Showing posts with label Ricketts clan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ricketts clan. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Trump-endorsed Herbster loses in Nebraska

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  Tuesday's results were an indication of how much voters weighed the allegations against Herbster and turned to Pillen, who is backed...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Typhus, which claimed the greatest number of lives at Auschwitz in 1942-1943, breaks out in LA

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Health officials warn of typhus outbreak in downtown L.A. : It spreads when fleas become infected with bacteria known as Rickettsia t...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Booted from committee by Boehner, now voters boot anti-Trumper Rep. Tim Huelskamp entirely

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Former House Speaker John Boehner famously booted  Freedom Caucus members Tim Huelskamp, Justin Amash, Walter Jones and David Schweikert f...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Wayward child Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts endorses Donald Trump, as does former Gov. Dave Heineman

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Trump takes a scalp, as it were CNN reports here : Some of the Ricketts family in Nebraska spent millions to defeat Donald Trump. ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

#NeverTrump Ricketts family billion$ behind the delegate poaching effort benefiting Ted Cruz in North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming

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From the story here : After that contest [North Dakota], Brian Baker, a senior adviser to the PAC [Our Principles PAC], issued a state...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Marlene Ricketts of Chicago Cubs/TD Ameritrade fame is funding #NeverTrumper Erick Erickson, spending nearly $15 million so far against Trump

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Reported here  with FEC documentation here : So it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out that Erick Erickson’s media ventur...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

The daughter of anti-Trump billionaire Marlene Ricketts is a gay activist and bundler for Barack Obama

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Seen here : Laura M. Ricketts is co-owner of the Chicago Cubs. Ricketts is also a board member of Lambda Legal and the Housing Opportu...

Marlene Ricketts, whose family bought the always-losing Chicago Cubs in 2009, is bankrolling the anti-Trump effort

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The New York Times reports here : The wife of Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade and a major Republican donor, wrote a $3 mi...