NY Billionaire Bloomberg gave $1.9 million to Bob Dold-R via his "Independence USA PAC" which is described as "Democratic/Liberal."
Republican Congressman-elect Bob Dold:
GOP Congressman-elect Bob Dold aims to be bipartisan, to pass 'comprehensive immigration reform,' won't work to repeal Obamacare, has favored fixing medical device tax, will stop 'gridlock':
11/5/14, "Dold wins return trip to D.C., says it will be different this time," Chicago Tribune, Gregory Trotter
"After losing his U.S. House re-election bid two years ago, Republican Bob Dold completed his comeback Tuesday night, retaking the seat from Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider. But the second time around in Washington will be different, Dold said Wednesday, in part because of established relationships from his previous term. And there's also the matter of Republicans seizing control of the U.S. Senate.
"We're going to be able to hit the ground running," Dold said in a phone interview. "And with the GOP taking control of Congress, it's incumbent on us
to govern and to solve problems.
"And the only way to get a bill to the president's desk and signed into law
is through bipartisan cooperation," he continued.
Dold celebrated his 10th Congressional District win Tuesday night with his family and more than 200 supporters at Austin's Saloon and Eatery in Libertyville. On Wednesday, he was up early, thanking voters at the Ogilvie and Union train stations in downtown Chicago.
Dold said his top priorities were helping to pass a federal budget that the president will sign and working on comprehensive immigration reform. The latter will take a multipronged approach, he said, including reforming the legal system, border security and the guest worker program, which allows foreigners to work in the United States temporarily.
Dold said his willingness to listen resonated with immigrant communities in the north suburban 10th District, including Latino, Russian and Armenian voters.
"We need to bring them into the Republican tent and make sure they're welcomed, while also making sure we're resolving real-world issues," Dold said.
During the campaign, Schneider hammered Dold on the Affordable Care Act, saying Dold voted 28 times against the health care law.
In interviews, Dold has said only four of those votes were for repeal and the rest were attempts to fix problems with the law such as the medical device tax. Schneider also favored the repeal of the tax on the sale of some medical devices.
On Wednesday, Dold said he wouldn't work toward repeal of the law.
"I'm going to be more focused on — 'How do we fix what's there?'" Dold said. Asked what he made of the Republican Party's big gains on election night, Dold stopped short of saying it was a statement of voter dissatisfaction toward Obama.
Instead, he characterized it as general discontent with gridlock in Washington and invoked a well-worn image from his campaign trail. "I think American people are sitting around the kitchen table, worried about how they're falling behind," Dold said. "I see this as an opportunity to roll up our sleeves and move forward."
In unofficial voting results in Lake County, which makes up the majority of the district, Dold won about 52 percent of the vote over Schneider's 48 percent. In Cook County, Dold claimed about 51 percent of the votes, according to unofficial returns."...
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Why should any Republican "govern from the center" when every single one of them who won yesterday campaigned from the "right" - even if only to distinguish themselves from their Dem opponents who campaigned from the "left"? The voters clearly voted for a change in...Neo-Cinncinnatusat 5:04 PM November 05, 2014
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From OpenSecrets.org:
NY Billionaire Bloomberg Super PAC, Independence USA PAC, "Democratic/Liberal"
gave $1.9 million to Dold:
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Source for Dold, "believing in global warming and in taking steps to slow it:"
4/22/14, "Green GOP Group Caught Between 'Rock And A Hard Place'" npr.org, Frank James
But Democratic environmentalists haven't supported Republicans who are simpatico on conservation — Democrats would prefer one of their own in a seat since that would increase their numbers in Congress and their chances of success on issues beyond the environment.
"We keep saying, 'If you're smart you would help get people like Carl DeMaio [who lost] elected where he can start exerting a new fresh voice in leadership and prove to the Republicans that, hey, you can get by, running on environmental protection and conservation issues,' " Sisson said....
ConservAmerica accepts climate change as a fact, though it doesn't throw that term around a lot — it's too polarizing. Sisson prefers to talk about clean air and water, figuring that if you make progress on those, you also fight climate change.
But ConservAmerica doesn't line up with environmental groups across the board. For instance, the group supports the Keystone XL pipeline. Its reasoning: The pipeline is the safest way to transport the oil from the tar sands. If the pipeline isn't built, the Canadian oil will still be extracted and transported some other way."
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Source for Dold backs gun control and raising minimum wage:
11/4/14, "Dold defeats Schneider in Illinois' 10th Congressional District," AP via Crain's Chicago Business
"Dold supports abortion rights, gun control and raising the minimum wage."
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Outside spending for Illinois R candidate Bob Dold:
In addition to the $1.9 million Bob Dold received from Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC, he was heavily supported by GOP Establishment groups, the Chamber of Commerce lobby, and Republican super PAC for gay rights, American Unity PAC.
*National Republican Campaign Committee-$2.5 million
*Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC- $948,000. This group is an arm of Establishment GOP group, American Action Network:
"The Congressional Leadership Fund is the super PAC arm of American Action Network....The groups share personnel and office space in Washington, D.C., according to Federal Election Commission filings."...
"Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is an adviser to American Action Network,
and Jeb Bush, the former Republican governor of Florida,
is a board member of the associated foundation, American Action Forum."
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Turkish autocrat shares Bloomberg interest in social engineering:
8/25/14, "Bloomberg Funds Corrupt Turkish Autocrat In Global War On Smoking," Daily Caller, Tristyn Bloom
"Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won’t let anything get in the way of his global war on smoking — not even egregious human rights violations."...
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Bloomberg spoke to "packed hall of Turkish bankers" in 2014:
8/23/14, "Michael Bloomberg's Harder Sell," NY Times, Landon Thomas, Jr.
"Michael R. Bloomberg, power-dressed in a dark blue suit, monogrammed white shirt and cuff links, sat down to a late-morning breakfast with local antismoking activists on a rooftop overlooking the glittering Sea of Marmara.
The
group, which included Turkish doctors and public health officials, had
gathered to celebrate the surprising success of a campaign to persuade
Turks, notorious for their love of tobacco, to smoke fewer cigarettes.
It was a campaign formulated and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York.
Mr.
Bloomberg was in an expansive mood, holding forth on Istanbul’s
antiquities and dropping the names of Turkish big shots he has known: Muhtar Kent, the chief executive of Coca-Cola, and Ahmet Ertegun,
the late rock ‘n’ roll magnate. But what Mr. Bloomberg really wanted to
talk about was the success of his antismoking program in Turkey, an
effort that has drawn the passionate support of his newest Turkish pal,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the former prime minister and the country’s just-elected president....
His wealth, meanwhile, keeps expanding. According to Forbes, Mr.
Bloomberg’s net worth grew by $6 billion last year, making him the
world’s 16th-richest person....
After his breakfast with the anti-tobacco activists, Mr. Bloomberg
kicked back on a huge two-story yacht procured by staff members to take
him from his hotel on the Bosporus to the next event on his schedule:
commencement remarks to be delivered at Koc University, an elite institution founded by the billionaire Rahmi Koc, his friend and fellow alumnus from Johns Hopkins University....
He
headlined a company conference that pushed Istanbul as a regional
financial center — hosting a lunch for top clients, local billionaires
and Turkey’s finance minister....The
future belongs to cities, Mr. Bloomberg said to a packed hall of
Turkish bankers as he described his efforts to attack societal ills like
smoking, obesity and traffic deaths.
Of
course, Mr. Bloomberg pushing Bloomberg on Bloomberg TV at a Bloomberg
conference, with Bloomberg terminals everywhere, represents the very
essence of the Bloomberg model....
Mr. Bloomberg, who owns an 88 percent stake in Bloomberg L.P. did not
neglect its corporate imperatives during his two-day visit to Istanbul.
Turkey, with its profitable banks and growing capital markets, is one of
the company’s more dynamic growth areas. Sales of Bloomberg terminals —
which present a mix of news and data to financiers —
have doubled there
since 2009."...
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April 2013, "Bloomberg Doha Conference"
Bloomberg hosts business conference in Doha, Qatar.
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10/29/14, "Qatar Awareness Campaign: Letter to Michael Bloomberg #StopQatarNow," counterjihadreport.com
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Nov.-Dec., 2012, Doha, Qatar hosts global warming climate summit
12/6/12, "Qatar to set up Climate Change Research Institute," thepeninsulaqatar.com
"DOHA: Qatar has entered into a strategic partnership with the globally renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) to set up the region’s pioneering Climate Change Research Institute and a Global Climate Change Forum in Doha.
Qatar Foundation (QF) and the Potsdam Institute jointly announced the partnership in the presence of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres at a function held on the sidelines of COP18/CMP8 yesterday."...
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2/12/2008, "Mayor (Bloomberg) Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism," NY Sun, Benny Avni, United Nations
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Bloomberg addresses United Nations global warming climate summit in 2008:
2/12/2008, "Bloomberg: Global Warming "As Lethal" As Terrorism," Gothamist, J. Chung. photo above of Bloomberg at UN from Gothamist
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-----------------------------Bloomberg hosts business conference in Doha, Qatar.
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10/29/14, "Qatar Awareness Campaign: Letter to Michael Bloomberg #StopQatarNow," counterjihadreport.com
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Nov.-Dec., 2012, Doha, Qatar hosts global warming climate summit
12/6/12, "Qatar to set up Climate Change Research Institute," thepeninsulaqatar.com
"DOHA: Qatar has entered into a strategic partnership with the globally renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) to set up the region’s pioneering Climate Change Research Institute and a Global Climate Change Forum in Doha.
Qatar Foundation (QF) and the Potsdam Institute jointly announced the partnership in the presence of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres at a function held on the sidelines of COP18/CMP8 yesterday."...
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2/12/2008, "Mayor (Bloomberg) Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism," NY Sun, Benny Avni, United Nations
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Bloomberg addresses United Nations global warming climate summit in 2008:
2/12/2008, "Bloomberg: Global Warming "As Lethal" As Terrorism," Gothamist, J. Chung. photo above of Bloomberg at UN from Gothamist
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In 2012 alone $1 billion a day was spent on the notion of "global warming." Euractiv
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