Mother Jones
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Two billionaires—one an eccentric ex-CEO with a striking resemblance to Tony Stark, the other a car dealer with a low public profile—have led the way in bankrolling the super-PAC backing Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. Conservative Solutions PAC brought in a total of nearly $16 million in the first half of the year, putting Rubio’s unlimited-donations group in third among super-PACs backing Republican presidential candidates, behind just Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, which raised a towering $103 million, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s Unintimidated PAC, which brought in $20 million.
Larry Ellison, the Iron Man-esque founder of Oracle, gave $3 million to Conservative Solutions PAC in the first six months of 2015, according to the group’s first filing with the Federal Election Commission, released Friday. Ellison hosted a fundraiser for Rubio in June, sparking speculation about how dedicated he was to the Florida senator. A few million might not mean much to Ellison, the world’s fifth-richest man with a net worth of $54 billion, but the fact that he is indeed backing up his support with cash is significant to Rubio.
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