Super-Rich Drying Romney Tears With $100 Bills. GOP super PACs: Republican donors spent millions on TV ads and got almost nothing in return. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. COLUMBUS, Ohio—For the past few weeks, whenever an Ohioan left his TV on for too long, he would see Sen. Sherrod Brown’s head on a cartoon body. He would see this more often than he saw Brown himself. The Now or Never PAC, funded by two Missouri millionaires, spent $1.2 million on a commercial in which a googly-eyed Brown stole money from families and coal plants. Another big buy, from Associated Builders and Contractors, portrayed Brown as a demented cartoon, sitting at a desk with an “I Love Taxes” coffee mug, rubber-stamping documents with an Obama campaign logo. Democrats didn’t know what to make of this stuff. Brown might have a point. The difference: These guys lost. Down the ballot, the record was only slightly less atrocious.
Because Republicans did so poorly, every independent group looks like a loser. Here’s one theory for the failure: Their ads were stupid. I searched but did not find actual voters swayed by these ads. Adelson Is Trying to Buy an Election. There are many reasons to be concerned about the role that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has come to play in the current election cycle. Sen. John McCain recently questioned the propriety of Mr. Adelson's donations, given that most of his money comes from casinos in Macau and foreign citizens are not allowed to contribute to U.S. campaigns.
In June The New York Times editorialized that Mr. According to Sheldon Adelson, AIPAC is helping Israel "commit suicide" and therefore no longer receives his significant support. Yet these concerns about Adelson are not being raised in our community. The irony here is overwhelming. Americans generally, and American Jews in particular, reject both Adelson's views and his undue influence. I think the allegations made against Adelson, in this lawsuit and others, are serious.
What Sheldon Adelson Wants. P super PAC receives major donation from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Young Guns Action Fund, a super PAC established to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, received a $5 million donation from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson in April, federal disclosure records show. The super PAC, which last week announced a partnership with a group co-founded by George P. Bush (nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush) to bring more young candidates and donors into the Republican Party, also landed a $50,000 donation from the House Conservatives Fund and a $125,000 gift from hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner.
The latest filing makes YG Action Fund the top-fundraising super PAC focused on House races in two of the past three quarters. The group was founded in 2011 by former aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Adelson donated millions toward Newt Gingrich's campaign during the Republican primaries and says he intends to spend $100 million this election cycle through various causes. Democrats withdraw complaints against Sheldon Adelson. In the wake of complaints by law professor Alan Dershowitz and others, the National Jewish Democratic Council has abruptly withdrawn a petition calling on Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to refuse “tainted money” from the world’s 16th richest man, Sheldon Adelson.
Mr Adelson, 78, a major donor to Jewish causes, has come under fire recently for allegedly condoning prostitution at his luxury gambling resorts in Macau, China. These charges, levelled by a disgruntled former employee whom Mr Adelson fired, were taken up with alacrity by Jewish Democrats who have become increasingly concerned about the millions of dollars that Mr Adelson has poured into support for Republican candidates. In addition to Prof Dershowitz, who is a Democrat, the Jewish Federations of North America, Anti-Defamation League, and the Republican Jewish Coalition all decried the use of unproven claims to smear Mr Adelson’s reputation. An Indecent Proposal from Sarah Silverman.