{"id":29234,"date":"2012-05-29T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29234"},"modified":"2012-05-29T08:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:20:19","slug":"romney-super-pac-backed-by-hedge-fund-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/romney-super-pac-backed-by-hedge-fund-billionaires.html","title":{"rendered":"Romney Super PAC Backed by Hedge Fund Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.net) – Forbes reports that at least 30 billionaires, 7.5% of the Forbes 400, have donated to the Mitt Romney-backing\u00a0super PAC\u00a0Restore Our Future, among them are some of the top hedge fund managers this year.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Restore Our Future\u2019s\u00a0monthly report<\/a>, the\u00a0hedge fund donors\u00a0include:<\/p>\n

– Louis Bacon who gave $500,000<\/p>\n

– Citadel’s\u00a0Ken Griffin gave\u00a0$2.85 million<\/p>\n

-Greenwich-based hedge funder\u00a0Paul Tudor-Jones II\u00a0kicked in $200,000.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Bill, \u201cthe other Koch\u201d, has given $2 million total, both personally and via his Oxbow Carbon company<\/p>\n

– New York hedge funder\u00a0Bruce Kovner gave\u00a0$500,000<\/p>\n

– Hedge fund titan\u00a0John Paulson\u00a0donated $1 million.<\/p>\n

– Tiger Management’s Julian Robertson\u00a0has given $1.25 million<\/p>\n

– David Tepper\u00a0gave\u00a0$375,000<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney’s\u00a0net worth has been pinned down<\/a> at at\u00a0$230 million by Forbes. \u00a0Born March 12, 1947, Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the\u00a070th\u00a0Governor of Massachusetts(2003-07), and he is running for the\u00a0Republican\u00a0nomination for\u00a0President of the United States\u00a0at the 2012\u00a0Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n

Some of the data in the anti-Obama ads hosted by Restore Our Future\u00a0have been questioned by their media regarding their “truthiness”.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson
\nEditor for HedgeCo.net<\/a>
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New York (HedgeCo.net) – Forbes reports that at least 30 billionaires, 7.5% of the Forbes 400, have donated to the Mitt Romney-backing\u00a0super PAC\u00a0Restore Our Future, among them are some of the top hedge fund managers this year. According to\u00a0Restore Our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16005,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activist-funds","category-developing-stories","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234","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=29234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29237,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions\/29237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}