It’s always interesting to look through old campaign finance reports. Usually the time just isn’t there. However, when someone starts shouting about someone else, you wonder whether they can meet their own standard. In Maria’s case, not so much:
In her 2004 race, Maria took money from New Leadership Council.
The New Leadership Council was essentially a project of Sherman Parker and his allies. It changed it’s name to New Leadership Council in 2003 from Republicans Unite Now
Big donors to the PAC were Sherman Parker and MO Freedom PAC.
So…what does that mean about Maria?.
Will we be seeing a very serious release from AFT now?
Recall how Eric at Show Me Progress and then I below documented that Maria Chappelle-Nadal lied about the Saint Louis American editorial endorsing her. It’s pretty impressive in it’s audaciousness.
Her fine lawyer threatening people with a defamation lawsuit now has sent the ‘evidence’ for Joe Adams receiving support from Rex Sinquefield.
It’s pretty good:
AFT Missouri (AFL-CIO) Releases Statement on Joe Adams Ties
To 80th Legislative District Committee
ST. LOUIS (August 2, 2010) – American Federation of Teachers (AFT Missouri, AFL-CIO) recently learned that Joe Adams, Democrat for State Senate in the 14th District has denied any funding from billionaire financier Rex Sinquefield, but campaign finance records for the 80th Legislative District Committee show otherwise.
In a statement from AFT President Scott Ciafullo he states: “In 2006, one of our locals endorsed Joe Adams for Mayor University City,” says Ciafullo. “In an ad placed in the Suburban Journal promoting our endorsement of the then-mayoral candidate Joe Adams, it stated the ad was paid for the 80th Legislative District Committee, which is tied to Ted Hoskins, a staunch school voucher advocate and a current state senate candidate in District 14. This committee, at the time, was primarily funded by All Children Matter, a campaign committee that was funded by Rex Sinquefield and other prominent school choice advocates.”
AFT Missouri, AFL-CIO is a strong opponent of school vouchers.
The mission of the American Federation of Teachers Missouri, AFL-CIO, is to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to our legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.
What you have to know is that AFT is now lying to try and back up the original lie. They claim the 80th District Committee was primarily funded by All Children Matter PAC which is a school voucher PAC that is heavily funded by Sinquefield. It is true that All Children Matter sent $5,000 to the Committee before the ad (a $400 cost). Adams also received a $3,200 donation from the 80th Committee on April 1st. However the bulk of funding for the 80th for the first three reporting periods of the year is Pyramid Construction that donated $20,000.
Of course, Maria might want to give her good friend Jamiliah Nasheed a call as well since she received a donation from the 80th that year as well.
So let’s sum up:
1) Maria lied on her flyer regarding the American Endorsement text
2) Maria then claimed Joe Adams had gotten support from Sinquefield and said she would get AFT to release a statement.
3) Maria threatens to sue blogger for reporting that she lied about the American Endorsement and that there was no evidence of Joe Adams receiving any support from Sinquefield and appears to be lying about that.
4) AFT releases statement that lies about the primary funding source of the 80th Committee in 2006
5) No link between Joe Adams and Sinquefield has been demonstrated. Joe Adams did receive support from a PAC that also received some support from Sinquefield, but the primary donor was Pyramid Construction for that PAC during that time.
What’s stunning about all of this is the incompetence of Maria Chappelle Nadal, her lawyer, and the local American Federation of Teachers.
Adding to it, Joe Adams is now running against Ted Hoskins which makes this entire story spun by Maria even stranger. Oh, and one of her closest political allies received a donation from the 80th in the same time period.
It is clear from this fiasco that there is one person who should not be the next State Senator from the 14th and that is Maria Chappelle-Nadal. Make no mistake about it, Maria is lying about the American editorial and she’s lying about Joe Adams receiving support from Rex Sinquefield.
Such a wonderful discussion the Post-Dispatch has going on in comments:
FIRST BLACK CRIME SANCTUARY CITY WILL BE ST. LOUIS, CONGRADULATIONS. WHITE GUILT WILL FORCE THE WHITE MAN TO SURRENDER.
This will become Obama’s recruiting city for his Domestic Military Force. Whites will be prey and white girls will become play things. The Mongol Hoard did this to Europe during their conquest. The Mongols killed the men and sanctified the girls.
This isn’t only racists, it’s just nuts.
I really can’t do this all of the time because it’s just too damn depressing, but what is the response to a fairly non-controversial piece on a Black Catholic fraternal group?
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- Exclusivity is OK as long as it doesn’t include the “white” word! I’m wondering if the SLPD will have to schedule extra manpower to control this crowd, as is done at the A.Malone Parade and at all the other AA events held in the city?
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- MMK said on: August 2, 2010, 6:04 am
- I thought we were trying to end racism?
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- rvbuilder said on: August 2, 2010, 5:19 am
- In this day and age (especially with an Obama presidency), why do we have to have a “BLACK” anything?
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- WhatTheFudge said on: August 2, 2010, 5:15 am
- I wonder what the NAACP has to say about this group? Who knew?
I’ve received the following e-mail from an attorney representing Maria Chappelle-Nadal:
I represent Maria Chappelle-Nadal. The purpose of this message is to address
various statements you have published about my client. You have
repeatedly slandered and
libeled her by calling her a liar and falsely claiming that she misstated
facts
about financial support you have received from Mr. Sinquefield. All of
Ms. Chappelle-Nadal’s statements are verifiable facts; yours are
intentional lies designed to tarnish her reputation.Neither Ms. Chappelle-Nadal nor I wish to pursue civil litigation against
you. We
will not do so if you immediately issue retractions of your statements of
Facebook, showmeprogress.com and all other mediums you have used to
unlawfully assault her reputation. Your retractions must specifically
state that my client did not lie about the
contributions you have received.If you comply with this request by 9:00am on 8/1/2010, we will refrain
from filing suit
against you on 8/2/2010.Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter. Please do not
hesitate to
contact me with any questions or concerns.
I responded with the following e-mail:
Can you specifically cite which claims that I have made that you believe to be false, and can you please provide evidence to substantiate those claims? As I’ve previously stated, I would gladly retract any statements which are proven to be false, but I will not retract a statement without compelling evidence that it is false.
I send the attorney this e-mail on my behalf as well:
I see that you are threatening Eric Hoffpauir of Show Me Progress with a lawsuit regarding his statement that Maria Chappelle-Nadal is lying about what the St. Louis American wrote in an endorsement of her. I have added the material to my site at Blog Saint Louis and Facebook. I would appreciate if you would add me to any legal action against Eric. I hate to be left out.
Let me make clear, however, that any such effort will be met with an effort to recover all legal costs from you and your client and seek full sanctions for bringing a frivolous lawsuit.
Eric pointed out that the Chappelle-Nadal flyer sent to homes, including mine, distorted the text of the Saint Louis American editorial. The editorial stated:
- Maria Chappelle-Nadal has six years of experience in Jefferson City and is a proven, stalwart progressive battler. Her youthful energy also gives her the edge over Joe Adams, the only other candidate in this race who is free of the taint of major funding by Rex Sinquefield. While we have some concern for her, at times, brash behavior and penchant for picking fights she doesn’t need, we feel she has learned some painful lessons in this regard. It is with raised expectations that we endorse MARIA CHAPPELLE-NADAL IN THE 14TH DISTRICT.
Chappelle-Nadal’s flyer stated:
“Maria…is a proven stalwart progressive battler. Her youthful energy also gives her the edge (and she is) the only candidate in this race who is free of the taint of major funding by Rex Sinquefield.”
Maria is lying in the flyer. There is simply no if, ands, or buts about it. If it is true that Sinquefield has given money to Joe Adams at some point she has an issue with the American for accuracy, but altering the quote is still a lie.
Chappelle-Nadal has been asked for evidence of such a donation and if such evidence exists, Eric, and now I, are willing to issue a full retraction and he has been all along. However, after examining the Missouri Ethics Commission database I find no such funding to Adams directly, nor has any funding to another source been demonstrated to be from Sinquefield and on behalf of Adams’ candidacy. If Sinquefield provided such funding for a flyer, it should be in those reports. If Eric, the Saint Louis American, and I are all wrong on this issue, please provide the MEC report showing such funding from Sinquefield to Adams or on Adams’ behalf. Instead of offering evidence, Chappelle-Nadal suggested that a statement would be issued by AFT which is rather odd given the information should be contained in the MEC records.
Best!
Larry Handlin
For serving me with legal papers, I can most easily be reached at:
7023 Dartmouth Avenue
Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
The same letter was sent to Joe Adams and info@bluepearlonline.com which is an online travel agency. No idea on why it was sent to the bluepearlonline.com, but then again, I can’t really understand why it was sent at all.
Who could have predicted Maria was unstable and crazy? Thumb dealie pointing at me!
Eric at Show Me Progress Wrote the following on Thursday:
Maria, there’s another candidate in your race who is free from the taint of Rex Sinquefield donations, and his name is Joe Adams. He was actually your mayor for several years, if you can recall.
Maria Chappelle-Nadal, outgoing representative of the 72nd House District is running in a 4-way race for state senator of the 14th Senate District. She just sent out mailers to her prospective constituents that mangle a quote from the St. Louis American (and that’s being generous) to claim that Maria is the only candidate who hasn’t received money from Rex Sinquefield. Joe Adams, the former mayor of University City, has not received any contributions from Sinquefield, and the original quote from the American in no way resembles Maria’s claim.
The quote on the front of the mailer says, “I’m proud to be the only candidate in this race that has not been bought by billionaire Rex Sinquefield who is trying to own state government.” The quote on the back appears to directly cite the St. Louis American: “Her youthful energy gives her the edge [and she is] the only candidate in this race who is free from the taint of major funding by Rex Sinquefield.”
In fact, the quote from the American explicitly states that Joe Adams has not taken money from Sinquefield. In other words, Maria’s mailer “quotes” the opposite of what the American said, and one can’t draw any other conclusion than that the quote was deliberately altered. Maria is flat out lying.
Maria responded in typical crazy Maria fashion:
The full text of the St. Louis American endorsement of Maria Chappelle-Nadal reads as follows:
Maria Chappelle-Nadal has six years of experience in Jefferson City and is a proven, stalwart progressive battler. Her youthful energy also gives her the edge over Joe Adams, the only other candidate in this race who is free of the taint of major funding by Rex Sinquefield. While we have some concern for her, at times, brash behavior and penchant for picking fights she doesn’t need, we feel she has learned some painful lessons in this regard. It is with raised expectations that we endorse MARIA CHAPPELLE-NADAL IN THE 14TH DISTRICT.
It’s amusing that the St. Louis American would qualify their endorsement with a note of concern, because that concern is well-warranted.
I pointed out in my most recent diary, Rep. Chappelle-Nadal completely altered the American’s endorsement to say that she was the only person in the race who had not received contributions from Rex Sinquefield. Even if that were true, that’s not what the newspaper’s endorsement said. The endorsement expressly stated that Joe Adams also has not received contributions from Sinquefield. And Chappelle-Nadal’s claim in the mailer, independent of the fact that she falsely attributed the claim to the St. Louis American, is simply not true as far as I can tell. Sinquefield didn’t contribute to Adams in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, or 2010. So naturally I felt pretty comfortable calling someone who completely misrepresented facts a liar.
Understandably, Maria Chappelle-Nadal was not happy to be called out for lying. I received a number of e-mails from Chappelle-Nadal expressing her disappointment and telling me that I was incorrect, but when I requested evidence to the contrary, she was not forthcoming in specifics. The only thing she was willing to say was that Sinquefield money paid for an Adams mailer back in 2006 (I’m assuming during his last re-election campaign for University City mayor), but when I requested a copy of the mailer in question, or contact info for a person who had a copy, I was told only that she wasn’t going to do my research for me. The last e-mail I got from her stated that a formal announcement from the AFT concerning the mailpiece would be forthcoming, and that I should expect to hear from her attorney.
Back to that St. Louis American endorsement. Can anyone have confidence that Chappelle-Nadal has learned “painful lessons” in regards to her “brash behavior” and “picking needless fights”? The easiest thing for her to do would have been to send me a scan of mailer that allegedly was paid for by Sinquefield along with some evidence that it was indeed paid for with Sinquefield money, or put me in touch with someone who could provide that information, and I would have gladly posted an update. Instead, I got the threat of legal action.
Now, as a state senator, it’s not enough to be right on the issues. It’s not enough to make a nice red meat progressive speech, as I’ve seen Chappelle-Nadal do on more than one occasion. These are all well and good, but you’ve got to cobble together coalitions with allies who have been with you for a long time as well as allies that might only be with you on that day, or else you’re not going to get much done. This is doubly true in the State Senate, which is much smaller than the General Assembly. Given this personal interaction with Chappelle-Nadal, I have a hard time believing she’s going to be an effective legislator for the citizens in the Missouri’s 14th Senate District.
So Maria and her lawyer, please add me to the any lawsuit. If you notice the about page, my address is there if you wsih to serve me.
Eric is right here–Maria is blatantly lying by modifying a quote from the St. Louis American. There’s simply no question there. If she wants a retraction, she needs to provide the evidence that Sinquefield did pay for a pro-Adams flyer.So far, she has refused to do any such thing. If she can provide the evidence, she also can request the American make a correction, but that does not absolve her of passing along a fake quote regardless. Of course, no evidence of such a flyer exists and it should be available in the Missouri campaign finance reports.
Oh, one thing Maria–I will seek to recover all legal costs from you and your attorney and seek full penalties for spurious litigation if you do try it. Cheers!
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit has his undies in a bunch because adults are talking about oral sex.
The horrors.
Seriously,what kind of fucking ninny is worried about a publication targeted to adults (a college paper) is discussing oral sex?
They’re upset that I pointed out their school porn.
Hoft has shown that he is often damn near illiterate and does it again. Porn is generally classified as material that is only designed for prurient interests having no literary or artistic merit. A how-to-guide is educational and is far outside of that definition.
That is, unless you are so uptight sexually that you think oral sex is weird or unnatural or something which is both incredibly repressed and out of the mainstream where about 75 percent of people have had oral sex. If you look at just the elderly which are more conservative in their attitudes about sex, it’s about half. In short, it’s normal, healthy sexual behavior.
His comments go into slut shaming and are typically misogynistic referring to the woman as a whore and other fine names. Such fine moral examples.
Oh, right, I have pointed it out repeatedly in relation to the Post-Dispatch.
And what do we have here? One example on the American Renaissance listserv:
For those of you at the Post-Dispatch, keep up with Greenbaum’s strategy of allowing racists to continually abuse the comments. You’ll have tons of readers–white supremacists from coast to coast. That’s got to be a bitchin’ business model.
“Comments have been disabled.
Due to a high volume of submissions that violate The News’ guidelines,
commenting is no longer available on this story.”
Too funny. It’s happened to me before too. If it’s a particularly good article
I’ll copy and paste it into a Word doc for future reference.
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> Buffalo News did the article below about the 60 homicides in Buffalo for
> 2009. We were up to 180+ comments when the News pulled the comments.
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> I was doing great. I know this because their retorts amounted to little
> more than calling me a racist among other things.
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> One guy did some statistical breakdown of murder rates compared to other
> cities and found that Buffalo has a proportional murder rate 4 times
> that of New York City.
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> But all the comments are now gone…
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> The Buffalo News can’t handle the truth.
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> Gang violence boosts death tally A spike in the number of deadly
> gangland quarrels pushed last year’s homicide count to 60
Compare and Contrast:
Sharp’s schtick can be seen fairly well in this video from the Carnahan Town Hall:
Sharp is the tool yelling and using a handheld camera to record the reaction to his yelling, others walking through the circle of pro-health care reform circle and the crazy purple woman waving papers and screaming in people’s faces. He’s basically trying to get video of someone being mean to the crazy purple lady and then use that as evidence of…something. The people walking through the pro-health care reform circle were jostled several times, but no one fell the the need to try and get disturbing the peace charges against them–they were largely ignored other than one case where the crazy purple woman got into a hand slapping battle with a crazy pro-health care woman who had been asked to leave already.
I’m not sure if I have a clear recording where the tea party participants jostled the pro-health care reform crowd, but I’ll stick it up if I do. It was immature and silly, but hardly disturbing the peace.
That is the word it takes to get the Post-Dispatch to take moderating comments?
Of all of the shit I have found on that site, Greenbaum calls the workplace of a guy who posted a dumb joke to what is the strangest thing you have ever eaten. Seriously? WTF?
You can post racist screeds time and time again. You can post misogynistic garbage on the site and they may delete it. May. You can post bizarre anti-Semitic screeds that deny the Holocaust. Nothing.
You post an inappropriate response that isn’t that funny, but hardly the most offensive thing the site sees on a daily basis and Greenbaum calls the school notifying them?
Disgusting human beings are coddled and allowed to post over and over again, but a dork with a bad sense of humor gets the call.
In theory, I don’t have a problem with reporting people to their ISP for abuse of site terms. It shouldn’t be the first response, but it’s an entirely reasonable response for serious violations (threats) or repeated violations (more than twice in the same thread certainly). I actually think the P-D ought to do this, but the choice of who to go after is absolutely bizarre.
That’s the topic of today’s comments in regards to Nazis coming to Belleville:
SusanW September 23, 2009 4:32PM CSTGood idea. Because we all know that if the situation was reversed the NAACP and Al Sharpton and all the other trouble makers would be making noise.
twistin14u September 23, 2009 4:41PM CSTi don’t normally agree with racists…but….they have a point….if the roles had been reversed…would this have become the next Jenna,La.?
Joe Picek September 23, 2009 4:44PM CSTWhile I do not condone or support any White Supremacy at least they are willing to show their dissapointment on this. When the black population has something to say they go out into public and say it. It seems like the white population just posts comments and hides behind screen names
shamwow September 23, 2009 4:47PM CSTI may not agree with their views, but at least someone is willing to take a stand for us.
mistalong September 23, 2009 4:51PM CSTAs a parent, as a community, and if you feel as a race you need to make your feelings known about this DO SO!! Wrong is wrong.
uvstlblues September 23, 2009 4:51PM CST
The NSM’s core beliefs include: defending the rights of white people everywhere, preservation of our European culture and heritage, strengthening family values, economic self-sufficiency, and reform of illegal immigration policies, immediate withdrawal of our national military from an illegal Middle Eastern occupation and promotion of white separation.
Saint Louis Pushes Back catches Jim Hoft giving some love to the Council of Conservative Citizens:
Jim Hoft, also known as Gateway Pundit, has amazingly descended to a new, despicable low. After trumping up the school bus beatings in Belleville as “vicious racist attacks” (even though students, the mayor, and prosecutors said the attack was not racially motivated), he now links to a youtube channel from a white supremacist group with the video title, “2nd White kid attacked by blacks on school bus, racial slur used”:
First, credit to the P-D staff for policing the main comment thread. This in the video thread is just bizarre:
Young mr. raines appears to be of mixed race. The part of his racial makeup that isn’t black was the factor in his trying to ease the further abuse of this poor white kid who is a victim of racism by the black attackers.
Steve Raines appears to be part black and part something other than black. It was the part of him that wasn.t black that gave him courage to ease some of the some of the suffering and continuing abuse of the poor victim
Because, again, who could have predicted:
stlstyx September 13, 2009 6:33PM CSTJust goes to show you, you can take the tennis player out of the Ghetto but you can’t take the Ghetto out of the player.
A little bit of sexism:
mpat890935 September 14, 2009 11:48AM CSTProbably on the rag? And the roids make it hard to keep your calm. 10000 fine, big deal what did they do? Take it out of her 3rd place check? I do not think she ever lived in a ghetto but maybe that is where she is from”?
cricket September 14, 2009 11:55AM CSTCompton,Cal., south central LA, rodney king’s neighborhood. Just a wonderful place. And he/she should not be allowed to compete in the doubles tournament. Whatever she is,…..she’s no lady !