A great candidate with an efficient grassroots campaign.

The results:

State of Missouri – Special – State Senate District 8 – November 7, 2017
Unofficial Results
as of 11/7/2017 9:40:30 PM

State Senator – District 8 – unexpired
70 of 70 Precincts Reported
Mike Cierpiot Republican 12,851 50.345%
Hillary Shields Democratic 10,869 42.580%
Jacob Turk Independent 1,806 7.075%
Total Votes: 25,526

We heard a number between $700,000.00 and $1,000,000.00 tossed around for the total expenditures in support of Mike Cierpiot’s (r) campaign in this special election. There were enough of those incessant television commercials in the Kansas City media market to make one believe those numbers. If that’s truly the case, it’s somewhere between $54.00 and $77.00 per vote. Somebody got their money’s worth.

Gee, they should have just taken everyone out to dinner at a really nice Lee’s Summit restaurant.

We heard that Hillary Shield’s campaign raised and spent somewhere north of $100,000.00. That would be approximately $9.20 per vote. We’re talking working people fare here.

It looks like they’ll meet again in 2018:

Stephen Webber‏ @s_webber
.@ShieldsForMO is a classy, hardworking person. She ran a heck of a race, and she’s going to run again in 2018!
[….]
9:42 PM – 7 Nov 2017

2018 will not be 2014, 2016, nor 2017.