| − | '''Freedom’s Watch''' was founded this summer by a dozen wealthy [[conservatives]]. Among the group’s founders are Sheldon G. Adelson, the chairman and chief executive of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Mel Sembler, a shopping center magnate based in St. Petersburg, Fla., John M. Templeton Jr., the conservative philanthropist from Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Anthony H. Gioia, a former ambassador to Malta who heads an investment group based in Buffalo, N.Y.; Matt Brooks, head of the Republican Jewish Coalition and donors close to Vice President [[Dick Cheney]]. | + | '''Freedom’s Watch''' was founded in 2007 by a dozen wealthy [[conservatives]]. Among the group’s founders are Sheldon G. Adelson, the chairman and chief executive of the [[Las Vegas]] Sands Corporation, Mel Sembler, a shopping center magnate based in St. Petersburg, Fla., John M. Templeton Jr., the conservative philanthropist from Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Anthony H. Gioia, a former ambassador to Malta who heads an investment group based in Buffalo, N.Y.; Matt Brooks, head of the Republican Jewish Coalition and donors close to Vice President [[Dick Cheney]]. |