Gingrich getting $20 million (via PAC) from billionaire casino owner

[economics102]

hxxp://www. politico.com/news/stories/1211/70501.html

The money is apparently going to be used to buy airtime in Iowa

[HOLLYWOOD]

That's how the matrix is controlled



http://images.politico.com/global/2011/12/111215_sheldon_adelson_ap_328.jpg

[bluesc]

Gonna be hard to compete with that in NH, SC and Super Tuesday.

[pauladin]

not even $20 million can stop newt's collapse which also already started. perry made $17 million the first quarter he was in the race. look where he is now. fighting for 4th in iowa.

[muh_roads]

Where are the wealthy libertarians to help out Revolution PAC? I've heard the Koch Bros. are "libertarians"...what a farce.

[bluesc]

Where are the wealthy libertarians to help out Revolution PAC?

Building an artificial island.

[LibertyEsq]

Building an artificial island.

too true. sigh...

[FrankRep]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Sheldon_Adelson_21_June_2010.jpg/220px-Sheldon_Adelson_21_June_2010.jpg


Wikipedia: Sheldon Adelson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#Awards_and_honors)


Awards and honors

Along with his wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_Awards) for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars) of the Smithsonian Institution on March 25, 2008.[30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#cite_note-29)]

[Krugerrand]

That PAC will be able to buy a lot of Gingrich's books when he drops out of the race.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

More interesting background threads for above, mostly from same wikipedia article.

Sheldon Adelson: ‘Crazy Jewish Billionaire’
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/06/25/sheldon-adelson-crazy-jewish-billionaire/

The original source of Adelson's wealth and current investments was the computer trade show COMDEX, which he and his partners developed for the computer industry; the first show was in 1979. It was the premier computer trade show through much of the 1980s and 1990s.[4]

In 1988, Adelson and his partners purchased the Sands Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, the former hangout of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, in order to bring Las Vegas to a new phase of business through the exhibition industry. The following year, Adelson and his partners constructed the Sands Expo and Convention Center, then the only privately owned and operated convention center in the United States.

weak: The first DEF CON was held at the Sands Hotel & Casino in June 1993.

In 2007, Adelson made an unsuccessful bid to purchase the Israeli newspaper Maariv. When this failed, he proceeded with parallel plans to publish a free daily newspaper to compete with Israeli, a newspaper he had co-founded in 2006 but had left.[9] The first edition of the new newspaper, Israel HaYom, was published on July 30, 2007.

Adelson donated over $25 million to the M.I.S. Hebrew Academy in Las Vegas to build a high school. In 2005, Adelson and his wife contributed $250,000 each (thus the total contribution from the couple was $500,000) to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.[12][13][14] In 2006 Adelson contributed $25 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.[15] Since 2007 the Adelson Family Foundation has made contributions totalling $100 million to Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish youth trips to Israel.

In 2010, Adelson donated $1,000,000 to Newt Gingrich's organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future.[19]

Chinese lobbying: During the Suen trial Bill Weidner, the president of Adelson's Las Vegas Sands company, testified about a telephone conversation between Adelson and his friend then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay(R) about a bill proposed by Representative Tom Lantos(D) that would have prevented the US Olympic Committee from voting in favor of the Chinese bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. A few hours later DeLay called back and told Adelson he could tell the mayor of Beijing "this bill will never see the light of day." The resolution did not pass. Adelson testified in court that the demise of the resolution "...resulted from the press of other legislation, (not from) a deliberate move by DeLay to help his benefactor.[5]

Accusations of corruption (and libel suits): Adelson successfully sued the Daily Mail of London for libel in 2008. The newspaper had accused him of pursuing "despicable business practices" and having "habitually and corruptly bought political favour." In 2011, the Israeli press said that Adelson was unhappy with coverage of him on Israeli Channel Ten, alleging that Adelson had acquired a casino license in Las Vegas inappropriately through political connections.

[Bruno]

That PAC will be able to buy a lot of Gingrich's books when he drops out of the race.

"You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later."

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

Here's the key piece of information from first article linked above:

As Adelson began to focus on the 2008 Presidential election, he apparently decided that his recent megabillionaire status would allow him to play a more prominent role than he had in the past. In early 2007, at a meeting in Florida of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Adelson and many of his allies resolved to create Freedom’s Watch. As a nonprofit 501(C)(4), the organization can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from wealthy individuals without any disclosure…

Some conservatives have heralded Adelson as their answer to George Soros, the financier who has donated large sums to the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, and there were press reports that Adelson might spend two hundred million dollars on the 2008 elections. Last summer, Freedom’s Watch spent fifteen million dollars on a nationwide ad campaign supporting the troop surge in Iraq, and in the fall it held a conference on radical Islam and Iran. But then Freedom’s Watch seemed to recede, and, in April, articles in Mother Jones and the Times suggested that the organization had been so plagued by infighting, and by micromanaging on the part of its prime benefactor, Adelson—who since its inception had reportedly contributed some thirty million dollars—that it might not be a player in this fall’s elections, after all…In late April, however, Freedom’s Watch reappeared, running ads against Democrats in special elections…
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That connects Newt Gingrich's secret backer, (was backing him before the election race see above), with the recent slanders against Ron Paul from the Republican Jewish Coalition, and makes Newt Gingrich's campaign dirty. This ought to be firmed up more and shipped out.

I've been researching different topics all day, else I'd do it myself - tired.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

Adelson has long preferred a low profile in many of his political activities. But one of his maneuvers did appear in the press. He has been a generous donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the dominant lobby of American Jewry regarding U.S. policy toward Israel. Since the nineties, Adelson has helped underwrite many congressional trips to Israel, sponsored by an AIPAC educational affiliate. (Adelson pays only for Republican members.)

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_bruck/?printable=true#ixzz1gdxcQTEh

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This could potentially get him in trouble with the law depending.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

n July, 2001, Adelson met with a Vice-Premier of China, Qian Qichen, in the historic Purple Light Pavilion, in Zhongnanhai, where foreign dignitaries are often received. Adelson was impressed, recalling later in trial testimony that it was “a very regal looking environment.” He was accompanied by Bill Weidner, the president of his company, Las Vegas Sands, and Richard Suen, a Hong Kong businessman with connections to top Chinese officials, who was a friend of Adelson’s brother Lenny. Suen had helped arrange the meeting, after asking Adelson the previous summer whether he might be interested in obtaining a gaming license in Macao. According to Suen, Adelson told him that such a license would be like getting “the brass ring,” and described himself as “a man with a grand vision and a big pair of brass monkeys,” who “would like to leave a visible footprint in history.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_bruck/?printable=true#ixzz1gdyMyAxk

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pair of brass monkeys. uhm.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

“Smith deceptively manipulates language, quotations, and sources in order to concoct the smear that Adelson had dealings with the Boston Mob when Adelson was in the vending machine business. Smith’s claims are baseless,” the lawsuit said. “Adelson, a pillar of the community known for his philanthropic endeavors, is not, and has never been affiliated with organized crime.” Last October, on the eve of trial, Smith filed for bankruptcy, which caused the case to be stayed. (Barricade Books also filed for bankruptcy; Lyle Stuart died last year.)

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_bruck/?printable=true#ixzz1ge23WINg

There's a lot of allegations like that that have gone around. Adelson sues each time. "The editor of the Review-Journal, Thomas Mitchell, pointing to litigation against both the Sun and Smith, said of Adelson, “This whole series of events is nothing more nor less than trying to coerce everyone in journalism to not write anything he doesn’t like.”

[damiengwa]

Wait, where's our billionaire? Cant we get Peter Thiel or something on this?

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

"The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee seems to be taking Freedom’s Watch seriously. Last month, in special elections for congressional seats in Louisiana and Mississippi, the D.C.C.C. aired ads on Christian radio stations which linked the Republican candidates with Sheldon Adelson. In Mississippi, one ad asked why the Republican candidate Greg Davis was accepting support from “the world’s No. 1 casino czar and one of atheist China’s top American business partners.” It referred to Adelson’s Macao enterprises as investments “in a country that steals our jobs, persecutes Christians, uses forced labor, and forces women to have abortions.” The Democrats won in both contests."

Interesting previous campain ads, but I think a slightly different (but not much) tact should be used, considering a religious smear has already been released by apparently the same guy who is funding Newt Gingrich and represents "all jewish interests", according to himself.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

Bump.

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

"In September, Channel 10 faced turmoil when a piece aired by the news outlet concerning American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and owner of the Israeli daily Israel Hayom, reportedly angered the billionaire. Adelson's demand that the news channel apologize for the piece led to the resignations of three top Channel 10 officials. "

12/12/11
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-s-channel-10-faces-closure-after-knesset-rejects-delay-of-debt-repayment-1.400979

Was looking up background of James Kirchick, who works for this newpaper, when I noticed some more information and a possible video on Adelson here.

Edit: Additional story.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=237558

[opinionatedfool]

We need to take make sure his negative momentum continues.

The guy is such a dirty politician it makes me sick!