And if you take their money, you dance to their tune.JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri House has dropped its effort to enforce a subpoena demanding documents from former Gov. Eric Greitens’ secretive dark money nonprofit.
Lawmakers had asked Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem to force Greitens’ nonprofit, called A New Missouri Inc., to turn over records they believe might demonstrate efforts to illegally circumvent the state's campaign disclosure laws.
A New Missouri’s attorney, Catherine Hanaway, argued that Greitens’ resignation meant the House investigation that inspired the subpoena is over, and thus, there was no need to enforce the subpoena.
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In the days leading up to Greitens' decision to resign, sources with knowledge of the nonprofit told The Star that A New Missouri’s donors were concerned about the prospect of the House subpoena leading to their identities being revealed.
Even though Beetem allowed for information pertaining to donor identity to be redacted, the fear remained. And it began to percolate beyond Greitens’ political universe, with some national donors and fundraisers wondering what kind of precedent Missouri could be about to set in regards to outing anonymous contributors.
Kansas City.com
Another reason anonymous donations do not belong in political finance.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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