Joplin doctor provides nearly all funding for Joplin R-8 candidate Marda Schroeder

I received a comment on an earlier post asking why I have focused on the money being raised by two candidates for Joplin R-8 Board of Education seats, Mike Landis and Veronica Gatz Scheurich and not the other seven candidates on the ballot.

Candidates are not required to file disclosure reports with the Missouri Ethics Commission unless they spend more than $1,000 in the election.

Landis and Scheurich were the only candidates to file reports at the 40-days before election. Two other candidates filed at the 8-days-before-election report- Matthew Robertson and Marda Schroeder. I had a post on Robertson's filing Wednesday night and one on his amended report today.

This post will concentrate on Marda Schroeder's filing. The other five candidates have not filed reports indicating they do not intend to spend more than $1,000.

I should have noted that earlier.

In her 8-days-before-election filing with the Missouri Ethics Commission, Joplin R-8 Board of Education candidate Marda Schoeder reported $1,162.52 in contributions with $1,000 of that coming from her campaign treasurer Dr. Michael Joseph.

She also received $100 from Joplin Schools counselor Julia Wood-Narrell and $50 from Johanna Day, retired, Joplin.

By the end of the reporting period, she had spent only $12.52 for a list of voter addresses, obviously for the mailing Joplin residents received this week.