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Meet Foster Friess, Billionaire who Bought Iowa for Santorum
by Brian Ross
Remember the name of Foster Friess. The Wyoming born-again billionaire mutual fund manager has been lauded by the Koch brothers at their 2011 secret shindig for giving more than $1M to Koch-friendly causes. Never heard of him? That's the way he's wanted it. After Rick Santorum's huge pop in Iowa, though, a flashlight into the cockroach-infested giving of the SuperPACs to Santorum's campaign flushed him out of the shadows.
rest:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Meet-Foster-Friess-Billio-by-Daily-kos-120108-960.html
gateley
(62,683 posts)going to buy that, too?
The Midway Rebel
(2,191 posts)onethatcares
(17,014 posts)if I could somehow get creative, I'd start a website showing each candidate and who's buying them with that oft repeated meme but alas as an artist, I draw flies.
if not a website, at least a portrait.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)very economical!
Initech
(109,269 posts)Thanks to you shit like this is now 100% legal and these fucking billionaire crooks are now able to buy government so they can get more money. This shit needs to end now!!!!!
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