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Bill Maher Cuts $1M Check To Obama Super PAC



Feb 24, 2012 10 Comments ›› Angelia

CBS:

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher on Thursday night announced he’s donating $1 million to Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting President Obama.

Maher brought out a large check during a live performance of his show “StupidCrazyPolitics” in San Jose, California. The comedian tweeted that the donation was a surprise to Yahoo, which broadcast the standup performance.

There are no limits to the dollar amount donors can give to super PACs, and the rise of the third party groups has created a collection of well-heeled donors who are investing significant sums of money to influence the 2012 election. Maher isn’t the only high-profile figure supporting the pro-Obama group — Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, the fifth biggest super PAC player, gave $2 million to Priorities USA Action last May, and Steven Spielberg has also donated $100,00 to the group.

Still, Maher’s donation is big news for Priorities USA Action — the group raised only about $59,000 in January. Meanwhile, the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future and the pro-Newt Gingrich group Winning Our Future raised a combined $17 million last month.

Meet the biggest donors of the 2012 campaign


  • hammer666

    And this is news? What a surprise…on both the event and it’s reporting….another wine-enema liberal drinker………

  • remmy

    Probably wants to open a green energy company and needs a couple $100 million from the government to start it up.

    • http://profiles.google.com/moriah.steiner Moriah Steiner

       Yeah, maybe I should start a green start-up company…on the concept that an ameoba that eats BS turns it into energy that fuels electricity. We could start at the White House.

    • Babblerouser

      now that right there is some funny shit.

  • http://profiles.google.com/moriah.steiner Moriah Steiner

    Good, I love to see a fool separated from his money…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OFIU7BJVFVC7JJ5LRR7JOYCVLU LIBERTYvallance

    Here’s hoping Bill is found hung in a closet in Bangkok

  • Skeena73

    If that ugly rat faced son of a bitch isn’t the most abrasive P.O.S. on planet earth he’s uptight for second place. Now i gotta go take some meds! 

  • uclimbit

    Nice to see him wasting his money.

  • claspur

    Stupid Jew hateing Jew…. too damn stupid to see that Soetoro’s allies- the Taliban, Al Qaida and Hezbollah will lop his head probably faster than any westernized Christians.

  • Gator

    The best part of Bill Maher ran down his fathers leg!