Because, you know, an actual grassroots campaign would be unseemly. Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 campaign for Attorney General::

C081145 10/09/2015 CITIZENS TO ELECT KURT SCHAEFER ATTORNEY GENERAL Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 10/9/2015 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

It’s been a while – Rex Sinquefield’s last large dollar campaign contribution was $100,000.00 to Slay for Mayor on March 1, 2015. We had noticed.

There was $250,000.00 for Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 Attorney General campaign in October of 2014:

Campaign Finance: now we know where the rest of the million dollars went (October 16, 2014)

That’s a total of $750,000.00 for one statewide candidate from one individual. You can just feel the grassroots momentum…