Posted on 07/09/2015 5:58:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) met with billionaire hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb on Wednesday, Business Insider has learned.
Walker was seeking Loeb's key financial support ahead of his all-but-certain presidential campaign, but he didn't get it. According to sources close to the situation, the sticking point was Loeb's support of same-sex marriage.
Last month, Walker called the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide a "grave mistake." He also called for a constitutional amendment to reverse the decision.
“As a result of this decision, the only alternative left for the American people is to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to reaffirm the ability of the states to continue to define marriage,” Walker said.
Deep-pocketed Wall Streeters have been vocal about the fact that they're no longer interested in supporting socially conservative candidates this go-round. They've traded in their social values for conservative fiscal policies over the last few election cycles, and it hasn't gotten them anywhere.
They're tired of making that losing trade.
"I tend to be more Republican in my views, but socially very liberal. I'm going to have trouble with any Republican that does not disavow a fixation with social issues," billionaire investor Leon Cooperman said in a recent interview with Wall Street Week.
"Republicans have to understand that, because young people in our country are not grabbed by those issues."
What all this means is that Loeb's money is still up for grabs. Back in 2011, Loeb said he would back Christie for president because "you never have a question about where he stands on anything."
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You are correct.
LGBT couples cannot procreate; therefore there is no such thing as "marriage equality."
I have long suspected that many of the money people actually make money by their choices rather than having to draw down on their money/wealth.
“Why is it that so many Jewish people see nothing wrong with gay marriage, or being gay itself? I don’t understand it.”
Well, I think I do. They are Secular Progressives first who were born Jewish. They have little or noting to do with Judaism in a religious or moral sense. They are actually more like a business cartel. They band together to make money and use their “ethnicity” as a litmus test to be a member, but a very real sense, they are not Jews, they operate like the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do as “Blacks.”
"Stop assailing me with facts and logic!" :)
“I tend to be more Republican in my views, but socially very liberal. I’m going to have trouble with any Republican that does not disavow a fixation with social issues,”
Translation - I like to whore around (maybe dilly little kids) and do not want anyone emptying my closet, so I say everything is allowed so they leave me alone.
The big money guys that pushed loser Romney on us 4 years ago are all in on Jeb! [no last name] Bush, $100 million pledged so far.
It will be a rerun of 2012 and a rotten to the core Democrat will win.
As conservative, I’m ready to sit home, instead of a lesser of two evils vote for another loser RINO. The big money GOP guys may buy campaign ads, but won’t buy conservative votes again—we are fed up with the no win game.
Better to build your home bunker filled with survival necessities than ride the slide of our USA to the mess of Greece. In fact the US fall will be worse than Greece as that country actually is less into what was called Greek sex than is our hedonistic Left.
Walker just earned points in my book.
Conservatives should not be bought. They need to stick to their principles and not change them for the highest bidder they way Dems do.
In 2013, Loeb was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry, in support of same-sex marriage.[45][46][47][48]
The dinner and “fireside chat” for about a dozen people with Mr. Cruz and his wife, Heidi, was at the Central Park South penthouse of Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner, longtime business partners who were once a couple and who have been pioneers in the gay hospitality industry.
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