Is Huntsman's father paying for his campaign?

[cthulu2016]

That seemed the implication on the TV machine.

On Edit: the Google machine steered me to what they're talking about on the TV machine. Huntman's father is a billionaire, and major contributor to the Destiny PAC that was running most of the pro-Huntsman ads in NH. (But without any collusion with the Huntsman campaign, of course!)

[elleng]

1. No.

The tv machine doesn't know what its implying, but it sure likes to make up stories.

[cthulu2016]

2. Okay, this appears to be what they were talking about.

Huntsman's father (who is a billionaire) is behind the Huntsman super-PAC that made huge ad buys in NH.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the most frequently shown Republican campaign commercial here so far, a grouchy cast of characters complain that “no one has shown up we can trust as a conservative.” The presidential candidate they are searching for, the commercial concludes, is former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. of Utah, to which one of the characters harrumphs, “Why haven’t we heard of this guy?”

...The commercial came not from the Huntsman campaign, but from a group called Our Destiny PAC.

The group, financed in part by Mr. Huntsman’s billionaire industrialist father and guided by one of his former political advisers, has breathed new life into a campaign that otherwise lacks the resources to do much more than literally go door to door seeking votes.

Aides acknowledge that if Mr. Huntsman is to have any chance at pulling off an upset victory here — and they say that is still possible in this highly volatile Republican race — he is going to need Our Destiny PAC to keep its ads on the air until the primary on Jan. 10. But, prohibited by law from collaborating with the political action committee, aides are supposed to have no control over what the group does, despite its intimate ties to the campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/us/politics/jon-huntsmans-cash-poor-campaign-gets-help-from-father.html?pagewanted=all

[FrenchieCat]

3. I think that Huntsman has his own money, doesn't he?

Isn't he the heir to a chemical company fortune???? Perhaps it is true that Daddy still is calling the shots though.....

[cthulu2016]

4. Since daddy is alive then being heir is future tense.

I'm sure he is well fixed but probably not yet a billionaire (until he takes over the reigns of the family fortune).

[FrenchieCat]

5. I'm sure that is what the media is talking about.....

His father is billionaire businessman and philanthropist Jon Huntsman, Sr. of the Huntsman Corporation.[4] Through his father, Huntsman, Jr. is the great-great-great-grandson of early LDS Church leader Parley P. Pratt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) is a global chemical company with over 12,000 employees. 2010 revenues were over $9 billion.

Huntsman serves a variety of end markets, the largest of which is consumer durables and non-durables, followed by paints and coatings, insulation and other construction materials, chemicals, energy and aerospace.

Huntsman holds global leadership positions in MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate), polyurethane catalysts, epoxy adhesives, epoxy powder coating systems, aerospace composites, electrical insulating materials, textile effect chemicals, polyetheramines, ethylene and propylene carbonates, and maleic anhydride.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_Corporation