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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election:



Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election

Chicago Magazine
The Billionaire Boys Club is flexing it's electoral political muscles again in Illinois. The Sun-Times reports that Citadel hedge-fund CEO Ken Griffinhas kicked in a tidy $2.5 million to fellow billionaireBruce Rauner's already bloated campaign fund. That includes $71,000 worth of in-kind contributions for the use of Griffin's private jet. It's reportedly the biggest single Illinois political donation ever — in the modern-day era — to a candidate for governor of Illinois. It's also the biggest ever from an individual other than the candidate himself  in the post-Watergate era when public disclosure records were first required, said one political scientist.

Griffin has also given more than $1 million to Karl Rove’s American CrossroadsSchooling in the Ownership Society: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election: