The republican Missouri Senate Campaign Committee is paying for a run of fear/immigrant attack ads in the Kansas City media market with formulaic sinister voiceovers, dreary music, and dark images of the Democratic Party candidate in the 17th Senate District, Lauren Arthur. The republican candidate, and the beneficiary of the ads, is Kevin Corlew. The special election will take place on Tuesday, June 5th.

Who is helping pay for all that? Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C071094 06/01/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Friends of Sandy Crawford PO Box 332 Buffalo MO 65622 5/31/2018 $5,001.00

C071094 06/01/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Kansas City Missouri Republican Senate PAC PO Box 144 Jefferson City MO 65102 5/31/2018 $70,000.00

C071094 06/01/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Eastern Missouri Senate PAC 3220 West Edgewood Ste E Jefferson City MO 65109 5/31/2018 $95,000.00

C071094 06/01/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Friends of Mike Cunningham 515 Landslide Rd Rogersville MO 65742 6/1/2018 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

More on what they’re paying for, in a series of 24 hour expenditure reports from the republican Missouri Senate Campaign Committee:

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES OVER $100 SUPPLEMENTAL FORM
5/30/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE [pdf]

Patrick Media PO Box 317 Marshfield MO 65703 5/29/2018 Media Placement $154,915.25
Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy Ste 85 Kansas City MO 64116 5/29/2018 Media Buy $25,000.00
Patrick Media PO Box 317 Marshfield MO 65703 5/29/2018 Media Placement $32,612.65
Remington Research Group 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy Suite 85 Kansas City MO 64116 5/29/2018 Survey $3,000.00

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
5/31/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE [pdf]

Patrick Media PO Box 317 Marshfield MO 65703 5/30/2018 Media Placement $37,649.25
Remington Research Group 1251 NW Briarcliff Pkwy Suite 85 Kansas City MO 64116 5/30/2018 Polling $7,200.00

MISSOURI ETHICS COMMISSION EXPENDITURES AND CONTRIBUTIONS MADE
6/1/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE [pdf]

Patrick Media PO Box 317 Marshfield MO 65703 5/31/2018 Media Placement $42,345.25
Patrick Media PO Box 317 Marshfield MO 65703 6/1/2018 Media Placement $91,990.00
Axiom Strategies 1251 NW Briarcliff Parkway Suite 85 Kansas City MO 64116 6/1/2018 Digital Advertising $6,120.00

Almost magically, these republican campaign committees seem to always have all the money they’ll ever need.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: About that June 5th special election? (May 28, 2018)

Lauren Arthur (D): in the 17th Senate District special election (May 29, 2018)

Campaign Finance: 8 day reports in the 17th Senate District special election (May 30, 2018)