Jim HIGHTOWER: Half of the $94M in the Rethug primaries came from these 7 plutocrats

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[font size=5]7 Plutocrats That Bankrolled the GOP Primary -- and What They Want in Return[/font]
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Hightower Lowdown / by Jim HIGHTOWER

.... ...Of the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]$94 million[/FONT] amassed by SuperPACs backing the major GOP wannabes (Romney, Santorum, Paul, Gingrich, and Perry), nearly [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]half came from these seven men[/FONT]:

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Sheldon Adelson, $21.5 million[/FONT]. ... One of the 10 richest billionaires in our country, this 78-year-old longtime funder of Republicans and the ultra-right literally built his fortune on gaming the system. He now reigns over the Las Vegas Sands Corporation that runs luxury casinos in the US and China's special administrative region, Macau. ....

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Harold Simmons, $5.2 million[/FONT]. An 80-year-old multi-billionaire based in Dallas, this hardcore rightist is both a corporate buccaneer and political profiteer, often combining the two to line his own pockets. ....

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Bob Perry, $4.1 million[/FONT]. .... In the current campaign, Perry dropped a token $100,000 into Rick's 2012 presidential flop, before putting $4 million into Romney's SuperPAC. In addition, Perry has been a longtime deep pocket for Karl Rove's right-wing rampages and other extremist political ventures, including being top donor to the 2004 "Swift Boat" ad blitz and--no surprise--then giving $500,000 to Wisconsin's autocratic, anti-worker governor, Scott Walker. Rove's Obama-bashing SuperPAC has already banked $2.5 million from Perry for this year's election mischief and will likely be blessed with much more. ....

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