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TOP REPUBLICANS BACKED BY SOROS IN 2016, Everyone
knows about millions to Hillary, but here are GOP names George likes, 2/5/17,
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WASHINGTON – Everyone knows about the tens of millions of dollars various George Soros front groups poured into Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential efforts in 2016, but the Republicans he supported – from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and his predecessor, John Boehner, have received less attention.
Republican presidential candidate
John Kasich was also a big recipient of Soros largesse – to the tune at least
$202,700. That makes Soros one of the Kasich presidential campaign’s top
funders.
While the Soros Fund Management,
just one of the Hungarian billionaire’s political tentacles, spent $224,300 on
Democratic Party congressional campaigns in 2016, it also spent $31,400 on
Republicans, including $10,800 on Ryan – the most of any member of the GOP, the
same as it invested in Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat.
Other GOP congressional recipients
of Soros contributions include Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ($2,500); Sen. Marco
Rubio, R-Fla. ($2,700); Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev. ($2,700); Rep. John Boehner,
R-Ohio ($2,600); Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. ($2,500); Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.
($1,000); Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa ($1,000); Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
($1,000); Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. ($1,000); and Rep. Dan Donovan,
R-N.Y. ($300).
Soros has aided hundreds of
left-wing groups since 2000 under the auspices of his Open Society Foundations
promoting environmental activism, gun control, immigration groups, opposition
to voter ID laws and anti-police groups like Black Lives Matter. In one year,
Soros funding of at least $33 million helped persuade the public that Michael
Brown was murdered by a police officer in the city of Ferguson, Missouri.
“The intense anti-immigrant and
anti-Muslim rhetoric that has been fueled by the Republican primary is deeply
offensive,” Soros said in the statement during the 2016 campaign. “There should
be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we’ve
regularly heard from candidates (Donald) Trump and (Ted) Cruz.”
Michael Vachon, a spokesman and
political adviser to Soros, said there was no single cause for the increase in
spending. “His support of Clinton is one
reason,” he said. “The tone of the other candidates is the other.
Soros’ personal fortune stands at
about $24 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Soros handed
off day-to-day management of his hedge-fund business in the late 1980s to focus
on his charitable pursuits, many of which seek to promote democracy around the
world. The Open Society Foundations say they have spent some $13 billion over
the past three decades.
Soros organizations have also donated
between $1.5 million and $6 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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