Foster Friess, an investment manager who lives in Wyoming, has embraced the media spotlight that comes with mega-sized campaign donations.
Friess donated $2.1 million to the Red, White and Blue Fund, a super PAC that backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential primary.
The donations accounted for a bulk of the group's revenue, and Friess could often be spotted at Santorum campaign events and on television talking up the candidate.
But rather than letting his money talk, Friess became part of the campaign narrative after making a joke on national television about contraception, saying that "back in (his) days" women used Bayer aspirin as birth control. "The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly," Friess said.
Friess later apologized.
The investment manager's last donation came in March, and it remains to be seen whether he will give generously with Santorum out of the race.
Friess, while extremely wealthy, does not have the deepest pockets, and sometimes refers to himself as a "billionaire wanna-be."
