Sheldon Adelson CRACKS OPEN CHECKBOOK For GOP

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Last edited Sat Sep 20, 2014, 03:39 PM - Edit history (1)

You go Jebster,....drop to your knee,..kiss the ring and git yer dirty cash!

Republicans traitors lining up & genuflecting before their 'Money Overloads' for a box full of dirty cash..........



Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and promised a similar amount to an allied group focused on House races, POLITICO has learned. The check to the Rove-conceived Crossroads GPS and the pledge to American Action Network represent the first major foray into the 2014 congressional midterms by Adelson, according to multiple sources who travel in big-money GOP circles. It’s welcome news for Republican operatives. They believe it’s just the start of a major spending spree by Adelson and his family that will help their side offset an advertising disadvantage in recent weeks, when Democrats and their allies have aired more ads supporting their congressional candidates. And it comes amidst a long and assiduous courtship of Adelson by Republican money-men, during which there has been intense speculation about the unpredictable billionaire’s plans. Andy Abboud, Adelson’s political lieutenant, would neither confirm nor deny his boss’s political moves.


“On several occasions, we have seen others speculate in regards to the Adelson’s political activity, but whether it’s $1 or $100 million, we are simply not going to engage in that exercise,” Abboud said. Crossroads GPS declined to comment. American Action Network spokesman Dan Conston said, “We don’t discuss donors, would-be donors or non-donors – period.” Both groups are registered under a section of the tax code – 501(c)4 – that allows them to accept unlimited contributions without disclosing their donors’ identities. That set-up is said to appeal to Adelson, 81, who is worth an estimated $38 billion. He bristled at the partisan fire he drew in 2012 when he and his family were the biggest givers of disclosed contributions, ponying up more than $100 million to federal candidates and committees. The Adelson family was relatively inactive this time around, giving $4.5 million in federal contributions through mid-July – mostly to committees supporting gubernatorial and state legislative candidates, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service. The donation and pledge coincide with major media buys from Crossroads GPS and American Action Network.



Crossroads GPS this month has reported spending at least $4.6 million and counting on ads attacking Democratic candidates or touting Republican ones in the hotly contested Senate races in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado and Michigan, according to FEC filings. American Action Network and an affiliated super PAC called Congressional Leadership Fund, both of which maintain close ties to House Speaker John Boehner, last week announced an $8.1 million advertising and polling campaign in 10 House races across the country. It’s unclear how far a major influx of cash from Adelson would go at this late stage in the campaign, since much of the best stretch-run TV time has been purchased and that which remains is astronomically expensive. That’s why the operatives who run Republican-allied outside groups for months had been traveling to Adelson’s office in his Venetian resort hotel and casino on the Vegas strip to plead for big checks early in the cycle. The intense focus on a single donor highlights the power of the ultra-rich in a big-money political landscape created by a series of recent federal court rulings striking down campaign finance restrictions as unconstitutional infringements on free speech. It’s also led to conflicting theories about Adelson’s undisclosed giving.




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1. Omerta...

OMERTÀ - is a cultural expression and code of honor that places legitimate importance on a deep-rooted family sense of a "code of silence"

-Omertà is an extreme form of loyalty and solidarity in the face of authority. One of its absolute tenets is that it is deeply demeaning and shameful to betray even one's deadliest enemy to the authorities.

- Omertà implies "the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime". A person should absolutely avoid interfering in the business of others and should not inform the authorities of a crime under any circumstances

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omertà

[yeoman6987]

2. Where are the democratic rich?

We have all of Hollywood and quite a few rich companies that need to start handing out money to. Ok we don't like money in politics fine. Change it. Until then we need to counter the Repugs.

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3. "bristled at the partisan fire"

can dish it out, but not take it, eh? http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1975629

[world wide wally]

4. My Clue guess to who killed American Democracy:

Republicans....
In the Supreme Court
With a bank account

Did I win?

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5. because

it worked so well in 2012 .

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6. How much did he blow two years ago?