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] 8/20/2013Fred 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] 8/20/2013National Ballot Access
1111 Steeple Run
Lawrenceville GA 30043 8/9/2013
Ballot Signature
Collection
$50,000.00National Ballot Access
1111 Steeple Run
Lawrenceville GA 30043
8/16/2013
Ballot Signature
Collection
$36,818.00Law 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)