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We can add Kel Seliger in SD31 to the list of Republicans being attacked by Empower Texans as we head to the general. Rather than “money from Austin”, it’s switched up to money outside his district. #txlege
Tim Dunn and ET World seems like they are really mad about wasting all that money on Mike Canon.
$349k - Empower Texans
$50k - Kyle Stallings
$20k - Texas Right To Life
$20k - Tim Dunn
$10k - Dick Saulsbury
#txlege
And wasting all that money on Stuart Spitzer in HD4
$183k - Empower Texans
$57k - Texas Right To Life
$40k - Darlene Pendery
$36k - Jonathan Strickland Campaign
$18k - Stacy Hock
$10k - Constituents Focus
And on and on and on
#txlege
And wasting all that money on Bryan Slaton in HD2
$84k - Empower Texans
$20k - Texas Right To Life
$13k - Constituents Focus
$10k - Kyle Stallings
$5.7k - Jonathan Stickland Campaign
$5k - Stacy Hock
$5k - Dick Saulsbury
#txlege
I of course know it is Stickland, not Strickland, but twitter won’t give me an edit button and I missed the autocorrect. 🤬
And wasting all that money on Thomas McNutt in HD8
$424k - Empower Texans
$143k - Texas Right To Life
$50k - Farris Wilks
$25k - Darlene Pendery
$24k - Mayes Middleton
$15k - Constituents Focus
$15k - Dick Saulsbury
$30k - other ET World
#txlege
And wasting all that money on Armin Mizani in HD98
$135k - Empower Texans
$25k - Texas Right To Life
$10k - Darlene Pendery
$5k - Kyle Stallings
$3k - Michael Olcott
#txlege
In case you want to read the full letter and my take on the various sections, here is a full breakdown.
And wasting all that money on Brent Lawson in HD62
$78k - Empower Texans
$60.5k - Texas Right To Life
$30k - Darlene Pendery
$9.8k - Jonathan Stickland
$2.5k - Texans For Vaccine Choice
$1k - Kyle Stallings
#txlege
And wasting all that money on Jill Wolfskill in HD13
$133k - Texas Right To Life
$50k - Empower Texans
$25k - Darlene Pendery
$20k - Holly Frost
$17k - Jonathan Stickland
$2.5k - Texans For Vaccine Choice
#txlege
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The campaign finance site owned by Empower Texans did a look back at the 2018 elections on 12/18/18. The question they asked was “Who’s Really Buying Texas?”
#txlege
The site (again, owned by ET) pushes this “Context matters” point, but then provide a fairly skewed context. They mashed all of the dollars spent in campaigns into one massive bucket. Then they point to themselves and say “see, we didn’t give that much”.
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By rolling everything up together, they obfuscate the reality that a handful of large donor groups DOMINATE the political landscape in certain races. It’s not the everyday Texans that drive our politics.
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Pulling out a longer term lens and graphed a few things since 2008. It's striking how things are escalating.
Long term lens #1: Empower Texans
This is total contributions in, by year, and the major donors. Remember, election cycles are 13-14, 15-16, 17-18. Big funding surge when Paxton & Patrick run. Can we stop with any talk that ET is grassroots? It's not now, and never was.
#txlege
Long term lens #2: Wilks Brothers
This is total contributions made, by year, who they gave to. Pay attention folks.
2012 cycle - $106,500
2014 cycle - $908,955
2016 cycle - $3,344,734
2018 cycle - $5,197,988
#txlege #txed
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Midterms are done, at least as far as contribution to campaigns are concerned. There have been several looks at spending by the far right groups, specifically Empower Texans. I think they are seeing part of the picture, but not the whole enchilada. This will be the enchilada.
When I define ET World, it's three categories of donors to Texas elections
The first category of donor in ET World is
(ET) = Empower Texans PAC, Texans For Fiscal Responsibility PAC, and Texas Right To Life PAC
#txlege
Continuing the levels of ET World
The second category of donor is
(ET9) = The 9 largest donors to the Empower Texans PAC.
These 9 donors make up 97% of the ET PAC, 96% of the TFFR PAC, and 78% of TRL. This overwhelming funding to the 3 PACs is why all three are flagged as ET
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Twitter left these tweets up for about a week despite repeated reports of abuse. 🤷‍♀️
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cc: @POTUS @GregAbbott_TX
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