Mike Landis, who quit the Joplin R-8 Board of Education in 2015 is receiving strong financial support from many of the city's elite as he attempts a comeback eight years later.
In his 40 days before election filing with the Missouri Ethics Commission, Landis reports $9,723 in contributions.
At the time of the filing, Landis had only spent six dollars for a bank fee.
Landis' contribution list includes the following:
Newton Sharp, Joplin, dentist, $500
Dorothy B. Willcoxon, Joplin, retired, $500
Samuel Carter, Joplin, physician, $500
Sharrock Dermott, Joplin, attorney, former R-8 board member $100
Aaron Colson, Joplin, Black Market Fireworks, $200
Jeff Majzoub, Joplin, real estate, $200
Thomas Mitchell, Overland Park, Kansas, architect with DLR Group, $150
Nancy Good, Joplin, retired, former Bright Futures USA Board chairman, $100
T. Mark Elliott, Webb City, insurance agent, former state representative $100
Melanie Stanley, Webb City, retired, $150
Jeremy Drinkwitz, Joplin, Mercy Hospital CEO $300
Vicky Meisler, Carl Junction, Ozark Center chief administrative officer, $250
Jon Dermott, retired judge and attorney, $25
Leigh Frogge, Joplin, homemaker, $200
J. Bradford Hodson, Carl Junction, Missouri Southern State University executive vice president $150
Gil Stevens, Joplin, realtor, $200
Hal Roper, Joplin, Roper Auto Group, $250
David Powell, Joplin, self-employed, $100
Benjamin Rosenberg, Joplin, retired, $500
Jim Simpson, St. Louis, retired (former Joplin R-8 superintendent), $500
Midwest Regional Allergy Asthma, Joplin, $300
William Satterlee, Joplin, $600
Anne Sharp, Joplin, homemaker (former Joplin R-8 board member), $500
Jerrod Hogan, Joplin, Anderson Engineering CEO, $500
Snodgrass Collision Center, LLC, Joplin, $250
Henry W. Robertson, Jr., Joplin, retired, $350
Lane Roberts, Joplin, Missouri state representative, $100
The Hershewe Law Firm, Joplin, $500
Dawn Sticklen, Joplin, Sticklen, Dreyer and Tinney, PC (former R-8 Board member), $100
Maridan Stanley Kassab, Joplin, retired, $250
Roper Honda, Joplin, $500
Clive Veri, Carl Junction, Commerce Bank, $100
Sara Newman, Joplin, retired, $250
When you do the next piece on Mikey, include how much of the $6.2 million in restitution his brother, a former Joplin city council member, has paid the government.
ReplyDeleteWorst POS on the planet!
ReplyDeleteWell, this list is about as non-political as it can get. Donors are from the far-right to apolitical to far-left. Interesting, he definitely knows how to fundraise.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way this guy gets back in the board after almost destroying the district with the most inept administration ever. Do not vote for this guy. Ever.
ReplyDeleteWow, Dr Carter, this tells me everything I need to know about you and your values. I suspected you were not of good character and this proves it.
ReplyDeleteIt was one of the best things to ever happen to the Joplin School Board when Mikey made his exit. He got all the donors to support him this time because he knows how to schmooze with the bet of them. He didn't make it as a contractor, nor a safe room salesman, nor his bid for Jasper County Commissioner, nor a spokesman for a car dealership, nor a TV star when his oldest son was trying to make it big in the music industry, nor a very recent "job" in NW Arkansas to find and secure large tracts of land to purchase for high-end condominiums using the walnut trees on the land for flooring. I know there are more failed job attempts that I have forgotten. Maybe he thinks, by now, we have forgotten his miserable showing as a Joplin School Board member a decade or so ago. I, for one, have not forgotten. He will definitely NOT get my vote. He is not the breadwinner in his household, and never will be.He is a wanna be that never will be.
ReplyDeleteI'm very surprised at some of the names on his donor list. Some are people I know and respect; this makes me very sad to think they would support someone so inept at everything and give him a second chance to fail again at such a key position.
ReplyDeleteNo. Why would anyone support someone that QUIT his pryor SERVICE to the board? It was a scandal of sorts. Unanswered questions, overspending. Absolutely no.
ReplyDeleteDr. Simpson. 🤦🏼♀️ What a disappointment.
ReplyDeleteHe is Superman. Anyone who can volunteer as much as him and work to support his family, see his wife and kids, must be a super hero, or padding hus resume to run for congress.
ReplyDeleteThe "Joplin elite pour money into Mike Landis' Joplin R-8 Board campaign" may take the title for most absurd Turner Report "headline" even surpassing every "Josh Hawley...Now send me money" diatribe. The only thing that makes any of the people on your list "elite" is your own delusion. These people are no more "elite" than anyone else that has been moderately successful in good ol' Joplin.
ReplyDeleteThe Question is Why would anyone give Mike Landis - Any Money or Vote for Him - ONLY IDIOTS.
ReplyDeleteI just keep asking the same Question - How many Times do the People of Jasper and Newton Counties - have to be taken advantage of before they figure out to not keep electing and appointing Crooks - into Office - - Not Saying - - Mike is as Bad as his Brother Bobby - who went to Club Fed for not paying $6.2 Million in Taxes and other Crimes while on the Joplin City Council - but they both need to go quietly into the sunset.
Can Joplin Survive Any More of the Landis Brothers - -
https://rturner229.blogspot.com/search?q=Mike+Landis
https://rturner229.blogspot.com/2017/02/government-landis-still-owes-6-million.html
WAKE UP - - JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES - - STOP ALLOWING AND GIVING THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNTIES TO SCAM YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!
Mike Landis and his fundraising is the Jim Bakker of board members.
ReplyDeleteProsperity gospel = political campaigns
Seriously. Look at the donors. There’s more to this then just a board seat - look
further down the road. Follow the money and agenda of current board members pushing Mike Landis ties.
It's the UhMerrycan dream!
ReplyDeleteBe on the R-8 Board!
“Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning b$tch had dollar signs for eyeballs”
ReplyDelete― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life