. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: ROMAN CATHOLIC : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: CHURCH AND STATE RELATIONSHIP: Billionaire Funds Santorum Run; Call Koch Brothers A "National Treasure" . . Billionaire Funds Santorum Run; Call Koch Brothers A "National Treasure" January 17, 2012 at 07:30:41 By Daily kos Op Ed Newshttp://www.opednews.com/articles/ Billionaire-Funds-Santorum-by-Daily-kos-120117-402.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/6t3oc2g . . Billionaire Funds Santorum Run; Call Koch Brothers A "National Treasure" . By Steve D. For Daily Kos Dairies .I for one am delighted to have our elections decided by people with ungodly amounts of wealth. That way I don't have to worry about which candidates are successful and which are not. For example, now I know Rick Santorum, the man who once claimed homosexuality would lead to man on dog sex is a serious contender for the GOP nomination because the big money says he is.
.A billionaire Wyoming investor has pledged to give up to a half-million dollars in matching money to an outside spending group that supports Rick Santorum for the GOP presidential nomination.
.Foster Friess put up a good chunk of the $537,000 that the Santorum "super" PAC, the Red White and Blue Fund, spent on ads to help the candidate come in a close second to Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month.
.Now the 71-year-old Friess says he's sent a note to 5,000 "sportsmen" pledging to match whatever they donate to the super PAC, up to $500,000, which could be crucial to Santorum's chances of halting Romney's march to his party's presidential nomination. [...]
.Friess made his fortune running mutual funds and is a keen stock picker. He's a veteran supporter of conservative causes, a born-again Christian and an ally of the much-richer Koch brothers, wealthy industrialists who bankroll many conservative causes.
.Now to you or me, tossing $1 MILLION dollars at a politician whose career was recently deemed beyond salvageable by veteran politicos in his own party, might seem a tad Quixotic. But that is just because we don't understand the new dynamics of the pay to win the electoral game like Mr. Friess does. Besides, what is $1 Million of negative attack ads to someone whose net worth exceeds that of the average American by a factor of at least 10,000. Why to Mr. Friess, Wall Street speculator extraodinaire, its no more than .01% of his stash. Less than chump change.
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