Roy Moore Super PAC Financier Finally Revealed
Source: Daily Beast
Roy Moore Super PAC Financier Finally Revealed
Newly released documents show Illinois businessman Richard Uihlein is the moneyman behind a group seeking to send Moore to the Senate
LACHLAN MARKAY
11.27.17 2:15 PM ET
The chief financier of a leading pro-Roy Moore super PAC is a deep-pocketed Republican businessman who dropped eight figures on 2016 races alone and is looking to continue propping up the partys most conservative candidates.
Illinois businessman Richard Uihlein provided $100,000 to the group, Proven Conservatives PAC, since September, according to a new filing (1) with the Federal Election Commission, making him by far the groups top donor. That money, which hadnt been previously disclosed, has financed a host of ads boosting Moores candidacy in the face of widespread sexual assault and harassment allegations. The group has also run ads attacking Moores primary opponent, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), and his Democratic general election rival Doug Jones.
Proven Conservative PAC officially formed in late August, as the Alabama Senate primary contest heated up. The only major financial support it had previously reported came from a company owned by the family of Alabama timber executive Guice Slawson. ... In addition to Uihlein, Proven Conservative received money in September from Peter Nicholas, a Florida-based businessman whose chain of Taco Bell franchises has also donated to the campaign of Omar Navarro, a quixotic Republican challenger to California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters.
Uihlein is a far bigger name in GOP politics. The shipping and office supply mogul and his wife donated a combined $26.4 million to federal campaigns, party organs, super PACs, and interest groups during the 2016 election cycle, according to FEC data.
(1) http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00653998/1192480/
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/roy-moore-super-pac-financier-finally-revealed
NEW: The financial heft behind a leading pro-Roy Moore super PAC is coming from GOP mega-donor Richard Uilhein
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dalton99a
(81,561 posts)Saviolo
(3,282 posts)That ubiquitous office supplies and supply chain logistics company: https://g.co/kgs/dwHdYD
If your company orders equipment/supplies from them, maybe see if there are better alternatives.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)That are mass mailed are horrifying ... I never ordered from them, but they were dumped in my post office box monthly and they refused to remove me from their list
Grrrrrrrr
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Their catalogs have been hitting the recycle bin immediately for a long time. Now, I'm going to send them a nastygram with a Roy Moore reference to try and get off their list. Don't even want to see them any longer.
No wealthy family should be able to influence an election with this sort of magnitude, and especially not across state lines.
marble falls
(57,139 posts)from Nestles?
https://www.nestle-waters.com/brands
Now Nestles is a truly evil company.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)And I never drink bottled water unless it is the only option in a particular setting. Nestle is a huge problem here in Ontario, trying to purchase small, struggling communities' water aquifers in order to bottle and sell it, offering pennies on the dollar.
Though the whole situation may be moot with this deal happening:
http://www.cp24.com/news/enbridge-reaches-deal-with-michigan-on-underwater-great-lakes-pipeline-1.3695935
The next world war will be fought over water, I'm fairly certain. But I digress. This is all off-topic to the OP.
marble falls
(57,139 posts)Saviolo
(3,282 posts)Talking about the oil pipeline through the great lakes and the sale of Ontario water, etc... You are correct to call out Nestle, and I believe that they are significant contributors to GOP causes in the hopes that they'll deregulate water so that they can bottle and sell it back to us.
marble falls
(57,139 posts)PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)They always want just a little more, at our expense.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)last shipping supplies order they ever get from me.
I don't really get to exercised about conservatives supporting conservatives, but Roy Moore is way out of bounds. And that was before the assault allegations!
eppur_se_muova
(36,275 posts)Unfortunately, they seem to be B2B, so little contact with end consumers.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)ancianita
(36,128 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)it's the phony, creepy xtian dominionism conveniently wedded to tax cuts for people like him.
How convenient.
ancianita
(36,128 posts)only won due to low Dem turnout and heavy Ricketts/Koch money.
Rauner's days are numbered.
FakeNoose
(32,703 posts)This really makes me wonder - what the hell is going on in this country?
Every one of these guys is bought & paid for.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)millions to elect "far-right" Republicans. When FORBES calls someone "far right," you know they're off the far edge.
He's an extremist , aBanana Republican ideologue, like thousands in our new classes who count their wealth in the hundreds of millions and up. They are working to change our nation, to move it hard right, from the local level up.
Anyway, Illinois isn't far at all from Wisconsin, and he has plenty of business interests there and many other states also. Like his buddies the Kochs, Thiel, the Mercers, at least several hundred fellow wingnut billionaires alone.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Plastic Plants in Wisconsin. Always knew of him for his Plastic Buckets. Like those at your favorite DIY store.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the factories?
We're overrun by extremist billionaires. So many like to consider themselves libertarians (presumably imagining it puts an ideological gloss on their greedy snatching) that it's almost refreshing that this one openly self describes as "conservative." Unfortunately, for most of both groups, that seems to actually translate to some self-serving form of secular or theocratic fascism.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,564 posts)I love finding empty five-gallon floor wax buckets in the trash. They're great for washing sweaters in.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)product.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,564 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Use them for Dry Washing. Hey,buck a piece is cheaper than the DIY store. Usually the lids are with them.
ancianita
(36,128 posts)arrivals will boost our turnout in exurbs like Waukegan, Aurora, Cicero, and Elgin.
It's creepy how we're surrounded by red states. I know Dems have crossed MI and WI state lines to boost protests and Democratic voter turnouts there.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)When we followed our son to Georgia, the idea was that the nation was headed for another liberal era following the era of reaganism. Many were coming from other states as the poverty of reconstruction faded into the past, yada, yada. Didn't realize what kind of advances these miserable fractions of men armed with fortunes that would beggar kings were making.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)40RatRod
(532 posts)...Mr. Uihlein will say to himself "Damn! That was a waste of $"
Thekaspervote
(32,785 posts)sadiegirl
(138 posts)keep from paying taxes and an equal amount wasted on corrupt, nasty politicians.
orangecrush
(19,587 posts)shine the light on the vermin!