The 78-year heir to the Estée Lauder fortune has two simple reasons for why he’s funneling more than $11 million into the effort to elect Rep. Lee Zeldin governor of New York.
The 78-year heir to the Estée Lauder fortune has two simple reasons for why he’s funneling more than $11 million into the effort to elect Rep. Lee Zeldin governor of New York: he just wants to see a balance in power and lower crime. “I’m no ogre,” Ronald Lauder told“It’s a question of one thing I believe in, always have. I want two parties. I want a Republican and a Democratic Party.
When you have just one party, I believe things go wrong.” Lauder has spent nearly the most among state political donors on behalf of Zeldin, who Gov. Kathy Hochul believes Lauder has sponsored over a vendetta against estate taxes, according toLauder’s efforts are not limited to Zeldin alone; he has also spent millions to block Democrats’ efforts to gerrymander the state. “There’s no way we would have succeeded on redistricting without Ronald Lauder,” former GOP Rep.
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