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Missouri pays $500,000 after losing campaign finance lawsuit
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri taxpayers footed a more than $500,000 legal bill after the state attorney general lost a case defending a new campaign finance law.
Taxpayers paid attorneys for two lobbying groups that opposed the limits a combined total of roughly $508,000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday.
Attorney Chuck Hatfield represented the Association of Missouri Electrical Cooperatives in a lawsuit to overturn the ban.
Todd Graves represented the American Democracy Alliance. The attorneys charged up to $575 an hour for their work against the law.
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/state_news/missouri-pays-after-losing-campaign-finance-lawsuit/article_461b014d-99d8-5647-ad0e-385281fe8d0a.html