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Missouri Senators question former GOP chair s appointment to UM curator s role
Jeanne Kuang and Bryan Lowry, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 31 JEFFERSON CITY Former GOP Chair Todd Graves appointment to the University of Missouri Board of Curators was approved by a Senate committee Wednesday, despite some members misgivings about his partisan political background.
Members of the Senate s Gubernatorial Appointments committee questioned Graves history of partisan political influence, particularly the state GOP s payment of $200,000 to a PAC tied to Graves and his powerful Kansas City law firm, Graves Garrett LLC, in 2019.
The PAC was focused on overturning a redistricting reform provision in the ballot initiative known as Clean Missouri, which passed in 2018. The expenditure angered some Republicans, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Graves had represented opponents of the measure and his firm was involved in drafting the legislation that overturn ....

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