Politico's Kenneth Vogel: GOP's Big Money Men Return

[flpoljunkie]

(With a big assist from the John Robert's court Citizens United decision. These men are the Republican party's patrons--who they work for. It's sad too many Americans do not get this.)



GOP's Big Money Men Return
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
9/24/10

Some of the Republican party’s biggest donors — businessmen like Texas homebuilder Bob Perry and Manhattan hedge fund tycoon Paul Singer — have a message for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats: They’re back.

After reducing their check writing during the latter days of George W. Bush’s presidency and John McCain’s 2008 failed campaign to succeed him, wealthy conservatives have been re-energized by the 2010 midterm election, giving to GOP candidates and campaign committees as well as the independent groups that back Republicans in unprecedented amounts.

Since Obama took office, ten of the most active conservative donors identified by a POLITICO analysis have contributed $19 million to Republican candidates and the political committees that boost them — a pace that far eclipses their giving at this point in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles, according to professional fundraisers, as well as anything big Democratic donors have done.

The numbers analyzed by POLITICO — compiled from campaign finance reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service, Federal Election Commission and various state campaign finance agencies — reflect personal donations as well as contributions from immediate family members and their corporations.

But the tally does not take into account the money these donors may be giving to the proliferation of right-leaning groups registered under section 501(c)4 of the IRS code — the groups that Obama attacked last week for airing a “flood of deceptive attack ads sponsored by special interests using front groups with misleading names.” By law, the groups aren’t required to reveal their contributors’ identities — only their overall fundraising tallies and expenditures months, and only months after Election Day.

Though GOP electoral prospects are getting a boost from newly engaged — and anti-establishment — grass-roots tea party activists, the major conservative money is anything but grass roots or anti-establishment.

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[JNelson6563]

1. Meant to rec but hit unrec instead!

I hope everyone will help make up for that.

This article tells us what many already know but it can't be said/posted enough! If only we could get this on the front page of every newspaper across the country.

Julie

[flpoljunkie]

2. No problem! Americans really need to understand who Republicans work for and it's not us!

[JNelson6563]

3. You are 100% correct!

They hate the little people.

Julie--one of the little people

[Supersedeas]

4. they never left really