St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and Bill Corrigan, his likely Republican opponent in the November, 2010 election for the office, are raising money at a fast pace, campaign finance reports said.
Dooley, a Democrat, reported raising $320,764.69 between April 1 and…
JEFFERSON CITY — The power of incumbency is clear in the Missouri Ethics Commission quarterly report filed by Gov. Jay Nixon.
In his first quarter as governor, Nixon raised $766,000, including in-kind contributions. He ended the reporting period with more than…
JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis-based lobbyist Travis Brown is using the social networking software Twitter to help track over-sized campaign contributions.
Brown, who Tweets at www.twitter.com/pelopidas, today kicked off a feature that ought to make The Turner Report quite happy: Brown will be…
Campaign Media Analysis Group, the nonpartisan ad-monitoring firm that tracked such spending for the Post-Dispatch and tons of other media outlets, has just issued its state-by-state survey of which groups spent the most on ballot measures.
In Missouri, the top spenders…
The 30-day after election reports are filing in with the Missouri Ethics Commission today, and the top of the ticket shows no surprise.
Gov.-elect Jay Nixon, who won the governor’s race over Republican Kenny Hulshof by more than 18 percentage points, raised…
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At a news conference today in the House Lounge, leaders of the Democratic minority caucus of the Missouri General Assembly announced that one of their top priorities this legislative session would be to bring campaign contribution limits back to…
We reported extensively this week on the latest campaign finance reports, but here’s a little bit of data on October financing that wasn’t included in the third-quarter figures.
| Office | Candidate | Two weeks of October |
| Governor | Â | Â |
| Â | Nixon (D) | $765,735.29 |
| Â | Hulshof (R ) | $429,484.34 |
| Lt. Governor | Â | Â |
| Â | Page (D) | $95,000.00 |
| Â | Kinder (R ) | $127,500.00 |
| Sec. of State | Â | Â |
| Â | Carnahan (D) | $50,000.00 |
| Â | Hubbard… |
Remember when state legislators filed their campaign finance reports on paper? Images of their scanned reports could be called up one page at a time — if you were patient enough to sit there and wait.
The Legislature finally required electronic…
The candidates for lieutenant governor have showed that — just like their counterparts higher-up on the ticket — they, too, can collect large checks.
As we have said earlier, the new campaign finance laws that went into affect Aug. 28 allow…
The new campaign finance laws that went into affect last month are a double-edged sword for politicians collecting cash to help their cause.
On one side, candidates can accept as much money as they want from any donor at any time.…
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