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Meet a Super PAC Donor

January 27, 2012 · 12:31 pm ET · Leave a Comment

We don’t know much about the financial backers of Super PACs, but investor Foster Friess gave a fascinating interview to Bloomberg TV on why he supports Rick Santorum.

Said Friess: “Sometimes I sit back in my armchair and say it would be neat if we could have Santorum as president and put Mitt Romney in charge of the entire economy. Do what we did with homeland security. Put all of the agencies under one roof and make Mitt Romney minister of the economy… I think if I suggested it [to Santorum], he would consider that fairly inappropriate at this stage. I would suggest to Rick that if he becomes president, just turn the keys over to Air Force One to Herman Cain and let him fly around the world selling America.”

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