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)

Bev Randles (r) [August 2015 file photo].

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

C141581 07/27/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR RANDLES Grow Missouri 308 E High St. Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65010 7/26/2016 $100,000.00

C141581 07/27/2016 MISSOURIANS FOR RANDLES Missouri Club for Growth PAC PO Box 669 Grover MO 63040 7/26/2016 $107,901.60

That’s a total of $2,449,751.60 for Bev Randles’ (r) campaign from Rex Sinquefield and Rex Sinquefield supported PACs.

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)

Money will do that.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 Attorney General primary campaign, from a couple of Rex Sinquefield supported PACs:

C081145 07/27/2016 CITIZENS TO ELECT KURT SCHAEFER ATTORNEY GENERAL Grow Missouri 308 E High St., Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/26/2016 $100,000.00

C081145 07/27/2016 CITIZENS TO ELECT KURT SCHAEFER ATTORNEY GENERAL Great St Louis 308 E High St., Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/26/2016 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

That makes a total of $3,648,421.29 in contributions to Kurt Schaefer’s (r) campaign to date from Rex Sinquefield or PACs funded by Rex Sinquefield. Must be nice.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: any way you count it (July 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: escalation – part 2 (July 8, 2016)

Campaign Finance: What does $3,048,421.29 get you? (July 25, 2016)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Catherine Hanaway’s (r) 2016 gubernatorial campaign, from a Rex Sinquefield funded PAC:

C141055 07/26/2016 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR, INC Grow Missouri 308 E High Street Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/26/2016 $250,000.00

[emphasis added]

That would make a total of $4,481,520.00 in contributions to Catherine Hanaway’s (r) campaign from Rex Sinquefield or Rex Sinquefield supported PACs.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: not to be outdone (July 22, 2016)

Today at the Missouri Ethics Committee for Kurt Schaefer’s (r) 2016 campaign for Attorney General from a Rex Sinquefield supported PAC:

C081145 07/25/2016 CITIZENS TO ELECT KURT SCHAEFER ATTORNEY GENERAL Great St Louis 308 E High St., Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/23/2016 $301,529.33

[emphasis added]

So, what else is new?

That makes a total of $3,048,421.29 in contributions to Kurt Schaefer’s (r) campaign to date from Rex Sinquefield or PACs funded by Rex Sinquefield.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: any way you count it (July 3, 2016)

Campaign Finance: escalation – part 2 (July 8, 2016)

Catherine Hanaway (r) [2015 file photo].

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for Catherine Hanaway’s (a) 2016 gubernatorial campaign:

C141055 07/22/2016 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR, INC Herzog Contracting Corp P O Box 1089 St Joseph MO 64502 7/22/2016 $100,000.00

[emphasis added.

$100,000.00 must be the new $5,001.00 – at least in the two weeks before the primary.

And from a Rex Sinquefield supported PAC:

C141055 07/22/2016 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR, INC Grow Missouri 308 E High Street Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/22/2016 $319,151.25

[emphasis added]

That would make $4,231,520.00 from Rex Sinquefield or Rex Sinquefield supported PACs. Fancy that.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: subsidiary (July 2, 2016)

Campaign Finance: An even $3,912,368.75 (July 15, 2016)