{"id":30415,"date":"2012-07-31T04:36:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T08:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30415"},"modified":"2012-07-31T04:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T08:36:37","slug":"hedge-fund-managers-finance-same-sex-marriage-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/hedge-fund-managers-finance-same-sex-marriage-push.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Managers Finance Same-Sex Marriage Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIN Alternatives &#8211; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos&#8217; $2.5 million contribution to help keep same-sex marriage legal in his home state made headlines last week. But he&#8217;s merely joining the hedge fund honchos, many of them Republicans, who have financed the marriage equality push over the last several years.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott Management&#8217;s Paul Singer, AQR Capital Management&#8217;s Clifford Asness, Third Point&#8217;s Daniel Loeb and Baupost Group&#8217;s Seth Klarman has all given to the Freedom to Marry PAC. Those four and Ken Mehlman, campaign manager for President George W. Bush&#8217;s 2004 campaign who now works at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have given the group a total of $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/21161\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIN Alternatives &#8211; Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos&#8217; $2.5 million contribution to help keep same-sex marriage legal in his home state made headlines last week. But he&#8217;s merely joining the hedge fund honchos, many of them Republicans, who have financed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415","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=30415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30416,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415\/revisions\/30416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}