That money goes to plastering this ugly mug everywhere
The Wilks Brothers are billionaires. They're "under-the-radar" type billionaires for the
most part—making their money during the Texas fracking boom:
After successfully riding the rush for nearly a decade, the brothers sold their combined interest in Frac Tech in May to a group of investors led by Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. The Wilks’ took in about $3.2 billion of the total $3.5 billion sale; the brothers owned 68% of Frac Tech.
Temasek partnered with RRJ Capital Consortium in the acquisition, with equity holder Chesapeake Energy Corporation increasing its stake in Frac Tech from 26% to 30% and receiving a $200 million cash distribution. The deal was financed in part with a $1.7 billion senior secured credit facility arranged by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Global Markets.
Nice work if you can get it. Good news? They're religious types with a deep sense of morality and patriotism. Bad news? They're crazy and
want in on politics.
Two low-profile Texas brothers have donated $15 million to support Sen. Ted Cruz, a record-setting contribution that amounts to the largest known donation so far in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Farris and Dan Wilks, billionaires who made their fortunes in the West Texas fracking boom, have given $15 million of the $38 million that the pro-Cruz super PAC, Keep the Promise, will disclose in election filings next week, according to sources outside the super PAC with knowledge of the giving.
But why Ted Cruz? If you're crazy you want that kind of crazy representing you.
"Our country was founded on the idea that our rights come from the Creator, not the government. I'm afraid we're losing that," Farris Wilks, a 63-year-old pastor in the small town of Cisco, said in a statement to CNN. "Unless we elect a principled conservative leader ready to stand up for our values, we'll look back on what once was the land of opportunity and pass on a less prosperous nation to our children and grandchildren. That's why we need Ted Cruz."
Farris is mixing up the words
democracy with
theocracy. I have a sneaking suspicion that he doesn't understand the Bible very well since there isn't a part in either testaments about God promising his flock a land with
milk and honey that would be called
gas and oil. I'm also 99.99% positive that the good books don't mention anything about selling said
milk and honey back to the rest of the flock for a profit, while poisoning the Promised Land's waterways and earth and skies. Then again, the Wilks brothers used some of their money to buy
this—the N Bar Ranch in Montana.
The N Bar Ranch spans more than 60,000 contiguous acres in the foothills of central Montana's Snowy Mountains, about 90 miles north of Billings and 35 miles southeast of Lewistown.
Widely recognized as one of the West's premier reputation ranches, the N Bar Ranch is one of the most ecologically diverse and complete ranches ever offered.
Maybe they want to make amends for all of that wickedness they feel deep inside. Unfortunately, they're a big reason you keep having to
read about Ted Cruz:
Together, their donations give Cruz and his allies more money than any other Republican except Jeb Bush, a surprising achievement for a firebrand senator more embraced at a Tea Party rally than at a black-tie business gala.
Hey guys, Dan and Farris are just your normal, run-of-the-mill billionaire churchgoers who believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible and want to force the rest of the country to believe in the God they have made up in their minds to justify the fact they have so much while there are children starving.
"If Dan and Farris walk into a room, they don't want ever to be known, to be announced. They just come in and sit in the back," said Luke Macias, a Texas political strategist who has worked with the family. "They are normal people. They dress normal. They show up normal."
They dress normal?
Here's a biblical quote for the Wilks:
Mark 13:22 - For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect.