I’m positive that these mega donors for both Parties donate 10xs as much money to politicians then they do to charities, wouldn’t it be nice to see them flip and see what good that would do – PB/TK
Why Is This Mega-Donor Spending Millions To Defeat Tammy Baldwin? – By Josh Keefe / May 25 2017
Sixteen months before Wisconsin Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin will have a Republican opponent in the 2018 Senate race, more than a million dollars worth of TV and radio ads attacking her have already run across the state. The ads were paid for by two out-of-state super PACs funded almost entirely by one man: conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein, who seems to have made it a personal mission to defeat Baldwin in next year’s election.
The ads represent just a fraction of the millions of dollars Uihlein has spent on conservative causes and candidates. Uihlein is the founder of Uline, a distributor of shipping and industrial supplies, with offices across North America, and since 2010, a corporate headquarters in Wisconsin. Uihlein and his wife Elizabeth, UIine’s president, spent $23.5 million supporting conservative candidates, PACs, parties and organizations during the 2016 election cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The couple contributed more money than George Soros gave to liberal groups and nearly the same amount that Trump-backer Robert Mercer spent on last year’s election, according to the Center.
Uihlein did not respond to IBT questions or requests for comment.
The barrage of ads in Wisconsin — a quintessential swing state — suggests Republican donors are gearing up earlier than ever as they head into an election featuring ten Senate Democratic incumbents trying to win reeelection in states that voted for Trump.
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