Mitt Romney Meeting With Sheldon Adelson In Las Vegas
Source: Huffington Post
Mitt Romney is meeting with Sheldon Adelson -- the billionaire casino magnate and big Newt-Gingrich supporting super-PAC donor -- in Las Vegas on Tuesday, according to CBS News and CNN. Romney is holding a fundraiser later Tuesday, hosted by Donald Trump at his hotel, that Gingrich will also attend.
Adelson and his wife, Miriam, gave $20 million to Winning Our Future, the pro-Gingrich super PAC. The cash infusion helped buoy the former GOP presidential candidate's campaign, though Gingrich's own campaign eventually ended with $4.7 million in debt.
Adelson and his wife also gave $5 million to the GOP Congressional Leadership Fund, a GOP-aligned super PAC supporting congressional candidates.
He and his family have donated some $26.5 million to super PACs, pushing Adelson past liberal billionaire financier George Soros to become the all-time leader in giving disclosed money to independent spending groups.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/mitt-romney-sheldon-adelson-meeting-las-vegas_n_1552646.html
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McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I don't know whether they still are.
BumRushDaShow
(129,796 posts)an audit of where all that $ is really going and in whose pockets. Seems like a great way to get around a gift tax if worded for "Super PAC campaign activities".
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He'll amaze people at the way he can smell their wallet or purse and tell exactly how much money they have. He sniffs out money like a hog sniffs out truffles from the ground.
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)LuckyLib
(6,821 posts)these days, if they have money.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Considering what happened the last time he tried to buy a politician, I'd think Adelson would be a little more circumspect this time around. Make sure to check under the hood, as it were. That 2011 Gingrich he paid for last year just turned out to be a money pit, without any significant upgrades from the 1998 model that had to be recalled and mothballed.