Foster Friess Kills Crocodile In Tanzania, Friess Aspirin---When Foster Friess began to cry, Condoleezza Rice was in the last throes of her speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. The trigger was a tale about her childhood in segregated Alabama.
"You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances," he told me a few minutes later. "I love it."
The GOP convention has been a magnet for the conservative megadonors—David Koch (an at-large delegate representing New York), Harold Hamm, Sheldon Adelson—who have helped redefine the campaign finance landscape in the 2012 cycle.
But Friess, the Wyoming investor who last spring almost single-handedly kept Rick Santorum's presidential campaign alive with $1.7 million in super-PAC donations, was ready to go home.
"This is a nightmare for me," he said when I spotted him standing alone against a wall on the floor of the Tampa Bay Times Forum. "It's too many things going on. I've got like four things to go to. It's just so frustrating."
And while he loved Rice's address, he was not sure how much more RNC speechifying he could take.
"I've had enough speeches!" There's no mistaking why Friess is in such high demand in Tampa:
He's got money, and he plans to spend it. An ardent Santorum supporter during the primary, Friess has warmed to Romney, but is still less enthused by the candidate than he is by Romney's brain trust.
"I'm very, very excited about the people that are surrounding Romney, and they are the ones that deserve investment," he told me.
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