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There has been much debate of the powerful influence that money has over politicians in the US. Recently billionaire Republican Sheldon Adelson held an event at one of his hotels in Las Vegas where it was said that major Republican presidential hopefuls came and prostrated themselves before him in hopes of securing his blessings. Is Sheldon Adelson too powerful?
Here's an article
Dana Milbank: GOP candidates kiss up to billionaire Sheldon Adelson - The Washington Post
Boy I'm telling you, what people won't do to make it these days!!! :lamo
Here's an article
Dana Milbank: GOP candidates kiss up to billionaire Sheldon Adelson - The Washington Post
GOP candidates kiss up to billionaire Sheldon Adelson
When Sheldon Adelson, the world’s eighth-richest person, according to Forbes, let it be known that he was looking for a Republican candidate to back in the 2016 presidential race, these four men rushed to Las Vegas over the weekend to see if they could arrange a quickie marriage in Sin City between their political ambitions and Adelson’s $39.9 billion fortune.
Adelson was hosting the Republican Jewish Coalition at his Venetian hotel and gambling complex, and the would-be candidates paraded themselves before the group, hoping to catch the 80-year-old casino mogul’s eye. Everybody knows that, behind closed doors, politicians often sell themselves to the highest bidder; this time, they were doing it in public, as if vending their wares at a live auction.
As The Post’s Philip Rucker reported, Kasich, the Ohio governor, kept addressing his speech to “Sheldon,” as if he were having a private tete-a-tete with the mega-donor (Adelson and his wife spent more than $93 million on the 2012 elections) and not speaking to a roomful of people.
Walker, the Wisconsin governor, pandered unabashedly by giving the Hebrew meaning of his son Matthew’s name and by mentioning that he displays a menorah at home along with the Christmas tree. And Christie, the New Jersey governor, gushed about his trip to Israel and the “occupied territories.”
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Boy I'm telling you, what people won't do to make it these days!!! :lamo