NYT: The Conservative Force Behind Speeches Roiling College Campuses

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/us/college-conservative-speeches.html

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Regarding ^ - Generally I don't have a problem if conservatives want to pay various conservatives' speaking fees to go speak at universities that they hope to influence, but if they are paying people like Milo and/or Coulter and other people like that to go speak there, I would have to question the financiers' motives as well. People like Coulter are garbage trolls who seek to profit off of outrage. There is really no educational value in listening to those kinds of people.

[Virginiá]

What about Steyer? He has given massive amounts of money to liberal PACs and party organizations. Soros seems to spread a lot of money around to groups involved in things other than elections, while Steyer dumps more than 75 million every 2 years into various election-related efforts.

Once Soros passes away, my guess is Steyer will take his place in this regard.

[Virginiá]

Soros has a son, who I fully expect will take up the mantle.

I've really been wondering about that. Soros passing on would leave a fairly large gap in some areas, but I did notice his son giving a million here and there last year, so it has got me curious since then.

I do also recall seeing Soros having some upcoming money issues:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/george-soros-s-tax-bill

No idea what that means for their future political spending, though.