GOP organizers are apologizing to mega-donor Sheldon Adelson for sending a letter begging for cash that misrepresented some of the information. The convention starts Monday, and organizers are still millions short of their fundraising goal.  Organizers sent the letter to Adelson last week, but four of the five signatories on the letter never saw it.  And some of the companies they claim had pulled their financial support from the convention had never pledged funds in the first place. Politico: The letter, obtained by POLITICO on Thursday, outlined two dozen major corporations — Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Duke Energy and Apple, among them — that it claimed had backed out a combined more than $8.1 million in pledged donations in recent months. But on Friday, Emily Lauer, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland 2016 Host Committee, acknowledged to POLITICO that the list of lost donors in the letter to Adelson was inaccurate — and that the committee...(Read Full Post)