Champ v. Poelker

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellants, Norman Champ and Champ Spring Corporation, brought this taxpayers’ action to recover $300,000 in contributions paid by the Industrial Development Authority of the City of St. Louis (IDA) and the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater St. Louis (Convention Bureau) to People for Jobs and Growth (PJG), a campaign committee organized under Chapter 355, RSMo 1986, to promote passage of a 5/8th cent sales tax proposition in St. Louis City and County. Following extensive discovery, the trial court dismissed all counts of plaintiffs’ petition with prejudice and…