(You can find Campaign Finance Reports at the Texas Ethics Commission’s website.)

This is getting old. He bought his House seat. He bought his Senate seat. Now he is trying to buy the Attorney General seat. He is the Oligarch of Texas politics.

Bay Area’s Senator Money Mayes Middleton is running for Texas Attorney General and he is doing exactly what he did to win his State Representative seat and his State Senate seat, self funding his campaign. According to his report Middleton has a $10 MILLION loan to himself along with a meager fundraising total of $166,308.

When he ran for his Senate seat he raised $1,685,523 with $1.6 MILLION coming from Money Mayes himself leaving just over $35,000 coming from political suckers or those who are trying to suck up to Mayes for favors. When he ran for the House he raised $3.2 MILLION, with $2.4 MILLION coming from his own pocket. He won 56-43. His opponent raised $4000. Now he vowed to use $10 MILLION of his money to buy the AGs office.

$140,662 of the remainder of his fundraising totaling $166,308 came from 15 individuals/PACs giving $5000 or more. You can see the list below.

And you wonder why I call him “Money”?

After 10 years sitting on the Insurance Committee in the Texas House Dennis Paul is moving on to run for the Texas Senate. Like his fundraising for State Representative his fundraising for State Senate isn’t impressive. His acceptance of $5000 from the PAC of Independent Insurance Agents of TX is troubling.

During this last period Paul raised $132,300, most of it coming from out of the district. 92% of all his donations, $121,750, came from out of the district including $12,000 from California, Washington DC and Georgia leaving only 8% coming from his constituents. 58% of his donations, $76,250, came from PACs. His largest contribution, $25,000, came from the Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC which works to limit the rights of consumers. The complete list of donors are below:

Not a very good start.

After 6 years of controversy on the CCISD School Board ending in a much deserved ass kicking, Bowen has filed to run for State Representative for the Bay Area. Today was his first campaign finance report for this seat.

Bowen raised $30,182, spent $6,605, has a Cash on Hand of $48,576. As with his CCISD campaign he loaned himself $25,000. Of the $30,182 raised, $18,664 was donated by just 10 people giving $1000 or more. Of the $30,182, $26,592 came from outside of the district.

Some notable donations include $2,500 from League City Mayor Nick Long, failed candidate for State Representative Thomas McNutt gave $5,000. McNutt lives in Corsicana. Christopher Russo gave $1041.02. As was posted before:

Chris Russo. (More on Chris below) Director of Texans for Strong Borders. Was seen chauffeuring Fuentes to and from the meeting at Pale Horse Strategies this month. Multiple people, who asked not to be named to avoid drawing the attention of white nationalists, told the Tribune that Russo has ties to Fuentes’ so-called “groyper” movement. 

Missing from his list of donors is Senator Money Mayes Middleton. Here is a list of all his donations for this period:

LOL. Just like Ken Paxton and his mistress, I nailed it.

Yesterday I said “if anyone thinks his divorce, or his mistress, or his impeachment, or his indictments make him unfit for his office or for the nomination for Senate they need to think. Again” and sure enough from the Houston Chronicle this morning a comment from the former Texas Republic Party Chair:

“I’m a Catholic and I don’t believe in divorce,” Rinaldi said. “But I think the political climate we’re in right now is one where Christians, conservatives believe they’re in an existential battle for their country, and I think in this battle, they’re choosing the candidates time and time again that will help them win this fight for the values of America.”

He continued “As a devout conservative Catholic I must put aside my christian values concerning adultery, f*cking a porn star, paying her off, and being convicted for it, stealing secret documents, stealing from veterans, lying, cheating, dehumanizing Mexicans, separating children from their mothers, mocking the disabled, making racist comments, inciting a riot on our Capitol, pardoning those who stormed our Capitol, spreading false information about COVID, ignoring judges orders, and pardoning child sex offenders.”

Ok, that last part he didn’t say out loud. Republican “Christians” are truly fucked up people. They will flock to the fucker and nominate him to represent the State of Texas in the United States Senate. This is who they are.