Oh sure, Matt “baby” Blunt won’t live in the Governor’s Mansion, but he’ll do fundraising there? Push the panic button.

From Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made in the October campaign finance report filed by Missourians for Matt Blunt, Inc. on 10/15/07 available from the Missouri Ethics Commission:

MO Mansion Preservation PO Box 113 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0113 9/28/2007 Fundraier Exp
$799.50
Paid

From Detailed Summary of Expenditures And Contributions Made in the Amended April – Committee Quarterly report filed by Missourians for Matt Blunt, Inc. on 10/15/07 available from the Missouri Ethics Commission:

MO Mansion Preservation PO Box 113 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0113 3/31/2007 Fundraiser Expenses
$10,300.00
Incurred

MO Mansion Preservation PO Box 113 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0113 3/31/2007 Fundraiser Expenses
$725.00
Incurred

MO Mansion Preservation PO Box 113 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0113 3/31/2007 Fundraiser Expenses
$8,482.00
Incurred

Note that these expenses are “incurred”.

At the end of a February 7, 2007 press release from Melanie Blunt’s state web site:

….Incorporated in 1974, the Missouri Mansion Preservation is a statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the Mansion’s restoration and educational programs.

There’s more:

Blunt campaign denies raising money at mansion

By David A. Lieb
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10/17/2007

….The September expense of $799.50 was for several dozen 2006 Mansion Preservation Christmas ornaments, which featured Blunt’s young son, Branch, crawling up the mansion stairs, Hancock said.

A $725 expense listed in March was for a Feb. 19 mansion luncheon for members of the St. Charles County Republican Committee, Hancock said.

Abele said an $8,482 expense listed in March was for a pair of Christmas parties. Both were held Dec. 2 — one for members of the Missouri Republican State Committee and their friends; the other for Blunt’s friends and supporters in general, Hancock said.

The March expenses also included $10,300 for a mansion barbecue for Blunt’s political supporters and friends that occurred in Aug. 23, 2006, Abele and Hancock said….

If it fundraises like a republican….