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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 06:42 PM Oct 2019

At Least 20 Billionaires Behind 'Dark Money' Group That Opposed Obama

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/10/26/at-least-20-billionaires-behind-dark-money-group-that-opposed-obama/#1189d5ef6c66

A nonprofit group with a bland name, Americans for Job Security, spent $5 million supporting Republicans in the 2010 midterms and $15 million denouncing former President Obama in the 2012 election, but until this week, the group never had to file disclosures showing where its money was coming from.

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The biggest individual donor to the group appears to be Charles Schwab, the brokerage titan worth an estimated $7.8 billion. Over the span of three months in 2012, he donated nearly $9 million. Gap cofounder Doris Fisher—along with her sons Robert, John and William—gave another $9 million.

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The new FEC filing shows billionaire donors from around the country. The late Republican megadonors Richard and Helen DeVos gave $1 million to the group in October 2012. Texas oil-and-gas billionaires Richard Kinder, Dan Wilks, Farris Wilks and late Houston Texans owner Robert McNair were also among the donors that year. Others include Dennis Washington of Montana, who got rich in mining and railroads, and Leon Black of New York, who cofounded private equity giant Apollo. WWE chief executive Vince McMahon donated, along with his wife Linda McMahon, who Donald Trump later appointed to his cabinet.

The companies of several billionaires are also on the list, including Wynn Resorts (Steve Wynn) and Bass Pro Shops (John Morris).

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Boy-fucking-cot them
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At Least 20 Billionaires Behind 'Dark Money' Group That Opposed Obama (Original Post) jpak Oct 2019 OP
Schwab & Gap Me. Oct 2019 #1
Smithfield Foods rockfordfile Oct 2019 #17
They were the first to dump the manufacturers who had invested millions of dollars Tumbulu Oct 2019 #23
There are about 2600 billionaires on planet earth. what percentage of them Kurt V. Oct 2019 #2
0.000000% of them. Initech Oct 2019 #11
How about Tom Steyer or the tight's boogieman, George Soros? nt Blue_true Oct 2019 #19
I hope they eventually feel like they wasted their money. Ilsa Oct 2019 #3
The Dark Money shit has to end... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #4
Fuck every goddamn one of them... dhill926 Oct 2019 #5
There isn't enough riches on Earth that could ever satisfy Billionaires. tenderfoot Oct 2019 #6
Agreed! It is a sickness. SlogginThroughIt Oct 2019 #9
Which is why it was absurd when people said fuckface couldn't be bought because... Lucky Luciano Oct 2019 #22
+1 ck4829 Nov 2019 #25
boycott the un-American racist pos. rockfordfile Oct 2019 #7
"We can have democracy in this country, OR we can have great wealth Hortensis Oct 2019 #8
+1 for truth. some ppl haven't quite grasp this yet. Kurt V. Oct 2019 #14
What you said Hekate Oct 2019 #15
Let me guess, how many of those billionaires are white? I am white, but I can still smell the stench Doodley Oct 2019 #10
I'm shocked, shocked!!! Well not that shocked! Initech Oct 2019 #12
got a glossy postcard from them today Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #13
I've got torch and pitchfork, what about ya'll? rickyhall Oct 2019 #16
I sometimes think it is a form of hoarding KrazyinKS Oct 2019 #18
Personally I think it's a mental illness. defacto7 Oct 2019 #20
Obscene TexasBushwhacker Oct 2019 #21
K&R ck4829 Nov 2019 #24
And 20 dark money billionaires didn't stop Obama from his 2nd term as president, thank god. SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #26
There should be no billionaires I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2019 #27

Tumbulu

(6,291 posts)
23. They were the first to dump the manufacturers who had invested millions of dollars
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 10:34 PM
Oct 2019

to install equipment that would clean up dye and textile waste. Thus the reward of the responsible business owners was to lose the business of The Gap and later Walmart. Those two companies led the stampede towards the fast fashion of today. But their prices did not reflect the far cheaper costs to them. They used those profits to become billionaires and the collapse of the textile industries in the USA, Japan and Europe followed swiftly.

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)
2. There are about 2600 billionaires on planet earth. what percentage of them
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 06:48 PM
Oct 2019

are doing good to sustain planet earth and what percentage are accelerating its demise. a worthy investigation.

Initech

(100,087 posts)
11. 0.000000% of them.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:16 PM
Oct 2019

Pick one - Charles Koch, the Waltons, the Mercers, the Sacklers, the Kardashians, the DeVoses, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, I could go on and on. Maybe George Soros is the only one who isn't but that's about it.

tenderfoot

(8,437 posts)
6. There isn't enough riches on Earth that could ever satisfy Billionaires.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:09 PM
Oct 2019

They will always be miserable.

Lucky Luciano

(11,257 posts)
22. Which is why it was absurd when people said fuckface couldn't be bought because...
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:36 PM
Oct 2019

...he was already rich!

BULLFUCKINGSHIT! All billionaires are trying to find another billion...and fuckface would really love to be an actual billionaire.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. "We can have democracy in this country, OR we can have great wealth
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:13 PM
Oct 2019
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

Nancy Pelosi quoting Justice Louis Brandeis to the nation at the opening of the 116th congress. We've been here before, about 100 years ago.

These new ultrawealthy classes, about 70,000 families in the U.S., are so powerful that democracy is a nuisance at best and an serious existential threat at worst. And the will of the people is an insult.

Doodley

(9,099 posts)
10. Let me guess, how many of those billionaires are white? I am white, but I can still smell the stench
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:15 PM
Oct 2019

of racist pigs a mile off.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,375 posts)
13. got a glossy postcard from them today
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:17 PM
Oct 2019

Big, slick card with a wavy flag background. Don't know what it said, it got shredded like the previous one.

They appear to be blanketing this red-ass part of the country with their bulk mail propaganda.

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
16. I've got torch and pitchfork, what about ya'll?
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:04 PM
Oct 2019

2600 billionaire? That's obscene. Where we gonna the money? I know where.

KrazyinKS

(291 posts)
18. I sometimes think it is a form of hoarding
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:46 PM
Oct 2019

We really should not put them all into the same group. Just because they are super rich does not make them bad people. BUT- at the end of the day you only need so many bathrooms in your house. I mean really, after that it is some sort of compulsive behavior. After a while it turns into a big white box with a lot of crap inside. Is it power is that what they get off on?

TexasBushwhacker

(20,205 posts)
21. Obscene
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 09:22 PM
Oct 2019

Someone with $1Billion in the bank could spend $50K a day for 50 years and not run out of money. When there children who are hungry and people dying of treatable diseases, while these people hoard their money is a disgrace. Wealth tax? Hell yes!

SWBTATTReg

(22,144 posts)
26. And 20 dark money billionaires didn't stop Obama from his 2nd term as president, thank god.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 07:10 PM
Nov 2019

As time goes by and we're under the crap under rump, everyday goes by that I miss B. Obama and his charm, wit, and intelligence. Kudos to a great man.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
27. There should be no billionaires
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 11:10 PM
Nov 2019

In America. They do nothing good and they are selfish arrogance,corrupt sociopaths.

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