Linda Pritzker the reclusive 50-year-old heiress to part of the Hyatt Hotel fortune, shows up on some campaign finance watchdog lists as the most generous of all political donors in Texas. The second of five children of billionaire Robert Pritzker, a co-founder of that chain. Pritzker is herself a billionaire on the Forbes 400. And while it's true that Pritzker has shelled out more than $5 million to organizations working to keep President Bush from being re-elected Nov. 2, she is not, as frequently listed, a "Houston investor" or even a Texan. Actually, Pritzker lives in a small town in western Montana, where she practices and teaches Tibetan Buddhism. Pritzker, alone and through Sustainable World, has contributed $5,000,000 to the Joint Victory Campaign 2004, which in turn has donated most of its money to Media Fund and America Coming Together.
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Pritzker is known as a donor to Democratic Party candidates and causes. According to the list of financial contributors, Pritzker has donated at least US $4,000,000 to MoveOn.Org.
born 1959) is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest business families. She is the founder and current Chair of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury senior living communities spread throughout the United States, and the national finance chair of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In 2007 the Forbes 400 list of "America's wealthiest" showed her as the 135th richest person in the U.S., estimated net worth of $2.8 billion US, in 2008 tied for 227th with $2.0 billions. In 2009 Forbes listed her as the world's 647th richest person, with net worth of $1.1 billions. Without going into too many details she was also embroiled in a lawsuit and failure of a bank in the subprime mortgage crisis.