catherine hanaway’s governor war chest fills up

Missouri mega-donor Rex Sinquefield has provided the bulk of the money for Republican Catherine Hanaway’s gubernatorial campaign as she seeks to catch up financially with other likely candidates for the 2016 race.

Hanaway’s campaign reported a $750,000 contribution from Sinquefield on Wednesday, the same day that candidates were filing quarterly reports with Missouri Ethics Commission detailing their finances through the end of September.

The quarterly report showed that Hanaway, a former U.S. attorney in Missouri and speaker of the Missouri House, was well behind potential rivals in the amount of cash in her account. But the big check — coming after the quarterly reporting cut off — put her on more equal footing and provided what she described as “a tremendous boost to our fundraising efforts.”