Meet One of the Super-PAC Men

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WSJ:

His name isn't Adelson or Koch, but he's spending millions on politics, hoping to roll back taxes and reform education.

NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY

10/26/12

 

Liberals who suspect that wealthy businessmen and political masterminds are colluding to hijack democracy might have fainted had they walked into the St. Regis hotel's lobby restaurant in New York the other day. *There was Rex Sinquefield, a deep-pocketed St. Louis, Mo., native and big-time political donor, sitting across from the Republican Rasputin himself, Karl Rove. The not-so-vast right-wing conspiracy in plain public view.

 

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"By my engagement, as well as others like me," he says, "voters are provided with more choices, not less." He won't say how much money he has donated to political causes in general, or specifically to Mr. Rove and his Super PAC, American Crossroads, but it's safe to say it's more than a pittance. Mr. Sinquefield is forthright in opposing campaign-finance limits and says, "Our system works when all voices are heard."

 

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Mr. Sinquefield seems less interested in politics than policy and less moved by campaigns than the ideas behind them. He has long been frustrated by the Missouri state legislature, which is controlled by Republicans but is largely opposed to real reform. The best he can say is that they "do prevent a lot of bad stuff from passing."

 

 

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*Cue the theme from Jaws