You get the antithesis of grassroots populism.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Eric Greitens’ (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C151053 10/14/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 10/14/2016 $1,000,000.00

[emphasis added]

Transparency be damned. That’s a total of $7,000,000.00 from one entity for one candidate. We don’t have any idea about the real source(s) of all that cash.

C151053 08/11/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 8/11/2016 $1,000,000.00

C151053 08/26/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 8/26/2016 $2,500,000.00

C151053 09/19/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 9/19/2016 $750,000.00

C151053 09/30/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 9/30/2016 $750,000.00

C151053 10/06/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 10/6/2016 $1,000,000.00

C151053 10/14/2016 GREITENS FOR MISSOURI Republican Governors Association – Missouri 1747 Penn. Ave. NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20006 10/14/2016 $1,000,000.00

That’s what you get when there are no limits.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, like they couldn’t come up with another $25,000.00? (July 18, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not exactly a paragon of transparency (August 11, 2016)

Campaign Finance: just passing through (August 26, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Who’s that for? (September 17, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Oh, like anyone is surprised? (September 19, 2016)

Campaign Finance: maybe it all depends on what your definition of “grassroots” is (September 30, 2016)

Campaign Finance: let’s go for the record (October 4, 2016)

Campaign Finance: the journey continues, one $1,000,000.00 check at a time (October 6, 2016)

Campaign Finance: Who benefits? (October 9, 2016)