Frank Rich has a MUST-READ piece
in New York Magazine titled Sugar Daddies and subtitled The old, white, rich men who are buying this election.
I am at school, and limited in crafting excerpts to make that clear to you. Here's one paragraph where he defines the universe about which he is writing (and his original is full of hyperlinks that I am not going to include):
I am at school, and limited in crafting excerpts to make that clear to you. Here's one paragraph where he defines the universe about which he is writing (and his original is full of hyperlinks that I am not going to include):
Sugar daddies—whom I’ll define here as private donors or their privately held companies writing checks totaling $1 million or more (sometimes much more) in this election cycle—are largely a Republican phenomenon, most of them one degree of separation from Karl Rove and his unofficial partners in erecting a moneyed shadow GOP, David and Charles Koch. At last look, there were 25 known sugar daddies on the right (or more, if you want to count separately the spouses and children who pitch in). You’ve likely heard of Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas tycoon who is Benjamin Netanyahu’s unofficial ambassador to the GOP. But you may be less familiar with Irving Moskowitz, the bingo entrepreneur who funnels his profits into East Jerusalem settlements. Or Robert Mercer, the hedge-fund master of “flash trading” who poured a clandestine $1 million into ads attacking the “ground-zero mosque” and nearly another $3 million into a scale-model railroad in his Long Island mansion. Or Steven Lund, the co-founder of Nu Skin, which became “direct selling” sponsor of the Romney-run 2002 Winter Olympics after having spent much of the nineties settling complaints over false advertising and other unscrupulous practices with the Federal Trade Commission and six different states’ attorneys general.Please keep reading
