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Robert Reich: Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised Him?
http://robertreich.org/post/16409529548Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner, is now the poster boy for whats terribly wrong with our campaign-finance system. Adelson, you may recall, had, before the South Carolina Republican primary, donated $5 million to the pro-Gingrich Super Pac Winning Our Future giving Newt a pile of money for negative advertising against Mitt Romney in South Carolina.
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Do you know who Sheldon and Marian Adelson are? Do you know what Gingrich has promised them, or what they think theyll get out of a Grinch presidency? I dont. But if Newt becomes President of the United States, theyll be singularly responsible. And we better find out, because Newt will owe them big time.
Forget the Lincoln Bedroom. The Adelsons and their kids will have the run of the White House, including the Oval Office. Hey, theyll take over the Old Executive Building next door and turn it into a casino.
Never before in the history of American politics has a single couple given more money to a single candidate and had a bigger impact all courtesy of the Supreme Court and its grotesque decisions that speech is money and corporations are people under the First Amendment.
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Robert Reich: Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has Newt Promised Him? (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2012
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FSogol
(45,488 posts)1. K & R. n/t
tularetom
(23,664 posts)2. Quite simple actually
He's a very wealthy very rabid supporter of Israel's Likud party and my guess is that Newt has promised to bomb Iran if elected.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)3. He's today's Disneyland, respectable version of Meyer Lansky. The same Mobsters who backed McCain