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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions
A new coalition of wealthy conservative benefactors that says it aims to disrupt but advance the Republican agenda gathered this week for a private summit in South Florida that included closed-door addresses from former President Donald Trump and an allied Senate candidate at Trumps Merde-a-Lago club, according to documents and interviews.
The coalition, called the Rockbridge Network, includes some of Trumps biggest donors, such as Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer, and has laid out an ambitious goal to reshape the American right by spending more than $30 million on conservative media, legal, policy and voter registration projects, among other initiatives.
The emergence of Rockbridge, the existence of which has not previously been reported, comes amid escalating jockeying among conservative megadonors to shape the 2022 midterms and the future of the Republican Party from outside the formal party machinery, and often with little disclosure.
In February, another previously unreported coalition of donors, the Chestnut Street Council, organized by Trump-allied lobbyist Matt Schlapp, held a meeting to hear a pitch for new models for funding the conservative movement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dissatisfied-party-wealthy-republican-donors-120529759.html
More secretive than they already are?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)power of the liberal media.
Oh wait, never mind.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)... and secure themselves as this country's oligarchs with Trump as their Putin.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)I mean, Andrew Carnegie was still alive when it happened, am I right?
It's more like ... "A Secret Ultra-Wealthy Coalition Got Together and Formed the Republican Party," not the other way around.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)As the danger they are to democracy they are.
A merchant has no loyalty beyond his pockets.