XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
Texas billionaires do not fear fascism, they welcome it:
|
| For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair
| Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend
| Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state
| party from the powerful group over its ties to white
| supremacists.
|
| As he did so, Rinaldi was also working as an attorney for
| one of the group's two billionaire funders, Farris Wilks,
| according to filings with the Securities and Exchange
| Commission. Since 2021, Wilks has given nearly $5 million
| to Defend Texas Liberty, which last year was the state
| party's largest financial supporter. With Rinaldi's help,
| the group has sought to purge the Texas GOP of more
| moderate voices by bankrolling far-right causes and primary
| candidates.
|
| Government watchdog groups and some Republicans were
| heavily critical of the relationship between Rinaldi and
| Wilks, a prolific donor.
| ... <
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/12/farris-wilks-matt-rinaldi-defend-texas-liberty/>
--bks
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