Sheldon Adelson Makes Another 'Substantial' Contribution To Newt Gingrich Super PAC

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson has given another "substantial" contribution to an independent group supporting Republican Newt Gingrich, helping the group launch new TV ads in seven states where the former House speaker hopes to resurrect his struggling presidential campaign.

The super PAC Winning Our Future received a donation from the Las Vegas billionaire similar to two separate $5 million contributions Adelson and his family donated previously, according to a person familiar with the contribution. The person was not authorized to discuss the donations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The committee will air TV ads beginning Tuesday in Georgia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee, four "Super Tuesday" states voting March 6 where Gingrich hopes to rejuvenate his campaign. The super PAC will also start airing ads Wednesday in Mississippi, Alabama and Kansas, which hold contests next month.

The ads seek to undercut Republican Mitt Romney's argument that he would pose the most formidable challenge to President Barack Obama. It opens with an older man declaring Romney's name and sighing. A woman says she doesn't relate to Romney and another man says he doesn't "know if I can trust him." Another male voice says, "He doesn't have the strength to stand up to Obama."

The ad promotes Gingrich's energy plan, which the former House speaker has touted as a way to bring down gasoline prices to $2.50 a gallon. A male voice says, "Newt Gingrich can beat Obama."

Adelson's $5 million donation to Winning Our Future in January was considered critical to helping Gingrich keep his campaign alive.

The donation and ads were first reported by Politico.

Comments

[uncle george]

12:25 PM on 03/18/2012

Is Is Sheldon Adelsons vote more important than John Jones..Then why do we know Sheldon JAdelson and not John Jones. Is it because Adelson has a billion dollars and Jones does not?
The Supreme Court in their great wisdom decided that they would make Giant Corporations equal to John Jones. Now if they could only make John Jones equal to Giant Corporations perhaps John Jones could go into a million homes But no such luck.
Congratulations Great Supreme Court in your effort to make Giant Corporations equal to John Jones you have made no one equal to anybody

[uncle george]

11:51 AM on 03/18/2012

Why is Sheldon Adelson vote more important than John Jones. It isn't. Then why do we hear of Adelson and not Jones..We say they are equally important as voters but the Supreme court in their great wisdom has decided that in order for equality to exist they must make giant Corporations equal to John Jones.. Now if they could only make John Jones equal to giant Corporations he could be heard in a million homes. The trouble with that it would take a million John Jones to equal one giant Corporation Congratulations Oh Mighty Supreme Court you have nade no one equal to anyone.

[ez14livin]

05:13 PM on 02/28/2012

old newt gingrich had a p1mp eieio
sheldon adleson fed the blimp eieio
with a million here five million there
here a pac there a pac everywhere a smack crack
old newt gingrich had a p1mp eieio

[uncle george]

11:55 AM on 03/18/2012

What have you done to me? Now I can't stop singing eieio Would that make the newtman a prostitute if he has a pimp?

[phal4875]

04:57 PM on 02/28/2012

Why would Sheldon Adelson throw so much good money after bad? What does he know about Newt? Is this an attempt to pave the way for Romney or for Santorum? This is puzzling.

[denquixote]

12:55 PM on 02/28/2012

Then Adelson is using tax payer money also? Or doen't he pay any taxes since the majority of his income is made in Macau?

[CSKAP]

12:43 PM on 02/28/2012

Interesting to watch these billionaires prop up these vanity campaigns.
As long as Newt vows to put the interests of Israel and China over those of the US, he’ll keep getting the cash.
60% of all President Obama’s donations have been for less then $200.

[Cynthia Shore]

12:07 PM on 02/28/2012

I can't wait until all this PAC money is focused on defeating obama

[Set to Jet]

12:32 PM on 02/28/2012

What is it focused on right now?

[uncle george]

12:27 PM on 03/18/2012

LOL

[phal4875]

04:59 PM on 02/28/2012

It can be focused all you want, but it will not have that effect. The freak show has ruined the chances for a Republican.

[demisfine]

11:54 AM on 02/28/2012

Fools and their money are soon parted.
Just because the man is wealthy, it doesn't mean he is wise.
There is no way Newt is going to win anything, so this may just be a tax write off for Adelson.

[twain307]

12:31 PM on 02/28/2012

I've seen estimates that put Adelson's income at 3.5 million an hour. This is a day at the circus for him. Perhaps he has ulterior motives, or perhaps he really, really, really likes Newt. Either way, your comment about wisdom is spot on.

[demisfine]

12:33 PM on 02/28/2012

His Israel connection is the real issue.
Newt will do whatever he's told if Shelley lets Newt realize his rightful spot as ruler of the moon.

[phal4875]

05:00 PM on 02/28/2012

A tax write-off almost never makes financial sense. Unless someone is paying more than 100% in taxes, he or she is losing money on the deal.

[senatortruth]

11:46 AM on 02/28/2012

"May Divorce be with you!!"

--Moon President Gingrich

[phal4875]

05:02 PM on 02/28/2012

Fanned. I'm not sure we should "Moon President Gingrich," though, before he actually gets the office.

[uncle george]

12:32 PM on 03/18/2012

I/m afraid of tuning my back to him much less the other part

[movingman64]

11:21 AM on 02/28/2012

How strange a jew giving money to Adolph Eichmann!

[uncle george]

12:34 PM on 03/18/2012

He's not giving .He's buying him.

[hartland]

11:00 AM on 02/28/2012

Sheldon Adelson makes "Bold Move". You mean he finally paid off the the sub-contractors on his Venetian project?

[not so sure]

11:52 AM on 02/28/2012

Nah, that money has long gone in to Israel-first projects

[phal4875]

05:03 PM on 02/28/2012

I never knew that blinds were that costly.

[FredSanders]

10:41 AM on 02/28/2012

OldWhiteMen buying democracy. Thank you, Supreme Court.
Now, fix it before more OldWhiteMen enter the Arena of Political_Corruption that you created.

[american-dolt]

10:35 AM on 02/28/2012

Keep wasting your money slug face.

[uncle george]

12:37 PM on 03/18/2012

Don't they make a lovely pairI'd like to hang them on my wall. Both of them.

[Matt12]

10:28 AM on 02/28/2012

Adelson's best friend is PM Bibi Netanyahu who wrote:

Netanyahu¬­’s memoir, A Durable Peace, edited by neocon Douglas Feith, warned that the creation of a sovereign Palestinia­¬n state could lead Latinos to establish a “second Mexico” in the Southwest
http://eng­¬lish.al-a­k¬hbar.com­/c¬ontent/­bib¬i-conn­ecti¬on”

Is Adelson also funding the fueling of anti- immigration campaign to divide the country?

[Countess]

10:09 AM on 02/28/2012

I wonder if this means he can get to call the shots on when we drop the first bomb on Iran. What a great country where a rich citizen can buy the nation's foreign policy.

[not so sure]

11:53 AM on 02/28/2012

AIPAC says it's not for sale