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Subscribe to RSSA wealthy Wyoming financier and conservative philanthropist confirmed today that he is one of the principal backers of a new Super PAC that spent more than $530,000 on TV ads in Iowa supporting Rick Santorum and figures to play prominently in South Carolina and elsewhere.
Foster Freiss, the founder of a hugely successful mutual investment fund, told NBC News that he is "one of a number of contributors who have rallied" to the Red, White and Blue Fund, the new super pac supporting Santorum.
He declined to give precise figures on how much he has put into the Super PAC. " I don't dare let my wife know that," he joked, but said he wouldn't object to a report that he was the major financial backer of the Super PAC.
"If I put up a million bucks, it doesnt' compare...to the kind of commitment" the country's Founding Fathers made or American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan make, he said.
Freiss' funding of the Red, White and Blue Fund, which has not yet been publicly disclosed, is the latest example of how wealthy donors are pouring funds into Super PACs to influence the presidential election.
In the days before this week's Iowa caucus, the Red White and Blue Fund began doing a rash of media buys on Iowa TV stations, running ads touting Santorum as a "dedicated defender of the unborn" and "a resolute leader of the fight against radical Islam" ending with the words, "Rick Santorum, a real conservative America can trust."
The Red, White and Blue Fund registered with the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 1, 2011, but is not due to file any reports disclosing its contributors until the end of this month. Christopher Marston, a former Bush administration official, who is listed as Treasurer of the Super PAC, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Freiss, who is based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., is the founder of an investment fund called Freiss Associates, which includes on its website a quote from a Business Week article touting him as "the longest surviving successful growth stock picker."
He has a long history of backing Santorum, having donated $250,000 to a conservative group, Softer Voices, that ran ads on behalf of Santorum during his unsuccessful 2006 reelection campaign. He also has been a major donor to other GOP and conservative causes over the years, having given $250,000 to the Republican Governors Assocation last year as well as pumping a reported $3 million into The Daily Caller, a conservative website run by former MSNBC anchor Tucker Carlson.
Freiss said one of the main reasons he is attracted to Santorum is his positions on national-security issues. "He's incredibly versed in one of the No. 1 issues of our time -- and that is violent Islamic extremism," he said. "And, as a result," he contended, "he'll be able to appeal to the Jewish vote, which last time went 68 percent for Obama."
But he said Santorum's appeal went beyond that because of his working-class roots and ability to work with Democrats in the Senate. When "you wrap the total package, in terms of electability," Freiss boasted, "Santorum will be able to appeal to so many different constituencies -- the blue-collar worker that wants to go back to work, the evangelical commuity, the Jewish commuity, the Catholic community."
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Why is this news? Does this surprise anyone?
what do you expect from PSMNBC the OBOMBO network?
but where is the story on the supporters of OBOMO? nowhere.
big unions, liberal socialist communists anti-americans, anti-capitalism
groups, green energy groups, wall street, GE!!!!, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN,
NPR, liberal colleges and teachers, black panthers, ACORN, Banks,
PETA, Anti-gun groups, Illegal immigrants, Blacks, Rich White Liberals and
healthcare industry!!! look at the ed schultz anti-american rally last year!
nothing but radical communist socialist big union signs! no american signs!
I just looked up Santorum on google:
Santorum
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.
I can't decide which is more disgusting, the primary or secondary definition of the word.
I don't think this religious cult member will end up winning anything ..He is to out of the main stream for 2012. And he has already threatened to bomb Iran ... 92% of the American public find his statements anti American. Where does the GOP find these wack jobs ? This lose cannon could get us into a nuclear war ...He has little or no regard for human life then !
santorum (san-TOR-um) n.
1. The frothy
mixture of lube and fecal matter
that is sometimes the by-product of
anal sex.
You are an uninformed idiot.
Sounds fairly informed to me. Read all about on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
I've paid constant attention to this situation since June and none of them offend me more than Rick Santorum; I can't believe Iowa supported this dbag.
What offends me is how bad Clemson has played tonight! Yeech!
Iowa didn't support him the Iowa GOP supported him by making deals for votes. The reason was the State GOP was afraid that the National GOP would take away their first in the nation if they allowed Dr Paul to win the caucus.
What's got to bite them in the AZZ is the fact that it really didn't hurt Dr Paul after all, he got exactly what he wanted, in fact he really got more than what he wanted when Mitts wasn't the runaway winner they though he was gonna be.
What's got to bite even more is Santorum's nephew endorsing Ron Paul....:-0)
Any proof to your 1st statement sir? Not that it really matters, done now, just an curious as i am a big RP supporter as well. Would have like to seen RP get second, you are right with the comment of MR not running away with a clear victory. Also with a 3rd place that was relativity close %-wise, Ron Paul gets his name out there some more, and as we know once Dr. Paul gets a supporter, he/she rarely leaves.... :)
You bet Ed...
here ya go....
I posted this earlier on another thread, it seems appropriate here also...
Hi Guys, I was a mite depressed after last night so I was just puddling around the net after the caucus and found something that is interesting...
I knew that the republicans would play dirty, looks like Santorum had more than just God's help....
Check some of these out...
presstv.com/usdetail/219170.html
Radio Interview....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQXVB9buAmc
She pretty much predicts the Iowa results the day before the caucus....
Iowa shouldn't be first in the nation... Politics is a Dirty Business but to be this bold faced about it, I'm not so depressed anymore I knew there had to be a reason someone come from 6% irrelevant in three days to almost win..........
Santorum's nephew endorses Dr. Paul...
www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/santorum-s-nephew-endorses-ron-paul
One more thing i wanted to say. How does MR not get at least a chunk of more voters %-wise in '12 compared to '08. Ron Paul got way more in '12 compared to '08, granted he was way back in '08. This gives me a flicker of hope Dr. Paul can still pull out the nomination in a marathon race. NH will definetly tell us something about the chances of all the candidates. JH has based his whole campaign around NH. MR is favored as it's his backyard. NG has strongly indicated he will fighting with no gloves, coming of a somewhat distance 4th place finish in IA. MB gone. The other RP on the edge. Personally am hoping for a a strong 2nd place finish for Ron Paul. Hoped that for IA, didnt happen close though i guess.
Egilman - Good find; that is very upsetting.
spread the word, we kinda knew it before but didn't have the proof, NOW we do...
Actually Eddie,
The Dr.'s finish in Iowa is a second place because the party apparatus decided to split the vote for first between two candidates they selected.
I saw someone asking a question on why it was taking so long for some of the counties to report in. The reason is that the final negotiations were going on to make the chosen one the winner, that is why....
Santorum's going nowhere, this was just to prevent a Paul win and hand the first win to Mitts, the establishment candidate. Problem is the Media is already oll over it as his usual 25% and not a solid win, I think it backfired on them.
Ron Paul is now shown to be electable, and when this is known we will gain a WHOLE bunch more support. (clearly, even the republican establishment in Iowa knows it)
Yeah, you dopes. If it is on Wiki-Pedia, it must be true. In fact it is a Google lie that was started by a GLT group that was unhappy with Santorum.
It's not tue, but of course this is how Libs operate.
They lie.
WCA whats a lie?
oh, you mean that political internet hack job on his name? Yep I agree with you.
It's disgusting, I don't agree with the trashing or Google's refusal to remove it. they want to claim moral superiority, but allow this crap to flourish, just shows how some on the left can be quite childish with loaded cannons.
What I find interesting is republicans like Michael Steele suggesting that the Iowa GOP caucus was not really representative of who just GOPers would have chosen because others voted in it (meaning democrats might have). When asked what he meant Steele then said well, independents voted in it. Steele was not suggesting that democrats thwarted the Iowa GOP Caucus because there is no evidence of that but apparently trying to justify the finish of Santorum and Ron Paul requires a bit of spin.
Jody, I think that the caucus finish under the current evidence requires more than a "Bit" of spin IMHO!! ;-0)
Another good one is how they allocated the electors, 11 for Mitts and Santy, 3 for Dr Paul. For someone that only places 3 points behind the leaders he get 1/4th of the electors? What's going on here?
Only about a third of the Republican party showed up for caucus night in Iowa... that should tell you people something.
Someone needs to start running ads pointing out some of the off-the-wall things Santorum advocates. In my opinion there has not been nearly enough news coverage of Santorum's crazy policy proposals. If people knew more about him, he would not be getting votes from anyone but the evangelicals.
Santorum is a Male version of Bachman...functionally NUTS!!!!
Super PACs , a strange creature , are the result of government regulation of campaigns. What we need is deregulation and respect for the 1st amendment.
Contribute what you want and when you want--with full disclosure. Freedom and transparency.
Of course the libs will want more government regulation and control over First Amendment freedoms.
That is their answer for everything--more top down government control.
"When Barack Obama and I were literally sitting in a desk in a high rise in Chicago beginning to plan how we would try to get this economy out of a ditch, literally, the first guy I called was Jon Corzine. Not a joke. Not a joke. Because first of all, he's the smartest guy that I know in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this."
-Joe Biden
Bob, you're absolutely right. If a corporation or organization has the same first amendment rights as you or I do, then let them say what they like and identify themselves! Only, that's not what's happening...they're hiding behind 'Red White and Blue' and other patriotic labels but they won't say who or how much is supporting that 'voice.'
The protesters for Occupy Wall Street are not hiding behind a corporation - they're in the street and getting arrested. That's transparency...and that's why the 1st amendment was written.
Ursula, you're absolutely right.
But, did it ever occur to you who is hiding behind the populist, or "patriotic" label of Occupy Wall Street?
They've got more intellectual honesty than organizations like "Restore Our Future", "Make Us Great Again", "Winning Our Future", "American Crossroads" and "Our Destiny PAC".
Thank you SCOTUS for handling campaign financing over to the 1% and out of the hands of the 99%. Fine example of supporting the CITIZENS of this country.
You are definitely correct that the current campaign finance system is one of the biggest problems plaguing our country today: our campaign finance system is failing American citizens.
The current campaign finance system that the Republicans and Democrats have installed for themselves creates numerous problems. First, it allows a few large organizations to sway the outcome of primary and general elections by providing donations that allow one side to simply outspend the other side. On the other side of that coin, the system causes elected representatives to be beholden to the party itself and the few large organizational contributors of the candidate. As such, this causes elected representatives to focus only on the needs and desires of the party and those large organizations, as opposed to focusing on their constituents and the needs of the country as a whole.
Further, the campaign finance system, coupled with the balloting rules that the parties have created for themselves, has resulted in the Republicans and Democrats gaining excessive power and maintaining that power for far too long (based on history, the Reps and Dems should have moved out of power half a century ago) while simultaneously effectively excluding any third party from ever becoming a legitimate option (with approximately 1/3 of the country self-identifying as Independents, we have less than 1% of Congress that are from a third party). This is precisely why we need systemic changes to correct the numerous deficiencies that have arisen or become apparent since our country was formed over 200 years ago. We need changes that will cause our elected representatives to actually represent the American people by focusing on their needs as opposed to the needs of a few large organizations.
I encourage everyone to check out the American Overhaul Act at www.americanoverhaulact.org, which tackles this and several other systemic government problems with a set of proposed Constitutional amendments focused on six areas of concern: Federal Election Campaign Reform, Congressional Compensation Limits, Elimination of Party Favoritism, Congressional Term Limits, Congressional Size Limits, and Federal Budget-Deficit Reform. And, if you agree with the proposals of the Act, pass it on to your friends, family, and elected representatives so that we may actually make a positive impact on the future of our nation!
Overhaul America
I currently ignore your posts, from my point of view you have only one purpose here and that is to advertise your website. Yes after the first post of yours I checked it out and discovered that it wasn't worth the click thru much less worth reading.
is that the 'broke-back' super pac?
It sounds like a "Frothy Super Pac" !
Ah, now i get it. You so nastyyyy.
Good for Santorum , starting to like that kid.....talks like a real person....not robotic....like some..
Willard does NOT sound like a robot. He sounds like a used car salesman.
phine -- inasmuch as you and many others insist on using Governor Romney's first name when he clearly prefers his middle name i have decided to use President Obama's middle name rather than his first name.
I imagine you will see the balance this provides to these conversations.
Hussein sounds more like a robot -- blame bush, blame the tsunami, blame the oil spill, blame the congress (even though his democrat party has a majority in the upper house), blame anything or anyone but it is never Hussein's fault.
james,
Anyone ever tell you that you take life way too seriously? If not, I am doing so now. It is late on a Wednesday night. How about putting the knife away (preferably not in my back) and relax a little?
i am very relaxed. getting ready for a business call in a few minutes and noticed again your insistence on using Willard so using Hussein seems to be just the right balance. dont know where you get the knife thing.
are you suggesting that it is ok for you to mock mitt but it is not ok for me to mock barack?
Tell you what, I will call him Mr. Romney or Gov. Romney and you do the same for the President, okay? Wow, business this late. Well, hang in there. I am going to check on the score of the football game.
You have a deal.
Guys, lighten up. Willard IS Romney's first name and there is nothing wrong in calling him that. Either Mitt or Willard would seem to be appropriate. Now with President Obama, he doesn't use his middle name and so using it here is generly not as appropriate but still nothing wrong as it IS his middle name. SO WHAT! A rose is still a rose regardless what you call it.
The las President was nik named Dubya. It was a term of endearment used in his family. But when it was used to refer to him I saw uptight righties come unglued. Lighten up people. Lighten up! Life's too short.
I wish someone wealthy from Wyoming would back me. I just bought a new dresser and loveseat and I need new lamps and end tables.
Just butter up hubby , and you may be surprised what you can get away with spending....
bigbenalaska, I'd like to think you're just suggesting some 'old-fashioned' sneakiness, but it reads more like you think women trade their charms for monetary gain...and I take exception to that!
But if Mr. phinephancy is all buttery he may slip right out of bed! (Plus everything would be all greasy, ick) LOL
I think the basting would practically immobilize him.
You girls are ganging up on me , I think ,...I really meant no harm....never mind , gang up on me...
LOL, bigben, you are a good sport.
who is the man,
Question is do I baste with a brush or the plastic baster? See, I haven't had to do much basting on the hubby during our 27 years of marriage.
Thanks phinephancy , you were really a better one......you must then , be also , a lucky girl...
Thanks!! Nice to be called a girl again, been awhile. Mostly, now days I just hear "Grandma" or from the hubby, "What's for dinner?" LOL
That's a nice compliment from your hubby... If your cooking wasn't any good , do you think he'd be asking , what's for dinner...??...adults are just big kids.."grandma"...would bean honor to be called that , to me..we'll "grandpa"..in my case...
Well, must admit, I am a pretty good cook. Mr. phinephancy always tells folks the reason he married me was because I made a better crumb apple pie than his mother - and his parents ran a bakery!
I sense lamps and end tables , in your future....
Phinephancy---I fell in love with my wife 32 years ago in a Zoology lab while we were dissecting a Dog-fish shark. Talk about romantic, I tell you.
Mr. phinephancy proposed while wearing a plastic bib, eating a lobster, with butter dripping off his chin!! Figured I needed to marry him just to get him off the streets LOL
This story illustrates one of the major issues that is plaguing our current government: our campaign finance system is failing American citizens. The current campaign finance system that the Republicans and Democrats have installed for themselves creates numerous problems. First, it allows a few large organizations to sway the outcome of primary and general elections by providing donations that allow one side to simply outspend the other side. On the other side of that coin, the system causes elected representatives to be beholden to the party itself and the few large organizational contributors of the candidate. As such, this causes elected representatives to focus only on the needs and desires of the party and those large organizations, as opposed to focusing on their constituents and the needs of the country as a whole. Further, the campaign finance system, coupled with the balloting rules that the parties have created for themselves, has resulted in the Republicans and Democrats gaining excessive power and maintaining that power for far too long (based on history, the Reps and Dems should have moved out of power half a century ago) while simultaneously effectively excluding any third party from ever becoming a legitimate option (with approximately 1/3 of the country self-identifying as Independents, we have less than 1% of Congress that are from a third party). This is precisely why we need systemic changes to correct the numerous deficiencies that have arisen or become apparent since our country was formed over 200 years ago. We need changes that will cause our elected representatives to actually represent the American people by focusing on their needs as opposed to the needs of a few large organizations.
I encourage everyone to check out the American Overhaul Act at www.americanoverhaulact.org, which tackles this and several other systemic government problems with a set of proposed Constitutional amendments focused on six areas of concern: Federal Election Campaign Reform, Congressional Compensation Limits, Elimination of Party Favoritism, Congressional Term Limits, Congressional Size Limits, and Federal Budget-Deficit Reform. And, if you agree with the proposals of the Act, pass it on to your friends, family, and elected representatives so that we may actually make a positive impact on the future of our nation!
Senator Sanctorum the great family values ethical force? What role did he play in the Senator Ensign scandal? What were his feelings as regards David Vitter? Ethical indeed ....just another POS who pretends to be saintly
Funny how you can eventually see how , no one is perfect...
Yes, a Saintly man who abhors and is terrified by anyone who doesn't confirm to his ideology and is ready to proclaim anyone outside of his monkey cage environment a terrorist.
That's good. You have been hanging out with ideology.
You just described the last five Republican Presidents. I guess that means Santorum is perfect for them.
that doesn't describe Reagan at all...
Another fool and his money. Good luck with trying to buy Man on Dog's ticket to the White House.
Romney will be a gift to President Obama's re-election. I like it! The one percent against the rest of us. Swallow that, you Republican swine! Is that bacon I smell?
Rick Santorum is a joke! He tries to preach family values to americans when he has "destroyed" an email sent to him asking him to help out his friend JOHN ENSIGN, Repub in Las Vegas. This is why SANTORUM and NEWTIE are "boys". SANTORUM go sit your A** down and ask YOUR newphew why he is supporting RON PAUL, because your nephew says what you are telling your wacky followers is not at all what you practice.
Santorum, I just left WILLARD a message to call you on this :-)!
"If I put up a million bucks, it doesnt' compare...to the kind of commitment" the country's Founding Fathers made or American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan make, he said."
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I love the extremism as though only the Founding Fathers and war veterans of the current wars are those who have given extreme commitment to this Country.
For that matter, even putting in the same sentence you providing a million dollars to a Super Pac of your choice with the ability to hide the amount given from your wife vs. those who have put themselves in harms way irrespective of whether or not they even believed in the conflict they were fighting and could not hide from their spouse their potential for death couldn't be further apart.
This Country will never have a real conservative President. They may say they are conservative, but they are not. So the tea party might as well pack it up. President Regan was a moderate Republican that we use to respect? Today such figures as Ronald Regan and John Warner would be thrown out of the Republican Party as being too moderate.
Wall Street determines the Republican nominee. The best wealthy individuals can do is to determine governor nominees, such as the Koch brothers' governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. Romney IS the Republican candidate. The 1% have spoken with hundreds of millions of super PAC dollars.
The Tea Party is on Wall Street radar too because of the debt ceiling recklessness and ignorance their representatives caused. Goodbye, the Party is over. Establishment Republicans shall return to Congress to clean up the tea stains.
The Rogers Court has created the inevitability of Republican nominee control and inevitable candidacy by the "job creators". The primary voters (stockholders) will give in to the IPO (Inevitable Politician Offered) marketing campaign, Republicandroid 1.0, Mitt Romney.
It amazes me when all this money is being spent for this BS when so many people are struggling to stay afloat. To bad they can't raise money like that for people who are losing their homes and have no jobs. Oh ya I forgot, if your not a millionaire it's because you don't want to be.
If you want to make your blood run cold, just take a gander at the people who support Santorum.