| And so we see that the coming election will be even more interesting than previously thought. |
Well, not the billionaire himself, but the Open Society Policy Center, the Washington-based advocacy affiliate of his Open Society Foundations.
Soros and his generous support of liberal causes, through his philanthropy and his personal political spending, have long been the subject of conservative ire. But, until now, he hasn't done much on the formal lobbying front, and the group's huge increase in reported spending -- it hit $11 million in 2013, more than triple the $3.25 million it spent the previous year -- has drawn remarkably little notice.
The big jump placed the Soros group 27th in a recent year-end lobbying tally by the Center for Responsive Politics -- just below defense giant General Dynamics and ahead of corporate powerhouses Dow Chemical, Chevron and Microsoft
...producers of Windows, Office, and the late Microsoft Bob, contributed $852,167 to the 2008 Obama campaign... .