Top Ten Richest Dead People
Alexander Cockburn
POOR Mitt Romney. He's back in the Newt nightmare. Here comes the portly Georgian, brushing aside the guards outside Mitt's hotel suite, kicking open the bedroom door, seizing Romney by the throat… Aaaargh!
And then Romney is awake, realising that this is a cold-sweat nightmare that will last until the polls close in South Carolina on Saturday… maybe until they close in Florida on 31 January, maybe until Super Tuesday on 6 March, when nine states hold their primaries. We left Romney amidst the flush of victory in New Hampshire , with polls in South Carolina showing him a solid ten points ahead of Gingrich, who made a poor showing in New Hampshire on top of a fourth place in Iowa below the Catholic zealot Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
Santorum's a faded force now. (The fact that he and his wife boasted of having taken their dead baby home from the hospital and placed it between their two living children, telling them that "Gabriel's an angel now", may have sat ill with some voters.) Gingrich burned for revenge for his rough treatment in New Hampshire by Romney's campaign commercials. But how, on a tight timeline, could he acquaint South Carolina Republicans with Romney's infamies? He needed money, lots of it, double-quick.
In the old days there were certain pettifogging constraints on how much a billionaire could lavish on his favoured candidate. But then came the 'Citizens United' decision by the US Supreme Court (split 5-4), issued in January 2010, ruling that the First Amendment, protecting free speech, prohibits the government from placing limits on independent spending for political purposes by corporations and unions.
As Ralph Nader correctly pointed out at the time, "With this decision, corporations can now directly pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars."
Enter 78-year old Sheldon Adelson, the world's 16th richest man, with $23 billion at his disposal. His empire is anchored in the west in Las Vegas, in the east in Macao, with a further stake in Israel, whence his second wife hails. On Israel, Adelson entertains harsh views on the advisability of negotiations of any sort with Palestinians and lately has been lobbying fiercely – he owns the largest circulation newspaper in Israel – for an attack on Iran.
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Enter 78-year old Sheldon Adelson, the world's 16th richest man, with $23 billion at his disposal. His empire is anchored in the west in Las Vegas, in the east in Macao, with a further stake in Israel, whence his second wife hails.
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