http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit via @motherjones
VanderSloot is reportedly the richest man in Idaho,
and among the most powerful. His company, Melaleuca, sells tea-tree oil
supplements and personal-care products via an Avon-like system of
individual marketers who recruit others to sell. His net worth has been
estimated as $1.2 billion, and for decades he has been a major power in
Idaho politics, especially on LGBT issues. He financed an ad campaign
that helped defeat a state Supreme Court justice on grounds that she
might vote to legalize same-sex marriage. His wife gave $100,000 to the campaign to pass the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 in California.
