Panhandle billionaire-ish Alex Fairly (father of cellphones in schools bill author Caroline in the Texas Lege) has grown semi-disgusted with the tactics of Christofascist Tim Dunn and his millions, but I doubt there will be some major split in their objectives, just Fairly will pay out more money on his own and not through any Dunn or Wilks pipeline, so take this graf with a grain of salt:
His political awakening could have seismic implications for Texas politics. Just last year, he seemed positioned as a second Dunn-like figure who could add pressure and funding to the effort to push the Legislature further right. Even now, he still supports many of those same candidates and concepts in principle. But he has come to condemn many of the methods used to achieve those goals by Dunn and his allies. Dunn did not respond to a request for an interview or written questions.
Given his background, how did a man so business-successful exercise so little due diligence as to end in bed with Dunn in the first place? Or to not look up the details on Dustin Burrows, since Lubbock is just down the road from Amarillo and the Trib does a scorecard of Legiscritters after every session. On that career:
He built his fortune slowly over the course of a few decades through a career in insurance and risk management.
Insurance and risk management require lots of due diligence, and lots of not taking spoken or written words as presented.
That's especially true for the son of a pair of public school teachers, which he is.
That's also a failure on the Trib, to ask why and how he got into bed with someone devoted to the destruction of public schools.
Beyond that, I feel no sympathy for a dude who spends $500K to buy his daughter a seat in a banana republic state legislature.
(Second note from that story: Why is Miriam Adelson so dumb as to have two PACs, one specifically about gambling, when that will never happen as long as Dannie Goeb is Lite Guv?)
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