Oh, Goody! Here's A TX Oil Baron/Bible Beating Xtian Who's Shoveling Money To TSF, Among Other Whack Candidates

Donald Trump has a new friend in the oil industry, but billionaire Tim Dunn probably has a lot more in mind than “drill, baby, drill.”
The CEO of CrownRock is an evangelical Christian from Midland who pulled an oil fortune from the plains of West Texas. He remains largely unknown outside of the Lone Star State, where he has spent more than $30 million to push state politics and policy far to the right. Now, he’s going national with his efforts. Late last year, the Texas oilman ensconced himself among Trump’s top donors with a $5 million contribution.

“It’s not too much to say he has reshaped Texas politics,” University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus said. “Dunn hopes that what is working in Texas will work across the country. The time is good. The ground is soft.” Dunn did his reshaping not by fighting Democrats so much as financing primary challenges to Republicans who don’t conform to his religious-right orthodoxy. Now, he is harnessing his petrodollars to gravitate into Trump’s orbit.

He joined the board of directors of the America First Policy Institute, considered a policy and personnel incubator for a potential second Trump administration. He’s gone into business with Brad Parscale, the pollster who’s back helping Trump’s 2024 effort. And he is the longtime vice chair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which supplied some of Trump’s most controversial nominees and is now contributing to a policy road map for Trump called Project 2025.

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But Dunn’s harshest critics barely mention his views on environment or energy issues. Instead, they accuse him of underwriting “Christian nationalism” and trying to transform society to match his religious vision. Texas state Rep. James Talarico said Dunn and fellow Texas oil billionaire Farris Wilks have deployed their fortunes to destroy public education, fund religious schools with taxpayer money and create nothing less than “an authoritarian theocracy.” “In that way, they’re different from other megadonors,” the Democrat said. “Every single far-right policy can be tied back to the efforts of Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-christian-oil-mogul-spending-big-to-elect-trump/