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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,564 posts)
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:33 PM Nov 2017

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 party’s 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 group’s top donor. That money, which hadn’t been previously disclosed, has financed a host of ads boosting Moore’s candidacy in the face of widespread sexual assault and harassment allegations. The group has also run ads attacking Moore’s 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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Roy Moore Super PAC Financier Finally Revealed (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 OP
Uihlein's other creatures: Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Bruce Rauner dalton99a Nov 2017 #1
This is the guy behind ULINE Saviolo Nov 2017 #2
Those creepy catalogs UpInArms Nov 2017 #17
Thanks for that info. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2017 #19
I won't be buying the product now, but its as good as anybody else's. Do you drink bottled water ... marble falls Nov 2017 #26
I try to never buy Nestle products Saviolo Nov 2017 #27
The topic is about anonymous money being used to screw the public. I'm on topic alright. marble falls Nov 2017 #28
Nono, it was me getting off topic. Saviolo Nov 2017 #29
Nah, you're on topic, too, brother. Moore and his secret bagman are just the first to go down! marble falls Nov 2017 #30
These capitalist parasites have absolutely no decency, just greed. PatrickforO Nov 2017 #3
That's Uline, folks not fooled Nov 2017 #4
Me too. MGKrebs Nov 2017 #8
Let the boycott of uline.com begin ! eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #5
Done. (I order tools and supplies on a regular basis. Uline won't be getting any orders from me!) Rollo Nov 2017 #22
He's got that Pence look... ancianita Nov 2017 #6
And you just know not fooled Nov 2017 #10
He has to really lie low in blue states like IL. We hate these GOP stealth PAC dudes. Rauner ancianita Nov 2017 #14
How does an Illinois businessman benefit by electing Moore? FakeNoose Nov 2017 #7
Oh, yes. In 2014 Forbes said he was spending millions Hortensis Nov 2017 #11
Seems to me,this Guy owns a couple of Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #12
Maybe he inhaled too many fumes while touring Hortensis Nov 2017 #13
Oh, that outfit. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #20
Anything stamped ULINE is Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #23
They make great trash pile finds. Quite useful items. NT mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 #24
We pick these up at the Local Smith's instore Bakery. Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #25
The red state billionaire jackals and their smell surround Illinois. I hope recent Puerto Rican ancianita Nov 2017 #15
Oh yes. Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #16
Understand how it would feel creepy these days. Hortensis Nov 2017 #18
Link to the Forbes article nitpicker Nov 2017 #32
Peter Nicholas people should find out which Taco Bell he owns and stop going there. rockfordfile Nov 2017 #9
Let's hope that when the dust settles... 40RatRod Nov 2017 #21
DUErs boycott Uline online office supply giant!! Thekaspervote Nov 2017 #31
It never ceases to amaze me how millionaires will spend six times their legal tax burden to sadiegirl Nov 2017 #33
Kick orangecrush Nov 2017 #34

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
2. This is the guy behind ULINE
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:43 PM
Nov 2017

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)
17. Those creepy catalogs
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:07 PM
Nov 2017

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)
19. Thanks for that info.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:18 PM
Nov 2017

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)
26. I won't be buying the product now, but its as good as anybody else's. Do you drink bottled water ...
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 07:32 PM
Nov 2017

from Nestles?

https://www.nestle-waters.com/brands

Now Nestles is a truly evil company.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
27. I try to never buy Nestle products
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 07:36 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
29. Nono, it was me getting off topic.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 07:45 PM
Nov 2017

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.

PatrickforO

(14,586 posts)
3. These capitalist parasites have absolutely no decency, just greed.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:45 PM
Nov 2017

They always want just a little more, at our expense.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
8. Me too.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:08 PM
Nov 2017

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!

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
10. And you just know
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:12 PM
Nov 2017

it's the phony, creepy xtian dominionism conveniently wedded to tax cuts for people like him.

How convenient.

ancianita

(36,128 posts)
14. He has to really lie low in blue states like IL. We hate these GOP stealth PAC dudes. Rauner
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:38 PM
Nov 2017

only won due to low Dem turnout and heavy Ricketts/Koch money.

Rauner's days are numbered.

FakeNoose

(32,703 posts)
7. How does an Illinois businessman benefit by electing Moore?
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 03:57 PM
Nov 2017

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)
11. Oh, yes. In 2014 Forbes said he was spending millions
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:18 PM
Nov 2017

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)
12. Seems to me,this Guy owns a couple of
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:22 PM
Nov 2017

Plastic Plants in Wisconsin. Always knew of him for his Plastic Buckets. Like those at your favorite DIY store.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Maybe he inhaled too many fumes while touring
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:35 PM
Nov 2017

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)
20. Oh, that outfit.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:39 PM
Nov 2017

I love finding empty five-gallon floor wax buckets in the trash. They're great for washing sweaters in.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
25. We pick these up at the Local Smith's instore Bakery.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 06:16 PM
Nov 2017

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)
15. The red state billionaire jackals and their smell surround Illinois. I hope recent Puerto Rican
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:45 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Understand how it would feel creepy these days.
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:11 PM
Nov 2017

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.

 

sadiegirl

(138 posts)
33. It never ceases to amaze me how millionaires will spend six times their legal tax burden to
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 06:22 AM
Nov 2017

keep from paying taxes and an equal amount wasted on corrupt, nasty politicians.

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