Megarich superPAC crybabies whining about scrutiny
Mega-donors: Quit picking on us
All they wanted was to get involved.
But to hear some of the biggest donors of 2012 tell it, their six- and seven-figure contributions have instead bought them nothing but grief.
Their personal lives are fodder for news stories. President Barack Obama and his allies have singled out conservative mega-donors as greedy tax cheats, or worse. And a conservative website has launched a counteroffensive targeting big-money liberals.
This is definitely not what they had in mind. In their view, cutting a million-dollar check to try to sway the presidential race should be just another way to do their part for democracy, not a fast-track to the front page.
And now some are pushing back hard against the attention, asking: Why us?
This idea of giving public beatings has been around for a long time, said Frank VanderSloot, a wealthy Idaho businessman who donated $1 million in corporate cash to the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney and says hes raised between $2 million and $5 million for the Romney campaign.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76899.html#ixzz1wSqSPrJS
My nose bleeds for those poor, misunderstood billionaires; so do my hemorrhoids