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CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 03:49 AM Jan 2022

More Than 50 Billionaires--Including A Couple Of Trump Supporters--Have Donated To Senator Sinema

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/12/07/more-than-50-billionaires-including-a-couple-of-trump-supporters-have-donated-to-senator-kyrsten-sinema/?sh=eacc7b63a4d8

Over the last five years Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has received contributions from more than 50 billionaire supporters, all but one of whom hail from outside of her home state of Arizona.

Since 2016, 59 billionaires and 6 spouses of billionaires have donated to Sinema’s campaign committees, or associated leadership and joint-fundraising committees, according to a review of Federal Election data. A dozen billionaires call Arizona home, but only one of them has donated to Sinema. Ernest Garcia II, the largest shareholder of online used car seller Carvana, donated $11,200 with his wife, Joanne, in 2017 and 2021.

One third of Sinema’s billionaire supporters live in California, and another third reside in New York. Among them: Crypto kings Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Gap heir Robert Fisher and Intuit founder Scott Cook. About one third also come from the financial industry.

Unsurprisingly, Sinema, who served in the House before winning a Senate seat in 2018, received most of her billionaires’ donations in the run-up to the Senate election. But in 2021, she attracted support from SC Johnson CEO H. Fisk Johnson, Hyatt heiress Gigi Pritzker and film producer Thomas Tull. Some GOP donors, like Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and hedge fund titan Louis Bacon, have also showed some support.

About two thirds of Sinema’s donors gave to Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election. Two gave to Donald Trump’s campaign in 2020: Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan and Hubbard Broadcasting CEO Stanley Hubbard.


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More Than 50 Billionaires--Including A Couple Of Trump Supporters--Have Donated To Senator Sinema (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2022 OP
Am I understanding this correctly? ChazII Jan 2022 #1
Yup... 2naSalit Jan 2022 #2
It was inevitable that big money would eventually take their power back. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2022 #3

ChazII

(6,198 posts)
1. Am I understanding this correctly?
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 04:11 AM
Jan 2022

Her seat was bought (paid for?) by billionare supporters from outside of Arizona?

BlueTsunami2018

(3,461 posts)
3. It was inevitable that big money would eventually take their power back.
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 06:49 AM
Jan 2022

It’s a hard pill to swallow but it was always going to end this way. It’s the way it started out. Only rich, landowning white men were allowed to vote at first and they’ve done everything they could to maintain that. There was a brief period when the People were winning but that didn’t last long and now we’re back to where it’s “supposed” to be. We’ve never been a democracy and we certainly never will be now. The bad guys won. They wanted it more.

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