Posted on 02/01/2020 9:39:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
3:39 A Super PAC working to elect former Vice President Joe Biden is being bankrolled by a bevy of real estate, financial, and oil interests.
Unite the Country, which is run by a lobbyist and longtime Biden confidant, disclosed its donors on Friday in filings made public with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Between launching at the end of October and the December 31 filing deadline, the group raised more than $3.7 million in support of Biden’s candidacy. Although the money poured in from a number of high-dollar donors, some of Unite the Country’s largest contributors were individuals tied to real estate, Wall Street, and the fossil fuels industry.
The Super PAC’s most prolific donor by far was George Marcus, the leader of one of America’s largest commercial property brokerage firms. Marcus has been a longtime backer of the former vice president, donating to his campaign and even hosting a ritzy fundraiser on his behalf in San Francisco, California. After having maxed out to Biden’s official campaign, the billionaire real estate magnate found a new avenue with which to support Biden. In total, Marcus has donated one million to Unite the Country throughout the end of December 2019. It remains unclear, though, if he donated more since the end of 2019. FEC reports for the first month of 2020 will not be released until mid-February.
Marcus was not the only big name from the real estate world to underwrite Unite the Country’s efforts. Alan Leventhal, the chairman of the Massachusetts-based private real estate behemoth Beacon Capital, is also a top donor. At the end of December, he contributed $250,000 in support of the former vice president’s candidacy.
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Why would Big Oil support Biden? they are going better with Trump.
I find it hard to believe that anyone would blow their cash on Lunch Bucket
SOURCE-—https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/ex-biden-aide-super-pac-unite-the-country-061096
Ex-Biden aide forms Unite the Country super PAC
Larry Rasky, who worked on Biden’s two previous presidential campaigns, is listed as the super PAC’s treasurer.
By THEODORIC MEYER and MAGGIE SEVERNS / 10/29/2019
A former Joe Biden aide has filed paperwork to form a super PAC, called Unite the Country, that is set to boost the former vice president with millions of dollars in spending in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Larry Rasky, who worked on two of Biden’s previous presidential bids, is listed as the treasurer for the new pro-Biden group. Several other high-profile Biden supporters — including Florida operative Steve Schale, a Barack Obama campaign alumnus who was involved in efforts to draft Biden into the 2016 presidential race; Mark Riddle, a Democratic operative; and Julianna Smoot, Obama’s former national finance director — have also been in talks to lead the super PAC.
Rasky previously helped Biden raise money for his campaign, asking donors to send checks made out to “Biden for President” to the Boston offices of his lobbying and public affairs firm, Rasky Partners. In past fundraising appeals, Rasky had touted Biden’s personal opposition to accepting super PAC support — a stance Biden has since reversed.
“Because Joe will not work with a Super PAC or take PAC money for his campaign, everyone is limited to $2,800 as a maximum gift,” Rasky wrote in fundraising email sent in April and obtained by POLITICO. “That will require a lot of work and a lot of checks to finance a presidential campaign effort.”
The same super PAC previously went by a different name, For the People PAC, but it existed only briefly in April, shortly before Biden launched his run for president. At the time, Matt Tompkins, a Democratic fundraiser, told The Hill: “You won’t win in 2020 by unilaterally disarming.But Biden senior adviser Kate Bedingfield shut down For the People PAC’s buzz when she replied to a tweet about the group with a brief statement: “.@JoeBiden does not welcome support from super PACs.” For the Pearks the official beginning of an outside effort to boople PAC went quiet shortly afterward and never reported raising or spending money.
The filing for Unite the Country, which was first reported by Bloomberg News, most the former vice president, a move that could raise and spend unlimited sums of money and give the cash-strapped Biden campaign a boost.
The group of operatives have hustled to form the PAC since Biden shifted his stance on super PACs and opened the door to their help last week. In past months, donors have been probed by Biden allies to see whether they’d be open to giving more money beyond their initial campaign checks. Several have told POLITICO they would.
Rasky isn’t a registered lobbyist, although others at his firm lobby for a handful of federal clients, including Raytheon, the Massachusetts-based defense contractor. Rasky owns an 87.2 percent stake in the firm, according to a Justice Department disclosure filing.
Rasky registered as a foreign agent earlier this year to advise Azerbaijan’s government on strategic communications on a contract worth $15,000 a month. But he stopped working for Azerbaijan in August, he wrote in an email to POLITICO, supplying a copy of a letter his lawyer sent to the Justice Department on Aug. 27. The firm no longer represents foreign clients, he said.
Rasky’s firm also represented a Bangladeshi political party last year, reaching out to reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post, POLITICO and other outlets on the party’s behalf, according to a disclosure filing. The firm worked for the party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, as a subcontractor to Blue Star Strategies, a Washington lobbying shop run by two veterans of the Clinton administration.
>>>>>>>>>Blue Star has another connection to the Bidens: The firm advised the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while Hunter Biden served on its board, according to The Times.Karen Tramontano, Blue Star’s chief executive, said in an interview that she didn’t know Rasky. She hired his firm because Anne Tyrrell, a senior vice president in Rasky Partners’ Washington office, had come recommended to her. Tyrrell has since left Rasky Partners. Tramontano declined to comment on her firm’s work for Burisma.
President Donald Trump has attacked Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma, accusing Joe Biden of pressing Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor while he was vice president in an effort to help the company. But Ukraine’s top prosecutor at the time, Viktor Shokin, was widely seen as corrupt and there’s no evidence Joe Biden acted improperly. Trump is facing potential impeachment for urging Ukraine’s president to investigate the Bidens.
Rasky never registered to work for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and his firm stopped working for the party in January, according to a disclosure filing.
How can anyone donate to Biden when Europe is awash with knowledge, and hopefully America will become aware, that he is about to be indicted in the Ukraine and possibly an international court??
Insurance in case Biden wins.
Bump
3.7 Billion is peanuts compared to what some of the other candidates report.
Because this is how the DC protection racket works. Politicians start demonizing some industry, the businesses grovel and shovel huge sweaty wads of donations their way, and the politicians shut up, or at least never follow through with their threats to attack the business. It’s all a giant con game. Lobbyists are there to pay protection money every bit as much as they’re there to buy favors.
Hillary was quite good at this. She went after Walmart and “big pharma” and was put on the board of Walmart, I believe, and received dough from pharmaceutical companies. Whaddya know? She stopped criticizing them publicly.
And Biden is one of the biggest crooks in DC, and that’s quite an accomplishment. If only Secret Service agents would talk, we would all be amazed at how much Joe scammed the taxpayers. I heard that the reason he pushed for Amtrak was so he would have an easy commute from his home state to DC. Everything Biden does is for his own benefit.
It’s like Jesseeeaaah Jaaaaahckson’s shake down operation, on steroids.
Exactly! It’s frustrating that people don’t see it. To most of these crooks it’s all a big game. They don’t believe anything. It’s strictly money and power for them.
I think there are 3 kinds of leftists: 1. The poor and ignorant who believe that politicians will give them free stuff. 2. True believers like college professors and students who think they are part of some grand revolution, and some rich people who feel guilty for their wealth and want to atone for their “sins”. (If I hear one more story about someone who is going to change the world, I’m going to be ill.) And, 3. The politicians and demagogues who know how to bamboozle and control groups 1 and 2 for their own ambitions. Also in this group are people like Warren Buffet who know what to say to keep the mobs and the criticism away from them personally.
I think you’ve nailed the three classifications of leftists, perfectly.
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