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Former GOP Donor Goes in Big for Gary Johnson With $117,000 to His Campaign

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 08:45

Gary Johnson's Libertarian Party campaign for president received its biggest single donation, pushing very near the legal maximum with $117,000 from B. Wayne Hughes Jr.

The donation went to the Gary Johnson Victory Fund, a special joint fundraising committee formed by the Johnson campaign and a group of state Libertarian Parties. This committee can currently legally take a maximum of $122,700 from individual donors.

Hughes' father founded the company Public Storage, and Hughes is on its board of directors. He described his fortune as deriving from "real estate" in a phone interview last night.

Hughes had, as he said, a "long history of donating to the Republican Party" and was "involved as a donor in both Bush campaigns." He had also been a major funder of Karl Rove's American Crossroads PAC that helped win Congress for the GOP in 2010.

Hughes was also a major funder of California's Proposition 47,...

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