Kinder is a hard as nails politician. In 2011 he survived a battle over an issue with a stripper from 17 years prior who was trying to run him down politically as he was once in pursuit of her back then when he was single and she called newspapers and made it public in 2011.
We recently had a respected auditor who committed suicide after he had announced a run for governor and many old line Republicans like Danforth think it was caused by dirty trick threats by others running against him.
Mo politics is pretty hardline on both sides of the aisle.
I saw reports of the suicide and could never quite figure out what happened there.