By Antonio D. French
Filed Tuesday, October 18 at 7:09 PM
State senate candidate Jeff Smith reported a contribution of $2,400 from Marcus and Amber Raichle on his Oct. 15 campaign finance report. The limit for contributions in a state senate race is $1,200. In an email to PUB DEF Weekly, Smith says that $1,200 has already been returned to Mr. and Mrs. Raichle.
In the same email, Smith took issue with an earlier PUB DEF analysis which showed 42% of his contributors from the last reporting period were from outside of St. Louis.
Smith said that the percentage of supporters from inside his district is much high if you include the number of people who donated less than $100. These people's names are not required on Missouri campaign finance reports.
"We obviously have a great deal of grass-roots support as evidenced by the 500+ volunteers we had in our last campaign and the 150+ who have already offered to volunteer in this effort," said Smith. "Once I do my kickoff fundraiser here in a few weeks and send out a mass mailing this weekend, I expect the number [of out-of-town donors] to go down even further, to around 25%."
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