Billionaires don't like the Speaker apparently. The story doesn't give a clear indication why.
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Billionaires Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and Farris Wilks, a fracking services entrepreneur from near Abilene, have opened their checkbooks to Speaker Joe Straus’ main Republican opponent in next week’s primary.
Straus challenger Jeff Judson recently received $180,000 from Walton and $50,000 from Wilks, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission.
Walton, who Forbes magazine says is worth $32 billion, has given far smaller amounts to about a half-dozen Texas House candidates not aligned with Straus, according to a Dallas Morning News analysis. Still, the Texas House member to whom she’s given her second-biggest assist, after Judson, is Fort Worth GOP Rep. Charlie Geren, a Straus intimate. Walton’s given Geren $30,000, the reports show.
