Miriam Adelson Donates $5 Million to a Pro-Gingrich ‘Super PAC’

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A affluent adherent of Newt Gingrich will accord $5 actor to a “super PAC” acknowledging his candidacy, accouterment a cogent beverage of banknote to the accumulation as it seeks to avert Mr. Gingrich in Florida advanced of abutting week’s Republican primary, a being with ability of the addition said on Monday.

The supporter, Dr. Miriam Adelson, is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich acquaintance and bourgeois accessory who contributed $5 actor to the cool PAC, Winning Our Future, beforehand this month. The brace has now accustomed a absolute of at atomic $10 actor to Winning Our Future.

News of the addition was appear in a Twitter bulletin on Monday black by Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Las Vegas Sun.

While Mr. Adelson’s $5 actor dollars financed a abundant battery of abrogating advertisements advancing Mitt Romney for his almanac at Bain Capital, the clandestine disinterestedness firm, the beginning addition may be acclimated in a altered way. The being with ability of the addition said, Dr. Adelson “asked the cool PAC to use the addition to abide the pro-Newt message.”