cdarwin, One major #Republican #donor is pouring millions into groups funding the #anti-#abortion candidates in three battleground states: #Virginia, #Pennsylvania, and #Kentucky.
He is also one of the largest personal shareholders in the viral social media network, #TikTok.#Jeff #Yass founded the options trading firm #Susquehanna #Investment #Group, and is now worth a cool $28 billion.
One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.A longtime member of the advisory board at the #Cato #Institute and a top donor to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Yass, 67, self-identifies as a #libertarian
— a political philosophy that would seem to be at odds with the desire to increase #government #control of women’s health care decisions.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tiktok-billionaire-yass-gop-donor-abortion-1234859270/
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