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Billionaire Larry Ellison Makes His Largest Political Donation On Record
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Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld on September 16, 2019 in San Francisco, California. PHOTO BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder and chairman of software giant Oracle, gave $15 million in January to a super-PAC that is supporting South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday.
The contribution appears to be the single largest political donation that Ellison has ever made to a federal campaign or committee, according to a review of FEC data. Ellison also gave $5 million to the same super-PAC, called Opportunity Matters Fund, in June last year, bringing his total spending on this committee up to $20 million during this election cycle.
Ellison has made large contributions to other Republican senators in recent years, though nothing like his most recent contribution. Ahead of the 2020 elections, he gave $1 million to a super-PAC supporting Susan Collins (R-Maine), and $250,000 to a super-PAC supporting Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Senator Tim Scott, who has been South Carolina’s junior senator since 2013, is running for reelection in 2022. The state’s primary will be held on June 14. Still, Scott is not expected to face significant competition from other challengers. There have been reports that Scott may be among a group of Republicans who run for president in 2024. Appearing on Fox News on Sunday, Scott was asked if he would consider running for president, or joining a Donald Trump 2024 ticket and he said, “I think everybody wants to be on President Trump’s bandwagon, without any question.”
The Opportunity Matters Fund has raised $21.5 million in this election cycle, so far. Other billionaires who have donated to the group include Apollo private equity CEO Marc Rowan, New Balance chairman Jim Davis and former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam. |
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Zell Zell
was a right winger... below article was from 2007.
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/in-political-contributions-zell-leans-right-and-wife-leans-left/
In political contributions, Zell leans right and wife leans left
| Quote: | Samuel Zell, real estate mogul, billionaire and the prospective new owner of the Tribune Co., has given more than $100,000 in political contributions since the 1998 election cycle, most of it supporting Republican causes according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the Center for Public Integrity.
His wife Helen, however, stands on the other side of the political divide, giving almost entirely to Democrats and abortion rights groups. Together, the Zells give generously to candidates from both political parties.
Samuel Zell, 65, a native Chicagoan who built his fortune in real estate, landed an $8.2 billion private bid for the Tribune Co., one of the country’s top media companies whose holdings include leading daily newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The (Baltimore) Sun, 23 television stations and the cable Superstation WGN. Tribune Co. announced the deal on Monday.
The Center’s Media Tracker offers users a complete list of Tribune media properties, as well as political contributions by the company and its employees.
Zell is one of the 400 richest Americans, with an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion, according to Forbes.com.
He has contributed $107,700 to federal campaigns, parties and political action committees since the 1998 election cycle. Nearly 70 percent of the $84,200 he gave in direct contributions to candidates went to Republicans. He doled out $20,000 in a series of contributions — his biggest total to a single recipient — to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. Political Action Committee, which represents publicly traded real estate companies worldwide.
But despite favoring Republicans and professional interests, Zell has given money to prominent members of both political parties. For example, he has contributed to presidential candidates George W. Bush ($3,000) and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., ($2,000), former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., ($500), and current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ($1,000), as well as former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, R-Texas ($1,000) and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., ($4,000).
A month before the 2004 presidential election, Zell gave $10,000 to the Progress for America Voter Fund, a “527” organization linked to the Bush administration that was charged with violating campaign finance laws.
In the final three weeks of the election, the fund spent $16.7 million on broadcast advertising alone — more than twice the total for all the Democratic 527s combined. (Read the Center’s article on the campaign advertising blitz.)
The fund was co-founded by Tony Feather, who headed the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign and is associated with Bush strategist Karl Rove. (Read the Center’s profile of Feather and his consulting firm.)
In February, the fund agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it failed to register and file disclosure reports as a political action committee, in what was the third-largest civil penalty in the FEC’s history.
Zell has contributed to candidates now running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, including:
Sen. John McCain: $1,000 in 1999 and $1,000 in 2006 to his PAC, Straight Talk America;
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney: $2,000 in his failed 1994 Senate campaign, according to records maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics;
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani: $1,000 in 2000 to his presidential exploratory committee.
Zell also has supported Republicans who, in previous elections, squared off against contenders for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. They include:
Illinois millionaire Jack Ryan: $4,000 in his 2004 Senate race against Barack Obama;
Former Rep. Rick Lazio: $1,000 in his 2000 Senate race against Hillary Clinton.
Yet Zell’s wife has had a very different pattern of giving.
Helen Zell has given more than $50,000 in political contributions under her own name. Except for $3,000 to her home-district congressman, Jerry Weller, R-Ill., (whom her husband heavily supports), all of her contributions have ended up in the hands of Democrats and abortion-rights groups.
She was an early supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., investing $12,000 in his 2004 Senate campaign before his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston that catapulted him to political fame. Her financial support for Obama helped fuel his Democratic primary win over Blair Hull and totals $17,700 through June 2006.
Zell also has contributed to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and abortion rights political action committees, including Voters For Choice/Friends of Family Planning and NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC. |
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oh and the dems have soros, this guy spends what 5 times what Soros spends in politics. and all we here from the right wing is they are the real victims because of Soros spending...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-a-republican-megadonor-is-playing-fast-and-loose-to-push-dangerous-extreme-agenda-watchdog/ar-AA1cHpGI?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=3a7d5bd78e734b958bb7d27926477f8e&ei=16
How a Republican megadonor is 'playing fast and loose' to push 'dangerous, extreme agenda': watchdog
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Republican billionaire Leonardo Leo's trust fund, Marble Freedom Trust's latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filing, revealing the former President Donald Trump donor's mission to control right-wing politics, Truthout reports.
Progressive watchdog Accountable.US obtained the recent IRS filing, which according to Truthout, shows the Federalist Society leader "has dumped at least $411 million into fueling right-wing infrastructure in the U.S. since mid-2020."
Furthermore, according to Truthout, the filing reveals "Leo has spent at least $182 million during the Biden administration to fund right-wing groups from May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2022," noting, "This surge has come as Leo has become more publicly outspoken in attacking reproductive rights as well as efforts to protect our environment and crucial measures that advance Americans' equality."
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Additionally, it "adds to the growing public knowledge of how Leo's for-profit business works in tandem with nonprofit groups he funds to change the rules in our democracy, and also provides a glimpse of how lucrative this effort is."
The news outlet reports prior to Accountable's findings, "the Campaign for Accountability filed an IRS complaint against Leo based on other filings showing that seven of his affiliated nonprofits had sent $73 million to his for-profit CRC Advisors."
Truthout also notes:
As Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) has noted, before the public learned of the existence of Marble Freedom Trust, Leo rose to prominence as a volunteer advising Trump by creating the list of Supreme Court candidates that Trump chose from, as well as by helping to secure the confirmation of three controversial high court nominees — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (and helped get numerous other lower court judges appointed). As True North documented, Leo's network played a central role in this right-wing court packing, raising over $600 million from 2014 through the 2020 election. This dark money network has received more than $2 billion when accounting for Marble.
Accountable President Kyle Herrig told Truthout he believes "Leonard Leo is playing fast and loose with his $1.6 billion slush fund, enriching himself and doling out paychecks and favors for his cronies," adding, "This kind of corruption is par for the course for Leo. It clearly pays to do his bidding."
READ MORE: Charities often move 'dark' money that shapes public policy: report
Herring said, "This is just the latest development in Leonard Leo's decades-long scheme to push his dangerous, extreme agenda and get rich while doing it. From personal enrichment for himself and his inner circle to his machine of nonprofits advancing the MAGA agenda, we’ve only scratched the surface of Leo’s devastating impact on our democracy." |
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gee another billionaire ultra partisan right winger, 48 richest in the world only... oh ya dems have sorros...
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Jeffrey S. Yass
| Quote: | Jeffrey S. Yass (born 1956) is an American billionaire business magnate . According to Forbes' list of the richest people in the world in 2023, Yass has a net worth of $28.5 billion, placing him as the 48th richest person in the world.[1]
He is the co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and an early investor in TikTok. In 2001, he joined the executive advisory council of the Cato Institute.
Yass is considered the richest man in the state of Pennsylvania. An influential political figure, he is one of the 10 largest political donors in the United States. [2]
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, he is a major supporter of the Israeli far-right.[3]
Early life
Yass grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Queens, New York.[4] He is the son of Gerald Yass, and his "childhood sweetheart" Sybil, who was at his bar mitzvah.[5][6] Gerald has a sister, Carole.[6] Gerald graduated with a BS from LIU Brooklyn in 1951, and worked as an accountant, rising to chairman of Datatab Inc, and later a co-founder of Philadelphia Trading, which became SIG.[6] As of 2018, he still works for SIG, as a senior executive and advisor.[6]
Jeffrey Yass was educated at public schools in Queens.[7] He earned a BS in mathematics and economics from Binghamton University.[8][9] He pursued graduate studies in economics at New York University,[9] but did not graduate.
Career
While at the State University of New York at Binghamton in the 1970s, Yass and five fellow students became friends and later co-founded Susquehanna International Group (SIG), the largest trader of liquid stocks in the US.[5][10]
The billionaire trader Israel Englander sponsored Yass for a seat on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and SIG was initially run from an office at the Exchange.[5] His father, Gerald Yass, also helped to found the company.[5] Prior to this, Yass was a professional gambler.[11]
Political activities
Yass became a member of the board of directors of the libertarian Cato Institute in 2002[12][13] and now is a member of the executive advisory council.[14] In 2015, Yass donated $2.3 million to a Super PAC supporting Rand Paul's presidential candidacy.[15] In 2018 he donated $3.8 million to the Club for Growth, and $20.7 million in 2020.[16]
Yass and his wife, Janine Coslett, are public supporters of school choice, with Coslett writing a 2017 opinion piece for The Washington Examiner in support of then-incoming Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's views at school choice.[17]
In November 2020, it was reported that Yass had donated $25.3 million, all to Republican candidates, and was one of the ten largest political donors in the US.[2]
In March 2021, an investigation in Haaretz said that Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik were behind a large portion of the donations to the Kohelet Policy Forum in Israel.[18][19]
In November 2021, he donated $5 million to the School Freedom Fund, a PAC that runs ads for Republican candidates running in the 2022 election cycle nationwide.[20]
In June 2022 ProPublica claimed Yass has "avoided $1 billion in taxes" and "pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers".[21] |
https://www.rawstory.com/miami-mayor-francis-suarez/
Miami mayor and GOP presidential hopeful partied with billionaire developer at Grand Prix race: report
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Miami mayor and GOP presidential hopeful Francis Suarez watched the Grand Prix race hosted by his city as the personal guest of Florida's wealthiest person.
The recently announced candidate attended the race as the guest of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, whose company has lobbyists registered with the city and is developing various projects in Miami, including the $1 billion Brickell tower. The pair watched from the Formula One Paddock Club, reported the Miami Herald.
Citadel spokesman Zia Ahmed told the newspaper that Griffin gave the mayor and his wife Gloria tickets to the club area, where the billionaire hedge funder hosted a private party for about 50 friends and which charges $14,000 per person for general admission.
Florida ethics laws prohibit elected officials from accepting expensive gifts from anyone with business before their city, and Ahmed followed up a week later and told the Herald that Suarez -- whose salary is $130,000 -- had “appropriately covered the cost” for himself and his wife at the event but refused to say when or how much the mayor paid.
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another right wing ultra partisan trust fund kid and gee we dems have a poor self made billionaire who give very little compared to the right wing billionaires...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rfk-jr-s-super-pac-is-mostly-funded-by-a-gop-megadonor-who-spent-millions-on-trump-and-bankrolled-an-effort-to-build-a-border-wall-in-texas/ar-AA1eBLTr?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=f6d9071a9e484836b0ff77f36c90ef08&ei=43
RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas
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A major super PAC backing RFK Jr's campaign is mostly funded by Timothy Mellon.
Mellon has given millions to GOP campaigns, including Trump, and bankrolled a border wall effort in Texas.
He's also described welfare as "slavery redux" and called Black people "belligerent."
If it wasn't clear already, long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some Republican fans — including some who are willing to spend millions backing his campaign.
According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, the majority of the $9.8 million raised by American Values 2024 — a super PAC backing Kennedy's campaign — came from Timothy Mellon, who gave $5 million to the group in April, days before Kennedy officially launched his campaign.
Who is RFK Jr.? Meet the controversial conspiracy theorist running against Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries
Who is RFK Jr.? Meet the controversial conspiracy theorist running against Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 69, is John F. Kennedy's nephew.
He is a lawyer known for promoting baseless anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Kennedy is challenging President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer who has promoted baseless public-health conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine misinformation, is running against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries.
Despite his fringe views, Kennedy's lineage as a member of one of America's most prominent political families has helped boost his bizarre claims about vaccines, COVID-19, and other public health issues.
Here's a closer look at Kennedy's family history and controversial statements. Kennedy's campaign did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Mellon cited Kennedy's "bipartisan support" in a statement to CNBC on his contribution to the super PAC.
"He's the one candidate who can unite the country and root out corruption [and] he's the one Democrat who can win in the general election," said Mellon.
In addition to Kennedy, Mellon has given handsomely to Republican candidates and campaigns in recent years.
$20 million in contributions to America First Action, a super PAC that supported former President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.
$45 million to Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
$30 million to Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Mellon also contributed $53 million to an effort led by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, effectively funding the entire venture himself.
The grandson of famous banking magnate Andrew Mellon and an heir to the family fortune, Mellon once wrote in a self-published autobiography that welfare programs are "slavery redux" and described Black people as becoming "even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations" in the 1980s.
The other major donor to the group was Gavin De Becker, a well-known security professional who recently defended Kennedy from accusations of anti-Semitism and racism after he speculated that COVID-19 had been genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. De Becker contributed $4.3 million to American Values 2024.
Super PACs can accept unlimited political contributions and are barred from officially coordinating with campaigns — though in recent years, that line has become increasingly blurred.
Recently polling has shown Kennedy trailing Biden, and his unfavorablility has risen among Democrats as he's endured greater media scrutiny. |
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the idiot in Florida just fired a elected prosecutor in floria calaiming she was funded by soros...
and today in Utah a hater inspired by trump and right wing funders was killed when he pointed a gun at an FBI agent after the FBI was there to arriest him for threats against alvin bragg months ago and now Biden when Biden was to be in Utah the next day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQtxvo256s
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/texas-fracking-billionaire-brothers-prageru-daily-wire
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
| Quote: | Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-fossil fuel projects
Peter Stone in Washington DC
Tue 5 Sep 2023 11.00 BST
Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an array of evangelical projects and conservative Texas politicians.
The fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks have each doled out millions of dollars through separate foundations over the last decade to a number of high-profile conservative and religious groups including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
“Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil.
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Farris Wilks and his wife control the Thirteen Foundation, while Dan Wilks and his wife lead the Heavenly Fathers Foundation, both of which have been funded with proceeds from the 2011 sale of their majority stake in Frac Tech Services for $3.2bn.
Since they created their foundations, six- and seven-figure checks from the Wilks brothers have bolstered numerous pro-fossil fuel and evangelical projects.
The Wilks brothers, for instance, have poured millions of dollars into PragerU and the Daily Wire, two rightwing media outlets that have promoted wide-ranging conservative agendas, including climate crisis denialism to school-age kids and adults via short videos, articles and other materials.
The two brothers have given at least $8m to PragerU, which is unaccredited, according to Texas financial records. In July, Florida approved the use of what PragerU has called its “edutainment” videos and other materials for use in its classrooms, and PragerU has said it is trying to get other states, including Texas, to do likewise.
In 2015, Farris Wilks gave $4.7m to help launch the Daily Wire and remains an owner of the media company, whose founding editor and co-owner Ben Shapiro has forged ties with Dennis Prager, the PragerU founder and talkshow host. Shapiro and Prager are slated to attend a PragerU “founders’ retreat” in September for donors who give at least $100,000 a year.
Historically, the two brothers have also backed a number of rightwing Texas Republicans including Senator Ted Cruz, whose abortive run for president in 2016 was bolstered by $15m they gave to a pro-Cruz Super Pac.
More recent tax reports from the two foundations underscore their deep pockets.
The Thirteen Foundation donated about $5m in 2021 and ended the year with close to $60m in assets. By contrast, the Heavenly Fathers Foundation gave away just under $11m in fiscal year 2022 and ended the year with about $187m in assets.
The evangelical ties of the Wilks brothers are deep and personal. Farris Wilks is a preacher in Cisco, Texas, a town of approximately 3,000 people, where he leads the Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day church, which was founded by his father and interprets the Bible literally while embracing Old and New Testament teachings.
The Wilks brothers epitomize the new strain of religious-right culture-warring that has taken hold of the GOP
Darren Dochuk
Farris Wilks has railed against homosexuality, which he deems a sin. According to recordings of his sermons, homosexuality is “a perversion tantamount to bestiality, pedophilia and incest”.
Farris Wilks also seems to equate the climate crisis with God’s will. “If [God] wants the polar caps to remain in place, then he will leave them there,” he said to worshippers at a 2013 service.
To promote his evangelical views, Farris Wilks and his brother have donated millions of dollars to several conservative Christian groups including Liberty Counsel, Heartbeat International and Family Talk.
Scholars who have studied the influence of big oil and the US right credit the Wilks brothers with playing a growing role in funding and shaping the conservative and evangelical right in Texas and nationally.
“The Wilks brothers epitomize the new strain of religious-right culture-warring that has taken hold of the GOP. Blending fierce allegiance to free-market economics with equally fierce commitment to social conservatism [and] anti-statist rage with Christian nationalist sentiments, they seek to draw the church itself (not just church folk) into battle for control of the country,” said Dochuk.
“What makes the Wilks’ strain of religious-right politics so potent and impactful is its striking range of priorities, including abortion, gay rights and the broader crusade for traditional family values. Significantly, the Wilks’ big checks are also aimed at influencing the politics of climate and environment, energy and extraction, to protect fossil fuel interests.”
To be sure, the Wilks brothers’ big checks have both long-term conservative ideological goals and short-term political ones.
In recent years in Texas, the Wilks brothers – often in tandem with another billionaire, the Texas fossil-fuel mogul Tim Dunn – have poured millions of dollars into nonprofits like Defend Texas Liberty and Empower Texans to push their ultraconservative social and political views.
Defend Texas Liberty, for instance, has donated about $3m to the state’s Lt Gov Dan Patrick, who will be the acting judge at the upcoming Texas senate trial of the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton, who in May was impeached by the Texas house on bribery, abuse of power and other charges.
The goal of the Wilks and those that share their ideology is to gain control of levers of power and control information
Chris Tackett
Patrick received a $2m loan and a $1m donation from Defend Texas Liberty Pac, according to recent Texas records.
The Pac is well-known for funding conservative challengers to Texas house GOP members and, in a recent campaign filing, reported receiving a $1.5m check from Farris Wilks and his wife and close to $2m dollars from Dunn.
Defend Texas Liberty has been blunt about its anger over Paxton’s impeachment.
“Defend Texas Liberty will ensure that every Republican voter in Texas knows just what a sham the Texas house has been this session and just how absurd this last minute Democrat led impeachment effort is,” the group said in a 26 May tweet.
Experts who follow the influence of the Wilks brothers say their sprawling agendas and big checks spark strong concerns.
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“Farris and Dan Wilks, who believe their billions were given to them by God, have spent the last decade working to advance a dominionist ideology by funding far-right organizations and politicians that seek to dismiss climate change as ‘God’s will’, remove choice, demonize the LGBTQ community, and tear down public education, all to turn America into a country that gives preference to and imposes their extreme beliefs on everyone,” said Chris Tackett, a Texas-based campaign finance analyst.
“The goal of [the] Wilks and those that share their ideology is to gain control of levers of power and control information. That’s why they invest heavily into politicians, agenda-driven non-profits and media organizations like PragerU and the Daily Wire. It is all connected.”
Dochuk voices similar concerns.
“The Wilks brothers aren’t the only ones with oil and gas ties to question climate change science from a position of self-interest; with so much invested in hydrocarbon society, their pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate-crisis science position only makes sense. Where the Wilks take things further, however, is their articulation of climate change denialism in theological terms, as if we are all destined by God for a future of environmental ruin we have no responsibility for and can’t control. The force of their advocacy, informing PragerU, the Daily Wire and other conservative media outlets, is what makes their influence so penetrating and paralyzing, and insidious.” |
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another right wing billionaire trump supporter wants to buy media and does not care if he makes just $1.00. oh and the liberas have soros.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/all-i-d-want-is-1-per-year-this-nyc-grocery-billionaire-wants-to-buy-cnn-saying-he-d-run-the-embattled-news-network-for-pennies-who-is-this-mogul-and-why-is-he-so-interested/ar-AA1gOaTl?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=5c185e80d9254e6090d84ffccd1db7d5&ei=6
'All I'd want is $1 per year': This NYC grocery billionaire wants to buy CNN, saying he'd run the embattled news network for pennies. Who is this mogul and why is he so interested?
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Another billionaire has added a media company to his wishlist: John Catsimatidis, the chairman and CEO of grocery chains Gristedes Foods and D'Agostino Supermarkets. He’s recently been telling news outlets he’d be willing to purchase CNN from Warner Bros. Discovery.
“I’d go run the place tomorrow morning, and all I’d want is $1 per year and a piece of the upside,” the grocery mogul told the New York Post.
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Catsimatidis’s comments come at a difficult time for the media outlet, which has faced declining viewership and turnover in the C-suite in recent years. On Aug. 30, CNN brought in Mark Thompson, former chief executive of the BBC and The New York Times, to replace former network head Chris Licht, who was let go in June after a brief one-year stint. Licht’s exit came shortly after the highly scrutinized Donald Trump town hall broadcast that some of the company’s most lauded reporters roundly criticized.
If given the opportunity, Catsimatidis says he could run CNN better than it had been.
Catsimatidis has big plans for CNN
In an interview with Fox Business, the Catsimatidis said he believed he could quadruple CNN’s viewership rapidly.
“CNN only has, what, 400,000 viewers every night?” he said. “I told them … I’ll have it up to two million in one year."
Catsimatidis also indicated that he’d be willing to consider joint ventures to finance the deal and that he could “double the profits” relatively quickly if given control.
His strategy would include making the content more bipartisan in an effort to broaden viewership — though his lack of television media experience and highly partisan views raise some doubts.
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Who is John Catsimatidis?
Born in Greece and raised in New York, Catsimatidis is an entrepreneur and radio show host. Besides grocery stores, his holdings include a real estate firm, an aviation company, an oil refinery and the Hellenic Times newspaper.
He also hosts The Cats Roundtable radio show. His radio station, WABC-AM 770, is ranked 11th in New York City based on Neilsen’s data.
Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.1 billion.
As for his political leanings, Catsimatidis was a registered Democrat who supported the Bill Clinton campaign until 2009. He later decided to run for mayor as a Republican and has been a prominent voice on the conservative side of the aisle ever since.
He supported Donald Trump during the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, but has recently said that he trusts the courts to legitimately adjudicate recent charges against the former president.
Is CNN even for sale?
Financial struggles in the media industry have ignited speculation about spin-offs and mergers. CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, has been sending mixed signals to financial observers. The company has laid off staff in an attempt to tackle its $50 billion debt burden.
CNN has seen primetime viewership decline, while annual profits slipped from $1.25 billion in 2021 to $750 million last year, according to The New York Times. Investment bankers believe the outlet could be sold for $5 billion to $6 billion if it’s ever put on the market, a source told the New York Post.
However, CNN’s parent company’s stock was up over 30% in the first half of 2023.
Warner Bros. Discovery, for its part, hasn’t given any sign it intends to sell the brand. |
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did he receive nuclear updates from pedophile trump...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/billionaire-home-depot-co-founder-bernard-marcus-backs-trump/ar-AA1jJowh?cvid=4c8b455f7d7b45d1ec16076806691096&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=6
Billionaire Home Depot Co-Founder Bernard Marcus Backs Trump
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(Bloomberg) -- Bernard Marcus, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot Inc. and a Republican megadonor, announced he’s backing Donald Trump for president, pointing to the likelihood that the GOP frontrunner will win the party’s nomination.
In his endorsement, published Thursday on the RealClearPolitics website, Marcus acknowledged that he and other donors have been frustrated by the former president’s behavior. He concluded that Trump, who is leading his nearest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, by more than 40 percentage points in many polls, will be the nominee.
The endorsement could bring a financial windfall for Trump. Marcus, along with his wife Billi Marcus, were the seventh most generous GOP donors in the 2020 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets. In the last presidential cycle, they gave $24.7 million, including $10.7 million to committees that supported Trump. In 2016, Marcus gave $7 million to super political action committees that backed Trump in his first run for the White House.
Earlier this year, Marcus, like many other prominent donors to Trump’s first two runs for the White House, backed one of his rivals. He gave $6,600 to former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s campaign in March.
Other prominent GOP donors have said they wouldn’t donate to Trump, including Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone Group Inc., cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder and Interactive Brokers Group Inc. founder Thomas Peterffy. |
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