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</div><div>ThE STRANGE REPUBLICAN OBSESSION with attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a new low in a commercial break during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston on Thursday night.</div><div>
</div><div data-reactid="212" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/jewishaction/status/1172330589468315648" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">widely reviled</a> commercial, which aired on ABC and was paid for by <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00700252" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">donors to the GOP New Faces PAC</a>, opened with a photograph of the young Latinx congresswoman’s face being set on fire to reveal images of the 1970s genocide in Cambodia underneath.[vid]The attack ad was narrated by the Cambodian-American daughter of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, who offered the preposterous claim that Ocasio-Cortez’s democratic socialist ideals are the same as those of the radical Maoist militants who killed up to one-fourth of Cambodia’s population in the late 1970s.</div><div data-reactid="215" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism?” the narrator, Elizabeth Heng, says. “My father was minutes from death in Cambodia, before a forced marriage saved his life. That’s socialism. Forced obedience. Starvation.”Heng’s comparison of the Democrat’s ideology to that of the genocidal Cambodian regime is strongly ahistorical. In fact, as the journalist William Shawcross explained in his book, “<a href="https://rowman.com/isbn/9780815412243/sideshow-kissinger-nixon-and-the-destruction-of-cambodia-revised-edition" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia</a>,” the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge rebels in Cambodia was facilitated by the secret bombing campaign started in 1969 by a Republican president, Richard Nixon, and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. The Khmer Rouge finally seized power in Cambodia six years later, but its reign of terror, Shawcross wrote, was “born out of the inferno that American policy did much to create.”The American assault on Cambodia, Shawcross wrote, was “not merely disproportionate but counter-productive and destructive of the values they were meant to defend.”As <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1979/06/28/the-crime-of-cambodia/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Stanley Hoffmann observed</a> in his review of “Sideshow” in the New York Review of Books in 1979, “Our methodical destruction of Cambodia and the swelling of the cities (once called ‘forced draft urbanization’) prepared the ground for the savage execution, by the Pol Pot regime, of the anti-city policy that Khieu Samphan, the future chief of state of that regime, had recommended in his Paris thesis of 1959.”As Hoffman noted, the radical, totalitarian economic policies of the Khmer Rouge were devised by Khieu Samphan, an economist with a doctorate from the Sorbonne, who <a href="https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/the-economist-behind-the-khmer-rouge/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">argued in his dissertation</a> that the kind of work done in Cambodia’s cities by bureaucrats, merchants, and bankers was “unproductive.”In his academic analysis of Cambodia’s economic structure, years before the genocide, Khieu Samphan had written: “These branches of activity add no value to the society from the perspective of the economy as a whole. They simply profit from a transfer of value issuing from other productive activities within society (agriculture, crafts, small industry). And the transfer of produce within society does not enlarge the total value of production obtained by society in any way.”But the distinction “between productive and unproductive work,” which was later used to justify the Khmer Rouge’s radical experiment in which office workers were driven from Phnom Penh at gunpoint to perform forced agricultural labor in the countryside, was <a href="https://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN.html?chapter_num=18#book-reader" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">first described</a> by the father of capitalism, the Scottish economist Adam Smith.In his account of how the ensuing years of American bombing and invasion helped to radicalize the militants, Shawcross also focused on how Kissinger was able to evade blame from the Washington press corps for the mass slaughter of Cambodian civilians killed before the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975.“Washington is the only capital city in the world where information is so freely available that political and diplomatic reporting can be done without the gift of ‘access.’ But paradoxically, Washington is also the city where ‘access’ is both most easily obtained and most treasured,” Shawcross wrote. “Kissinger understood from the start that many of the town’s best-known journalists consider themselves essential to the business of government. When they are critical, it is in the most intimate sense; their comments are not intended to disrupt their relations with the men at the center whose opinions they seek to interpret and convey.”</div><div data-reactid="225" style="box-sizing: border-box;">At the end of the ad, Heng picks up on the Republican talking point that the progressive congresswoman of color is somehow racist for calling out white supremacy.“Mine is a face of freedom,” Heng says, “my skin is not white, I’m not outrageous, racist nor socialist. I’m a Republican.”Heng was a Republican candidate for Congress in 2018, losing to Democratic Rep. Jim Costa in California’s 16th Congressional District in Fresno. The Fresno Bee <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article235044382.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> that Heng’s <a href="http://www.newfacespac.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New Faces GOP PAC</a> “so far has raised under $200,000, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Most of its top donors are from outside the Central Valley.”“Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me on fire to convince people they aren’t racist. Life is weird!” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1172323323641905165" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">responded on Twitter</a>. “Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color — that was the pretense. What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case.”</div><div>  ==<div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/09/whos-funding-the-controversial-anti-aoc-political-ad/">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/09/whos-funding-the-controversial-anti-aoc-political-ad/</a></div><div>
</div><div>When <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00041162" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a>’s picture appeared — burned, melted away amid a pile of skeletons — in a TV ad aired during breaks on Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, controversy quickly rose as many <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/politics/aoc-criticizes-attack-ad/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">criticized ABC News</a> for running the graphic video.</div><div>
</div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1172328830842703873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1172328830842703873&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fcongress%2Falexandria-ocasio-cortez-condemns-republican-pac-ad-shows-her-face-n1054066" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">half-minute ad</a> featured former congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng, who <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2018&id=CA16" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; text-decoration-line: none;">lost her race </a>against incumbent Rep. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00026341" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Costa</a> (D-Calif.) last year. Heng, a daughter of Cambodian refugees, attacked the New York Democrat’s image as “the face of socialism and ignorance.”<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Ocasio-Cortez quickly responded to the attack on Twitter, calling the ad <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1172323323641905165" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">an act of white supremacy</a>. Heng countered by bashing on the Democrats as <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizabethHeng/status/1172328300418650112" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">“supporting an evil ideology.”</a><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The group behind the ad — <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00700252&cycle=2020" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New Faces GOP PAC</a> — is a recently formed super PAC funded mainly by Republican donors and little-known corporations, most of whom <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-gop-super-pac-burns-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-likeness-in-debate-night-ad?ref=scroll" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">also gave money to Heng’s campaign</a>. The group’s <a href="https://www.newfacespac.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">website</a> says its goal is to “help elevate the next generation of Republicans so that we can not only survive as a party, but expand beyond the boundaries we’ve set for ourselves.” <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The group has received <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00700252&cycle=2020" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">nearly $171,000</a> from 22 donors since January. It spent $71,800 — almost half of what it raised — airing the ad in the nation’s capital during and after the Thursday debate, according to Federal Communications Commission records in OpenSecrets’ <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/ad-data" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">political ad database</a>.<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The super PAC is mostly funded by longtime GOP donors and a handful of obscure companies. <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Venture capitalist <a href="https://bullpencap.com/team/paul-martino" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Martino</a>, who founded San Francisco firm Bullpen Capital, wrote a $25,000 check to the new group. A longtime Republican donor, Martino <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Paul+Martino&order=desc&sort=D" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">maxed out contributions</a> to Sen. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00030836" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rand Paul</a> (R-Ky.) and his leadership PAC <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00493924" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Reinventing a New Direction</a>, as well as Reps. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00038779" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Brian Fitzpatrick</a> (R-Pa.) and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00027229" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Fitzpatrick</a> (R-Pa.) over the years. Martino’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00487298" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">River Horse PAC</a> also gave $2,000 to Heng’s campaign last year.  <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">New York businessman Andrew Sabin, an active donor to both Republicans and conservation causes, contributed $10,000 to New Faces GOP. He’s the most prolific donor to fund the Heng-related group, having given hundreds of thousands to Republican candidates and groups including $100,000 to President <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/candidate?id=N00023864" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>’s joint fundraising committee, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/jfc/summary.php?id=C00618389" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Victory</a>. <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Apart from big individual donors, the super PAC also attracted money from California holding companies and shell entities. <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Tov Investments, LLC made the largest contribution of those companies at $25,000. The limited-liability corporation is a property investment company for Millbrae resident Karen Tov and other members of her family, according to California business records. Members of the Tov family gave <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=tov&cycle=&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=Elizabeth+Heng" style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$21,600</a> to Heng’s campaign in 2018. <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Hanna Trust DTD, a shell corporation affiliated with California businessman David Hanna, gave $10,000 to the group. Hanna, the son of legendary animator William Hanna, gave $5,400 to Heng last year. An active Republican donor, he gave a total of $175,000 to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/karl-rove-crossroads-gps-is-dead-long-live-dark-money-operation/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">once-mighty</a> Karl Rove-affiliated <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cycle=2014&cmte=C00487363" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Crossroads</a> super PAC between the 2012 and 2016 election cycles.<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Shiralian Enterprises — which gave $5,000 — is an umbrella company for gas stations and truck stops owned by Fresno businessman Shawn Shiralian, according to California business records. Shiralian contributed $2,700 to Heng in 2018 and is an active donor to Rep. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00007248" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Devin Nunes</a> (R-Calif.).  Another donor corporation, T Management Services, Inc, is an obscure consulting firm owned by Long Beach businessman Gary DeLong, according to California business records. DeLong, a former Long Beach city council member, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?&id=CA47&cycle=2012" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">ran unsuccessfully</a> for California’s 47th District seat in 2012. He also gave $2,700 to Heng in 2018 and chipped in another $12,500 to the House Republicans’ <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00504530" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Congressional Leadership Fund</a> super PAC. Other donors to give $10,000 include the owner of a California onion farm and the senior advisor at a Los Angeles private equity firm.One of the group’s original largest donors, California businessman James Jameson, had his $25,000 contribution <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00700252/?tab=spending" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">refunded</a> in June. The former George H.W. Bush administration official gave $5,400 to Heng’s unsuccessful 2018 campaign and is a longtime donor to California Republicans. Jameson is now part of a <a href="https://b612foundation.org/members/james-d-jameson/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">planetary defense group</a> that aims to protect Earth against asteroids. In 2011, he <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/books/sdut-entrepreneuraposs-international-insights-2012apr28-htmlstory.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">published a memoir</a> detailing his business career, which involved starting businesses in former communist countries, and reflecting on the successes and shortcomings of capitalism.<div></div></div>