Kansas City.  And from Dan's post, we see this guy named Swilley has worked for John Edward, Scott Lee Cohen, and the Chicago Olympics.

Swilley was the political director for the John Edwards campaign in Missouri in 2004.  He worked in depth with Jan Schakowsky in Illinois, taking charge of coordinating six campaign volunteers and organizing a 2500 person volunteer army to boost vote totals.  His LinkedIn profile is sparse, but it tells us he works or worked for The Haymarket Group as a senior associate.  The Haymarket Group is a PR firm with a heavy interest in grassroots campaigns.

The Haymarket Group is Chicago’s premier public affairs consulting firm. Formed in 1987, it is an organization of professionals skilled and experienced in government, politics, the media, the law, community organizing, public relations and mediation

The Haymarket Group was heavily involved with Democrats and Democratic causes, and boasts the likes of Jay Doherty, a close friend of the Kennedy family. It's safe to say they're connected to big names in Chicago politics.  Swilley worked for them in 2005 as a senior associate, but we don't know how long he stayed.  Must have been quite the place to build your contacts.  In 2007, Swilley created a committee to bring the Olympics to Chicago called Citizens for 2016.  Wasn't that a big push for the Obamas? I seem to remember something about commercial real estate deals and a Chicago Olympics.

More on that in a minute.

Swilley's work with Scott Cohen was as a clean-up artist.  Cohen had just won the primary for IL lieutenant governor, when news broke he had held a knife to the neck of his prostitute girlfriend.  Swilley was the spokesman for Cohen at the time, running his Springfield office.

John Edwards and Scott Cohen?  Man - talk about an unlucky resume.  So after Cohen implodes, what does Swilley do? He starts up the Chicago chapter of the Coffee Party USA (CPUSA - an unfortunate use of initials).  That would be bad enough by itself - but there's something to this story that set off alarm bells.

Schakowsky? This guy worked for Schakowsky?  As in the representative whose husband wrote the Democrat's healthcare strategy in prison?  And Swilley has Missouri political connections?

Boy does this guy sound familiar.  He fits the description of the union/HCAN organizer who flew into Missouri last September with a plan for the Tea Parties.

• The operative, an African-American man, arrived on American Airlines flight 401
• The operative boarded flight AA401 in Washington, DC
• He wore all black—sweatshirt, sweats—and a fraternity ball cap bearing Greek letters
• He is working with Valerie Jarrett, the committed communist and Obama’s “brain”

The operative liked to talk about how connected he was.  He was described by multiple people as "arrogant and angry," and dropped names including E.J. Dionne, Biden's staff, Valerie Jarrett, and folks at CNN.  He had a lot to say about Jimmy Carter's racism comments, sneering that CNN didn't get it was a third level racism.

And then he started talking about an event in St Louis.  He mentioned thousands of people.  And he specifically said he had a method to "deal with the Tea Partiers."

At the time, we sent a photographer to the HCAN rally to catch photos of an organizer, but we hit a dead end.  We found another man at the HCAN rallies, but that man was older and wore a bowtie.  The one we were looking for was younger, more muscular, and dressed well.  Could it be Baxter Swilley was the loudmouth who kept bragging on himself on the plane?  Someone who was connected to healthcare, and had a union background?

Let's dig into this resume some more.  Citizens for 2016, the Olympic Committee, had an address, 54 West Hubbard, suite 200, in Chicago.  Doing a little sleuthing, I turned up a number of hits that all came from campaign finance records. That address held the names of several "Citizens for [insert politician]" groups that each received $250-$500 from SEIU local 880 (The SEIU chapter that served as a money operation for ACORN).  In addition, there were a number of contributions that came from the No 1 International Bricklayers and Craft Workers PAC to the same address, with the same small amounts donated. Whoever controlled that address was funneling "walking around" political money to a community organizer who would then turn around and pay staff to "Get out the Vote."  I still need to cross reference this with Illinois campaign committees to get the full picture, but it's clear that Citizens for 2016 made use of or was run by the same people associated with political campaigns in Chicago. Let's connect the dots here.  We know that Valerie Jarrett was a big player in the attempt to bring the Olympics to Chicago.  And the Olympics committee visited Rogers Park in its selection process.  RogersPark.com was featured in the video interviewing Swilley, and it's where he lives. 

The guy on the plane bragged about his close connection to Valerie Jarrett.  He was in town to organize an event of thousands, and had a plan to deal with the "Tea Partiers."  Two weeks later, a series of HCAN rallies took place across the country at insurance companies, attempting to demonize them as holding up healthcare with lobbyist money.  With Swilley's connections to Schakowsky, we should be able to ask if Robert Creamer's plan to pass healthcare, which included demonization of the health insurance companies, included sending trusted operatives from Chicago to oversee events.

(update: see below - Swilley says it isn't him) 

Can we prove it?  Not yet, but the story just broke.  As bloggers start to swarm around Baxter Swilley, asking questions about his background, his travel, his employment, and his connections with Valerie Jarrett and Robert Creamer, we might find ourselves with a nice little story on how the Coffee Party is generating so much media attention with so few numbers.  More to come...

Update: Baxter Swilley is Facebook Friends with Robert Creamer, the husband of House Representative Jan Schakowsky.  In 2001, Swilley was hired by Schakowsky to run the Illinois Primary campaigns, and it's likely he met Robert Creamer there, who headed the Strategic Campaign Group that consulted with Rod Blagojevich.

Robert Creamer, as we pointed out earlier,  developed the campaign strategy to pass a giant healthcare takeover.

If Swilley is starting a coffee party in Chicago, we need to dig heavily into his background and draw the connections between a group set up one week before the final push to put the bill on Obama's desk.

This plan, as Creamer laid out, is designed to breach the gates of government and prepare the way for a flood of progressive legislation that will spread the wealth and lead to progressive governments around the world. 

Creamer’s broader aim, as laid out in his book, is the “democratization of wealth” in America and “progressive control of governments around the world.” As he recently wrote on his blog at the Huffington Post: “If we succeed in winning health insurance reform we will have breached the gates of the status quo. We will demonstrate that fundamental change is possible. Into that breach will flow a wave of progressive change.”

The progressives see this bill as the lynchpin to transform the world. This is why they are stopping at nothing to pass the bill.  And it shows us that once again, this bill has nothing to do with reform, and everything to do with political power and control.

If you link, please someone make the title Real Creamer for Fake Coffee Parties.

Update 3-15:Swilley, or someone I assume to be Swilley, wrote and said the picture we had up was the wrong guy.  The picture was sent to me by a Illinois tip and had identified Baxter incorreectly.  I'll replace it with a screen shot of his Olympics video later.  Swilley also says he's not the HCAN organizer flown into St Louis, which though sad to hear, is probably true.  He wouldn't write me if he was.  The mystery continues.  As for Swilley, while I'm willing to believe he's not our mystery operative, he is a Democratic political hack with 10 years of experience in Illinois politic.  Not exactly grassroots Coffee Party guy,

Did Brian Wahby Funnel $10,000 To Himself Through A Democratic Campaign Committee?

Exclusive: Live On Dana Radio right now.  Reference As first reported on 24thstate.com in all news reports.

I was looking through the campaign finance reports for the end of the year, and saw a startling report put out by the St. Louis City Dems for their end of year report.

In November of 2008, almost three weeks after President Obama's election, a Chicago businessman named Robert Wislow gave $10,000 to the Democratic Federal Campaign Committee, the PAC of the City Dems.  It's a large amount, and it's timing is strange, coming as it did after the election.

Robert Wislow is the CEO of US Equities.  He's a big Democratic donor from Chicago with ties to Rahm Emmanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama, and...a former business partner of Tony Rezko.  Wislow was an early supporter of Obama, and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Chairman, and he's a friend of Mayor Daley in Chicago.  It's safe to say he's a Democratic whale.  He's spread his money around over the years, including donations to Emmanuel and Obama early in their careers, but his two largest donations by far came in 2008.  One was to the Obama Victory Fund. The other, was to Democratic Federal Campaign Committee of St Louis City.  Both were for $10,000.    So what is he doing giving money to St Louis Democrats?

  The end-of-year report gives us the answer.  One month after the check arrives from Wislow, the committee writes a check for exactly $10,000 to one Brian Wahby, the President of the City Dems, and a super-connected Democratic mover and shaker.  Wahby is big enough to own the coveted title of superdelegate for the DNC, and he is the at-large member for the DNC from Missouri.

So what does the document say?  It says Wahby was paid $10,000 to reimburse him for "election night party expenses."  That's a problem, because the itemization isn't particularly specific.  What were those expenses for?  $10,000 is a lot of money, and even if it was a deposit, why is it only paid off after a check in the exact same amount comes in from Chicago?

 Wahby will have to explain this.  He will need, in his hot little hand, a receipt for exactly $10,000, or a set of bills that add up to $10,000, and proof that he paid it back in 2008.

The mystery gets deeper, and more tragic, because the treasurer for the City Dems was none other than current State Senator Joe Keaveny, who replaced disgraced Senator Jeff Smith for lying about a campaign finance expenditure.  Now it's slightly, and I do mean slightly possible that this can be written off as a clerical error, but only if Wahby can produce a bill and a bank or credit card statement to the FEC.  There was a party at the Chase Park Plaza (in the Khorassan ballroom no less), but did Wahby put down a deposit of his own funds?  Was it a fixed fee?  Was it billed post-party?  Were there taxes involved?  Why are there no other expenses associated with the party?  

Even if he can procure some kind of receipt and proof he paid with his own money, Wahby is faced with the difficulty of explaining just how a donation came in from Wislow for the exact amount three weeks after the event.  Can Chicago businessman simply pay off the debts of campaigns, or more important, can they funnel $10,000 to an individual to pay off expenses? No.  No they can't.

Wahby is known for moving money around.   This Jake Wagman article from the Post Dispatch shows Wahby nonchalantly admitting he used the Missouri version of the St Louis Dems committee to pass money to Mayor Slay to the tune of $13,000.  But that was a campaign donation from a committee to a candidate.  It's quite another thing to solicit a donation or work up a pre-approved billing that runs from Brian Wahby through the Democratic Federal Campaign Committee back to a Chicago commercial real estate tycoon with business interests in St Louis. 

Wahby is a real mover and shaker in St Louis politics.  He is also a source of controversy because he runs roughshod over his friends and his enemies.  Get the popcorn.  He's got some splainin to do.  

OFA Announces You Fight, We'll Fight Campaign

The attack on Kenneth Gladney by SEIU staff members gets all the press, but the August 6th townhall has another pugilist in the mix.  No one even tries to deny that Cheryl Johner, the OFA activist arrested that same night, told Kelly Owens to shut up and then punched her. 

The attack was videotaped, and witnessed by a police officer, who promptly arrested Johner.

Johner is also on tape saying "you started it, and now you don't like it," in reference to the kicking of Gladney while he was on the ground.

Knowing as we do that an OFA member has already punched a Tea Party activist, does OFA really want to remind people that they sent people to rumble in the streets? Apparently so, as their new slogan is "You Fight, We'll Fight."

What's next, a television campaign advertising a Town Hall Putsch?  Maybe a wall of videos called "My Struggle?"  Perhaps a series of tshirts with the slogan, "Brown is the new Green?"

OFA sent Missouri Members to the Carnahan Town Hall to make sure they had the loudest voices.  The day of the town hall, the White House told Dems, if you get hit, we'll punch back twice as hard.  

Brilliant messaging.

St Louis Democrats Funded By Big Chicago Donor

Boy you can't make stuff up that is this much fun.

The CityDems decided to launch a Blunt attack site today.  The site is funded by the DEMOCRATIC FEDERAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE OF ST LOUIS CITY, which is the PAC of the Democratic City Central Committee.

 

The largest donor to the Democratic Federal Campaign Committee of St Louis City is one, ROBERT WISLOW, from Chicago, IL, who made his donation of $10,000 in November of 2008, after the election.  

Who is Robert Wislow?  Well, he's friends with Rahm Emanuel. They're connected through the After School Works program.  He's connected to Barack Obama - been a friend of his and a donor for at least a decade.  Why, he even served on the ill-fated Chicago 2016 Olympic committe.   And he's the former business partner of Antoin "Tony" Rezko.  In short - he's a mover and shaker in the Chicago political machine, and for some reason, he decides that the St Louis City Dems need $10,000 right after the election of Barack Obama.    

It's quite the donation to city politics.  Coming as it did after the election, one has to ask what it was for?  Who was getting paid?  What was the money used for?  And what could possibly lead a big Obama supporter connected to Chicago donor politics to give money to a sad little political organization in Missouri?  Was it someone's birthday?  Did a St Louis Young Dem marry a Wislow cousin?  Did Peter Glickert win an RFP for best fake racism charge?

Considering who they are - could the St Louis City Dems not get any money from St Louis?  Why do we have to go to Chicago to get partisan attack money?

Court Dates Moved In The Gladney Case

Tonight was supposed to be the preliminary hearing for the incidents outside Russ Carnahan Town Hall.  Six people were arrested, including at least two SEIU staff members who attacked Kenneth Gladney in front of witnesses.

It seems four of the six of them have lawyered up - resulting in the moving around of court dates.  Perry Molens and Elston McCowan are now going to plead guilty or not guilty on April 1st (It is quite the joke), while Cheryl Johnner has been moved to March 4th, and Javonne Spitz to March 25th.

I'm sitting on top of original video that could be passed to the county prosecutor, and I've called and left my number should he want it. It's rather strange that a counselor would count on YouTube videos and not original video that no one but those who shot it and myself have seen, but hey - I wouldn't have waited four months to press charges so what could I possibly know about swift application of the law?  I figure we'll wait to see what the prosecutor does, and what McCowan, Molens, Matthews, Johner, and Spitz say, and then release the video ourselves.  This has the added benefit that if we give video to the prosecutor, he has to share it with the defense.  If I hold onto it, they don't know what we have, and if witnesses for the defense lie, we'll be able to prove it.  I think 18 minutes of footage and over 100 photographs from the event ought to be enough to determine who was there and what they said. Don't you?

The reason this is going slow is two-fold.  If McCowan and Molens can get a plea deal, the distance from the event might mitigate outrage from the local community.  Fat chance of that.  If they go to trial, witness memory will be over a year old, and the high-powered defense attorney Paul D'Agrosa will be able to plant doubt in the minds of the jury, if there is one.

Of course - dragging this out has other risks. Mainly, Charlie Dooley is running for re-election, and if Bill Corrigan runs on an anti-corruption platform, Dooley is going to eventually have to answer questions as to why Pat Redington has treated the attack on Kenneth Gladney with so little regard.  The Post Dispatch may not ask those questions, but I'm pretty sure we can arrange for dozens of people to follow Dooley around to every campaign event this season with pictures of Kenneth Gladney.  The longer this goes on, the worse it gets - especially as St Louis County now has two Gladney issues to deal with - the wrongful termination of one brother and the beating of another.   

While SEIU might have managed to flex its local power and delay the trial, pushing the date out hasn't saved healthcare (thank you Massachusetts), and now they face the very real possibility of a Republican County Executive candidate looking into whether political appointees working for Charlie Dooley have acted in illegal and inappropriate manners.

As always - the best bet is to come clean.  Sadly, most of the people involved still don't understand that covering up a crime is just as bad in the public eye as committing one.

And hanging over all of this is St Louis County Attorney Bob McCulloch, who threw County Counselor Pat Redington under the bus last fall.  McCulloch always had the authority to investigage this case, but he deferred to Redington.  What Bob doesn't know, is that Redington returned the favor - making the claim that more serious charges would have to be the decision of Bob McCulloch.  Which one is lying?

Who Is The Polar Bear Now?

One of the problems with cutting and pasting news items from newspapers and presenting them as research is failures in the news industry become your failures.  I've watched with some amusement the increased floundering of Sean Nicholson in his increased attempts to pretend ClimateGate and in fact the entire Global Warming Swindle still have any credence with the general public.

Sadly, the image of a polar bear on melted ice that Nicholson uses to taunt Republicans is in fact a better metaphor for the lone voices of Mann-made Global Warming as their evidence shrinks beneath their feet.  

Nicholson went so far as to call Akin and others Flat-Earthers for denying the science, when the truth increasingly is obvious that climate change, both warming and cooling, is far more complex than how many Hummers are driven on city streets.

In addition to the startling revelations that the computer models used to predict a hundred years in the future are using falsified data, that the old data was thrown out, and that a small cabal of scientists destined to make a lot of money abused the scientific process, we now find these other leftist myths thrown out the window.

The Arctic isn't melting.  It's got the same sea ice levels as 1979. But it did melt 3 million years before the EPA decided to regulate C02.

Himalayan glaciers aren't going to disappear (turns out that was a, mistake, in the IPCC AR4)

There has been no increase in the fraction of atmospheric C02 in the past 160 years (which is the theory behind cap and trade, carbon taxes, ethanol, and massive wind farm subsidies for the family of Missouri politicians.

In fact - we can say there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995.

In short, just about every story we've been told since that 7th grade science class (I did a report!), about global warming and the end of the earth has turned out to be false.

Kilimanjaro going ice free?  Not man-made global warming.  Most of it happened before 1953.

Polar bears dying? Nope.  Double what it was four decades ago. 

Science settled? Not a chance.

The truth is climate is a very complex system we don't understand.  We don't know what phase of warming or cooling we are in or what exactly causes them.  We're trying to understand more, but thanks to sloppy reporting and grandstanding politicians, all we got was economically devastating legislation and regulation that does very little to address any climate issues, but seems to do a lot to enrich the politically connected.

I told Sean some time ago that he was wrong and should apologize.  His response was to cut and paste.  Because he failed to use his brain, he's now stuck parroting what other people say, which sadly makes him even more of a patsy then if he was paid directly by the "environmental " groups. 

Russ Carnahan voted for the cap and trade bill on the basis that catastrophic global warming was coming.  His brother Tom has received hundreds of millions in loan guarantees and tens of millions in direct subsidy from the stimulus Russ voted for, all at a time when the country is broke and trust in government institutions is at a low. 

Sure we can blame the fake science, and the bad reporting, and the tendency of Democratic politicians to take your money for their own good, but let's not forget the legions of willing and mind-numbed hacks who helped it along. 

FiredUp Missouri To Merge With Missouri Democratic Party

For immediate release:

In a not-so-surprising merger, the Missouri Democratic Party has decided to combine their communication department directly with the FiredUp Missouri website to consolidate costs and prevent confusion.  Says Ryan Hobart, former and current Robin Carnahan lackey,

"It got real confusing deciding whether to run our stories directly on the blog or as press releases.  This new structure will greatly assist the editorial boards of the Star and the Post Dispatch on what they should and shouldn't say without having to waste time calling for instructions. 

"Our big dollar progressive donors are unhappy with the amount of coverage our new media programs have been getting, so we're simply going to start emailing stories from one central account.  We think it will help us go viral."

University of Missouri professor David Kimball says this makes sense in the context of Missouri politics."Jay Nixon has okay ratings, but the Carnahan family is the one that will be getting all of money in the future.  Their complete outsourcing of their communications strategies to SEIU flunkies has really paid off for them, giving them de facto control of the party structure.  Using FiredUp to write and distribute press releases allows Ryan and Sean to cut their workload in half and deliver one solid pro-Carnahan message to the lickspittles in their email address books. 

An anonymous St Louis county official agrees with Kimball: "It's a brilliant strategy.  When accused of printing Democratic talking points, they can claim it's "independent" progressive research.  When reporters complain about the use of bloggers, they can hide behind the party.  And if Republicans complain, well - what are they going to do?  You can beat black men in St Louis and threaten voters with nightsticks in Philadelphia without the Justice Department getting involved.  What do you think they are going to do with a blog?"

For the moment, the merger will simply consist of cross-posting material.  FiredUp will post MDP press releases, and the MDP will send out blogspots from FiredUp under cover of the MDP.  Later plans include a FiredUp theme park powered by Carnahan wind farms and staffed by SEIU and Missouri ProVote alumni.  The park will be called the Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State Park, and bear her image on every gate, which will allow the state to pay for its upkeep and maintenance.

More Payments From Ed Kemp To Mike Dalton

I'm going to have to start calling Bob Sweeney and Ed Kemp the Hansel and Gretel of Jefferson County. The trail of bread crumbs they left on the way to using taxpayer funds to pay off political allies could lead even Charles Jaco to some quality journalism. 

This is another MEC filing from Ed Kemp, this time paid to Forefront Organizing instead of Frontline Organizing (both run by Mike Dalton), and the dates and times are very close indeed to the decision to use Dalton's front organization group of professional organizers to run an educational campaign for E911.

Committee To Elect Ed Kemp, September 2008

So now we have at least $3300 paid by Ed Kemp to Mike Dalton in 2008 for political purposes, followed by a huge contract that would eventually end with $186,000 of taxpayers money going to a "company" whose very invoices prove they outsourced the work.

I make good money - but I don't make it in one fell swoop from a government contract with no references, no registration in the state of Missouri, and no disclosure that the guys we're paying also happened to work to get me elected.

I'm betting none of you do either.

Chairman Ed Kemp Paid Mike Dalton's Group For Political Work

The Jefferson County 911 Dispatch story just got a whole lot messier.  According to Missouri Ethics Commission reports filed in April of 2008, The Committee to Elect Ed Kemp, Ed Kemp Treasurer, paid $1,000 to Frontline Organizing for a "retainer."

This April filing of the Committee to elect Ed Kemp solidifies a tie between Mike Dalton's Frontline Organizing and the head of the Jefferson County Dispatch 911 board.

Here you see on page 5, at the eighth line item, a $1000 payment to Frontline Organizing for "retainer."  This document is available at the MEC site and by clicking on the picture.

Keep in mind that back in 2008, Mike Dalton was calling his organization Frontline Organizing. In 2009, Mike Dalton, under the new name "Forefront Organizing" was the main point of contact for the Jefferson County 911 Dispatch, and it was Mike that "negotiated" with Bob Sweeney and Paul Mayer. 

What we're seeing is political corruption at its finest.  The Jefferson County taxpayer has been paying political allies of Ed Kemp and Bob Sweeney to run issues campaigns in off years, and then these same allies work to get Kemp and other politicians elected at the local and county level.  Look at that again. Ed Kemp pays Mike Dalton to help elect him, and then rewards him with a $186,000 contract with little oversight, no disclosure, and clear overbilling. 

So to lay it out clearly in a timeline.

Ed Kemp and Bob Sweeney help Mike Dalton's "Frontline Organizing" get the Big River Ambulance Contract, worth $15,000. {documented - Big River minutes}

Ed Kemp pays Mike Dalton's "Frontline Organizing"  $1000 from his campaign committee  to help get elected. {documented - MEC}

Mike Dalton is the principal for Frontline Organizing, Forefront Organizing, and POWER Union {documented - SOS registration and WHOIS query}

Bob Sweeney at some point becomes the Vice President of the POWER Union, started and run by Mike Dalton. {documented - screenshot of POWER Union website - current}

Ed Kemp is the chairman and Bob Sweeney is the lawyer for the Jefferson County 911 Dispatch. Mike Dalto, with a new company not registered in Missouri, gets approved for a $200,000 project with the 911 Dispatch, without disclosing that he works with Bob Sweeney through POWER Union and was a paid political consultant for Ed Kemp earlier in 2008. {documented - JC911 Dispatch minutes and emails}

POWER Union is then the subcontractor and billing mechanism for Mike Dalton to do the work for 911 Dispatch. {documented - Forefront invoices to JC911 Dispatch}

Forefront Organizing, run by Mike Dalton, incorrectly bills JC911 Dispatch, including overbilling, false billing for labor, dialer use, and prepaid invoices for work not performed {documented - Forefront invoices and JC911 Dispatch emails}

In addition, Forefront breaks Missouri Ethics Commission rules on advocacy versus education, despite clear discussions between Mike Dalton, Paul Mayer, and Bob Sweeney about what they can and cannot do {documented - JC911 Dispatch emails and Pat Martin editorial in News-Leader}

This is part of a larger game. Keep in mind Missouri ProVote sent folks like (noted communist) Glenn Burleigh down to Jefferson County to work on state races for Mike Frame and Sam Komo in 2006.  Glenn Burleigh would later personally profit from this relationship with Jefferson County politicians as the media director for Forefront, paid by capital funds controlled by Ed Kemp.   In addition, SEIU was  paid over $20,000 for use of their dialer, primarily because volunteers couldn't be found to drive up to St Louis. 

It's all wrapped up for you, in a nice little gift basket - with a bow.

Robert Sweeney was able to generate major local media coverage when he was replaced as the attorney for the City of Arnold by paying Ed Rhode's consulting firm to send out a press release.  I once again heartily invite those media outlets to get out in front of this story, going through the hard evidence themselves at http://www.scribd.com/24thstate and on this roundup of earlier Jefferson County posts.

SOS documents below the fold.