In Missouri politics, money doesn’t just talk — it decides who runs, who wins, and who never gets a chance. A growing chorus of insiders and reform-minded conservatives are warning that the state’s campaign finance system has become a gatekeeping machine, where access to funding — and political survival — depends on loyalty to a small, unelected donor-consultant class.
An anonymous exposé published by HickChristian offers rare, firsthand insight into how this system operates. It doesn’t require backroom deals or secret ballots. All it takes is control over the money.
“Power is held not by the voters or even by the politicians, but by the funders and the consultants they empower,” the author writes.
(Source: Missouri’s Political Omertà)
Donors, PACs, and the Price of Independence
Missouri law allows unlimited contributions to political action committees (PACs), and many donors use LLCs to make large, anonymous contributions that are nearly impossible to trace. These funds are then funneled to candidates via trusted consultants — often with strings attached.
Candidates who challenge the system — by filing ethics reform bills, refusing “preferred” consultants, or stepping outside the donor lane — are routinely defunded, attacked, or replaced in primaries. Legislators ...
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