KSHB: Tour Advocates Now Open to "Far Less" Than $1 Million

Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, his staff and Tour of Missouri organizers are directing supporters to a new KSHB story which closes with the following:

Race supporters say that if the state would allocate even a modest amount of money -- even far less than the million dollars they expected -- it would open the door to more private funding. Because They say they have sponsors waiting who don't want to commit when it looks like state leaders do not support the event.

This is obviously quite a change.  Tour supporters cranked up their campaign asking the Tourism Commission to allocate $1,000,000 for the Tour late last week (around the time they'd previously declared to be the deadline for a Commission decision on the funding). 

Now, we're told, something "far less than the million dollars they expected" would be sufficient.  If this is the case, what is the new request?  And if a smaller amount is needed, then why wasn't that smaller sum requested from the beginning?  and in previous years? 

Watch the whole story here: