Records Uncovered By Daily Beast Show Bush And Clinton Are Funded By The Same 17 Mega Donors
July 2015, John Catsimatidis made it clear that for him, friendship mattered more than politics when he donated $2,700 to both Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Jeb Bush. He told Time magazine, “When friends are running for office you do whatever you have to do. If Hillary Clinton was the nominee in the Democratic Party and Jeb Bush was the nominee in the Republican Party, I would go to sleep early on election night because regardless of who got elected our country would be in good shape.”
Catsimatidis is not the only big businessperson to double dip and give large donations to both Clinton and Bush. Jackie Kucinich and Matan Gilat from Daily Beast reported another seventeen people who have done the same. These people all share the fact that they are highly-ranked businessmen and women, but their specific businesses vary. Donors include John Tyson, the chairman of Tyson foods, and David Stevens, CEO of Mortgage Bankers Association.
When examined and questioned about their reasoning behind funding both Clinton and Bush, these men had very different responses and reasoning. For Tyson, it seems that the donation to Clinton comes from a sense of obligation after her husband pardoned Tyson and other employees after the company was punished for offering bribes to Mike Epsy, who, at the time, was Agriculture Secretary.
In the case of David Stevens, who has given $2,700 to Clinton and $1,000 to Bush, it seems his MO is everything in moderation. He told The Daily Beast:
‘I want to focus on candidates who best represent issues of housing and issues important to me and are not extreme, especially on the social issues that are important to me…I want to make sure my views are presented to them, because they are considered more center-left or center-right.’
The image below, courtesy of Vocativ/ The Daily Beast, lists all seventeen of the big-name men and women who have donated to both Clinton and Bush.
Read more and see the image at: http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/02/17/just-in-records-uncovered-by-daily-beast-show-jeb-bush-and-hillary-clinton-are-funded-by-the-same-17-mega-donors/
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