Many of Romney’s very biggest donors have policy agendas at odds with those Romney has stated, I pointed out last month, after we got to peek inside his SuperPAC coffers. At least one of those million-dollar donors seems to expect Romney, if he becomes president, to come around to his way of seeing things, this Politico report suggests.
I wrote this about 7-figure Romney donor Julian Robertson:
He favors tax increases, especially on the wealthy, as a way of shrinking the deficit. In a 2009 CNBC interview, Robertson called George W. Bush’s post-9/11 tax cuts “awful,” and criticized Obama for not raising taxes.
Robertson also has a big-government environmentalist streak. He sits on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund, and he has hired K Street lobbyists (including now-Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.) to advance the Warner-Lieberman bill that would have capped industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses — in effect a tax on burning coal and oil.
Robertson also has a big-government environmentalist streak. He sits on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund, and he has hired K Street lobbyists (including now-Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.) to advance the Warner-Lieberman bill that would have capped industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses — in effect a tax on burning coal and oil.
Politico quotes Robertson’s spokesman saying this:
“In terms of the environment and climate-change controls, which he does believe is one of the most important issues the country and the world faces, he has confidence that Romney, once he’s in there, will do the right thing,”
If “the right thing” for Robertson means what I take it to mean, Romney’s playing somebody. And what should Republicans think about another 7-figure donor — gay-marriage crusade Paul Singer.
[via Brad Johnson at ThinkProgress]
