It must depend on who you ask.

This month, so far, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180684 03/03/2023 American Dream PAC Site Improvement Association of MO-PAC 2071 Exchange Drive Saint Charles MO 63303 3/2/2023 $15,000.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/08/2023 American Dream PAC Tom Prater 11335 Weller Ave. Springfield MO 65804 MNP Eye Center Physician 3/7/2023 $5,650.00

C180684 03/08/2023 American Dream PAC Tom Prater 11335 Weller Ave. Springfield MO 65804 MNP Eye Center Physician 3/7/2023 $5,650.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/20/2023 American Dream PAC John Schicker 6490 Rhodes Ave. Saint Louis MO 63109 Schicker Ford Auto Sales 3/20/2023 $5,650.00

[emphasis added]

C180684 03/21/2023 American Dream PAC Beau Reinberg 3167 Fee Fee Road Bridgeton MO 63044 DSS-BCM Principal 3/21/2023 $5,650.00

C180684 03/21/2023 American Dream PAC BMJC Management LLC 759 Gravois Bluffs Rd. Fenton MO 63025 3/21/2023 $25,000.00

C180684 03/22/2023 American Dream PAC Matthew Gornet 9900 Litzsinger Rd. Ladue MO 63124 Medical Doctor 3/22/2023 $10,000.00

C180684 03/23/2023 American Dream PAC Scott Engelbrecht 701 Haverford Road 9900 Litzsinger Rd. Saint Louis MO 63124 Clifton Larson Allen LLP CGO 3/22/2023 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

What happens to a dream deferred? – Langston Hughes

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C180610 03/15/2023 Missourians for Effective Leadership PAC Burns & McDonnell Corporate Services, Inc. 9400 Ward Parkway Kansas City MO 64114 3/13/2023 $17,000.00

[emphasis added]

In a more perfect world? Roll on Missouri.

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.

[….]

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.

[….]

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?

Do voting rights first. End voter suppression. Then maybe – and that’s a really big maybe – we’ll take a look.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222341 03/08/2023 Missouri Agrees The Center for Election Science 1267 Willis St Suite 200 Redding CA 96001 3/8/2023 $11,960.50

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? (February 21, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? – part 2 (February 23, 2023)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

222341 02/23/2023 Missouri Agrees Jack Danforth 911 Tirrill Farms Road St Louis MO 63124 Dowd Bennett Attorney 2/23/2022 $10,291.00

C222341 02/23/2023 Missouri Agrees Cathi Brain 815 West 51st St Kansas City MO 64112 Not employed 2/23/2022 $9,000.00

$10,291.00? What’s with that?

From a conversation on social media:

Well, yeah, but they [the PAC] ain’t exactly “grassroots” at this point. They filed a “limited activity” report in January and then a single $10,000 contribution shows up. They claim to have raised $200,000 so far.

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.” – Mark Twain (1897)

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Missouri begs to differ? (February 21, 2023)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C222341 02/21/2023 Missouri Agrees Steve Fox 7701 Forsyth Blvd, Ste 600 St Louis MO 63105 SV Capital Management Chairman 2/21/2023 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Says who?

What on earth for?

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190837 02/13/2023 H-PAC Ellen Houx 8276 N 62nd Place Paradise Valley AZ 85253 Retired 2/13/2023 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Huh. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, you think?

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission

180554 01/19/2023 It Starts Today Missouri IST-MO Nominee PAC Number Two PO Box 63403 St Louis MO 63163 12/13/2022 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

It looks like this one instance originated last month.