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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
07 editor A timely exposure by the press helped rebuff a nasty boorish Ad campaign to coarsen US politics. A Chicago billionaire's 10 million dollar plan to bank roll the race-infused statements of Pastor Rev...Wright Jr, a former confidant of...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Tom Ricketts, chairman of the Chicago Cubs, dismissed the idea he would bankroll a potentially racially offensive attack ad against U.S...Ricketts' family is the backer of a super PAC said to have been developing an ad featuring controversial black...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
The last thing anybody at Wrigley Field cares to consider on a sunny day at the City Series is whether buying a Bison Dog or souvenir bat indirectly funds a "super PAC'' planning racially divisive attack ads during a presidential campaign. Yet...
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Chicago-Sun Times
| 1 year ago
A livid Mayor Rahm Emanuel is refusing to speak with the owners of the Chicago Cubs after their father was linked to a $10 million plan to launch an ad campaign attacking President Barack Obama by airing the racially charged sermons of Obama's former...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
Super PACs, the free-ranging groups formed to exploit a new era of unbridled campaign spending, have dominated the 2012 presidential race, buoying a succession of Republican candidates and helping propel Mitt Romney to the party's nomination. But the...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
The TD Ameritrade founder, however, has emerged as an increasingly active player in conservative politics in recent years, contributing more than $1 million with his wife, Marlene, to GOP candidates and causes since 2008. This week, little-known...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney denounces a proposal' by conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts' Super PAC to resurrect the Rev. Thursday, May 17, 2012, 5:50 PM Dave Weaver/AP A Super PAC led by TD Ameritrade chairman and founder Joe Ricketts had allegedly planned to run...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Jeremiah Wright, was floated and rejected within hours on Thursday. Both Mitt Romney and Obama's campaign denounced the ad proposal after it was reported in The New York Times Thursday morning. On Thursday afternoon, the Ending Spending Action Fund...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Fla. (AP) — The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Joe Ricketts made a big splash in American politics this week. Ricketts is a former Democrat who became a Republican and later an independent. His daughter, Laura, is a gay and lesbian activist and big-time Obama bundler, having raised around half a...
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New York Observer
| 1 year ago
Joe Ricketts Would Never Call Obama a Metrosexual, Black Abe Lincoln' 12:50pm Brian Baker, the president of Joe Ricketts's conservative super PAC, the Ending Spending Action Fund, just released a statement on behalf of Mr. Ricketts renouncing The...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the "super PAC" era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
A pending plan by top GOP strategists would bring back a familiar face from the 2008 presidential campaign, Rev. Jeremiah Wright , in a massive $10 million campaign directed at drawing attention to connections between President Obama and the...
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Towleroad
| 1 year ago
According to the paper, billionaire Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts and his family asked GOP strategist Fred Davis and a team of strategists to draw up a 54-page memo called "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would do exactly what John McCain would not let us do, the strategists wrote. The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary...
