{"id":27176,"date":"2012-02-01T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27176"},"modified":"2012-02-01T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:03:42","slug":"hedge-funds-back-romneny-super-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/hedge-funds-back-romneny-super-pac.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Back Romney Super PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mitt_romney_AP120110126758_fullwidth_620x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27180\" title=\"mitt_romney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mitt_romney_AP120110126758_fullwidth_620x350-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mitt_romney_AP120110126758_fullwidth_620x350-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mitt_romney_AP120110126758_fullwidth_620x350.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds have been the biggest doners to Mitt Romney&#8217;s Super PAC, &#8220;Restore Our Future.&#8221;\u00a0Almost 60 corporations and wealthy individuals donated at least $100,000 each to the Romney PAC, which raised more than $20 million in the second half of 2011. He has been called &#8220;The Wall Street Candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Morning Herald reports that\u00a0casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, are the biggest donors to to Newt Gingrich&#8217;s PAC &#8221;Winning Our Future&#8221;. Gingrich&#8217; promised the Adelsons that he would relocate the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, from Tel Aviv, a move long supported by Mr Adelson. They donated over $12 million.<\/p>\n<p>There used to be strict rules capping donations to PACS at $2500.\u00a0Corporate and union money was banned from PACs. A 2010 Supreme Court ruling removed the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge funds have been the biggest doners to Mitt Romney&#8217;s Super PAC, &#8220;Restore Our Future.&#8221;\u00a0Almost 60 corporations and wealthy individuals donated at least $100,000 each to the Romney PAC, which raised more than $20 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}