Sheldon Adelson Breaks Spending Record on Midterm Elections, Surpassing $100M

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Conservative megadonors Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson have doled out more than $100 million to aid Republicans in the midterm election, far outpacing their giving during the 2016 presidential cycle.

A new $25 million donation puts the billionaire benefactors’ total spending toward helping Republicans hold on to both chambers of Congress at $113 million, Bloomberg reported. The donation was to the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC with ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

That total surpasses the $82.6 million the couple spent on the 2016 cycle.

And it makes the Adelsons’ spending on this year’s midterms the new benchmark for the most any individual household has spent on one election — including campaign committees, parties and PACs — since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2010, according to OpenSecrets. The rankings by OpenSecrets do not include donations through 501(c)(4) “dark money” groups.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/sheldon-adelson-breaks-all-time-spending-records-on-the-midterm-elections-surpassing-100-million?fbclid=IwAR1LYgB06qMAWsyvNtoIet9uAXfZ3i9LPAVmdBgwM6LWSJeg3jCil10toHA

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I thought Koch Brothers donated up to 400 million for this election cycle, so I'm ...

puzzled by the claim that the Adelson's spending marks a new benchmark.

[Cattledog]

2. Gonna be money down a rat hole.

[kentuck]

3. Adelson is just the middle man for the money laundering....

What better way to launder money than thru political campaigns. My bet is that the money is not actually coming from Adelson but from Russia.

[Pity Puddles]

4. I want the Adelsons broke and bankrupt

by the end of 2020, if they are still alive.

[OilemFirchen]

5. George Soros, by contrast, has contributed $13 million. (n/t)