Saturday, February 18, 2023

Joplin elite pour money into Mike Landis' Joplin R-8 Board campaign

 


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' contributors included former school board members, a representative of the architectural company that worked on district building projects following the tornado, a former R-8 superintendent (not the one you might think) and a number of people who were involved with the Joplin Progress Committee, a group formed in the early 2010s to guide district and Joplin city voters by selecting and endorsing candidates who conformed to their vision of how things should be done.







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

Jan Kimbrough, Joplin, retired, $100







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

Sharon Cornell Beshore, Joplin, retired, $300







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

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15 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:45 PM

    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.

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  2. Anonymous8:01 PM

    Worst POS on the planet!

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  3. Anonymous8:28 PM

    Well, 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.

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  4. Anonymous5:18 AM

    There 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.

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  5. Anonymous10:01 AM

    Wow, 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.

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  6. Anonymous11:37 AM

    It 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.

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  7. Anonymous12:50 PM

    I'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.

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  8. Anonymous2:04 PM

    No. Why would anyone support someone that QUIT his pryor SERVICE to the board? It was a scandal of sorts. Unanswered questions, overspending. Absolutely no.

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  9. Anonymous2:47 PM

    Dr. Simpson. 🤦🏼‍♀️ What a disappointment.

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  10. Anonymous5:41 AM

    He 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.

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  11. Anonymous12:45 PM

    The "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.

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  12. Anonymous3:51 PM

    The Question is Why would anyone give Mike Landis - Any Money or Vote for Him - ONLY IDIOTS.

    I 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!!!

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  13. Anonymous6:41 PM

    Mike Landis and his fundraising is the Jim Bakker of board members.
    Prosperity 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.

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  14. Anonymous1:07 PM

    It's the UhMerrycan dream!

    Be on the R-8 Board!


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  15. Anonymous9:38 PM

    “Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning b$tch had dollar signs for eyeballs”
    ― Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life

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