Saturday, February 6, 2016

Turns Out Jeb (!) Bush's 'Millennial' Super PAC Is Backed by All Old Dudes

(esquire.com) - Jeb (!) Bush, the one-time frontrunner for the Republican nomination who has spent the last six months stuffed in a locker, has always had good intentions. One of those intentions was to get the Young Go-Hards to vote Republican. So up sprang a Super PAC to (presumably) pay for mass-distributed Snapchats of Jeb (!) inspiring folks then begging them to clap. This Super PAC is called "Millennials Rising," kind of like Jeb (!)'s main Super PAC, "Right to Rise," except more millennial.

Well it turns out there aren't too many millennials rising, at least when it comes to Millennials Rising. The Intercept reports that according to FEC filings, 95 percent of the young PAC's donors are 60 or older. In addition, $50,000 of the $54,000 the PAC has raised has come from millennial billionaire Robert A. Day, who is 72. Read more.

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