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Super PAC Backing JD Vance For Senate Gets $10 Million From Peter Thiel

Posted on 03/15/2021 11:44:28 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

JD Vance may be running for the United States Senate in Ohio. The venture capitalist and author of the autobiographical bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, now has a very well-funded Super PAC backing his potential candidacy.

According to Cinncinnati.com, “Thiel, a German-American billionaire and early investor in Facebook, gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to support Vance’s possible bid, said Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the super PAC.


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KEYWORDS: bryanlanza; jdvance; ohio; peterthiel; protectohiovalues
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yeah I saw that


21 posted on 03/15/2021 12:28:42 PM PDT by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Sans-Culotte

“Richard Grenell.”

Thanks, yea, that was a disappointment.


22 posted on 03/15/2021 12:38:30 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: monkeyshine
I don’t know too much about him. He generally keeps his private life to himself

He's so private, in fact, that he didn't want it exposed that he was even gay. When the vile leftist site "Gawker" outed him, Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's libel lawsuit against them, resulting in their bankruptcy and end.

23 posted on 03/15/2021 12:40:59 PM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Do we have to have our own anti Boot-edge-edge ?


24 posted on 03/15/2021 12:45:17 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: montag813

That’s right! I forgot all about that.


25 posted on 03/15/2021 12:46:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Dennis Prager this morning talked about gays and Jews being the most outspoken in the Conservative movement. I think he might be right. Interesting.


26 posted on 03/15/2021 12:48:14 PM PDT by WHATNEXT?
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To: monkeyshine

He started Paypal and was an early backer of Facebook


27 posted on 03/15/2021 1:09:16 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Candor7

He’s nothing like Butt head.


28 posted on 03/15/2021 1:23:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ok, this is good. Gay and Republican. There are those out there, many in fact. If so, this would be very good for us.


29 posted on 03/15/2021 1:28:30 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendent of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

From what I’ve seen of him, Vance is a good guy. He “gets it” regarding the plight of the working class and the middle class in this country. He’s not GOP establishment.


30 posted on 03/15/2021 1:46:45 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Vance is a populist...could be worse. He’s on Tucker a lot.


31 posted on 03/15/2021 2:40:22 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; big bad easter bunny; ...

Super PAC Backing JD Vance For Senate Gets $10 Million From Peter Thiel

Posted on 3/15/2021, 2:44:28 PM by DIRTYSECRET


32 posted on 03/16/2021 8:55:39 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: DIRTYSECRET

WIKI - Vance is married to one of his former law school classmates, Usha Chilukuri, an Indian-American woman who was a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during the 2017–18 term and clerked for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2014–15.[28] They have two sons, including Ewan.[29]

In August 2019, Vance converted to Catholicism in Cincinnati, Ohio,[30] in a baptism ceremony attended by various conservatives, including Rod Dreher. In an interview with Dreher after the ceremony, Vance said he converted because he “became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true,” and described Catholic doctrine’s influence on his political views.[31]

Both he and backer Thiel use lots of JRR Tolkien names for their investments and funds.....


33 posted on 03/16/2021 9:14:18 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: Birdman

Thiel is the openly gay one, not Vance.


34 posted on 03/16/2021 4:35:28 PM PDT by mak5
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