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Las Vegas Sands CEO and Chairman Sheldon Adelson makes a few remarks after receiving the Hospitality Industry Leader of the Year award at the eighth-annual Vallen Dinner of Distinction, April 26, 2012.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | 2 a.m.
Sun coverage of Sheldon Adelson
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- More political news from the Sun
GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, poured $5 million into a super PAC backed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, according to reports released late Sunday.
The cash influx marks a major boost for the YG Action Fund, which was started last year by former Cantor aides to assist House Republican candidates. The super PAC reported raising $5.3 million between April and June of this year, compared with the meager $55,000 it pulled in during the first quarter.
The Adelsons — who have funneled millions of dollars into super PACs backing GOP presidential candidates — have helped jump-start congressionally focused super PACs in recent months. In February, the couple gave a combined $5 million into the Congressional Leadership Fund, a separate group backed by Cantor, Speaker John Boehner and other top House Republicans.
The YG Action Fund spent nearly $460,000 in the second quarter on ads to boost North Carolina congressional candidate Richard Hudson, who will face off in a primary next week against Club for Growth-backed candidate Scott Keadle, according to the campaign finance report.
Thanks in large part to the Adelsons, the Cantor-backed group kicked off July with $4.7 million in the bank to buoy GOP candidates.
The Congressional Leadership Fund landed another big donor last quarter when Texas real estate magnate Bob Perry gave $1 million to the group.
I just read that eighty percent of the contributions to Tea/Republican Party reelection efforts going on right now centers around...seventeen people. This averages to about .000036 percent of contributors. Not sure if I got enough zeros there, but you can easily see it is WAY below one percent.
This is madness, people.
This Citizens United ruling is allowing the rich people, if the voters out here don't wake up, to buy an election and put people in power.
Right now, Adelson is being investigated for possible violations of the Foreign Corruption Practices Act (FCPA).
But, because of the Citizens United ruling, he is BUYING our Government, hoping to put another Government in place, with another Justice Department in there, all in order so they will abandon the investigation against him.
We gotta get money out of our politics. But that's not likely gonna happen right now.
So, it's WAY more important to make sure people vote. And they vote smart.
I do not want the rich/filthy rich to have any more undue influence on our form of Government. Even more than they have now.
That's why I'm voting every Tea/Republican out of power that run interference for them.
Because we keep this up, it's gonna get way beyond un-American. The middle class will be wiped out. Gone, baby, gone. Just rich...and everybody else...mostly poor/very poor. The rich are dismantling this country. There used to be thing called the American Dream. That's gone right now. The rich took it away. It's now an American Pipedream.
Time to smack the rich/filthy rich back down to reality. They exist due to democracy. Not the other way around.
Obama/Biden 2012! And a Democrat majority in the next Congress!
First he tried to buy a President Gingrich and it turned out to be a bust. He paid for a lot of the negative ads about Mitt Romney and Bain Capital when he backed Newt. Adelson must have an Etch-A-Sketch like Romney.
Unless you're part of the .000036%, voting for Republicans is like being a fat seal voting for a hungry great white shark.
Young guns? they probably need a lot of viagra to shoot.
"He paid for a lot of the negative ads about Mitt Romney and Bain Capital when he backed Newt."
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That was just Adelson foreplay, now Romney and him can be good friends.
Something like that..
:-)
Sheldon's game plan https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a...
and the irony of all this is the fact the guy is spending PEANUTS of his wealth doing all this. Proof enough in my mind how in serious need of taxing these people are.
If Adelson is spending $50 mill, that is but a quarter of 1%. It is insulting and highly indicative of just how badly the concentration of wealth is in the USA when one turd can toss such a low number into politics and have as much of a say.
SHELDON SHOVELS SHEKELS to ELDER ROMNEY.
Comrade Adelson's Communist Chinese landlord partners and his Likudnik Israeli Mossad masters have decided ELDER ROMNEY will be the next President of their colony; THE U.S.A.. PRESIDENT ROMNEY will transfer American wealth and jobs to COMMUNIST CHINA and transfer American sovereignty to LIKUD ISRAEL. Comrade/Sheky Adelson will grease the skids of America's demise by SHOWERING SHEKELS on ELDER ROMNEY.
Yours in Christ/Mao/Uncle Bibi/Comrade Adelson,
Rob Whitetrash - Pahrump Deluxe Trailer Park
tax tax tax tax tax tax tax....Is this all the Libs can say is tax, tax tax?
Hey trash. Is GM alive or is it outsourcing its jobs to China?
Adelson made that money. He took the risks and he can spend it the way he wants. You go for it Mr. Adelson and thank you and the Mrs. for your generous donations to charity and employing thousands of people here in Nevada.