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Sheldon Adelson-Owned Las Vegas Newspaper Endorses Rubio
NBC ^ | Feb 5 2016 | NBC

Posted on 02/06/2016 9:31:58 AM PST by WilliamIII

The Las Vegas Review-Journal endorsed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination Friday, saying their reasons for the endorsement are "many."

The conservative-leaning newspaper was recently bought by casino mogul and Las Vegas resident Sheldon Adelson who is also a prolific donor of Republican candidates and pro-Israel causes. His $140 million purchase of the paper was well-above market value and made in secret. It took weeks before Adelson was identified as the owner.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; cheaplaborlobby; illegals; rubio

1 posted on 02/06/2016 9:31:58 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

It’s amazing how influential the GOPe is.


2 posted on 02/06/2016 9:38:22 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

And the Sulzberger owned NY Times endorsed Hillary. Big deal. Cracks me up how the left is desperate to find an enemy to direct their hatred against. The learn that in commie school.


3 posted on 02/06/2016 9:43:09 AM PST by grayhog
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To: WilliamIII

Notice it’s never “Jeff Bezos owned - lefting leaning- Washington Post endorses Hillary Clinton”

“George Soros funded - Comcast owned and leftist leaning NBC endorses Hillary Clinton?”

Virtue signaling.


4 posted on 02/06/2016 9:45:55 AM PST by Skywise
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To: WilliamIII; All

Rubio is all about the BIG OPEN BORDER $$$!

See: Marco Rubio..OWNED by illegal alien lobby & Private Prison Big $$$$ donors!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/11/marco-rubioowned-by-illegal-alien-lobby.html

[snips]

* hmmmm....prisons, private prisons who are BIG campaign donors and THRIVE off incarcerating illegal aliens!!!!

“Near the Texas border, private prisons are used to house federal inmates who are in detention awaiting trial for offenses ranging from immigration violations to drug trafficking and human smuggling.”

THOSE private prison corps pay BIG political contributions to keep that border OPEN to stock their prisons and pocketbooks!

In this article, “McCain, The worst Senator Money can Buy, TTC told you: Money is a big part of it. Big donations by mobsters in Vegas, the La Raza crowd and private prisons who house illegal aliens ( Private prison builder GEO’s PAC gave only $5,000 each to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.

$500 to McCain several times was given by John Hurley, ceo GEO, who contributes BIG to
the open border loving RNC and Charlie Christ.
NOTE: Remember just a few days ago the prisoners who escaped one of McCain’s donor’s private prisons in AZ??? This is a big scam to house illegal aliens and they are notorious for problems within them

Headline WAPO Nov. 7, 2015 : How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about
Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries.

[snip] A 2011 investigative report published by The Center for Media and Democracy detailed the connections between Rubio and GEO during his time in the Florida House. It notes that Rubio hired Donna Arduin, a former trustee for GEO’s Correctional Properties Trust, as an economic consultant. Arduin worked with Rubio’s then-budget chief, Ray Sansom, who pushed through a $110 million deal for a new GEO prison in the House Appropriations Bill. The report also detailed how legislation favorable to GEO Group has shadowed Arduin’s presence in government from California to Florida. In 2011, Florida Gov. Rick Scott - who also used Arduin as a budget adviser - pushed (unsuccessfully) to privatize 27 prisons south of Orlando.
Upon winning the Senate seat, Rubio tapped former lobbyist Cesar Conda as his chief of staff in 2011. Conda had co-founded what is now GEO’s main lobbying firm, Navigators Global, and after joining Rubio, continued receiving payments of $150,000 from the firm as part of a stock buyout arrangement. In April 2014, Conda went on to lead Rubio’s Reclaim America PAC as a senior adviser, until recently rejoining Navigators. During Conda’s time with Rubio, GEO became a top-10 contributor to Reclaim America, giving $16,000 in 2014, according to OpenSecrets.org. Conda’s firm also banked $610,000 from the private prison company between 2011 and 2014 as its lobbying firm. According to a disclosure form obtained by The Nation, among the issues Navigators lobbied for on GEO’s behalf was immigration reform.......

TheTownCrier has told you before about Cesar Conda, open border guru tied to Grover Norquist and Karl Rove. The WAPO, in my opinion is wrong when it says, “ Rubio tapped former lobbyist Cesar Conda as his chief of staff in 2011.”

In my opinion, Rubio was picked by Cesar Conda, to be sure illegal aliens continue their flow and influence, just like he mentored and brought PAUL RYAN into DC politics!
Follow the $$$

Rubio was picked because he sells out SO easily! His history is full of sell outs!

Conda was a lobbyist for private prisons who love open borders and government $$$ to incarcerate illegal aliens.

“They also now have a paid lobbyist working in the office of a Republican Senator at the forefront of the immigration debate, in a state with major immigration issues.
Take for example the chief of staff to young Republican superstar Marco Rubio, Cesar Conda. Conda still maintains ties to a powerful lobbying firm in Florida that has lobbied for the GEO Group. In fact, he still maintains partial ownership, and was paid between $50,000-$100,000 by the firm after he became Rubio’s chief of staff.. So he’s still being paid by companies like the GEO Group while working as the number-one guy to a US Senator.
So the GEO Group has revenues of nearly $2 billion per year, much of which comes from the federal government as payment for detaining immigrants. It has spent more than $5 million in lobbying and political contributions in the past 8 years”

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/history-repeats-itself-and-this-time-we.html

Psst...remember we’ve told you that Glen Beck sold out to the open border hacks of Freedom Works and Americans for prosperity? Remember when we warned the Tea Party about getting involved with Dick Armey’s Freedom works because he has always been pro amnesty??.....

- Cesar Conda is a senior fellow at Freedom Works and an editorial advisory board member of International Economy Magazine. He is a volunteer policy advisor to the Mitt Romney presidential campaign.

AND: “Armey said FreedomWorks paid Beck $1 million to say nice things about the group to raise more cash” http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/01/dick-armey-sticks-his-freedomworks-payback-glenn-beck/60624/

More: Marco Rubio, Geo Group, and a Legacy of Corruption
By Beau Hodai on August 29, 2012

“U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s unsettling history of extremely close ties to private prison operator Geo Group and the possible federal investigation into Florida’s private prison giveaway of more than $120 million. “-

See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/08/11591/marco-rubio-geo-group-and-legacy-corruption#sthash.tAXS37pe.dpuf

Trackback: http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/history-repeats-itself-and-this-time-we.html
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/turd-blossom-republicans-have-sold-out.html


5 posted on 02/06/2016 9:50:02 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: WilliamIII

The Nevada voting system is corrupt. More so now that we have a caucus system.

This election season is weird to the extreme. My “conservative” Congressman and Senator both endorsed Bush very early on. My “conservative” Attorney General just endorsed and is campaigning for Cruz. Now a major newspaper is endorsing Rubio. I’m not real surprised about that, Rubio is campaigning here as a favorite son, having lived in Nevada for awhile as a child.

Both Cruz and Rubio are campaigning here on returning federal land to the state.

I think the winner in Nevada will be whoever the Republican Party of Nevada decides it will be and I think it will be determined by whoever has the most money/influence to hand them. It would take a total sweep of the votes among the very few voters able to vote to change that.

Just my personal opinion.


6 posted on 02/06/2016 9:50:37 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: WilliamIII

The man who kept Newt alive the last time


7 posted on 02/06/2016 9:51:00 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: WilliamIII

http://www.independentsentinel.com/

Rubio Gets His Immigration Bill Orders Directly from Obama

If you are wondering why the Republicans and Democrats are getting along so well on immigration reform, it is because they are all part of the ruling class in DC. They are the Washington elite. Marco Rubio and his elitist DC friends in both parties are doing the bidding of the White House in pushing the immigration bill. That is from the NY Times, not me.

Marco Rubio might have met with Obama directly. In any case Obama is pulling Rubio’s strings according to the NY Times.

Republicans think that the immigration bill will help their image with Hispanics and Obama needs a win to distract the public from his scandals and poor performance domestically and abroad.

The NY Times has described a White House in complete control of the immigration bill process:

So while lawmakers from both parties are privately relying on the White House and its agencies to provide technical information to draft scores of amendments to the immigration bill, few Republicans are willing to admit it. Some are so eager to prove that the White House is not pulling the strings that their aides say the administration is not playing any role at all.

‘President Obama’s concept of engaging Congress is giving a speech that nobody up here listens to,’ said Alex Conant, a spokesman for Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, who is an important supporter of the immigration legislation. ‘If passing legislation is like making sausage, then this White House is like a bunch of vegetarians.’

Obama has a cadre of lobbyists and other policy makers who are orchestrating this:

Inside Room 201, the administration has gathered a collection of its own Congressional lobbyists, policy specialists and experts from an alphabet soup of the agencies that will have to put the immigration legislation into effect if it passes. They all moved into the vice president’s offices on June 10, setting up laptop computers and thick binders filled with proposed amendments on an oval conference table.

‘We have folks who know the Senate really well, who know the players, who have been through this before so they know exactly what Senate staff needs,’ Ms. Muñoz (director of the White House Domestic Policy Council) said. ‘We are deeply, deeply engaged.’

The NY Times said that White House and administration officials have been in frequent touch with Republican senators as the lawmakers have to come up with dozens of amendments on tighter border security and other parts of the bill they deem insufficient.

Read it at the NY Times


8 posted on 02/06/2016 10:27:26 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: WilliamIII

HOw much money has sheldon adelson wasted over the past 12 years?


9 posted on 02/06/2016 10:34:19 AM PST by Hildy
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To: WilliamIII

This is a none starter as Adelson’s track record of backing the winner has not proven to be the test by which anyone should choose which candidate that is best for restoring the American Constitution, his agenda is quite the opposite.


10 posted on 02/06/2016 2:39:58 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: WilliamIII

Cheap Labor is coalescing around their guys.


11 posted on 02/06/2016 2:40:56 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: WilliamIII

Rubio’s the kind of guy who can be bought... that’s how he comes across. This story’s confirmation...


12 posted on 02/06/2016 3:12:57 PM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is moderating the Republican debate because Bill Clinton and David Axelrod were busy)
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To: WilliamIII

proof the establishment vote is going for Rubio and not Bush or Christie


13 posted on 02/06/2016 4:53:25 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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