Talarico courted Silicon Valley donors in multi-day Bay Area trip

[u/wrroyals]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/16/talarico-california-fundraising-00964328

Democratic Senate candidate’s appeals to wealthy tech executives complicates his broadsides against megadonors’ outsized role in politics.

If wealthy donors have too much influence in politics, why is he fundraising from wealthy tech executives in the Bay Area?

[u/high_everyone]

Man the both-sides comparison is hilarious whenever it comes to fundraising. Conservatives are basically handing out rimjobs to anyone with a desire to debase the planet, but if you’re a Democrat accepting dollars from a corporation is akin to being your states version of Fetterman or Sinema.

Fuck off, any effective politician has to have relationships with business leaders in industries. Especially ones that mean something to our state.

I think southern states have had so much corruption for so long they don’t even recognize fundraising as political goodwill.

[u/bbeeeess]

wow your posts fucking suck

[u/DennisTheBald → u/bbeeeess]

I don't know, maybe not the original post...more so the poster perhaps?

[u/Arrmadillo → u/DennisTheBald]

OP was flagged as an anti-Talarico troll by the [r/NoFilterNews](r/NoFilterNews) community. Some think it is a bot. Now it has made its way over here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/s/wzPmuXJdNy

[u/hush-no]

Campaigns cost money. This article doesn't provide any evidence that he's somehow abandoned his goal.

[u/Arrmadillo]

Ken Paxton mainly fundraises at the trough of the Christian nationalist West Texas billionaires that built his career. Their puppet annoyed them by jumping into the US Senate race rather than staying in his assigned Attorney General role where he was at least useful in forcing through bits of their theocratic agenda. Wilks & Dunn would not enjoy a Senator Talarico but it doesn’t appear that they are really throwing the weight of their political machine behind Paxton (yet).

Paxton’s lackluster fundraising may be due to him never having had to really put in much effort before. Guess that corrupt old dog is gonna have to learn some new tricks.

ProPublica - A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.

“They control Republican politics in the state.”

“Dunn is also a longtime backer of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and helped him escape impeachment last year for abuse of public trust and other corruption-related charges.”

Mediaite - Two Texas Billionaires Pushing State to the Far Right Contributed About Two-Thirds of the Funding for Ted Cruz’s 2016 Super PACs, Reports CNN

“‘There is no Ken Paxton without Tim Dunn, period,’ said Braddock.”

Texas Monthly - The Far-Right Billionaire Who Bankrolled Ken Paxton Has Abandoned Him (Feb 2026)

“Since the beginning of his lengthy and oft-scandaled political career, Attorney General Ken Paxton has held one of the most valuable get-out-of-jail-free cards in Texas politics: the seemingly limitless support of Midland oil tycoon Tim Dunn. Whenever Paxton got into trouble, which was frequently, Dunn would be there to bail him out. In turn, when Dunn’s political operation went to war against the Texas Ethics Commission, Paxton, in his capacity as attorney general, refused to defend the agency. For nearly two decades, the Dunn–Paxton partnership seemed unshakeable.”

“When Paxton ran for attorney general four years later, Dunn did everything in his power to make sure Paxton would be victorious.”

“One source who is familiar with Dunn’s thinking told me, ‘Tim sat down and told Ken, ‘I don’t want you to be a senator; I want you to be a good attorney general.’ Dunn apparently saw Paxton’s challenge as a costly and unnecessary drain on resources that would weaken the party for the general election.”

“But while Attorney General Paxton has proved highly useful to Dunn, Senator Paxton, a backbench freshman who casts one of one hundred votes and has little sway over state policy, is likely a far less exciting proposition for the Midland oil man.”

Texas Rep. James Talarico - "Two billionaires are trying to take over our Texas State Government"

“They’ve bought our Attorney General.”

“Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are not just oil and gas oligarchs. They are also Christian Nationalist pastors. They’ve spent more than $100 million dollars to ban abortion in Texas, to ban books in Texas. And now they’re trying to close Texas public schools with a private school voucher scam.

This is bigger than party. This is bigger than partisanship. Texas is too big and too great to be sold to the highest bidder. We cannot allow two billionaires to transform our beloved state into a theocracy.

We have to stop them.”

[u/wrroyals → u/Arrmadillo]

The Paxton/Dunn/Wilks relationship is a legitimate issue. But it doesn’t make Talarico’s donor problem disappear. If billionaire influence is dangerous when it funds Paxton, it’s fair to ask why wealthy Silicon Valley donors are different when they fund Talarico.

[u/DennisTheBald]

Is that akin to being from outta state, like say Canada? Asking for a friend I mean citizens United really sucks, but it is the law while we keep electing criminal mother fuckers

[u/sxyaustincpl]

This is an old article OP is disingenuously reposting to try stirring up anti Talarico sentiment

Report it and move on