Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Billionaire donor working against Elizabeth Warren








https://www.warren.senate.gov/














A right-wing Super PAC aimed at taking down Elizabeth Warren just got a powerful new megadonor: billionaire hedge fund tycoon Robert Mercer.


According to Politico, Mercer made his biggest political donation of 2017 so far to fund $150,000 worth of anti-Elizabeth Warren radio attack ads in Massachusetts. That’s a drop in the bucket for Mercer – in the 2016 election, he spent $25 million to help Donald Trump and other Republican candidates and Super PACs.


Politico wrote: “None of the gambits to go after incumbents is more pointed than the little-noticed launch of a big-money group earlier this year set up specifically to tarnish Warren.”


Mercer doesn’t just fund Republican campaigns – he’s built the right-wing conspiracy infrastructure to win. He’s invested millions of dollars in Breitbart News to prop up Steve Bannon’s racist, sexist, homophobic spin machine. And he’s invested millions in Cambridge Analytica, Bannon’s right-wing data company that helped elect Donald Trump.


Make no mistake: we’re up against Robert Mercer’s deep pockets and shady web of influence, and Elizabeth Warren is in for a tough fight in 2018.




























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