Or not.

Last Fall:

Out-of-state donors fuel pair of GOP candidates running for Missouri governor, AG
Bill Eigel has faced accusations that his gubernatorial campaign used deceptive fundraising tactics, drawing a rebuke from former President Trump’s lawyers. The firm behind that strategy also raised cash for attorney general hopeful Will Scharf
BY: RUDI KELLER – OCTOBER 2, 2023 5:55 AM

Becoming a registered Republican was the worst decision B.J. Adams says he ever made.

Adams, a resident of Burlington, North Carolina, isn’t upset with GOP policies. And he loves former President Donald Trump.

But when the 87-year-old conservative who grew up a Democrat finally switched his party registration, he said it unleashed a torrent of fundraising pleas that on one day this year included 66 emails asking for money.

“Definitely my advice would be don’t do it,” Adams said in an interview with The Independent, “because all you’ll do is get a bunch of dumb-ass requests for donations.”

Some solicitations Adams received – and responded to – were from Missouri, though that wasn’t always clear.

His name is among 33,408 donations from individuals reported to the Missouri Ethics Commission this year by Believe in Life and Liberty, or BILL PAC, which is backing state Sen. Bill Eigel’s campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He also shows up on the report for Eigel’s official campaign committee, which lists 6,914 individual donations this year.

[….]

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC DM Law Kansas City 4600 Madison Ave Suite 1200 Kansas City MO 64112 3/27/2024 $40,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Langdon & Emison LLC 911 Main Street Lexington MO 64067 3/27/2024 $25,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Dollar Burns Becker & Hershewe LLC 1100 Main Street Suite 2600 Kansas City MO 64105 3/27/2024 $25,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Brown & Crouppen PC 211 N Broadway Suite 1600 Saint Louis MO 63102 3/27/2024 $25,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC The Simon Law Firm 800 Market Street Suite 1700 Saint Louis MO 63101 3/27/2024 $20,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Strong Law 901 E Saint Louis St #1800 Springfield MO 65806 3/27/2024 $10,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Gorny Dandurand 4330 Belleview Ave Suite 200 Kansas City MO 64111 3/27/2024 $10,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Shamberg Johnson & Bergman 2600 Grand Blvd Suite 550 Kansas City MO 64108 3/27/2024 $10,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Goldblatt & Singer 8182 Maryland Ave Suite 801 Saint Louis MO 63105 3/27/2024 $10,000.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC M Blake Heath 5933 Oak Street Kansas City MO 64113 Heath Injury Law 3/27/2024 $7,750.00

C190784 03/27/2024 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Michael Campbell 1707 Labrador Drive Columbia MO 65203 Thomas Law Offices 3/27/2024 $7,500.00

[emphasis added]

Nature abhors a vacuum.

For a change.

Out-of-state donors fuel pair of GOP candidates running for Missouri governor, AG
Bill Eigel has faced accusations that his gubernatorial campaign used deceptive fundraising tactics, drawing a rebuke from former President Trump’s lawyers. The firm behind that strategy also raised cash for attorney general hopeful Will Scharf
BY: RUDI KELLER – OCTOBER 2, 2023 5:55 AM

[….]
The number of individual donations for Eigel, BILL PAC and Scharf far surpass those of any other announced or potential candidate seeking one of the five statewide constitutional offices on next year’s ballot. Missouri residents, however, gave only a tiny fraction of those individual donations, an analysis by The Independent shows.

More than 90% of the listed individual donations for Eigel and Scharf’s campaign are from people living outside Missouri.

For BILL PAC, almost 99% of the donations were from outside the state.
[….]

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Strong Law 901 E Saint Louis Street #1900 Springfield MO 65806 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Langdon & Emison LLC 911 Main Street Lexington MO 64067 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC The Simon Law Firm 800 Market Street Suite 1700 Saint Louis MO 63101 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC DiPasquale Moore LLC 4600 Madison Ave Suite 1200 Kansas City MO 64112 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Dollar Burns Becker & Hershewe LLC 1100 Main Street Suite 2600 Kansas City MO 64105 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Shamberg Johnson & Bergman 2600 Grand Blvd Suite 550 Kansas City MO 64108 12/20/2023 $10,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Brown & Crouppen PC 211 N Broadway Suite 1600 Saint Louis MO 63102 12/20/2023 $10,000.00

C190784 12/21/2023 Believe in Life and Liberty – BILL PAC Gary Robb 550 Ward Parkway Kansas City MO 64113 Robb and Robb 12/20/2023 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Oh, there’s a bill that comes due eventually (August 22, 2019)

Campaign Finance: sending the BILL (July 20, 2023)

Campaign Finance: a PAC here, a PAC there… (September 27, 2023)