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There’s been an interesting flurry of non-round number campaign contributions reported recently, via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131103 08/16/2013 MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE Fred N Sauer 454 Hammersmith Rd St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 8/5/2013 $92,538.24

C131103 08/20/2013 MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE Fred N Sauer 454 Hammersmith Rd St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 8/16/2013 $36,818.00

[emphasis added]

And, in another campaign finance report:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE [pdf] 8/20/2013

Fred N Sauer

454 Hammersmith Rd

St Louis MO 63141

Orion Investment Company

8/5/2013

$48,891.25

I dunno, it doesn’t appear to be particularly grass rootsie.

What are they spending it on?:

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR EXPENDITURE

MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE [pdf] 8/20/2013

National Ballot Access

1111 Steeple Run

Lawrenceville GA 30043 8/9/2013

Ballot Signature

Collection

$50,000.00

National Ballot Access

1111 Steeple Run

Lawrenceville GA 30043

8/16/2013

Ballot Signature

Collection

$36,818.00

Law Firm of Todd S.

Jones, LLC

231 South Bemiston

Avenue

8/16/2013

Legal Services

$1,625.00

[emphasis added]

What on earth for?:

C131103: Missouri Roundtable For Life

231 S Bemiston Ave Ste 800 Committee Type: Campaign

St Louis Mo 63105

[….] Established Date: 07/29/2013

[….]

Treasurer

Frederic Sauer

[….]

Ballot Measures Election Date Subject Support/Oppose

Constitutional Amendement To Article Viii, Relating To Campaign Contribution Limits 11/04/2014 Missouri Campaign Contribution Reform Initiative Support

[emphasis added]

Oh, this is ironic on so many levels.

Rex Sinquefield can’t be too happy about it. He isn’t.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: making the republican primary race for governor a personal spending thing (May 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: self financing is always an option… (June 21, 2012)

Campaign Finance: keeping up with the other republican gubernatorial candidates (July 6, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Governor- July quarterly reports (July 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund (July 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund, part 2 (July 20, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund, part 3 (July 27, 2012)