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https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/10/26/at-least-20-billionaires-behind-dark-money-group-that-opposed-obama/#1189d5ef6c66A nonprofit group with a bland name, Americans for Job Security, spent $5 million supporting Republicans in the 2010 midterms and $15 million denouncing former President Obama in the 2012 election, but until this week, the group never had to file disclosures showing where its money was coming from.
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The biggest individual donor to the group appears to be Charles Schwab, the brokerage titan worth an estimated $7.8 billion. Over the span of three months in 2012, he donated nearly $9 million. Gap cofounder Doris Fisheralong with her sons Robert, John and Williamgave another $9 million.
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The new FEC filing shows billionaire donors from around the country. The late Republican megadonors Richard and Helen DeVos gave $1 million to the group in October 2012. Texas oil-and-gas billionaires Richard Kinder, Dan Wilks, Farris Wilks and late Houston Texans owner Robert McNair were also among the donors that year. Others include Dennis Washington of Montana, who got rich in mining and railroads, and Leon Black of New York, who cofounded private equity giant Apollo. WWE chief executive Vince McMahon donated, along with his wife Linda McMahon, who Donald Trump later appointed to his cabinet.
The companies of several billionaires are also on the list, including Wynn Resorts (Steve Wynn) and Bass Pro Shops (John Morris).
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Boy-fucking-cot them
Me.
(35,454 posts)No more clothes from Gap...never did trust him
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Tumbulu
(6,292 posts)to install equipment that would clean up dye and textile waste. Thus the reward of the responsible business owners was to lose the business of The Gap and later Walmart. Those two companies led the stampede towards the fast fashion of today. But their prices did not reflect the far cheaper costs to them. They used those profits to become billionaires and the collapse of the textile industries in the USA, Japan and Europe followed swiftly.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)are doing good to sustain planet earth and what percentage are accelerating its demise. a worthy investigation.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Pick one - Charles Koch, the Waltons, the Mercers, the Sacklers, the Kardashians, the DeVoses, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, I could go on and on. Maybe George Soros is the only one who isn't but that's about it.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Shame on them.
Wounded Bear
(58,708 posts)full disclosure of all donations, especially of PACs.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)They will always be miserable.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)I liken them to extreme hoarders.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)...he was already rich!
BULLFUCKINGSHIT! All billionaires are trying to find another billion...and fuckface would really love to be an actual billionaire.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Nancy Pelosi quoting Justice Louis Brandeis to the nation at the opening of the 116th congress. We've been here before, about 100 years ago.
These new ultrawealthy classes, about 70,000 families in the U.S., are so powerful that democracy is a nuisance at best and an serious existential threat at worst. And the will of the people is an insult.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)Doodley
(9,126 posts)of racist pigs a mile off.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Fuck the billionaires.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)Big, slick card with a wavy flag background. Don't know what it said, it got shredded like the previous one.
They appear to be blanketing this red-ass part of the country with their bulk mail propaganda.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)2600 billionaire? That's obscene. Where we gonna the money? I know where.
KrazyinKS
(291 posts)We really should not put them all into the same group. Just because they are super rich does not make them bad people. BUT- at the end of the day you only need so many bathrooms in your house. I mean really, after that it is some sort of compulsive behavior. After a while it turns into a big white box with a lot of crap inside. Is it power is that what they get off on?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Someone with $1Billion in the bank could spend $50K a day for 50 years and not run out of money. When there children who are hungry and people dying of treatable diseases, while these people hoard their money is a disgrace. Wealth tax? Hell yes!
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)As time goes by and we're under the crap under rump, everyday goes by that I miss B. Obama and his charm, wit, and intelligence. Kudos to a great man.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)In America. They do nothing good and they are selfish arrogance,corrupt sociopaths.