It may have been overlooked and certainly it was overshadowed by Rex Sinquefield’s $1.2 million contribution to his own Let Voters Decide Committee promoting the Everything Tax Increase. But a $2,500 donation reported the same day is notable for both its donor and its recipient. The check was from Dr. William Danforth, of the famously Republican Danforths (as well as retired WashU Chancellor). The recipient was State Treasurer Clint Zweifel, who is unchallenged as the Democrats’ standard bearer for re-election this November. A former St. Louis County state representative, Zweifel is focused on re-election, but many of his supporters say they are looking to the 2016 Missouri governor’s race. So the bipartisan backing of a Danforth gives the affable Zweifel the scent of consensus.

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