Posted on 02/10/2014 11:16:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, who calls himself a “life-long Republican,” once donated $1,000 to the Senate campaign of Democrat Jon Corzine. Mark Jacobs, a Republican businessman who is running for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Tom Harkin this year, gave the money to Corzine, the CEO of Goldman Sachs who was running for Senate in New Jersey in 2000. Jacobs was working for Goldman Sachs in Houston at the time.
...In 2009 and 2010, Jacobs gave a total of $3,000 to the PAC supporting Arlen Specter, the Republican senator from Pennsylvania who in early 2009 switched to the Democratic party after signs that he would receive a strong challenge in the GOP primary. In September of 2009, several months after Specter’s party switch, Jacobs gave two contributions, one for $600 and one for $2,400, to Citizens for Arlen Specter.
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Corzine is a criminal.
“Jacobs gave a total of $3,000 to the PAC supporting Arlen Specter”
He’s done! Though he’ll probably run as an independent or something.
the GOPe will love him...
wow. stay far away. far away. corzine is about as low as you can go.
“the GOPe will love him...”
Yup! He’ll remind them of Mike Castle, and what might have been...
Probably could do better.
However, giving these contributions was probably in the normal course of sucking up/networking as this fellow was a lower ranked employee at Goldman. Its sometimes ugly what one has to do to get ahead in a large company.
I don’t think you can blame this guy for his donations.
First, he was employed by Goldman Sachs and gave the his boss. He may or may not have done this of his own free will.
Second, when he donated to Arlen Specter, Arlen was still a republican in good standing.
Frankly, if I had the money at the time, I would have donated to the republican Huffington who was running in 1992 against Diane Finestein. Huffington is the former husband of Ariana. Huffington later declared he was gay and Ariana divorced him and started the Huffington Post.
But I don’t think you can blame anyone for wanting Huffington to beat DiFi.
who else is in the GOP running for Harkin’s seat?
Matt Whitaker, US Attorney and former member of the Iowa Hawkeye football team in college.
Joni Ernst, state Senator from SW Iowa.
Sam Clovis, radio announcer and former military from NW Iowa.
Those are the three big ones, and one minor one, Scott Schaben.
The rest are poseurs not worthy of mention.
Yes, we can. Any Iowan who's been paying attention already knows Mark Jacobs is a spineless RINO. No amount of money spent of late on slick, faux-conservative campaign ads can change that.
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