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'''Melvin Sembler''' is a longtime friend of former vice president Dick Cheney and a Republican fundraiser.<ref>Accountable America [http://www.accountableamerica.com/people/sembler Mel Sembler], accessed Octoer 23, 2009</ref> He served as the Ambassador to Italy 2001 to 2005, appointed by President [George W. Bush in 2001.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Sembler Mel Sembler] in the ''Wikipedia''.</ref> Sembler primary cause is Israel, and he is involved in funding many projects favored by the so-called Israel Lobby. His funding of right-wing Republican candidates has to do with his Israel advocacy.<refname=maxb>Max Blumenthal, [http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=7867 Israel and the American Elections], TRNN, 1 February 2012.</ref>
In August 2007, Sembler was among prominent conservatives funding [[Freedom's Watch]], a new White House front group<ref>[http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/08/adelson-runs-at.html "Adelson runs attack ads against Porter,"] ''Las Vegas Gleaner'', August 22, 2007.</ref> which began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of Congress who may be wavering in their support for the [[war in Iraq]] not to 'cut and run'."<ref name>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22war-web.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin "Group to Urge War Support,"] ''New York Times'', August 22, 2007.</ref>
[[Mitt Romney]] named Mel Sembler as National Finance Co-chairman in the 2008 Presidential race. <ref>[http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Florida_Finance_Committee] Mitt Romney 2008 Press-Release. </ref> Sembler is the millionaire funder behind the "superPAC" funding Romney.<ref name=maxb></ref>
Mel Sembler supported Republican presidential candidate [[John McCain]] in the 2008 Presidential race.