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Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:03 PM

Sheldon Adelson Is Throwing the Republicans Another $35 Million

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Source: New York Magazine

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Sheldon Adelson Is Throwing the Republicans Another $35 Million
By Caroline Bankoff

Conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has reportedly pledged a total of $35 million to three conservative nonprofits: the Karl Rove-linked Crossroads GPS, an unspecified group with ties to the Koch brothers, and a third affiliated with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. This is in addition to the $10 million he gave to pro-Romney super PAC Restoring Our Future last week, which brings the amount he's contributed this election cycle to around $71 million (a significant portion of which was blown on Newt Gingrich.) And he's not likely to close the checkbook anytime soon: Sources say he's ready to commit $100 million to right-wing causes and candidates this year, which is something he could do every year for two hundred-fifty years before he ran out of money.

Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/adelson-is-throwing-the-gop-another-35-million.html



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Reply Sheldon Adelson Is Throwing the Republicans Another $35 Million (Original post)
Judi Lynn Jun 2012 OP
JDPriestly Jun 2012 #1
BeyondGeography Jun 2012 #2
Historic NY Jun 2012 #3
lastlib Jun 2012 #11
waddirum Jun 2012 #4
Faygo Kid Jun 2012 #5
12ZTR Jun 2012 #8
Faygo Kid Jun 2012 #9
onehandle Jun 2012 #6
shanti Jun 2012 #7
bayareaboy Jun 2012 #10
Volaris Jun 2012 #12
sorefeet Jun 2012 #13
bluedeminredstate Jun 2012 #14
Woody Woodpecker Jun 2012 #15
Scurrilous Jun 2012 #16
REP Jun 2012 #17

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:08 PM

1. Money from people who lost in his casinos.

Including money from Chinese people who lost in his casinos.

What else goes on in his casinos?

"Shows?"

I'd like to know more about Sheldon Adelson's casinos.

And while we are at it, I want to make one thing clear. I do not gamble. Never have. Never will. In my opinion, only fools gamble. I'll stick to no money-stakes Scrabble, Solitaire and strategy games.

Only fools gamble.

So, now the fools' money will be funding the Republican campaigns.

Fools' money to fool the fools.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:11 PM

2. It's all Chinese baccarat money

80-90 percent of his profits come from Macau and Singapore. Sheldon and his wife think they're going to make Israel safe and take out the Persian.

Strange post-Citizens United world we live in.

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Response to BeyondGeography (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:19 PM

3. In other words its tainted foreign money.

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Response to Historic NY (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:39 PM

11. yup.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:33 PM

4. dirty foreign money

smear this shit all over Rove, Rmoney, Norquist, etc.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 06:41 PM

5. Citizens United States of America

Michael Moore was right: That's what we ought to rename our nation.

I really think we're doomed this time, and I'm not usually a pessimist.

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Response to Faygo Kid (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:21 PM

8. Feeling the same way.

Romney could win & the 1% could wreck this country but not to worry those Republicans who are unemployed,lost their home, on some type govt.assistance & have huge college debt will be immune to a massive collapse.LMAO

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Response to 12ZTR (Reply #8)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:36 PM

9. Well said and welcome to DU.

We need all rational people we can get here.

(We also welcome the irrational from time to time, but what the hell . . .)

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 07:39 PM

6. Hope this guy enjoys spit and worse in his food. nt

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:04 PM

7. this answers the rhetorical question i posed here many moons ago,

asking why these 1% feel so compelled to obtain more, more, more money! there's no way in hell that dems can keep up with that.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 08:38 PM

10. Haven't been much of a gambeler for quite a few years


but the idea of walking into one of his casinos seems entirely out of question. In fact perhaps we should find out what this fool owns and boycott his business.

I really don't spend much time in casino's but on the road once in a while. I once in a while hit a Indian casino at least usually they put some money back into the county around them.

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Response to bayareaboy (Reply #10)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:17 PM

12. You would think that if ANYONE over on that side of this election

thought for one iota of time that Mittens actually had a chance to win this thing, SOMEONE would say "Is ANOTHER 35 million REALLY necessary? I think they know damn-well that it IS that necessary, if they want the option even to steal it, let alone win it legitimately.

Let the rich-ies waste all the money they want to save the GOP-er's from their own demographic destruction. At some point, it will just stop working. We Win.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:43 PM

13. Fuck boycotting the evil bastard

Why in the fuck is this allowed in this country. Just like warren said it's fucking rigged. How many of his machines are rigged. This horeshit has gone far enough.

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 09:58 PM

14. I read that when he was supporting Newt

the number one item on his wish (purchase) list was moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I believe Newt mentioned this a couple of times. The fundies love this idea too.

BTW, Sarah Palin gave a speech last week at some trade association for baked goods and delis (really!) and she was wearing a huge rhinestone Star of David around her neck instead of her usual glittery American flag pin. Tacky, gaudy and a little weird, too...

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 10:01 PM

15. Really _past_ time to sic the IRS to Adelson for a thorough audit

 

and i mean every penny is audited and properly used.

Then tax him at 99.9% rate past his 2 million dollar mark.

And then proceed to indict him for RICO

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 10:06 PM

16. Sheldon Adelson makes Right Online bloggers feel at home

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"It is only fitting that the Right Online conference, a project of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, should hold its conference for political bloggers in the Sands Expo, a huge meeting and convention facility next to The Venetian hotel casino here on The Strip.

After all, the corporation that owns both entities, Las Vegas Sands, is owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Republican who has turned the 2012 presidential campaign into something of a personal sandbox.

“I know the left hates guys like Sheldon Adelson and David Koch,” Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said as he welcomed the bloggers Friday to their two-day conference, which he said was designed as a counterpoint to the left’s Netroots Nation gatherings. “But that’s OK, ’cause we love ’em.” (Koch, the oil billionaire and anti-tax crusader, is a co-founder of AFP.)

Shortly before former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered an evening speech that was part tribute to the power of the right-wing blogosphere and part encomium to the late blogger Andrew Breitbart, the crowd was greeted by Andy Abboud, Sands vice president for government relations.

“I welcome you on behalf of Sheldon Adelson and Dr. Miriam Ochshorn Adelson, our owners,” Abboud said. “You are in the largest building in the world, you in the largest hotel in the world, and the only nonunion property on the Las Vegas Strip.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pn-bloggers-expo-adelson-20120616,0,2670991.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

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Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:31 PM

17. Analysis piece -doesn't meet SoP for LBN

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