Last week at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for a campaign finance initiative:

C141592 09/04/2015 RETURNING GOVERNMENT TO THE PEOPLE Fred N Sauer 454 Hammersmith Road Saint Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 9/4/2015 $40,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $252,000.00 from one individual since mid July. Think about that for a minute.

Previously:

The world we live in (July 21, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a vague sense of an impending populist groundswell (August 7, 2015)

Campaign Finance: all we really have left is irony (August 24, 2015)

Campaign Finance: a single minded sense of purpose (September 1, 2015)