Meet the little-known 'big fish' megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races

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Meet the little-known ‘big fish’ megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Michael Scherer April 29 at 8:15 PM

Behind just about every divisive Senate Republican primary this year, an amiable Midwestern businessman is bankrolling the candidate who claims to be the most hard-charging, anti-establishment conservative in the race.

Richard Uihlein, a wealthy shipping-supplies magnate from Illinois who shuns the spotlight, has risen to become one of the most powerful — and disruptive — GOP donors in the country.

For years, Uihlein has given money to isolated races in the service of his anti-union, free-market and small-government views. But he has dramatically increased his giving this cycle, pouring $21 million into races from Montana to West Virginia to ensure more conservative victories in the upcoming midterm elections, Federal Election Commission records show.

The beneficiaries of Uihlein’s largesse include upstart candidates such as Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who has made preserving the Confederate symbol in the state flag a centerpiece of his campaign for U.S. Senate. Uihlein gave tens of thousands of dollars to support failed Senate hopeful Roy Moore (R) in Alabama, doubling down even after multiple women accused Moore of unwanted sexual advances toward them when they were in their teens, FEC records show.

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[MuseRider]

2. We have bought some things

from time to time from U-Line. Never again. Too bad, they were expensive though, it was only stuff we could not find out here.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Meet the little-known "big fish" megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races

I'll be self-deleting my thread. I hadn't noticed it was a dupe.

Meet the little-known "big fish" megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races

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Meet Richard Uihlein, a wealthy shipping-supplies magnate from Illinois who has become one of the most powerful — and disruptive — GOP donors in the country

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Meet the little-known ‘big fish’ megadonor setting the tone for GOP primary races

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Michael Scherer April 30 at 12:27 PM

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Behind just about every divisive Senate Republican primary this year, an amiable Midwestern businessman is bankrolling the candidate who claims to be the most hard-charging, anti-establishment conservative in the race.

Richard Uihlein, a wealthy shipping-supplies magnate from Illinois who shuns the spotlight, has risen to become one of the most powerful — and disruptive — GOP donors in the country.

For years, Uihlein has given money to isolated races in the service of his anti-union, free-market and small-government views. But he has dramatically increased his giving this cycle, pouring $21 million into races from Montana to West Virginia to ensure more conservative victories in the upcoming midterm elections, Federal Election Commission records show.

The beneficiaries of Uihlein’s largesse include upstart candidates such as Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who has made preserving the Confederate symbol in the state flag a centerpiece of his campaign for U.S. Senate. Uihlein gave tens of thousands of dollars to support failed Senate hopeful Roy Moore (R) in Alabama, doubling down even after multiple women accused Moore of unwanted sexual advances toward them when they were in their teens, FEC records show.
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Clarification: An earlier version of this story did not make clear that Janus is represented by the Liberty Justice Center, the law firm affiliate of the Illinois Policy Institute, rather than the institute itself. It has been updated.

Anu Narayanswamy and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Michelle Ye Hee Lee is a reporter on The Washington Post's national political enterprise and accountability team, covering money and influence in politics. Follow @myhlee

Michael Scherer is a national political reporter at The Washington Post. He was previously the Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, where he also served as the White House correspondent. Before joining Time, he was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com. Follow @michaelscherer

[hatrack]

5. Why do these guys always look like they haven't taken a shit in 15 years?

[MurrayDelph]

4. Never bought from them. Never will

I don't know how we got on their mailing list (We ran a restaurant in a small town).

Several years after we went out of business, I phoned them to get taken off their mailing list.

Now, I wish I was still on it. I would never buy anything from them, but knowing what I do now, I wouldn't have gone out of my way to save them the cost of that big catalog that went into the recycling every other month.