For My PAC Money Lighthouse Nerd Friends
Red flares are shooting up all around this one.
The Truth and Courage PAC was created in Austin at the end of last year.
So far, the PAC hasn’t spent a dime supporting or opposing any candidates, but it has over $2 million to spend.
Some of it’s initial funding came from two LLCs. As always, you can click the little one to see a big one.
Karen Wright and her husband, Thomas Rastin, also gave $100,000 to the Super PAC.
Here’s the deal: Wright and her husband have been taken in by scammers before to the tune of $1.3 million.
The Super PAC also got a quarter million dollars from a mysterious trust.
Who owns Ballantrae Farm?
Retired? My sweet patootie. He’s a senior vice president at Bechtel, a major federal contractor.
And $1 million from hedge fund billionaire, Jess Yass.
Let’s keep an eye on this little sucker. It’ll be interesting how they’ll spend this money.
Doug, Scharbauer, self-employed investor? That’s a good one. He inherited a truckload of money, so he sits around playing the market (and manipulating the politics that affect it, apparently).
1Is this thing that I just looked into, from AARP Texas, concerning a ‘Texas Broadband Development Plan’ [survey text clip below*], being developed by our Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar, possibly a bit dodgy?
I can’t remember if this Hegar is a halfway decent Rethug [i know…], or one of the [rly] bad ones, like Messrs. A, P, & P, etc.
Seems like a laudable project, but there’s around $500 Million in the kitty and you gotta wonder… Internet access in the boonies really does suck for millions of people, which imo cityfolk are largely unaware of with their access to all kinds of superfast ISP.
AARP email: “Texas will soon put into motion a state broadband plan that will marshal over $500 million through the Broadband Development Office.”
500 million clams makes a bigass pot of tasty chowder, iykwim.
Snippet from the survey, which by the way extracts quite a bit of personal information from you.. [btw, Hegar’s name and title are prominently ‘bolded’ throughout]:
“Be Part of Texas’ Broadband Development Plan
Texas Comptroller Broadband Listening Tour
This spring Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is touring the state to hear what Texans have to say about internet access. He’ll collect feedback that will be used to develop the state’s first broadband plan.”
Yum, yum, git yer grifty chowder bowls ready..
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2* Y’all non-nerds have no idea how much trouble it was to get ahold of the bit of text above, taken from the actual survey [no, I’m not going to retype it].
Why?
Because, as I’ve noticed with many webpages –associated with R’s–, they LOCK DOWN the webpage [yes, it’s an html thing, but -very- rarely used]. So that you’re not able to simply ‘copy & paste’ from the webpage, as is possible with most of the billions of other webpages, even copywrited and secured ones.
Because they are uber-paranoid evil projectors, as evidenced in so many other ways.
But we nerds/hackers have methods…]
Oops, forgot to mention that Hegar & Co. are a bit late, by 20-30 years, worrying about ‘broadband access’ for the dusty masses in the hinterlands.
3But, better late then never.
And “grifty chowder” is a pun…if you dig seafood you’ll get it. [oops, ‘nuther one]
4Has Alfredo been working overtime at the Dairy Queen?
@Sandridge: Isn’t all that money for rural broadband a part of the Infrastructure bill that Biden got passed? The Dems have been talking about wiring up the hinterlands for a long time now.
5wow!!! And here I am hunting for a job!
6BarbinDC @5, You’re on the case Barb, my first thought about it was that it sounded like the Austin bandidos had got aholt of some of Biden’s big infrastructure dinero and were going to milk it for every dime and political juice they could squeeeeze out of it.
I go back to Clinton/Gore’s [Ds, ‘natch] huge ‘schools internet information superhighway’ project that generated a lot of work/$ for my then employer; and did a lot of good for schools.
7So it’s the same movie replaying, Dems do good, Rethugs steal the thunder [and half the clams probably.. and I really like clam chowder].