Rubashkin Family Members Large Republican Campaign Contributors

The Federal Elections Commission records show Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin gave…

…$23,750 in federal campaign contributions from the year 2000 onward. That is Sholom Rubashkin only. The rest of his family also donated.

Most donations have gone to Republican candidates or to groups like the Republican Party of Iowa, which received $5,750 from Sholom M. Rubashkin from 2002 through 2004.

The Des Moines Register, which compiled this information, missed Sholom Rubashkin's brother-in-law (Aaron Rubashkin's son-in-law) Rabbi Milton Balkany, who stole $750,00 in federal grant money intended for disabled students and whose heavy donations to various Republican candidates bundled with similar donations from his family and close friends, earned him the moniker "The Brooklyn Bundler."

The Federal Elections Commission shows over $100,000 in campaign contributions from the Balkany family. Family members often "misspell" their first names which makes it appear to the FEC that several people, rather than one person, has contributed. (FEC part 1, part 2.)

The Balkany family's contributions went largely to Republicans.

Comments

[yidandahalf]

Shmarya, Can you find anything going back to before Bush was in office? In the words of a Monsanto big wig when asked what Monsanto would do if a certain candidate won in the elections that put Clinton in: "It doesn't matter who gets in, we'll get what we want." The meat industry pays off everybody.

What is wrong with them donating to the party that is more likely to protect them from the antics of the self-hating liberal PETA cry-babies?

[yidandahalf]

I doubt the Republican party or any other party will defend anyone against Peta. What an absurd post.

yidandahalf.

what an absurd name.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I have nothing against schechita or consumption of meat. After all, animals kill animals. I just maintain it should be done as humanely as possible within the confines of halacha. If that makes me a crybaby, I am proud to bear that title.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Both political parties are corrupt as hell. That is why I am an independent. If more people were, maybe the republicrats and demicans would get the message.

[yidandahalf]

Me too, I am now an independant.

[GOP member]

Well, what's wrong in being a Republican, besides that this time you support the losing side. I actually would expect Rubashkin to support the Democrats and would not be surprised if they change affiliation ASAP. These people would pay their way as they always did.
GOPM

[Yochanan Lavie]

GOP: I usually (but not always) vote republican. I can't bring myself to join them, because of the Bushes and their like. And yes, money knows no party lines. Look at the Saudi money going into presidential libraries of both Reps & Dems.