Uihlein kicks in another half mil
Tuesday, Oct 30, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller
* People are always spreading rumors that Dick Uihlein will soon shut off the cash spigot to Proft, and they’re always wrong. Proft is his guy…
Click here for all of Uihlein’s state and local contributions.
* Related…
* GOP megadonor Uihlein gave $305,000 to state Senate candidate Davie, report shows: Uihlein, co-owner of the Uline shipping supplies company, donated $305,000 of the $389,095 Davie collected between July 1 and Sept. 30, Illinois State Board of Elections records show.
* Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ranks No. 1 among S&P 500 CEOs in political spending: Richard Uihlein, CEO of privately held Uline Inc., has spent more than $21 million in support of Republican candidates in the current cycle.
* Eleven donors plowed $1 billion into super PACs since 2010: In second place behind the Adelsons is Steyer, who gave $213.8 million. He is followed by Bloomberg ($120.7 million), Democratic media executive Fred Eychaner ($74.1 million), Democratic hedge fund executive Donald Sussman ($62.9 million), GOP shipping supplies magnate Richard Uihlein ($61.3 million), Democratic hedge fund founder James Simons and his wife, Marilyn ($57.9 million), Republican hedge fund executive Paul Singer ($42.5 million), GOP hedge fund executive Robert Mercer ($41.2 million), Soros ($39.4 million) and Republican backer and TD Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts ($38.4 million).
- Chicago Bars - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 11:09 am:
Uline investing in Illinois with some of that $9,000,000 plus in tax credits that Wisconsin Gov Walker’s administration gave Uline to expand in Kenosha County.
https://www.biztimes.com/2016/ideas/economic-development/playing-the-tax-incentive-game/
- Whatever - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 11:22 am:
I’ve finally managed to change my name to Liberty Principles Pac, got a bank account in the name of L.P. Pac, and I’m filing a change of address with the post office so checks mailed to that name at its old address will come to me. We’ll see how long it takes Uihlein to notice that I’m cashing his checks, since he obviously isn’t monitoring how his money is spent.
- Chris P. Bacon - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 11:30 am:
Starting to think Uline might be a Democrat mole. Hard to otherwise explain how throwing so much money at someone with such a bad track record on GOP side and with such awful judgment makes sense.
- California Guy - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 11:45 am:
Uihlein is on the one hand supporting economic liberty candidates for the ILGA but on the other hand supporting Trump. How is that even possible? The Trump trade policy is reminiscent of 1980’s Midwest Democrats mad about foreign auto competition and asking for tariffs. Literally the opposite of economic liberty.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 11:48 am:
Uihlein flips proft another dime and says “don’t spend it all in one place.”
- Jibba - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 12:26 pm:
Soros is pretty low on the list for being public enemy no. 1 at Fox News.
- Perrid - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 2:57 pm:
@Jibba, you forget the fact he’s Jewish. They’ll deny it all day but I’ll eat my hat if it’s not a factor.
Besides that, there’s also all this other stuff: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-george-soros-become-the-favorite-boogeyman-of-the-right-2017-5
- Archpundit - Tuesday, Oct 30, 18 @ 4:00 pm:
If I’m the kids I’m trying to take Dick’s keys away.