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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Sat Jan 2, 2016, 03:16 PM Jan 2016

Republican millionaire behind ‘Trump is disgusting’ skywriting: ‘I would vote for Secretary Clinton’

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/republican-millionaire-behind-trump-is-disgusting-skywriting-i-would-vote-for-secretary-clinton/

Saying, “There’s no place for him,” the Alabama millionaire who paid for planes to circle the Rose Bowl and trash GOP front runner Donald Trump on New Year’s Day said he would probably vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton if he had to choose between the two, CBS News is reporting.

Stan Pate, the real estate developer who paid for the planes to fill the air with anti-Trump messages, called his fellow property developer “despicable,” and said there is no place for him in American politics.

“He needs to go back to one of his tall towers and build buildings and whatever else he does. He’s a despicable man,” Pate explained.

“Quite frankly, if it was Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, I would vote for Secretary Clinton,” he said. “I will accept anybody but Trump.”

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This is not over,” Pate told CBS. “This is just beginning.”

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Republican millionaire behind ‘Trump is disgusting’ skywriting: ‘I would vote for Secretary Clinton’ (Original Post) deminks Jan 2016 OP
Right on schedule Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #1
But the other GOP contenders are just as disgusting, they just have a better brain-mouth filter. nt SunSeeker Jan 2016 #2
But he's still a Republican TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #3
Well good for him... ljm2002 Jan 2016 #4

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
4. Well good for him...
Sat Jan 2, 2016, 04:16 PM
Jan 2016

...and at least he's willing to put his money where his mouth is.

Yes the other candidates are bad, but Trump's ascendancy is dangerous. Even GWB admonished us not to target Muslims, for which I was grateful, even considering the source. Trump, of course, seems to have no filter at all, and he spouts dangerously racist rhetoric.

So I don't care if the real estate developer is still a Republican, and I don't care if his motive was just hating Trump. He did a Good Thing, IMO.

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