Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232374 03/13/2023 Defend Missouri Roger Hertog 399 Park Avenue RM 2502 New York NY 11225 HERTOG FOUNDATION PRESIDENT 3/13/2023 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

At first reading I thought it was Defund Missouri. Probably the same endgame, though.

It’s a brand new PAC:

Why would someone from New York drop $50,000.00 on a brand new PAC in Missouri? Because they can?

From 2015:

Walker Has Received $2.4 Million in Contributions, Help From School Voucher Supporters

February 5, 2015

Wealthy individuals throughout the country who support an expansion of school vouchers in Wisconsin have contributed nearly $1.3 million since 2009 to Republican Governor Scott Walker and dropped another $1.1 million to help him win his contentious 2012 recall election.

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The largest contributions between 2009 and July 2014 to Walker from voucher supporters came from Robert and Patricia Kern of Waukesha, founders of Generac Corp., $220,000; investor Foster Friess and his wife, Lynnette, of Jackson, Wyo., $130,700; hedge fund founder Bruce Kovner and his wife, Suzie, of New York City, $120,000; and retired New York City financier Roger Hertog, $120,000.

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Roger Hertog
National Humanities Medal
2007

[….]

….He is on the board of Commentary magazine, and is a current board member of the American Enterprise Institute…

[….]

You think he plays chess, too?