Alex Fairly, an Amarillo businessman, has donated $20 million to establish the Texas Republican Leadership Fund, a new political action committee aimed at influencing the Texas Republican Party towards a more conservative direction.
Amarillo businessman Alex Fairly donated $20 million to establish a new political action committee to help move the state's Republican Party further to the right. A Texas Panhandle businessman pledged $20 million to establish a new political group that aims to push the state Republican Party further to the right. Alex Fairly is the single donor to the new Texas Republican Leadership Fund, the group announced Tuesday.
Its formation comes amid a leadership fight in the Texas House, a proxy for the intra-party fight that has dominated Texas GOP politics for several years. Fairly is an emerging conservative megadonor from Amarillo who has previously given tens of millions to West Texas A&M University to create Fairly is also the father to Caroline Fairly, who will take a seat in the House chamber this January. The initial donation is a staggering amount even for Texas, which has no political spending limits for non-judicial candidates. For comparison, Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year, Fairly suggested his group will back him for House speaker. Cook, of Mansfield, secured the nomination of the House GOP Caucus earlier this month. But Rep. of Lubbock has said he had enough supporters among both Republicans and Democrats to win the speakership when the full chamber votes in January. “Every Republican House member should be strongly opposed to a minority band of Republicans teaming up with Democrats to cut a joint governing agreement,” Fairly wrote in a statement, nodding to Burrows. Last year, Fairly donated more than $220,000 to Defend Texas Liberty, making him one of the biggest donors of the powerful political action committee after West Texas billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. Defend Texas Liberty Fairly had previously been involved in local Amarillo politics but has been ramping up his giving on a state level at a time when Dunn redirected his focus on national politic
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