Posted on 04/10/2015 7:55:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The two men share a passion for unbridled markets, concerns about the Internal Revenue Service and a skeptical view of climate change.
Now the two — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Robert Mercer, a Wall Street hedge-fund magnate — share another bond that could link them through November 2016: Both want to see Mr. Cruz elected president.
Mr. Mercer, a reclusive Long Islander who started at I.B.M. and made his fortune using computer patterns to outsmart the stock market, emerged this week as a key early bankroller of Mr. Cruz’s surprisingly fast campaign start. He is believed to be the main donor behind a network of four “super PACs” supporting Mr. Cruz that reported raising $31 million just a few weeks into his campaign.
The emergence of rich and relatively low-profile donors like Mr. Mercer could single-handedly jump-start a presidential campaign, said Trevor Potter, a campaign finance lawyer who served as a Republican member of the Federal Election Commission.
“It just takes a random billionaire to change a race and maybe change the country,” Mr. Potter said. “That’s what’s so radically different now.”
Mr. Mercer does not have the name recognition of fellow Republican financiers like the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson, but he has spent more than $15 million since 2012 in support of conservative political campaigns and causes, donating to a number of candidates who had never even met him. Both moderate Republican candidates and Democrats in states like Iowa, New York and Oregon have found themselves in the cross hairs of expensive attack ads that he financed....
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I’m expecting a long series of mainstream media reports telling the world that everything bad which has happened over the past 100 years is the fault of Robert Mercer.
Very interesting. I’m sure the next article will focus on the ultra wealthy backers of Hillary. I mean, we are fair, aren’t we?
Mercer is from New Mexico and learned computers first from his father in the *1950s*! He only rarely does anything in public.
Nice to see a pattern forming with major business folks showing they are fed up with an out-of-control Washington and radical communists screwing up America.
Thank You Mercer.
But all his tax returns will soon be inadvertently leaked by a computer glitch and he will be the subject of repeated line-by-line tax audits.
Nail-on-head
Harry Reid or Lois Lerner?
I’m just glad our Government isn’t for sale.
Between a couple Billionaire supporters and tons of grassroots supporters
Cruz should have all the money he needs to be competitive.
I like that.
That’s the name of the game.....unfortunately.
Foster Friess spoke of Ted Cruz in very glowing terms. He didn’t sound like he was ready to throw in just yet but Cruz would be a definite possibility.
Thank you, Mr. Mercer.
May God Bless you and your loved ones.
That’s big -— now he just needs Uncle Shelly.
If this guy’s middle initial is D. then I am getting a large roll of aluminum foil, a really big roll.
Thank you Mr. Mercer!
Leftist Option #2 -- Ted Cruz should not be taken seriously; he is bought and paid for by financial backers.
Lefists Option #3 -- There is no Leftist Option #3.
GOP fundraising shows ‘depths of their anger’
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/gop-fundraising-shows-depths-of-their-anger-426269251538
It’s not fair to say that the press won’t address Hillary’s rich backers- the reporters don’t speak Mandarin, so it’s hard to do research. /s
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