Posted on 01/18/2011 6:50:24 PM PST by Nachum
POLITICO's Maggie Haberman emails that she's solved a lingering mystery from the now-nearly-forgotten summer storm around a planned Islamic center in Lower Manhattan.
Robert Mercer, the co-CEO of the giant hedge fund manager Renaissance Technologies, appears to have financed the ad campaign entirely himself, through a $1 million contribution on July 26 to the New York State Conservative Party, according to a filing today by the party's housekeeping account. Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long confirmed to Haberman that Mercer was the source of the ad money.
Mercer had maxed out to the account of Rick Lazio, but the Conservative Party's ads firmly attached the issue to Lazio and kept it top of mind in August in New York.
The account also shows a $40,000 payment to Arthur Finkelstein, Lazio's consultant.
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Article doesn’t identify if it is for or against, assuming it is against.
NYCP has a sugar daddy?
The libs are all in a titter because they think the hedge fund owners are big conservatives.
Good for him.
Ben Smith suggests that it was an underhanded donation to Lazio, but offers no proof.
Does Ben Smith think a huge mosque at Ground Zero, to celebrate the destruction of the WTC by Muslim terrorists, is a good idea?
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