The opponents to raising Missouri’s last in the nation tobacco tax showed us a few very interesting details in their October quarterly report filed today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR EXPENDITURE

MO PETROLEUM MARKETERS + CONVENIENCE STORE ASSOC PAC [pdf] 10/11/2012

Joseph Haslag 5403 W Tayside Cir Columbia MO 65203 9/18/2012 update of fiscal and economic impact of prop b, the Missouri 2012 Tobacco Tax $900.00

Axion Strategies, LLC 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy, Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 9/13/2012 focus groups on Prop B $15,198.68

[emphasis added]

Well, isn’t that special?

They spent a lot of money on billboards and $23,870.69 on yard signs.

Previously:

Signs (cough) of the times (October 3, 2012)

Campaign Finance: What’s up in (cough) Fenton? (October 2, 2012)

Campaign Finance: the empire strikes back (September 27, 2012)

Campaign Finance: not just blowin’ smoke (September 26, 2012)

Campaign Finance: put that in your pipe and smoke it (September 24, 2012)

Campaign Finance: in the old days everyone would notice (August 9, 2012)

Campaign Finance: take that (cough, cough, hack, hack) (June 15, 2012)

Campaign Finance: when the smoke clears (May 29, 2012)

Campaign Finance: stepping up to clear the air (May 25, 2012)

Campaign Finance: smoke gets in our eyes… (April 26, 2012)

Campaign Finance: up in a cloud of smoke (April 20, 2012)

Campaign Finance: cough, cough, hack, hack (April 10, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Initiative petitions on raising the tobacco tax (February 15, 2012)

Initiative petitions on raising the tobacco tax (February 14, 2012)