It is an interesting situation for Missouri’s Democrat primary voters.  Just how much unseemliness are they willing to tolerate from a guy who says he has the best shot against a statesman and leader like Michael Gibbons?  From KansasCity.com:

Sen. Chris Koster has defended his fundraising tactics as “perfectly legal,” while his opponents in the campaign for attorney general labeled them blatant efforts to circumvent the law.

In a forum for the editorial board of The Kansas City Star, Koster said the Missouri law limiting contributions from individuals to a maximum of $1,350 also specifically allows the creation of fundraising committees that accept larger contributions.

He repeated his assertion that the Missouri Ethics Commission staff had assured his campaign that his fundraising methods complied with the law.

“Everyone at this table has accepted contributions from legislative district committees,” Koster said Thursday. “To suggest that candidates should be restricted only to the individual contribution limit is not in compliance with the law.”

Koster’s opponents in the Democratic primary, Reps. Margaret Donnelly and Jeff Harris, acknowledged accepting limited contributions from political party committees. But they bristled at the suggestion that their fundraising methods matched Koster’s.

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