The Laundry Mat at 320 Monroe Street, St. Charles Missouri
O.K. all you insomniac oppo research wannabes. Here's today's challenge. The above address is shown on various campaign finance reports as home to the following: Thomas Smith, Jr., (I'm assuming this is the same Tom Smith who the tax payers pay more than $50,000 a year to be Tom Dempsey's administrative assistant), Katy Smith, Advisors in Finance, The Republican 2nd Senatorial District Committee, the Republican 12th Legislative District Committee, the Republican 14th Legislative District Committee, the Republican 15th Legislative District Committee, the Republican 16th District Committee, the Republican 17th District Committee, the Republican 18th District Committee, the Republican 19th District Committee, the Republican 23rd Senatorial District Committee, and the Republican 89th District Committee. (Whew!)
See what you can figure out about how crowded it is at 320 Monroe Street. A quick perusal will tell you that Advisors in Finance makes a lot of money off these committees and so does Matt Blunt (on December 29, 2005 he got almost $50,000 from the House on Monroe Street). You will also notice that several of the committees have sequential ethics commission numbers, meaning they were probably all formed on the same day. Looks like an awfully busy laundrymat to me.
The Treasurer or Deputy is Thomas Smith, Jr. for most of them although Jeff Morrison is Treasurer for a couple. Morrison was also Treasurer for People for St. Peter's First, People for Courage and a continuing committee named "Jeff Morrison" (how weird is that, it would look like a contribution from a person on a report, but its actually a continuing committee).


