On Friday, the Washington, D.C.-based Republican State Leadership Committee gave another $10,700 to the RSLC-Missouri PAC - bringing its total donation to the Missouri political action committee to $210,700.
Missouri law requires all donations of $5,000 or more to be reported to the state Ethics Commission within 48 hours, and the electronic filing is posted online as soon as it's received.
As of Saturday, the online record, at www.mec.mo.gov/EthicsWeb/CampaignFinance/CF_SearchLrgContr.aspx, didn't show any transfer of the latest money from the PAC to any other account.
Earlier this month, the national group's first $100,000 donation to the PAC was given to Brian Stumpe, the Republican candidate for Cole County circuit judge.
Last week, the national committee's second $100,000 donation was given to the Missouri PAC to cover the costs of a broadcast and cable television advertising buy. That money is paying for a commercial accusing incumbent Cole County Circuit Judge Pat Joyce, a Democrat, of ruling against Missouri farmers and in favor of "radical environmentalists" in a case involving a 4,800-hog confined animal feeding operation.
But none of that money was included in the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Ethics Commission last week, because the donations were made in October and the reports cover the three-month period ending Sept. 30.
In those reports, Stumpe had raised only $1,625, spent $2,691.08 and reported $12,976 in debt.
His contributions included $400 from the Cole County Republican Club and $500 from Higgins Bail Bonds. Stumpe also received $250 from Paul Graham, an attorney.
Lobbyist James Harris this month challenged Joyce to return her contributions from attorneys, because of an appearance of a conflict of interest even though the state's Code of Ethics and U.S. Supreme Court rulings say those donations are not wrong.
Harris didn't demand that Stumpe return attorney donations, although he did say he hoped Stumpe also would give those contributions back.
Harris' challenge complained that Joyce received more than $14,000 from area attorneys in the April 1-June 30 quarterly report. But in the most recent report, seven attorneys were listed as giving a total of $1,000 to Joyce's campaign - five $100 donations and two for $250 each.
She also received 15 other $100 donations, two for $150 each, three for $200, two for $500 and one each for $250 and $400.
Incumbent state Sen. Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, reported the most campaign contributions - $90,319.65 from 163 different donors.
The biggest donations were $2,500 each from seven different contributors: the Missouri Health Care Association PAC, Emerson Missouri Responsible Government Fund, the BNSF Railway Co., the Missouri Medical PAC, the MBA (Missouri Bankers Association) River Heritage Region, Missouri Soybean Association State PAC and Fred Weber Inc., a St. Louis contractor who bids on a lot of large projects including roads and bridges.
Kehoe's challenger, Mollie Kristen Freebairn, filed her report Thursday. It showed a total of $350 income, including $300 in contributions from people giving $100 or less, whose names were not listed in the report.
She spent $272.02 and had $1,670.88 on hand at the end of the quarter.
The area's other state Senate race pits two current House members in the open 10th District seat.
Jeanie Riddle, R-Mokane, raised $73,268.16 from 57 different donors. The largest contributions were $1,500 each from CenturyTel Inc. and from the KCP&L Power PAC-Missouri.
Ed Schieffer, D-Troy, raised $15,302.22 from 36 donors. The largest contributions were $2,000 from the Missouri Democratic Party and $1,000 from the Lincoln County Democratic Club.
Schieffer's report didn't include another $10,000 from the Missouri State Democratic Committee, because it just was made Friday.
Three Mid-Missouri House seats have contests on the Nov. 4 election ballot.
Incumbent Rep. Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, raised $3,900 from 10 donors, the largest at $1,000 donation from the Ameren Missouri PAC and $500 from the MBA's Capitol Region PAC.
His challenger, Michael Eberle of the Constitution Party, reported $100 cash on hand, with no receipts or expenses for the quarter.
Riddle's race for the Senate leaves an open seat in District 49, which covers most of southern Callaway County and a small portion of Cole County just northwest of Jefferson City.
Former Rep. Gracia Backer, D-New Bloomfield, raised $14,507.82 from 106 contributors with the largest a $1,000 donation from the Citizens for Stephen Webber, an incumbent lawmaker from Boone County.
Travis Fitzwater, R-Fulton, collected $14,203.32 from 77 people, with the largest a $750 donation from the Missouri Medical Political Action Committee.
And there's an open seat in the 61st District across northern Osage, Gasconade and Franklin counties.
Tom Smith, D-Washington, raised $5,279.50 from 16 donors with $500 the largest contribution.
And Justin Alferman, R-Hermann, raised $6,710 from 13 donors in the last quarter.
Four of those were $1,000 donations from the HTH Companies, Union; the Grow Missouri group; Supporters of Health Research and Treatments; and the Friends of (John) Diehl, the incumbent Republican state representative from Town and Country who's expected to be the next House speaker.