“One Ring Money to rule them all, One Ring Money to find them, One Ring Money to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”

Via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180490: Uniting Missouri Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 444
Farmington Mo 63640
Established Date: 06/29/2018
[….]

C091068 08/19/2018 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Uniting Missouri PAC PO Box 444 Farmington MO 63640 8/18/2018 $50,000.00

C071094 10/23/2018 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Uniting Missouri PAC PO Box 444 Farmington MO 63640 10/23/2018 $25,000.00

That’s it. One sided.

Uniting? Uniting what?

C180490: Uniting Missouri Pac
Committee Type: Political Action
[….]
Information Reported On: 2018 – 30 Day After General Election-11/6/2018
Beginning Money on Hand $384,921.24
Monetary Receipts + $227,801.00
Monetary Expenditures – $31,014.38
Contributions Made – $0.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $196,786.62
Ending Money On Hand $581,707.86

Holy @#%$, that’s a lot of money.

And since election day, where’s the money coming from?:

C180490 11/13/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC GOLD RUSH AMUSEMENTS INC 5277 TRILLIUM BLVD HOFFMAN ESTATES IL 60192 11/12/2018 $10,000.00

C180490 11/13/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC AMEREN MISSOURI PO BOX 66892 ST LOUIS MO 63166 11/12/2018 $10,000.00

C180490 11/28/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC COLLINSVILLE ACQUISITIONS INC 8025 FORSYTH BLVD ST LOUIS MO 63105 11/28/2018 $7,200.00

C180490 11/28/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC KP CHARLOTTE LLC 8025 FORSYTH BLVD ST LOUIS MO 63105 11/28/2018 $30,000.00

C180490 12/06/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC BRIAN AND BARABARA SATTERTHWAITE 3108 SUMMIT VIEW PLACE DRIVE WILDWOOD MO 63038 BRINKMANN CONSTRUCTORS 12/6/2018 $6,000.00

C180490 12/11/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC ROY PFAUTCH 62 PORTLAND PL ST LOUIS MO 63108 CIVIC SERVICE INC 12/10/2018 $22,400.00

C180490 12/11/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC MISSOURI REALTORS PAC INC PO BOX 30635 COLUMBIA MO 65205 12/10/2018 $6,000.00

C180490 12/12/2018 Uniting Missouri PAC GREG HOBEROCK 500 BRAEBURN CT WASHINGTON MO 63090 HTH COMPANIES CEO 12/12/2018 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

There’s a trend in there somewhere.

What, nothing from organized labor?

Who [pdf], again?:

Outside groups dominate spending in Missouri campaigns with dark-money donations

…A PAC called Uniting Missouri was established this summer to support Gov. Mike Parson, who took over the state’s top job on June 1 after Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation…

[….]

…Uniting Missouri raised $225,000 in July. More than half of that money came from clients of lobbyist Steve Tilley, a friend and longtime political adviser to Parson.

John Hancock, a former Missouri GOP chairman who is running Uniting Missouri, said that because contribution limits aren’t going away, candidates have no choice but to form these PACs…

$581,707.86 and rising. Uniting what again?