GOP megadonor to rape victims: Stop ‘getting mileage’ from your trauma if you want to heal
By Scott Kaufman
Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:46 EDT
According to Molly Redden at Mother Jones, several Republican “superdonors” — foremost among them, a Nevada hypnotherapist who believes he can “heal” the trauma of rape and incest victims so long as they don’t get “mileage” out of having been victimized — are convinced that they can pick up Senate seats in Oregon because races there are relatively inexpensive.
“You could dump money here which would be insignificant in some races, but not in Oregon,” Len Bergstein told Mother Jones. “And I’m sure there’s some Republican gnome somewhere in a basement in Virginia figuring out that for X amount of money, hey, we could have a pickup here.”
A political novice named Monica Wehby hopes Bergstein is correct, as she seeks the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic incumbent Jeffery Merkley on a platform based on her opposition to Obamacare. She will skip the primary’s only televised debate and plans on avoiding contact with the media, relying instead on six-figure contributions from donors to drum up support for her campaign.
One of her benefactors — Loren Parks, of Nevada — has already contributed $75,000 to the political action committee called “If He Votes Like That in Salem Imagine What He Will Do in Congress,” which has financed a number of attack advertisements against her Republican primary opponent, state Representative Jason Conger.
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