Here’s a Chicago Tribune piece on Rahm Emanuel donors, many of them in the financial community, getting in big bucks before new campaign finance laws kicked in Jan. 1. It’s a reminder of the degree to which Democrats have become a big-business party. I of course looked for Israel-lobby names, but there aren’t many that are obvious. Except Haim Saban, the “ardent Zionist,” as he once characterized himself. Scary amount of money. Though Emanuel set a cap on $100,000 a donor! A friend told me lately that Emanuel has no ideology and would be for a democratic state from the river to the sea if that is where the money was, but it isn’t…
Emanuel said that because of the self-imposed limit, his campaign returned $300,000 of the $400,000 in cash donated by Haim Saban, the CEO of Fox Family and a longtime supporter. But records show Saban also provided more than $10,000 in donated fundraising services to Emanuel’s campaign. Saban’s wife, Cheryl, also gave $100,000 in cash to Emanuel, and also contributed $10,000 worth of fundraising services.
