Karl Rove Group Funded by Swift Boater

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Rove's Swift Boat Backer

by Zachary Roth Info
Zachary Roth

BS Top - Roth Rove Karl Rove (Mark Wilson / Getty Images) He’s back! Charles Simmons, the man who bankrolled the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry, is the primary funder of Karl Rove’s “grassroots” group that threatens to shake up this fall’s midterms.

The billionaire Texas businessman who funded the Swift Boat attack on John Kerry is back in the saddle—along with a few other conservative money-men—bankrolling Karl Rove’s latest effort to win control of Washington for the Republican Party.

American Crossroads, launched with fanfare as a “grassroots” group in March by Rove and former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, raised $3.4 million last month, according to forms submitted by the group to the IRS and examined by The Daily Beast. That’s by far the best monthly haul to date for the group, which aims to help GOP candidates this fall by running ads and talking to voters in Senate races across the country.

The June contributions offer the first hard evidence that Rove’s new project can be a major player this fall in support of GOP candidates across the country.

But 97 percent of that total came from three deep-pocketed backers of conservative causes. Rove and Co. took in $1 million from Southwest Louisiana Land LLC, one of numerous companies run by Harold Simmons. The media-shy Dallas investor and waste industry magnate, who declined through an assistant to comment for this article, may be the closest thing the right has to its own George Soros. In 2004, he was one of three major backers—to the tune of $2 million—of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which helped sink Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign with a series of misleading TV ads attacking the Democrat’s Vietnam record. In 2008, Simmons sought to reprise that role, giving $2.8 million to the American Issues Project, which ran ads tying Barack Obama to Bill Ayers. Simmons was also a major backer of Sen. John McCain and, in the 1980s, a contributor to the defense funds of the Iran-Contra figures Oliver North and John Poindexter.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/24-8

[Cleita]

1. What a surprise!

:sarcasm:

[Bitwit1234]

2. What can you expect after all

it's Rover boy the most under handed dirty filthy trickster this country has ever produced. He should be in Leavenworth running around his jail cell trying to be away from "Bubba".