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Fox, Kinder, Sinquefield provide last-minute campaign cash

St. Louis Public Radio | By Jo Mannies
Published July 31, 2010 at 11:00 PM CDT

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder isn't the only Republican to toss out last-minute financial help to the GOP's two battling candidates for state auditor: Tom Schweich and Allen Icet.

Arguably the state's most influential GOP donors, financier Rex Sinquefield and manufacturing magnate Sam Fox, also have written hefty last-minute checks right before Tuesday's primary.

On Friday, Fox (left) donated $30,000 to Schweich. Sinquefield(right) contributed $25,000 to Icet.

Fox's contribution is in addition to $23,000 he and his wife, Marilyn Fox, earlier gave to Schweich.

Sinquefield's was his first direct donation to Icet.

Schweich has raised far more than Icet, largely because of direct and indirect aid from Fox and Kinder, both tied to the party's pro-business wing. The lieutenant governor donated $120,000 to Schweich on Friday, in addition to $100,000 he gave earlier.

(Click here to reach the Beacon's overview of the contest.)

Meanwhile, Icet also received $5,000 on Friday from Joan Langenberg -- state president of the Eagle Forum, a conservative group founded by Phyllis Schlafly. That help highlights Icet's ties to the GOP's social conservative bloc.

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Jo Mannies
Jo Mannies has been covering Missouri politics and government for almost four decades, much of that time as a reporter and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the first woman to cover St. Louis City Hall, was the newspaper’s second woman sportswriter in its history, and spent four years in the Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau. She joined the St. Louis Beacon in 2009. She has won several local, regional and national awards, and has covered every president since Jimmy Carter. She scared fellow first-graders in the late 1950s when she showed them how close Alaska was to Russia and met Richard M. Nixon when she was in high school. She graduated from Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana, and was the daughter of a high school basketball coach. She is married and has two grown children, both lawyers. She’s a history and movie buff, cultivates a massive flower garden, and bakes banana bread regularly for her colleagues.
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