Big Donors Help Republican Governors’ Group

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

The Republican Governors Association benefited from a number of sizable contributions from deep-pocketed individual and corporate donors over the last few months, driving a record $31 million fund-raising haul in the third quarter.

The donations, itemized in a 268-page report filed with the Internal Revenue Service, seemed to encapsulate the Republican Party’s success this year in collecting huge checks from conservative donors and corporations through third-party groups, thanks to a favorable political environment and the Supreme Court’s easing of restrictions on corporate political spending.

* * *
The checks fueling the Republican Governors Association in the third quarter included an additional $250,000 from Rupert Murdoch’s News America Inc., bringing its total contribution for the year to $1.25 million.

Other donations included $3.5 million from Bob J. Perry, the Texas builder who was a major financier of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004, for a year-to-date total of $4 million; $1 million from Sheldon G. Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul and prolific conservative donor; $1 million from Paul Singer, the hedge fund manager, who has contributed $2 million to the group this year.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/politics/17donate.html?_r=1&hp

---

Corporate Coup 2010! I guess freedom is not free, because we sold it to the highest bidder with the Citizens United decision.