Who's Financing The Right Wing Coup d'Etat Against American Democracy?

The virulently-- and historically-- anti-democracy Koch family usually gets blamed for the financial elite's move against the democratic form of government they and other obscenely rich conservatives have always despised and feared. The move to get rid of democracy once and for all is really rolling now and it goes way beyond just the Kochs.

Organized crime figure and reputed operative for the governments of both China and Israel, Sheldon Adelson and his Israeli wife, are now the biggest contributors to the Republican Party, to the campaign to elect Mitt Romney and to both Eric Cantor and John Boehner. Adelson, under investigation for a myriad of serious national security violations as well as for corruption at home and abroad, has given Boehner and Cantor $5,000,000 each, an unprecedented amount of money for congressional efforts in the history of America, a bribe made possible by the 5 anti-democratic corporate whores on the Supreme Court-- Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito.

A lot of the unregulated cash flowing into the Romney efforts go to the Restore Our Future superPAC, which, illegally, is 100% coordinated with Romney's campaign. Many of the biggest donors are shadowy figure who have become commonly known names now. Each of these has given at least a million dollars to Restore Our Future:

• Sheldon Adelson- Vegas and Macau gambling magnate or organized crime figure in both countries. Accused of running a huge prostitution business in China that has made him one of the richest and most corrupt men in the word. (Seems to have taken control of Romney crony and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon through the congressman's gambling addiction.) Donation: $5 million

• Miriam Adelson (nee: Ochshorn)- Sheldon's Israeli wife, a drug addiction specialist, known for pushing methadone treatment, which has destroyed tens of thousands of lives. Donation: $5 million

• Bob Perry- Houston home builder and the original financier of the swiftboat scumbags Total donations: $6 million

• F8 LLC and Eli Publishing- Very shady Provo-based firms that share an address and are eager to finance a Mormon take over of America. Both have been linked to former executives of Nu Skin, a Utah-based skin care and cosmetics company. Total donations: $2 million

• Oxbow Carbon & Minerals- a West Palm Beach-based firm run by Bill Koch, third of the notorious neo-Nazi Koch brothers. Total Oxbow Carbon and Koch donations: $2 million

• Julian Robertson- Predatory hedge fund manipulator and major credit default swap crook. Total donations: $1.3 million

• Frank VanderSloot- Obsessed with hatred of gay people, an Idaho pyramid scheme crook and Mormon supremacist who runs fake nutritional and makeup company, Melaleuca. Total donations: $1.1 million

• Kenneth Griffin- Chicago-based hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel LLC. Total donations: $1.1 million

• Huron Carbon- another shady company that shares its address in Florida with Oxbow Carbon. Donation: $1 million

• Crow Holdings- Dallas-based investment firm managing the wealth of the family of the late Dallas real estate mogul Trammell Crow, whose sons Harlan and Trammell S. Crow are also donors. Total Crow Holdings and Crow donations: $1.3 million

• John Paulson- another sleazy hedge fund manager who, like so many Romney top financial supporters, became fabulously wealthy by short-selling subprime mortgages and tanking the American economy for their own private gain. None have ever gone to trial, one of Obama's greatest shortcomings. Donation: $1 million

• John Kleinheinz- Texas hedge fund manager and violent criminal thug. Donation: $1 million

• Edward Conard- Another Bain Capital vulture who headed the Wall Street operation for the Boston based Romney corporate raisers and outsourcers Donation: $1 million

• Paul and Sandra Edgerly- Paul Edgerly is another Bain Capital predator who got rich destroying businesses across America. Total donations: $1 million

• Robert Mercer- Uber-sleazy, far right hedge fund manager at Renaissance Technologies. Donation: $1 million

• Paul Singer- Another corrupt hedge fund criminal (Elliott Management) and swiftboat financier who buys distressed debt cheaply and sells it at a profit, often by suing for full payment. Donation: $1 million

• Rooney Holdings Inc (AKA- Rooney Brothers)- private investment operation and owner of Manhattan Construction, which builds large projects at taxpayer expense, bilking everyone along the way of all the money they can. Total donations: $1 million

• Richard Marriott- Key member of Romney's Mormon Mafia. Total donations: $1 million

• J.W. Marriott Jr.- Another Key member of Romney's Mormon Mafia. Total donations: $1 million

• Steven Webster- Predatory leveraged buyout specialist at Avista Capital in Houston. Total donations: $1 million

• John Childs- Another predatory leveraged buyout specialist, founder of J.W. Childs Associates LP in Florida. Donation: $1 million

• Robert Brockman- CEO at Reynolds and Reynolds, a Dayton, Ohio-based car dealership support company that shares a P.O. Box with CRC Information Systems Inc, Fairbanks Properties LLC and Waterbury Properties LLC, which split the donation three ways. Total donations: $1 million

• Miguel Fernandez- chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm. MBF Family Investments also donated to the Super PAC. Total donations: $1 million

On top of that, of course, is American Crossroads, the swiftboating operation being run against Democrats by Rove. As of the end of June they had raised over $40 million. Their million dollar and above donors include:

• Harold Simmons- billionaire Dallas bankster and father of the leveraged buy-out scheme who operates on the premise that the rich shouldn't pay taxes; currently owner and CEO of Contran Corp. Total donations: $11 million

• Bob Perry- (See above) Total donations: $4.5 million

• Joe Craft- Billionaire coal executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma, CEO of Alliance Holdings, which is also a donor. Total donations: $2.1 million

• Contran Corp- Simmons' Dallas-based maker of titanium components. Total donations: $2 million

• Jerry Perenchio Living Trust- a trust of billionaire television tycoon A. Jerrold Perenchio, who is a former chairman of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Donation: $2 million

• Crow Holdings - Dallas-based real estate investment firm. Total donations: $1.5 million
• Robert Rowling- an Irving, Texas, businessman and a conservative and active Republican donor. Donation: $1 million

• TRT Holdings, Inc- Anti-gay fanatic Robert Rowling's company which runs the Omni Hotel and Gold's Gyms chains. Total donation to Rove's operations: over $6 million

• Robert Brockman- (See above) Total donations: $1 million

• Whiteco Industries- Indiana-based company involved in advertising, construction entertainment and hotels. Donation: $1 million

• Philip Geier- Propaganda expert. Total donations: $1 million

• Irving Moskowitz- Like Adelson, a shady gambling magnate and Florida bingo executive who supports Israeli's taking over Palestinian land in East Jerusalem Donation: $1 million

• Kenneth Griffin- (see above) Total donations: $1 million

This week ThinkProgress made some important points about how normal people should avoid the cash cows that give these ruthless predators the wealth they've been amassing for their assault on democracy. It's no just about not hiring prostitutes in Macau either. You have to be especially careful about what you use to wipe your bum, the Koch brothers, appropriately, owning much of the toilet paper industry.