Yes, we can be sarcastic, but we did call it:
Campaign Finance: The Governor (D) Strikes Back, part 2 (June 22, 2011)
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Your move, Rex.
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
CONTRIBUTION OF MORE THAN $5,000.00 RECEIVED BY ANY COMMITTEE FROM ANY SINGLE DONOR – TO BE FILED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF RECEIVING THE CONTRIBUTION
C091145 FRIENDS OF PETER KINDER [pdf] 7/11/2011
Rex Sinquefield
244 Bent Walnut Lane
Westphalia , MO 65085
Retired Retired
7/9/2011
$50,000.00Rex Sinquefield
244 Bent Walnut Lane
Westphalia, MO 65085
Retired Retired
7/9/2011
$32,191.35
[emphasis added]
Because:
Campaign Finance: the republican establishment always votes with a check book (June 9, 2011)
Via our good friends at Fired Up!:
Ray Hartmann and his own anonymous GOP sources also seem to think that Peter Kinder’s chances to compete in the 2012 Governor’s race are slim to none…
No matter what anyone says the republican establishment always votes with a check book….
$32,191.35 for a flight from Texas to St. Louis and back? Was it gold plated? Heh. We could live in a St. Louis hotel for a significant amount of time on that amount of cash.