Posted on 07/25/2015 9:42:23 AM PDT by Isara
Two low-profile Texas brothers have donated $15 million to support Sen. Ted Cruz, a record-setting contribution that amounts to the largest known donation so far in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Farris and Dan Wilks, billionaires who made their fortunes in the West Texas fracking boom, have given $15 million of the $38 million that the pro-Cruz super PAC, Keep the Promise, will disclose in election filings next week, according to sources outside the super PAC with knowledge of the giving.
The siblings earned their riches with the sale of their company Frac Tech for $3.5 billion in 2011, and since then have shuffled large contributions to the leading social conservative nonprofit groups that aren't required to reveal their donors. But they will no longer be able to avoid detection after giving a historically large and early donation that now make the brothers two of America's most prominent political donors.
"Our country was founded on the idea that our rights come from the Creator, not the government. I'm afraid we're losing that," Farris Wilks, a 63-year-old pastor in the small town of Cisco, said in a statement to CNN. "Unless we elect a principled conservative leader ready to stand up for our values, we'll look back on what once was the land of opportunity and pass on a less prosperous nation to our children and grandchildren. That's why we need Ted Cruz."
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Together, their donations give Cruz and his allies more money than any other Republican except Jeb Bush, a surprising achievement for a firebrand senator more embraced at a Tea Party rally than at a black-tie business gala.
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Now, though, they are prepared to step right into the middle of a potentially nasty Republican nomination fight that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars....
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What does he have to do for them? If it is given freely great. If not......
Thank you so very very much Farris and Dan Wilks !!!
Of course not
Right now CNN is badmouth Kenya gay right record since President is in town
Koch Brothers backed that gay marriage lawsuit
I wish Foster Friess would go with Cruz but he says he’s going with Santorum again partly because he promised, partly because of loyalty, and due to Santorum’s stance on abortion.
I voted for Santorum last time but this time Cruz is clearly the better candidate.
Good chunk of change of ‘soft money’ to the Super Pac.
Cruz is getting the money, now he has to dominate the debates and climb up the polls.
Yup. He has a history. And if people would start learning candidate histories we would all be a lot better off.
In TC’s case, he’s been at this party a long time. Others, not so much.
“What does he have to do for them? If it is given freely great. If not......”
Exactly what he has been doing all along, he lives it and they can see it as I do also. This country needs TED CRUZ so badly and anyone that listens to him and reads about him can see “ hes the man to start the salvation of this great country”
When was the last time a Senator stood on the Senate floor and told them, and the world exactly what they were ( to their faces)
This is excellent news.
The Wilks aren’t giving this money for what Cruz cn do for them; they are giving it because of What Cruz can do for the people of the United States and the Constitution
Smart cookies. They got out (sold) when the getting was great. Glad to see they’re putting their $$ towards a great cause :)
That’s my dream ticket.
While Carly Fiorina isn’t as conservative as I would like, she is truly impressive in her ability to handle the media.
I was sold on the idea of her as SOS from the get go.
The source of this money is news but this is, AFAIK, not new money. It’s part of the original funding announced by Cruz.
Correct if I’m wrong.
Great!
“Nonsense. I learned right here on FR that standing on principle was the problem...”
Oh, Norm, I have had that problem of standing on principle all my life. Somehow, my parents must have convinced me at an early age, to think for myself, and hold to my Biblical values of honesty, morality, and God given individual liberty. I must be a hopeless case.
An extended family member is an employee of the NSA. This house is likely bugged and phone calls must be recorded. Last night, we had wine made by this family member - I didn’t find a recorder in the wine bottle.
Since I like you, check your house for listening devices, okay? Your principles likely got you on the list, too.
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