Meet the 7 oligarchs bankrolling the GOP campaign (Reddit)

[applegrove]

by relevantlife at Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/3p4ge0/meet_the_7_oligarchs_bankrolling_the_gop_campaign/

"SNIP..............


A week or so ago, I saw this NYT article (which speaks about them all living in the same neighborhood) talking about how 150 or so billionaire families are donating way more money to political candidates than the rest of America.

The article, however, did not talk about who these people were.

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Jeffery Hildebrand is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Hillcorp Energy Company. He formerly worked for Exxon, and he is worth 4.5 billion dollars. He donated 50k to Romney's superPAC in 2012, 32k to the RNC in 2014 and has donated over 365k to Rick Perry.

John Nau is President and Chief Executive Officer of Silver Eagle Distributors, the largest distributor for Anheuser Busch. He is worth 1.5 billion dollars. In 2012 he gave 100k to the Texas Conservative Fund, in 2014 he donated 125k to Karl Rove's superPAC American Crossroads and in 2015 he has given 500k to Right to Rise, Jeb Bush's superPAC.



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[shenmue]

1. I have to pick a different beer

[applegrove]

2. Yup. All that oil money is skewing the country's debate on climate change. Remember oil is a

commodity that can exponentially and, by command of OPEC, rise in price. It all relies not on actual scarcity but dependence of users and a narrative of scarcity to go with it.

[cantbeserious]

3. Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen

eom

[irisblue]

4. hey, is that the rasp of pitchforks being sharpened?

[applegrove]

5. I always go back to the Occupy sign "I don't mind that you

are rich; I mind that you are buying my government".

[treestar]

6. Interesting

Never knew an oligarch to be actually identified.