Hedge Fund Manager Gives $21 Million to Pro-Clinton Super-PAC, Pushing Campaign Finance Reform

Matea Gold for WaPo on an unusual plutocrat:

The Florida-based investor said he has contributed $40 million to Democratic super PACs and allied groups in 2016, double what he had planned to spend at the beginning of the election. He said he was driven by the desire “to leave my children a better country” by helping elect candidates who will restructure a system that allows such huge donations in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision…

Sussman said he has had limited interaction with Clinton as she has made her second presidential run — just a quick conversation in which they discussed overhauling the campaign finance system. “I’m not into the face time with the politicians,” he said. “I have had a four-minute conversation with her, where she assured me this is a top priority.”

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