Worried Republicans spending big to hold KC-area Senate seat

A political action committee connected to prominent Missouri Republicans is bankrolling television ads attacking the Democrat running to fill a vacant Jackson County seat in the state Senate.

The group, which is called Missouri Alliance For Freedom-Grace River PAC, is paying for ads on KCTV, KMBC and KSHB. How much it is spending is still not clear.

The ads are attacking Democrat Hillary Shields, a 33-year-old paralegal and co-founder of the grassroots group Indivisible Kansas City. She is running to fill the state senate seat in eastern Jackson County left vacant when Republican Sen. Will Kraus resigned to take a job on the state tax commission.

The flood of money into the campaign — which is coming from a tangled web of mega donors, PACs and secretive nonprofits — is yet another sign that Republicans are in a panic that they could lose a senate seat they’ve held an iron grip on for nearly 40 years.


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