He is a billionaire several times
over, a supporter of conservative causes, candidates, and organizations,
including campaigns of the anti-immigrant former Colorado Congressman
Tom Tancredo and the Intelligent Design-peddling Discovery Institute,
and he's been a backer of anti-gay rights initiatives. He owns The
Weekly Standard, a highly partisan conservative magazine, recently sold
the conservative Examiner newspapers, but rarely will speak to the
press.
After devoting years of
building a massive Disneyesque entertainment complex in Los Angeles
called L.A. Live - which tapped into tens of millions of government
dollars -- he now has his eyes on building a $1 billion stadium in L.A.
and securing a National Football League team for the city. He's also
been putting the finishing touches on a deal that would have his company
running the Coliseum complex in Oakland, California.
He
is a native Kansan, and although he's not related to the
multi-billionaire Kansas Koch Brothers, he certainly shares many of
their interests.
We're talking Philip Anschutz, who, in 1999, was labeled the nation's "greediest executive" by Fortune magazine.
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