Nodler campaign account overflowing

The campaign bank account of Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, nearly doubled during the last three months, according to a disclosure form filed earlier this month with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
Nodler, who had $51,970.34 three months ago, received an additional $49,895 and spent $7,665.93, leaving him with $94,199.41, while no potential competitors for the 2006 race have even announced, much less pulled out of the starter's gate.
The Nodler list is a who's who of heavy hitters, indicating, as expected, that the senator's movie meltdown doesn't particularly mean anything to his well-heeled contributors.
Among those contributing:
-Harry Cornell- The Leggett & Platt board chairman contributed only $25, but that was because had already contributed $575 and by law is limited to donating $600.
-Ann Cornell- matched her husband's $600.
-Nick Myers, Joplin CPA, $600
-Jerry Perry, Grace Energy, Carthage, $200, $450 total
-Larry Neff, Neosho, $600
-Ethelmae Humphreys, TAMKO, $600
-Jack Henry, Jack Henry and Associates, Monett, $600
-Suzanne Duncan, wife of Freeman Hospital CEO Gary Duncan, $600
-David Humphreys, TAMKO, $450, $600 total
-Jim Otey, Newton County collector, $200
-Friends of Stevenson, Rep. Bryan Stevenson's campaign committee, $600
-Committee to Elect Ron Richard, $600
-Gary Rowe, president and CEO of St. John's Regional Medical Center, $100, $455 total
-Richard Page, Neosho R-5 superintendent, $175
-Roy Cagle- lobbyist (at one time including Enron among his clients) and former state representative, $250
-Larry Hickey, Joplin, retired, $300, $400 total
-Jerry Griffith, Neosho car dealer, $200
-Rudy Farber, Neosho banker, $600
-Dorothy Farber, Neosho, $600
-William Gipson, CEO, Empire District Electric Company, $600
-Alden Buerge, Joplin banker, $200
-Julio Leon, Missouri Southern State University president, $200, $425 total
-Robert Corn, MSSU basketball coach, $400
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The health care industry provided a considerable amount of money for the Nodler campaign during the past three months. In addition to the $700 contributed by Mrs. Duncan and Rowe, Nodler recorded the following amounts from doctors, their wives or those connected with health care:
Miriam Putnam, Carthage, $600; Larry Deffenbaugh, Carthage, $250; Carole Eastman, St. John's, $200; Melissa Little, Joplin, $100; Roger Schonfeld, Carl Junction, $200; Linda Rook, Freeman Hospital, $200; Thomas Reinsvold, physician, Joplin, $200; Thomas Dunlap, chiropractor, Joplin, $100; Gerald Grimaldi, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, $100; Larry Talley, Neosho, chiropractor, $100; Freeman Physicians Group, Joplin, $400; J. A. Dryden, dentist, Carl Junction, $100; Cynthia Croy, physician, Joplin, $600; Charles Bentlage, Freeman Health Systems, $400; Harvey Eplee, dentist, Weston, $100; D. Mitchell Stinnett, physician, Joplin, $300; Jennifer McGinty, Joplin, Associates of Dentistry, $600; Larry Cole, Christian Health Care, Mount Vernon, $400; Christopher Banwart, physician, Joplin, $600; Professional Medical PAC, Jefferson City, $600; HMO Missouri, Inc., St. Louis, $300; Missouri Association of Health Plans PAC, $250; Paula Baker, Ozark Center, $600; Hish Majzoub, physician, Joplin, $600; Robert Peterson, dentist, Kansas City, $100; Joseph Graham, physician, Joplin, $600; Missouri Hospital Association Southwest District PAC, $400; NHS Management, Joplin, $600; Community Support Services, Joplin, $400; Missouri Hospital Association Southeast District PAC, $600; Missouri Association of Health Plans, Jefferson City, $250.

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