Reporters Reprint Kinder Press Release Without Asking Any Relevant Questions About Funding

The Star and Post-Dispatch have picked up Peter Kinder's press release highlighting a new motion in his Healthcare Inaction case calling on the Department of Justice to file a response to his amended complaint.  The action in the case is news, but the press corps' apparent lack of interest regarding the funding of Kinder's lawsuit is flabbergasting.

The facts of the matter is that a motion was filed by GOP activist attorney Thor Hearne, and no one knows who is footing the bill through Healthcare Inaction, Inc.   Kinder has refused to respond to multiple Sunshine Law requests demanding disclosure of his donors and expenses, hiding all of that information in an opaque corporation.  He claims to have "six figures" worth of financial support, but has only disclosed about $6,600 worth of donors.  

The only known purpose of Healthcare Inaction, Inc. is to shield financial information from public view.   He has filed his lawsuit in his official capacity as Lieutenant Governor, and has used official staff to promote his suit all along. 

Why won't Kinder come clean?  And why won't the press ask him direct questions about who is providing the "six figures" of support?