Sheldon Adelson Pledges $10 Million To Koch Brothers' 2012 Efforts: Report

Politico:

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson this week pledged $10 million to the Koch brothers' 2012 efforts, cementing a potent alliance of two of the biggest spending forces in conservative politics.

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Comments

[michaelgary1]

01:19 PM on 09/12/2012

Anybody who has money in any of the "big three" banks, Bank of America, Wells Fargo or JP Morgan Chase should take it out and put it in another smaller local bank. This will hurt the bank CEOs and let them know they can't use your money however they want to help them. I don't use any of them and never will. I don't even open mail from them, just straight to the trash.

[mad1026]

11:20 PM on 06/29/2012

He contributes(?) to the KochBros AND we find out today he promotes prostitution in his casinos in Macau. What a role model!

[veroradu]

08:15 PM on 06/29/2012

Scum helping Scum! Nothing new here

[vigoddess]

04:52 PM on 06/29/2012

Mr. Adelson had best think twice about supporting a corporate takeover if he has
forgotten the main reason the Exodus happened for six million people who died
as a result of giving power to a few. The issues might be different but the
persecution is the same. It always starts with the promise of MORE, and
during the night ghosts appear from nowhere, looking for closure because
someone has opened the door to the lost souls of history. The hauntings
begin. There is no MORE that can handle six million hands reaching
out, or wandering as an outcast in that world, and that's where the few
go who are held by their peers for what they have done - not how much
they have. It's what a man does that lives after him in the end.
Mr. Adelson owes my husband his life because Sgt.H killed the
bad guys so Mr. Adelson could become a wealthy man affording the
best teeth in the world.
Had Sgt. H failed and the few won, Mr. Adelson would be nothing but
ashes,thrown into the earth as fertilizer so men like Mr. Adelson should
be grateful they had someone who made their life important even though
they were greedy and selfish - they were still human.

[bert70]

03:08 PM on 06/29/2012

Adellsen and the Koch Bros. should be charged with Treason!

[Judy Rauch]

04:12 PM on 06/29/2012

Yes they should and in our days they would have been. I have no idea where our justice department is but there something crooked in politics with these guys. I hope the American voters relize when voting who is trying to buy America and become Kings.

[tommybellagio]

02:36 PM on 06/29/2012

Obama can raise money and its a good thing.. heck its one of the only things he has successfully done... well that and vacationing and playing golf... we welcome the money....

[bert70]

03:08 PM on 06/29/2012

Another person who has been sleeping or drunk for the last 3 1/2 years.

[tommybellagio]

03:43 PM on 06/29/2012

Neither... waiting for the White House to actually lead on something rather than blame...

[vigoddess]

05:03 PM on 06/29/2012

Get glasses. He aged ten years from the time he appeared to accept
the nomination for the presidency.
He is crazy to even run for another term with the attacks and racist stuff
coming out of people's mouths, as he doesn't need the abuse. The people
love him in Europe and Asia. My grandson just came back from Asia and
said the smallest villages in India that don't speak English know one word
and that's OBAMA, with a thumbs up. Everywhere he travelled people
love Obama everywhere but in the states. We love to elect alcoholics, crooks,
and the usual suspects. He can write a book and play golf every day instead
of take the crap the most ignorant people throw at him - so it must be
his desire as a black man to be one of the best presidents in history. The
fact is he's smarter than anyone we've ever elected so we don't know what
to do with a smart president. Congress and the Senate are so stupid People
feel comfortable with that.
They understand gangsters far better than smart people.

[Yeswehave]

02:01 PM on 06/29/2012

My fellow Americans, in November, 2012, show these cronies that they cannot buy our votes.

[Badbowler]

01:34 PM on 06/29/2012

"Grassroots Institute" sounds more like a pro pot organization.

[Martha Fair]

01:08 PM on 06/29/2012

'All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

The requirement for president?

"Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared"

~ Grover Norquist ~ member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the real leader of their party and if this doesn't scare you than nothing ever will.

[OutAtFirst]

01:52 PM on 06/29/2012

All he's doing is describing GW Bush.

[Famos]

01:05 PM on 06/29/2012

OH tats right they don't want America to get better, only more subservient.

[Durango]

01:04 PM on 06/29/2012

Cheap at twice the cost.

Who could imagine you could buy the most powerful country on Earth and all its inhabitants for so little money?

[Famos]

01:03 PM on 06/29/2012

Did anyone ever wonder what their money would provide to increase American jobs.

[Famos]

01:03 PM on 06/29/2012

Just like Germany and the Krup family in the 30's.
Buying America one (hundreds of) vote at a time.

[mimiyo]

12:54 PM on 06/29/2012

In 2010 mid terms, the Koch's, Rove's, and Adelson's tried to buy key Senate races around the country. They pumped millions into races in Colorado, Alaska, Delaware and Nevada. They failed to buy those seats for Republicans. There is only so much prime airtime to buy in the major media markets, and Dems spent money early on buying up these spots in battleground states. These buy ups will not be seen and heard till August, September, October and November. Dems swept in and bought up all these future spots, as Republicans were busy spending money on their crazy primary circus. So, raise money from these Republican fat cats all they want. It will make no difference if they have no legitimate, relevant, productive means to put it to work. The battle for tthe battleground states, the 270 electoral votes, will be won by those with the best ground game and volunteer forces. It will be won by the smartest campaigns, not the ones with the most money behind them.

[Vyvjala]

12:52 PM on 06/29/2012

The greedy self serving corporate axis of evil and their combined vulgar wealth have orchestrated a democracy destroying agenda which they are using to manipulate and disenfranchise the middleclass and will stop a nothing until they eliminate organized labor, the working middleclass, social security, medicare, and medicaid. Their Legion of Doom is a bought and paid for corporate wealthcare republican house, senate and judges.............

[AnthropologistAmongApes]

01:01 PM on 06/29/2012

Seconded!

[Durango]

01:06 PM on 06/29/2012

The are REACTIONARIES, not conservatives.

And in the Koch Bros Daddies time they were known for what the really are.

The Lunatic Fringe.