There’s been an interesting flurry of non-round number campaign contributions reported recently, via the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131103 08/16/2013 MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE Fred N Sauer 454 Hammersmith Rd St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 8/5/2013 $92,538.24

C131103 08/20/2013 MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE Fred N Sauer 454 Hammersmith Rd St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 8/16/2013 $36,818.00

[emphasis added]

And, in another campaign finance report:

CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS RECEIVED

MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE [pdf] 8/20/2013

Fred N Sauer

454 Hammersmith Rd

St Louis MO 63141

Orion Investment Company

8/5/2013

$48,891.25

I dunno, it doesn’t appear to be particularly grass rootsie.

What are they spending it on?:

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR EXPENDITURE

MISSOURI ROUNDTABLE FOR LIFE [pdf] 8/20/2013

National Ballot Access

1111 Steeple Run

Lawrenceville GA 30043 8/9/2013

Ballot Signature

Collection

$50,000.00

National Ballot Access

1111 Steeple Run

Lawrenceville GA 30043

8/16/2013

Ballot Signature

Collection

$36,818.00

Law Firm of Todd S.

Jones, LLC

231 South Bemiston

Avenue

8/16/2013

Legal Services

$1,625.00

[emphasis added]

What on earth for?:

C131103: Missouri Roundtable For Life

231 S Bemiston Ave Ste 800 Committee Type: Campaign

St Louis Mo 63105

[….] Established Date: 07/29/2013

[….]

Treasurer

Frederic Sauer

[….]

Ballot Measures Election Date Subject Support/Oppose

Constitutional Amendement To Article Viii, Relating To Campaign Contribution Limits 11/04/2014 Missouri Campaign Contribution Reform Initiative Support

[emphasis added]

Oh, this is ironic on so many levels.

Rex Sinquefield can’t be too happy about it. He isn’t.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: making the republican primary race for governor a personal spending thing (May 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: self financing is always an option… (June 21, 2012)

Campaign Finance: keeping up with the other republican gubernatorial candidates (July 6, 2012)

Campaign Finance: Governor- July quarterly reports (July 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund (July 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund, part 2 (July 20, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund, part 3 (July 27, 2012)

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for one of the republican candidates for governor:

C121244 07/20/2012 FRED SAUER GOVERNOR Fred Sauer 454 Hammersmith Road St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 7/20/2012 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

That’s $75,000.00 in the last few days.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Governor- July quarterly reports (July 18, 2012)

Campaign Finance: it’s all in how much you self fund (July 18, 2012)

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121244 07/18/2012 FRED SAUER GOVERNOR Fred Sauer 454 Hammersmith Road St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 7/18/2012 $25,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Governor- July quarterly reports (July 18, 2012)

…Why, raising that amount in a quarter would make you a republican U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri…

And self funding, too. Do we call ’em, or what?

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121244 07/06/2012 FRED SAUER GOVERNOR Fred Sauer 454 Hammersmith Road St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 7/6/2012 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well, it could happen.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C121244 05/18/2012 FRED SAUER GOVERNOR Fred Sauer 454 Hammersmith Road St Louis MO 63141 Orion Investment Company 5/18/2012 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

If by “race” you mean one really rich guy using huge amounts of his own money to beat another rich guy using not so huge amounts of his own money.

Ah, the rest of us will never really know how the 1% live.