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    The man behind Newt Gingrich

    There was a very long article in the New Yorker about the man who has been funding Newt Gingrich. He's the third richest man in America, and is essentially the George Soros of the Republicans, although unlike Soros, you have probably never heard his name.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all

    Adelson has long preferred a low profile in many of his political activities.
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    Last October, Sheldon Adelson, the gaming multibillionaire, accompanied a group of Republican donors to the White House to meet with George W. Bush.
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    Adelson, who is seventy-four, owns two of Las Vegas’s giant casino resorts, the Venetian and the Palazzo, and is the third-richest person in the United States, according to Forbes. He is fiercely opposed to a two-state solution; and he had contributed so generously to Bush’s reëlection campaign that he qualified as a Bush Pioneer.
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    in March, 2007, Adelson said that many members of Congress criticize China for its human-rights record, but he added that he liked the way the Chinese run their country.
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    In July, 2001, after arriving in Beijing, Adelson and Weidner saw Olympic banners flying along the streets. They soon learned that the country was waiting to find out whether it would be selected as the site for the 2008 Summer Games. In addition to seeing the Vice-Premier, Adelson and Weidner met with the mayor of Beijing, who asked Adelson for help with a matter pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he believed was threatening China’s chance to host the Olympics.
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    Adelson said in court that he immediately made calls on his cell phone to Republican friends in Congress—including Tom DeLay, then the majority whip—who had received generous support from Adelson. DeLay told him that there was indeed a resolution pending about China and the Olympics.
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    Weidner, in his deposition, described the relationship between DeLay—“a very religious guy”—and Adelson. “The link between Sheldon Adelson and right-wing religious Christians is the commonality of a strong Israel,” he said. “So it just happens to be Sheldon has taken Tom DeLay to Israel and he’s a friend.” DeLay told Adelson that he supported the resolution because of his concern about China’s record on human rights but added that he would be discussing the legislative agenda shortly. “Sheldon folds his cell phone up and says to the mayor of Beijing, ‘I’m going to do my best,’ ” Weidner said. “About three hours later DeLay calls and he tells Sheldon, ‘You’re in luck,’ ” he continued, “ ‘because we’ve got a military-spending bill. . . . We’re not going to be able to move the bill, so you tell your mayor that he can be assured that this bill will never see the light of day.’ So Sheldon goes and he goes to the mayor and he says, ‘The bill will never see the light of day, Mr. Mayor. Don’t worry about it.’ ”
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    Adelson, like other members of his family, had been a Democrat. But, as his wealth grew, he began to favor tax-averse Republican economic policies.
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    Adelson, who was being honored that evening, told the audience about the time he had spent with William Bush, the brother of George H. W. Bush, during the 1988 election. “He explained to me what Republicanism was all about . . . so I got to learn about it and I switched immediately!” Adelson said.
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    Testifying before the Nevada state ethics commission in 1998, Shelley Berkley, who is now a Democratic congresswoman for Nevada, and who had worked for Adelson in the nineties as his vice-president of legal and governmental affairs, said that Adelson had told her that “old Democrats were with the union and he wanted to break the back of the union, consequently he had to break the back of the Democrats.” Adelson fired Berkley in 1997, just months before she planned to begin a run for her first term in Congress. In a September, 1998, letter to the Review-Journal, Adelson wrote, “She violated attorney/client privilege and after two warnings, I decided to fire her. . . . Shelley Berkley attacks me in order to draw attention away from her own ethical lapses.” Berkley published a letter in the paper a week later, in response, and she explained her firing differently. “My relationship with him began to sour the moment I urged him to hold jobs open at the Venetian for former Sands workers. The more I encouraged cooperation with the workers, the more I incurred Mr. Adelson’s wrath,” Berkley wrote. “Over time, I observed Mr. Adelson plot vendettas against anyone whom he believed stood in his way. However minuscule the perceived affront, he was certain to go ballistic, using his money and position to bully any ‘opponent’—great or small—into submission. . . . He has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican Party to support his handpicked candidate by attacking me on TV.”

    She went on, “I have unique personal knowledge of how Mr. Adelson seeks to dominate politics and public policy through the raw power of money. Shortly before I was fired from the Sands by Mr. Adelson in 1997, he made me an offer. It was a bizarre proposition, but it was simple and it was direct. He told me if I would switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party he would provide all the campaign funding I would need to run for Congress.” Berkley won her first race by only three percentage points. In 2006, she won a fifth term with sixty-five per cent of the vote, and today is a popular representative with a seemingly safe district; but Adelson has continued to try to defeat her.
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    By the mid-nineties, Adelson and Netanyahu had formed a close relationship; in Israel’s 1996 election, in which Netanyahu defeated the Labor candidate for Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, by a mere thirty thousand votes, Adelson was widely reported to be a key backer.
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    The Adelsons seem not to take their power for granted. Recently, Miriam told an associate, “I had a CD on Islamic jihad. I brought it to the White House and told the chief of staff, ‘I would like the President to see this.’ It really is amazing that we have this influence.” (The White House declined to comment.) Last December, Bush named Adelson to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to the U.S. Trade Representative.
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    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, if it can argue that it is promoting an issue, not a candidate.
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    Now that is an interesting read....
    "Self conquest is the greatest of all victories." - Plato

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    I can't really see the man behind Newt Gingrich. It seems like a good place to hide.

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    How many SuperPACs are associated with Gingrich? It appears that "Winning Our Future" replaced "American Solutions for Winning the Future", so that would make three active Gingrich SuperPACs identified in this article.

    Winning Our Future, American Solutions for Winning the Future, Solutions 2012, Spirit of America Solutions?

    Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has discussed directing $20 million to an outside group backing Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign, multiple sources told POLITICO – a good sign for allies who have been pushing the former speaker’s longtime billionaire supporters to sign on.
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    “I’ve made no commitment to anybody. Now, doesn’t mean I won’t in the future, but up ‘til now, no commitment has been made and no amount has been stated,” he said, refusing to answer questions about whether he’d met with representatives of the super PACs supporting Gingrich.

    “I’m not telling you who I talked to,” he said, explaining that he “would prefer to stay under the radar,” despite his high-profile in the business world. “But when it comes to political issues, or my personal issues or my philanthropic issues, I only allow anything to be done, I never talk about what I’m going to do to anybody. All I just do is do.”

    After leaving Congress, Gingrich cultivated a network of a few dozen uber-wealthy backers who poured tens of millions of dollars into a network of groups that helped him maintain a foothold in politics. Now, operatives supporting his presidential campaign are asking those same donors to write fat checks to a suite of new super PACs they hope can spend big on ads to offset Gingrich campaign fundraising that had lagged behind his rivals’.

    Adelson is considered the prized get for pro-Gingrich groups.

    Many major donors prefer to keep their activity low-profile, though federal rules require super PACs to disclose their donors in the coming weeks.

    Sources with direct knowledge of the $20 million figure, who requested anonymity, told POLITICO that Adelson planned to cut a check to one of the PACs as soon as this week.
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    That changed as Gingrich’s campaign started surging last month, prompting his allies to create new outside groups known as super PACs that can accept unlimited funds to air ads supporting him.

    Perhaps the leading player in the pro-Gingrich super PAC space, Winning Our Future, was unveiled this week and is being headed by Becky Burkett, who was the lead fundraiser for Gingrich’s main political vehicle over the past few years, the fundraising juggernaut American Solutions for Winning the Future.

    That group raised $54 million — including $7.7 million from Adelson — between its late 2006 creation and its collapse this year after Gingrich left it to run for president, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.

    On Tuesday, Burkett declined to detail her relationship with Adelson, telling POLITICO, “I certainly know him through American Solutions,” but added, “I have not spoken to him” about Winning Our Future.

    Charlie Smith, who runs another new pro-Gingrich super PAC called Solutions 2012, said the group’s fundraiser, Jerry Seppala, “does have a relationship with Sheldon,” but stressed he “won’t comment on our contacts with any specific donor or whether anyone particular person has given.”

    And Craig Bachler, an official at a third super PAC called Spirit of America Solutions that is generally supportive of — but does not intend to endorse — Gingrich, also declined to discuss Adelson specifically. But he did add suggestively that his group got “a major commitment out of Nevada that the individual is big into donating money to Newt and I think is sharing the wealth with not just one PAC.”

    While Burkett’s group is expected to emerge as the biggest pro-Gingrich super PAC, it’s unclear to which super PAC Adelson made the $20 million planned commitment, or how much money he intended to give directly versus raise through his network.

    But a former official at one of Gingrich’s groups who is not involved in the presidential campaign or super PACs said that if Adelson “does end up giving big, he could really make a significant impact on this election.”

    Asked why he wants Gingrich to be elected president, Adelson used a culinary analogy, asking POLITICO “Why do you want to have a steak for dinner? … Steak tastes good. OK, well who would be good for the country? That’s why I want him to be president.”
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    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70501.html
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    The man behind Newt Gingrich is also pumping up Santorum.
    Last edited by The One; 01-22-2012 at 01:40 PM.

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    Winning Our Future PAC is currently running a national ad buy advertising Gingrich :30 second ads on radio stations that carry a barter agreement to run the Dow Jones Money Report, the Barron's Report, and the Wall Street Journal Radio Report. These are all distributed by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network.

    Is this Adelson's PAC?

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    I heard a newt radio ad here in maryland the other day.I cringed and almost crashed.

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    This Adelman guy is associated with AIPAC, correct?

    He's the one that handed Swingrich $5 million...

    Here's a more mundane article about him:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson
    Last edited by wgadget; 01-22-2012 at 01:43 PM.



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    Michael Savage was speculating recently that the reason Adelson is supporting Gingrich is because he felt his gaming empire might be threatened by the Mormon Mitt Romney.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ2 View Post
    Michael Savage was speculating recently that the reason Adelson is supporting Gingrich is because he felt his gaming empire might be threatened by the Mormon Mitt Romney.
    It is about the gaming and his fear that Israel won't be supported by Mitt on the level he wishes. He is just a misguided globablist. Sometimes I think we should take down the reputations of big donors, it might make them think twice for trying to influence the vote of the people beyond reason.

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    Boycott their enterprises, withdraw our consent to their actions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by undergroundrr View Post
    Winning Our Future PAC is currently running a national ad buy advertising Gingrich :30 second ads on radio stations that carry a barter agreement to run the Dow Jones Money Report, the Barron's Report, and the Wall Street Journal Radio Report. These are all distributed by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network.

    Is this Adelson's PAC?
    Short answer: yes. He donated $7.7 million to it's predecessor, so no doubt he is also involved in that new one. The exact dollar figure is not reported yet, but you can be sure that he has input (and some control) when he gives millions.
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    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ2 View Post
    Michael Savage was speculating recently that the reason Adelson is supporting Gingrich is because he felt his gaming empire might be threatened by the Mormon Mitt Romney.
    Diversion.
    "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
    "Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
    "Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by MelissaWV View Post
    I can't really see the man behind Newt Gingrich. It seems like a good place to hide.
    Lmao.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ2 View Post
    Michael Savage was speculating recently that the reason Adelson is supporting Gingrich is because he felt his gaming empire might be threatened by the Mormon Mitt Romney.
    Makes sense to me. Adelson built his empire on Vice. Romney, in his private life no matter what my political opinion of him is, is pretty damn Virtuous.

    I am sure a large part of it is the Gingrich probably sucks up to the guy too, and what billionaire doesn't want a potential president candidate in his hip pocket.
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    Okay, admittedly, I committed above before I read the whole article as I know what business Mr. Adelson is in (gaming/gambling).

    It took me about 40 minutes to really read that entire article (it is a doozy). That man is absolutely terrifying.
    "Your mother's dead, before long I'll be dead, and you...and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us..rotting in the ground. It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor, but family." - Tywin Lannister




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    Quote Originally Posted by Cowlesy View Post
    Okay, admittedly, I committed above before I read the whole article as I know what business Mr. Adelson is in (gaming/gambling).

    It took me about 40 minutes to really read that entire article (it is a doozy). That man is absolutely terrifying.
    Cliffnotes?

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    The real answer is to end the superpacs. Nothing short of that will end these messes.

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    Does Gingrich have a ticker up somewhere? Be intersting to see his donors for this:
    http://sm.responsebeacon.com/track?t...om/viewbrowser

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Xar View Post
    Cliffnotes?
    He basically engineered the return of Netanyahu, built the largest newspaper in Israel in a matter of years to be used as pro-Bibi propaganda, while getting all the other Israeli media to shut up about him. He likes suing any newspaper in the world that dares to seriously criticize him. Adelson pulls lots of money in for the GOP and AIPAC. He also has established deep ties with the establishment of the Christian right. One of his big victories was building a large gambling presence in Macau by cultivating friendly ties with high-level officials in the Chinese government. The man has been a big funder of the Republican Jewish Coalition as well (the guy who wouldn't Ron Paul in their debate).

    In addition I am noticing some insanely interesting correlations. This article someone else posted mentions Gingrich's ties to a Ben Waldman who is again tied up with the Republican Jewish Coalition and mentions Gingrich's ties with a group Waldman funded that arose from a trip Gingrich and his then-wife Marianne took that was organized by AIPAC. The crazy thing is the New Yorker article mentions Adelson often underwriting those same AIPAC-organized trips to Israel.

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    Haha! The 1% Supporting Newt Gingrich this needs to spread!

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    Watch this 30 second clip of the grinch explaining his support from Adelson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The One View Post
    The man behind Newt Gingrich is also pumping up Santorum.
    Worst visual image ever!
    Been a long time....

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    I've been hearing gingrich ads(PAC) on central texas radio, talk radio, music, news, sports, everything.
    No one reads signatures.

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    Thanks for posting this info. Fact is, Newt's got the most $$$powerfull$$$ individual Israeli lobbyist supporting him.

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    Same Billionaire's Boys club of globalists, my god these titans are playing us all like a bunch of ants.

    Billionaire Wyoming investor backs Santorum 'super' PAC
    http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/16/419...tor-backs.html
    Santorum will be in it for the long haul... George Carlin was so correct, it's Big Private Club but You and I aren't in it.

    Wyoming Billionaire Pledges a Half-Million-Dollar Matching Contribution to Santorum ‘Super PAC’

    more here on Santorum's Billionaire activist and getting the billionaire boys club to match HIS donation amounts. No wonder loser Santorum raised $3 million in one week.
    http://www.nationofchange.org/topics.../foster-friess

    Longtime Supporter's Super PAC Throws $5M Into Newt's Struggling Campaign
    http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madr...er-pac-throws-

    By Susie Madrak


    I have to laugh at the fact that the CEO of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas is, like any compulsive gambler, betting on the long shot that Newt Gingrich can win the Republican nomination. Sheldon, don't you know the house always wins? It appears that the house, in this case, is Karl Rove -- and he's backing Mittens:
    MANCHESTER, N.H. — As candidates spent the weekend trying to catch up to Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, with the primary just two days away, a longtime supporter of Newt Gingrich donated $5 million to a “super PAC” backing his presidential bid, providing a major boost to Mr. Gingrich’s ailing campaign.
    The donation by Sheldon Adelson was reported Saturday night by The Washington Post. He has long been a generous patron of Mr. Gingrich’s political career. The super PAC, Winning Our Future, was formed last month by Becky Burkett, who served until earlier last year as chief development officer for American Solutions, a political action committee that Mr. Gingrich founded. The cash infusion from Mr. Adelson instantly catapults Winning Our Future into the top ranks of candidate super PACs, groups that can raise unlimited amounts of money from donors and spend it all on advertisements and other efforts to back a specific candidate, so long as they do not coordinate with the campaign.
    Ms. Burkett declined to comment on the donation on Saturday.
    Sheldon just loves Newt:
    Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson was the biggest funder of American Solutions, contributing $7.65 million and rumored to have committed $20 million to a pro-Gingrich super PAC, a report denied by an Adelson spokesperson. Whether the report is true or not, the facts increasingly show that the billionaire casino magnate is a central figure in Newt Gingrich’s political career.
    Sands Corporation CEO Sheldon Adelson is based in Las Vegas but has business and political interests in Macau, China and Israel. In Israel, Adelson’s importance stems from his close friendship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ownership of Israel HaYom, a free daily newspaper which supports Netanyahu’s Likud party. Back in the U.S., Adelson sits on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition and is outspoken about his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


    During the George W. Bush presidency, Adelson opposed efforts to jump start peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians and even took sides against the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) when the organization supported peace talks. “I don’t continue to support organizations that help friends committing suicide just because they say they want to jump,” Adelson told the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

    Gingrich, who characterized Palestinians as “terrorists” during a December 10th GOP debate and told the Jewish Channel that Palestians are an “invented” people, would seem to be mirroring the hardline positions taken by his early, and cash flush, benefactor.



    Quote Originally Posted by nbruno322 View Post
    Watch this 30 second clip of the grinch explaining his support from Adelson.

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    Spread this article far and wide!

    This goes beyond Ron Paul. Everyone should be very aware of this.

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    Hmmm...thanks for the read. I was wondering what deep pockets Gingrich had behind him. I have been hearing his commercials which started a little over a week ago here in Ohio and they run back to back almost all day long during the neo-con hours of the local talk radio (which is about 75% of the programming).
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    in March, 2007, Adelson said that many members of Congress criticize China for its human-rights record, but he added that he liked the way the Chinese run their country.


    Of course he does. An authoritarian scumbag now supporting a traitor and scumbag. Like two peas in a pod.

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