Buchanan, a former Republican, heads the Reform Party founded by Texas billionaire Ross Perot.
Mikhail Prokhorov, billionaire leader of the Right Cause party, a business-friendly grouping that plans to run in December parliamentary elections, told a magazine interviewer recently that Russia reminded him of Egypt before the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
This is nothing short of a coordinated effort between the billionaire foundations pushing school reform and Tea Party conservatives intent on slashing benefits and ending collective bargaining rights.
He also used to own the 11, 000-square foot Manhattan loft where Jerry Seinfeld was married and Chelsea Clinton had a birthday party before selling it to billionaire Ronald Burkle.
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The biggest recipients of billionaire cash tend to be presidential candidates, party campaign committees and congressional leaders.
Or will the billionaire be haunted by his reputation as a party boy for the rest of his life?
After a billionaire businessman attempted to rejuvenate a liberal opposition party called Right Cause, the Kremlin organized a clumsy internal coup to remove him.
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The party also raised substantial sums recently from billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis, a Republican running for mayor this year.
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Since then, he has tried to seize control of the party from its founder, the Texan billionaire Ross Perot - a move which has opened up deep divisions among activists.
The billionaire Koch brothers are high-profile figures in the Republican Party who support conservative and libertarian causes.
The Kremlin tried to manage the discontent, backing a plan by the billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov to revive a pro-business political party that would help to keep the middle class within the bounds of the system in the December elections.
But backed by his billionaire brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, he formed the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) last year.
But he could emerge as a behind-the-scenes player in future races, a role similar to that played by Thomas Golisano, the billionaire businessman who lost three races for governor and founded the state's Independence Party.
But, the controversial billionaire Koch brothers (Charles and David) are no newcomers to this (tea)party.
The billionaire businessman, who jumped into politics two decades ago by forming his own center-right party, has long blamed his many criminal cases on prosecutors he contends side with the left.
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