{"id":233,"date":"2024-01-22T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press-releases\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:07:11","slug":"common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Texas Denounces the Lack of Contribution Limits for State Officials\u00a0\u00a0"},"template":"","class_list":["post-233","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Since November 2023, Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, neither of whom are on the ballot in 2024, received nearly $10 million combined in individual-donor contributions to their political campaigns.\u00a0","featured_image":"","press_type":153,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7877}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":52},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"AUSTIN -\u00a0 Since November 2023, Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, neither of whom are on the ballot in 2024, received nearly $10 million combined in individual-donor contributions to their political campaigns.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nGov. Abbott received a historic $6 million donation f<\/span><\/a>rom out-of-state private school voucher supporter, Jeff Yass. The voucher system Yass supports would remove funds, originally intended for public schools, and funnel them into subsidizing private school budgets in Texas.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nLast November, Common Cause Texas sounded the alarm about the then-record breaking $3 million contribution sent to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick from Paxton allies during his impeachment trial.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nTexas is one of only eleven states that has no limit on the amount a wealthy individual can contribute to a candidate campaign.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n

In response to this lack of donor contribution limits, Anthony Gutierrez, Executive Director of Common Cause Texas issued the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u201cTexas is witnessing wealthy interests outspending the contributions of individual Texans at a record pace, and our representative democracy is paying the price.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cPublic policy bends in the direction of wealth all over America but nowhere more so than here in Texas. A campaign finance system that puts no limits whatsoever on how much a rich person can give a politician is just straight up legalized bribery, period.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cDan Patrick received $3 million from a group that wanted to influence the Ken Paxton corruption trial, and it worked. Greg Abbott got $6 million to do everything he could to take money out of public schools and put those dollars into a private school voucher scam, and he did.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cAs long as we have this corrupt system in place, Texans can expect politicians to keep prioritizing wealthy special interests over the public interest.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cThe obvious solution to make the system fairer for all would be for the Texas legislature to pass a bill capping political contributions, and we\u2019ll be fighting to make that happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}}]},"yoast_head":"\nCommon Cause Texas Denounces the Lack of Contribution Limits for State Officials\u00a0\u00a0 - Common Cause Texas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Texas Denounces the Lack of Contribution Limits for State Officials\u00a0\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Texas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-10T21:07:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/texas\/press\/common-cause-texas-denounces-the-lack-of-contribution-limits-for-state-officials\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Texas Denounces the Lack of Contribution Limits for State Officials\u00a0\u00a0 - 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