Michael Dell lets a Democrat invest his money

Michael Dell evidently believes in partisan politics but bipartisan business.

The founder of Dell Inc. has so much money that in 1998 he set up a company to invest it.

MSD Capital, named for his initials, employs 80 people in New York, Santa Monica and London. Among them: Brian L. Frank, a bundler for the Obama campaign and son of U.S. Rep. Jane Lakes Harman.

Michael Dell

Harman is a Democrat from California.

Dell is a Republican supporter from Texas.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Dell has given more than $800,000 to Republican candidates and committees since 1994.

Over the same period, he gave $19,800 to Democratics. Harman, recently ranked as the second wealthiest person in Congress, wasn’t one of them.

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