Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C171375 03/28/2018 Keep Government Accountable Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 N/A Retired 3/28/2018 $22,400.00

C171375 03/28/2018 Keep Government Accountable CHIPP Political Account 1401 Hampton Ave Saint Louis MO 63139 3/28/2018 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Say what? Did somebody misaddress an envelope?

Earlier in the month:

C171375 02/07/2018 Keep Government Accountable PIPEFITTERS LOCAL UNION 533 VOLUNTEER POLITICAL FUND 8600 HILLCREST RD KANSAS CITY MO 64138 2/7/2018 $10,000.00

C171375 03/02/2018 Keep Government Accountable UNITED AUTO WORKERS V CAP 8000 EAST JEFFERSON AVE DETROIT MI 48214 3/2/2018 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

There’s got to be a really interesting explanation somewhere.

C171375: Keep Government Accountable
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 414435
Kansas City Mo 64141
Established Date: 12/04/2017
[….]
Information Reported On: 2018 – January Quarterly Report
Beginning Money on Hand $0.00
Monetary Receipts + $0.00
Monetary Expenditures – $0.00
Contributions Made – $0.00
Other Disbursements – $0.00
Subtotal $0.00
Ending Money On Hand $0.00

Oh, so now they have money?

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C101046 03/09/2018 MISSOURI CLUB FOR GROWTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 3/9/2018 $250,000.00

That’s just so grassrootsie, don’t you think?

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the HRCC:

C091068 01/20/2018 HOUSE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, INC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 1/18/2018 $30,000.00

[emphasis added]

Almost like clockwork.

In the Missouri Constitution:

Article VIII
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
Section 23
[….]
(12) Political action committees shall only receive contributions from individuals; unions; federal political action committees; and corporations, associations, and partnerships formed under chapters 347 to 360, RSMo, as amended from time to time, and shall be prohibited from receiving contributions from other political action committees, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, or debt service committees. However, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, and debt service committees shall be allowed to return contributions to a donor political action committee that is the origin of the contribution.
(13) The prohibited committee transfers described in subdivision (12) of this subsection shall not apply to the following committees:
[….]
(b) The state senate committee per political party designated by the respective majority or minority floor leader of the senate or the chair of the state party if the party does not have majority or minority party status.
[….]

[emphasis added]

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the republican state senate campaign committee:

C071094 01/18/2017 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 1/17/2017 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Ah, they’re obviously intent on making the rubble bounce.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C000953 10/07/2016 MO REPUBLICAN PARTY Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 None Retired 10/7/2016 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

They’ll have all the money they need. And then some.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Bev Randles’ (r) 2016 primary campaign for Lieutenant Governor, from a Rex Sinquefield supported PAC:

C141581 07/31/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR RANDLES Missouri Club for Growth PAC PO Box 669 Grover MO 63040 7/30/2016 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Not much time left to spend the money.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, hell, just buy the state already (December 8, 2014)

Campaign Finance: you can just feel all that grass roots momentum (June 2, 2016)

Campaign Finance: not exactly grass roots (June 25, 2016)

Campaign Finance: now we know (July 8, 2016)

Bev Randles (r) – Lieutenant Governor – July 2016 campaign finance report (July 20, 2016)

Campaign Finance: round numbers, or not (July 27, 2016)