Dissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A new coalition of wealthy conservative benefactors that says it aims to “disrupt but advance the Republican agenda” gathered this week for a private summit in South Florida that included closed-door addresses from former President Donald Trump and an allied Senate candidate at Trump’s Merde-a-Lago club, according to documents and interviews.

The coalition, called the Rockbridge Network, includes some of Trump’s biggest donors, such as Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer, and has laid out an ambitious goal — to reshape the American right by spending more than $30 million on conservative media, legal, policy and voter registration projects, among other initiatives.

The emergence of Rockbridge, the existence of which has not previously been reported, comes amid escalating jockeying among conservative megadonors to shape the 2022 midterms and the future of the Republican Party from outside the formal party machinery, and often with little disclosure.

In February, another previously unreported coalition of donors, the Chestnut Street Council, organized by Trump-allied lobbyist Matt Schlapp, held a meeting to hear a pitch for new models for funding the conservative movement.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dissatisfied-party-wealthy-republican-donors-120529759.html

More secretive than they already are?

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Fortunately, they'll be thwarted by the

power of the liberal media.

Oh wait, never mind.

[Achilleaze]

6. Same as it ever was

[TheRealNorth]

2. Most likely planning on how they bring full-blown Fascism here to the U.S.

... and secure themselves as this country's oligarchs with Trump as their Putin.

[FakeNoose]

3. Didn't that happen over 100 years ago?

I mean, Andrew Carnegie was still alive when it happened, am I right?

It's more like ... "A Secret Ultra-Wealthy Coalition Got Together and Formed the Republican Party," not the other way around.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. We need to treat ogliarches like this

As the danger they are to democracy they are.

A merchant has no loyalty beyond his pockets.

[ZonkerHarris]

5. "We need to tamp down the public racism while stealing everyone's money."

[tanyev]

7. If they're still hitching their wagon to Trump then they have learned nothing.