Lefty bloggers are up in arms over an O'Reilly tidbit on JetBlu sponsoring the Kos convention. Roger Simon has no issue with it. While CEO Berger appears to balance his personal political giving also giving far more to endowments and such, he might want George Soros back in the fold, as well.
Soros' money helped launch JetBlu and when he dumped a large portion of stock in June of this year it didn't help the airline with Wall Street
Sponsoring the convention may be seen as something of a nod to get Soros back on board.
NEW YORK — Billionaire investor George Soros and David Neeleman, two men who helped launch No. 8 U.S. airline JetBlue Airways Corp., are selling portions of their holdings in the company, according to regulatory filings.
Soros reported in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing late on Monday that he had sold about 1 million shares of JetBlue, bringing his stake down to about 10.8 percent of the discount airline.
Soros' sale came the same week as Neeleman, the company's chairman, who sold almost one-quarter of his holdings in the company, according to a separate filing on Friday.
JetBlue removed Neeleman as chief executive from the company earlier in May.
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