Looking at the State level filers who contributed to Tim O'Hare for Tarrant County Judge. It is...interesting.
17 Different State Level filers have given O'Hare $272k. The top 4 make up 92% of that.
We Can Keep It PAC is the largest State level filer giving to Tim O'Hare.
The PAC has taken in $231,442 from 22 filers, but it really is the Hollis Sullivan show. He's given $210,500.
Hollis is the CEO of Veritas Energy (yeah, oil & gas) and lives in Westworth Village.
Defend Texas Liberty is on the Tim O'Hare state level filer list.
Defend Texas Liberty ($10 mil this year) is just the Tim Dunn / Farris Wilks show (with a dash of Windi Grimes & Phil Huffines thrown in).
Watch #DeepInThePocketsOfTexas to know what they are about.
Q PAC is on the Tim O'Hare state level filers list.
Q PAC has taken in $406k from 2 contributors. $372k comes from Geoffrey Raynor.
Raynor is listed as "Investments", but one look at the connections for him and you can see it's a web. Renegade Swish is on it. It's one dude.
Keep Tarrant Red is on the Tim O'Hare state level filers list.
Keep Tarrant Red has taken in $16k this year.
Stop me if you've heard this before, but the PAC is basically one person: David Cook, $15k of the total.
On the 30 Day Filing, O'Hare took in $601,787. 64% came from these 16 contributors (out of 308 total).
That isn't grassroots support. That's Astroturf.
What is driving Republican voters? It ain't the economy / inflation / gas prices.
60% of Republicans peg Immigration / Border as their most important issue.
It's the xenophobic fear driven rhetoric about the brown people coming. The racism shines through as the clarion call.
Who can we turn to?
From the write up: "the October poll shows that the likely voter pool contains very few Republicans who appear open to voting for Democrats" and "there aren’t very many persuadable GOP voters"
So quit tilting at GOP windmills and get the young people to vote!
“The government will have to become, in the hands of conservatives, an instrument of renewal in American life — and in some cases, a blunt instrument indeed.”
“To stop universities from spreading poisonous ideologies will require state legislatures to starve them of public funds”
Soooo, Tim O'Hare is running for Tarrant County Judge. On his bio, being an Honor Corps member of Alliance Defending Freedom is prominently displayed. What does that mean? Well, he gave 450+ pro bono hours on ADF cases. What is ADF about?
Alliance Defending Freedom is focused on 5 areas.
- Religious Freedom (right to discriminate based on religion)
- Sanctity of life (anti-choice)
- Marriage and family (anti-LGBTQ / one man one woman)
- Parental rights (control education)
- Free speech (control who can criticize)
Alliance Defending Freedom are listed as "Our Friends", which certainly implies a group with similar ideology, with the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a group founded by Andrew Wommack (Colorado Springs), Lance Wallnau (Keller), David Barton (WallBuilders based in Aledo).
Do you want to understand why Texas is the way it is? You have to know who is funding the politicians. 26 people have poured over $56,000,000 in the past 12 months into Texas politics. This illustrates the who and where. #DeepInThePocketsOfTexas #txlege
26. Jay Adair, an American billionaire businessman, and the chief executive officer of Copart, a car salvage company.
Adair gave $1,015,000 to 3 Republicans and 1 PAC (Texans for Lawsuit Reform) #txlege
25. Tench Coxe, an American billionaire, has served on the board of chip designer Nvidia since 1993.
Coxe gave $1,064,000 to 3 Democrats
Did you watch the @CNN documentary "Deep In The Pockets Of Texas"? If so, you saw two Texas billionaires featured, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. What will follow is where the money they gave from January 1, 2015 to Current went, directly and via PAC's where they are major donors
In the list below, the "Primary" PACs list for Wilks and Dunn I'm leveraging:
Empower Texans
Texas Right to Life
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Texas Homeschool Coalition
There are a whole host of other PACs they and those who share ideology with utilize, but keeping it simple
Contributions from Dunn / Wilks / & primary PACs 1. Defend Texas Liberty - $7,475,000 2. Empower Texans - $5,809,500 3. Don Huffines - $3,747,117 4. Texas Right to Life - $2,500,133 5. Shelley Luther - $2,067,936 6. Ken Paxton - $1,181,000 7. Jon Francis - $1,152,500
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Until you actually understand what you are up against, it’s hard to figure out how to beat it. Even though some have been making as much noise as they could over the past few years, many didn’t want to or weren’t ready to hear. Maybe now that changes.
This is legitimately a fight for our country, our state, and our communities. The @CNN documentary, Deep In The Pockets Of Texas, showed the tip of the iceberg.
It is scary. It could be demotivating. But know that we can beat this. We have to have everyone pulling in the same direction, understanding the fight to come, and being honest about the ideology driving it - 7 Mountains