2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIn Republican Race, a New Breed of Superdonor
Last June, Harold C. Simmons, a wealthy Texas businessman, sent a $100,000 check to Americans for Rick Perry, a super PAC preparing for Mr. Perrys entry into the presidential race. A few months later, he donated $1 million to a different pro-Perry group through his company. In December, as Mr. Perrys fortunes waned, Mr. Simmons wrote another check, this one for $500,000, to Winning Our Future, a super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich.
But Mr. Simmons was not done. In mid-January, as Mr. Gingrich was headed toward a victory in the South Carolina primary, Mr. Simmons wrote a $100,000 check to Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney. And toward the end of the month, as Restore Our Future used his money to help bludgeon Mr. Gingrich with attack ads in Florida, Mr. Simmons sent yet another $500,000 check to Mr. Gingrichs super PAC.
He generally supports conservative Republican candidates, said Chuck McDonald, a spokesman for Mr. Simmons. I assume he was just trying to be helpful.
Mr. Simmonss contributions all told, he has given more than $14 million to Republican super PACs so far this cycle make him the exemplar of a new breed of superdonor in presidential politics. About two dozen individuals, couples or corporations have given $1 million or more to Republican super PACs this year, an exclusive club empowered by the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision and other rulings to pool their money into federal political committees and pour it directly into this years presidential campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/us/politics/in-republican-race-a-new-breed-of-superdonor.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
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(52,227 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)bongbong
(5,436 posts)He is sending money to a group producing ads ripping another guy who he sends money to.
These repig "successful businessmen" sound like idiots of the greatest order.
But I repeat myself.