RAHM EMANUEL’s back on the ballot for the Chicago mayoral race, and as it’s been known, he won’t be hurting for dough — the former White House staffer raked in over $11.8 million in the final months of 2010, besting his main competitor Gery Chico by more than a whopping $9 million, Forbes reports. But where did his health coffers come from? That’s where it gets interesting.
Editor’s Note: By their friends you shall know them. That old adage is proven valid once again by the roster of “liberal” and neocon fatcats supporting one of the most disgusting figures in contemporary politics, Zionlib Rahm Emanuel. [print_link]
Rahm’s donations roster, published late last week, reads like a who’s who of glammy businesspeople. Trumped up by pals of his brother Ari — you know, the fancy Hollywood agent who inspired Jeremy Piven’s Entourage character — Rahm’s list of supporters includes 14 billionaires, Steve Jobs, tinseltown power-movers Steven Spielberg, Aaron Sorkin and David Geffen and, you know, Donald Trump. In other words — a lot of people who totally do not live in Chicago!
The person who unleashed the most funds on Emanuel’s campaign was TV billionaire Haim Saban, who forked over $500,000 from money he made off hawking popular “Power Rangers” cartoons to kids. But Rahm’s got a friend in Facebook, too — co-founder Sean Parker dropped $100,000, while COO Sheryl Sandberg donated $25,000.
It’s interesting to note that the amount Haim Saban donated trumps the entire campaign coffer of the mayoral race’s third-in-line, former US Senator Carol Moseley Braun, who is working with a mere $450,000.
Forbes went through Emanuel’s lengthy list with a fine-toothed comb and picked out the richest and most high-profile of the donors — check it out here.
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at January 26, 2011, 7:29 am
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ADDENDUM
Emanuel’s billionaire backers include:
– Donald Trump, who kicked in $50,000
– Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto
– Steven Spielberg, who gave $75,000
– TV tycoon Haim Saban, Emanuel’s biggest supporter; he and his wife gave $500,000 between them
– Steve Jobs, Apple CEO (his wife Laurene also donated)
– Hollywood’s richest man David Geffen
– Citadel’s Ken Griffin, who, along with his wife, gave $200,000
– Five members of the Pritzker hotel family, including Jay and Nicholas
– Philanthropist Eli Broad
– Media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman
– Nelson Peltz, chairman of fast food chains Wendy’s and Arby’s
– Buyout king Ron Perelman
– Hedge funder Marc Lasry
Emanuel’s other big-name backers include two prominent social media billionaires-in-the-making. Chicago-based Eric Lefkofsky, co-founder and 30% owner of web coupon phenomenon Groupon, gave $100,000 via his private equity firm Blue Media LLC. Facebook co-founder Sean Parker also donated $100,000 – the same amount he gave towards his last high-profile political cause, California’s marijuana legalization bill, Prop 19. Emanuel seems to have other friends at Facebook: Sheryl Sandberg, the website COO, gave $25,000. And, in a surreal but telling display of Emanuel’s clout from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Facebook frenemy Aaron Sorkin — the screenwriter who fictionalized the site’s founding for the big screen — gave $10,000.
