For the Billionaire who has everything: "I think I'll buy me a State!"

[hue]

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Billionaires Buying Wisconsin

What do you get for someone who has everything? How about a state.

A brief review of Governor Scott Walker's biggest donors reveals more than just Diane Hendricks (net worth $2.8 Billion) giving Walker a $500,000 retainer to deliver a “red state”. She is not the only billionaire to make a down payment on a “Red: right to work” Wisconsin.
Las Vegas Casio owner Sheldon Adelson (net worth $24.6 Billion ) gave the Baptist preacher's son $250,000 to break the unions in Wisconsin. Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Casino organization which includes the Venetian Casinos in Vegas and and Macau has had a long history of problems with unions at his casinos. Imagine what he would be worth if it wasn't for those pesky unions and their selfish working conditions, health insurance and, God forbid, retirement plans. Breaking the unions in Wisconsin will help Sheldon back in Vegas.

Interested in getting rich fast? How about Amway? You know, the multi-level marketing scheme that asks you to make money by selling average products to your brother-in-law at a profit that you pass on to the guy who suckered you into this pyramid in the first place. Entrepreneurship for the morally ungrounded. The Grandfather of Amway and owner of the Orlando Magic, Richard DeVos (net worth $4.2 Billion) has given our governor $250,000 to keep Ponzi schemes, excuse me, pyramid schemes alive in Wisconsin.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Has the DNC held their promised fund-raising meeting yet?

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, hue.

[freshwest]

3. Just like Florida's Rick Scott and every other fascist tool. The problem is people are whining about

The Democratic party to depress the vote, expecting Democrats to act like John Waynish Republicans, and have more money than the backers of the Walkers and the other billionaire tools.

It's ceding the ground to them as was done in 2010. We not only have the GOP Church faithful who will never vote for a Democrat no matter what the GOP candidate does, we have Democrats working hard to demoralize and depress the vote among those who would put these pigs out of office.