Awwww!! Ain't that just so goldurn' sweet?
Apparently the wealthy elites in Texas start teaching their yung 'uns about political corruption at quite the early age:
Texans contributed more than $13 million in the last quarter to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign- making the Lone Star State one of the biggest sources of campaign cash for the GOP White House hopeful. The Romney Victory Fund — which is raising money jointly for the presidential campaign and GOP committees — reported raising $140 million in June. Texas was the fourth biggest source of campaign cash for the month (California gave the most at $17.3 million, followed by New York and Florida).
Among deep-pocket Texas donors to Romney Victory were a host of Dallasites — Peter and Edith O’Donnell ($50,000), T Boone Pickens ($50,000), tax-reduction adviser Brint Ryan ($50,000) and high school junior Preston Troutt – son of Excel Communications billionaire Kenny Troutt. The younger Troutt gave the maximum-allowed $75,800, according to the new filings Monday. His father Kenny Troutt is a major Republican donor who supported Rick Perry and Rick Santorum earlier in the GOP presidential sweepstakes. Kenny Troutt gave $150,000 to the pro-Perry SuperPAC Make Us Great and, when Perry stumbled, gave $150,000 to the pro-Santorum Red, White and Blue PAC. Troutt is also a $500,000 donor to Karl Rove’s GOP SuperPAC American Crossroads. The younger Troutt is a high school basketball phenom at Trinity Christian Academy who appears to be making his first foray into politics as a big giver.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/07/texas-donors-come-around-with-big-bucks-to-mitt-romney-campaign.html/
Well The Gadfly will be a suck-egg mule!
JR Ewing himself would be prouder than a sagebrush peacock at the brazen contemptuousness that this clan demonstrates toward those millions of Americans who have lost everything and are suffering economically as a result of people like young Master Troutt's father selling this country and the poor and middle-class down the river. I mean, you have to admit that when, as a high school junior, you are able to donate an amount of money to a political campaign that is greater than the average U.S. family's yearly income, that my friends is a classic hallmark for great promise of success in one's elitist future.
Tell me again why it is that I should admire these great, patriotic Americans??
----TFG
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