When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois just a few days in the past in an effort to cease the state legislature from shifting ahead with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by personal airplane. How did they afford such a factor? Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it.
This is sensible when you think about that O’Rourke has run for nearly each doable workplace in Texas besides canine catcher and has misplaced each time. Beto in all probability jumped on the likelihood to assist these Democrats.
This information is actually not going to assist their trigger with Texas voters.
The Washington Free Beacon studies:
Now We Know: Beto O’Rourke’s PAC Funded Texas Dems’ Personal Jet to Illinois
State lawmakers in Texas make simply $7,200 a yr. A gaggle of Democratic legislators spent roughly 4 instances that quantity to take a non-public jet to Illinois in an try to dam their Republican counterparts from passing a brand new congressional map. However they didn’t have to fret in regards to the price ticket—as a result of Beto O’Rourke’s PAC picked it up.
That’s in keeping with a report within the Texas Tribune, which cited two individuals concerned within the effort to lift funds for Texas Democrats’ walkout. O’Rourke’s PAC, Powered by Folks, is “armed with a $3.5 million battle chest” and has coated a lot of the prices related to the walkout to date, together with “air transport, lodging, and logistical assist,” the outlet reported. Each greenback the group receives going ahead will go towards supporting the walkout.
O’Rourke’s emergence because the walkout’s financier may land him in authorized hassle. Lawmakers who flee Texas to forestall the state legislature from having sufficient members to go legal guidelines are topic to $500-a-day fines beneath Texas home guidelines, which additionally forestall walkout individuals from soliciting political contributions to pay these fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has mentioned that “some other one who ‘presents, confers, or agrees to confer’” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat Home members” could also be in violation of state bribery legal guidelines.
Is anybody shocked by this?
NEW: @BetoORourke-backed group, Powered by Folks, is a prime funder of the Texas Democrats’ exodus over new congressional maps, per two individuals acquainted.
Congressional Dems and the Soros-backed Texas Majority PAC are additionally within the combine. @TexasTribunehttps://t.co/Nh07hZPa3B
— Owen Dahlkamp (@Owen_Dahlkamp) August 5, 2025
If Beto is the perfect good friend these Democrats have, they’re in deep trouble.
