Editorial: Dirty money loses in primary election; time to outlaw it : Stltoday

Editorial: Dirty money loses in primary election; time to outlaw it : Stltoday

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committee Missourians for Conservative Values, was entirely concocted to help Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, in his race for lieutenant governor.
Mr. Lager lost.
The other money shifters — Missourians for Low Energy Costs and Missourians Against Higher Utility Rates — played their secretive game in three state senate races. Those groups spent their dirty money on Republicans Scott Largent ($167,000) and Ward Franz ($113,000), and Democrat Jeanette Mott-Oxford ($63,000).
All three lost.
Voters won.
In each of these cases, unless the nonprofit that received the money eventually discloses its donors, voters will never know for sure who spent the money to try to influence their votes.
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some of the dirty money won