Harold Simmons, the right wing Dallas billionaire who underwrote both the John Kerry Swift Boat effort and the anti-Obama Bill Ayers campaign, is dead at age 82. I wrote about him in 2008 because it turned out that Simmons and his wife were best pals with Oprah Winfrey. Huh? Yes. Simmons donated $5 million to … Continue reading Oprah’s Politically Opposite Billionaire Republican Pal, Harold Simmons, Is Dead