{"id":1561939,"date":"2022-07-20T05:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561939"},"modified":"2022-07-20T05:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T09:04:29","slug":"george-soros-gave-1-million-to-help-beto-orourke-unseat-texas-gov-greg-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-soros-gave-1-million-to-help-beto-orourke-unseat-texas-gov-greg-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"George Soros Gave $1 Million to Help Beto O\u2019Rourke Unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-soros-gave-1-million-to-help-beto-orourke-unseat-texas-gov-greg-abbott%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Left-wing Democrat mega donor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-george-soros\">George Soros<\/a> has donated $1 million to help Beto O\u2019Rourke\u2019s efforts to unseat Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Gov. Greg Abbott, filings show.<\/p>\n<p>Records filed with\u00a0Texas Ethics Commission published Tuesday show the billionaire donated the sum\u00a0to the Beto for Texas political action committee in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3566598-soros-donates-1-million-to-orourkes-campaign-for-texas-governor\/\">according to The Hill<\/a>.\u00a0O\u2019Rourke\u2019s campaign confirmed the donation to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke has benefited from laws in Texas that allow uncapped campaign donations. According to filings, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee has received a number of donations over six or seven figures.<\/p>\n<p>Soros, 91, frequently supports progressive causes. He has spent\u00a0at least $40 million in support of liberal prosecutor candidates between 2014 and 2021, according to a report published by Virginia-based Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the progressive investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/soros-pours-125m-into-super-pac-ahead-of-midterms-00002847\">gave more<\/a> than\u00a0$125 million to a Democrat-aligned super PAC to boost Democrat groups and candidates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/17\/IMG_1447-1200x1000.jpg\"><\/a> Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) displays the \u201cBeto Truth Response Unit\u201d in Houston, June 16, 2022. The ambulance will follow his Democratic opponent on the campaign trail. (Darlene McCormick Sanchez\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Soros\u00a0handed over his donation to Democracy PAC, which he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/democracy-pac\/C00693382\/donors\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set up in 2019.<\/a>\u00a0Democracy PAC is his main political action committee to support Democrats in what was a \u201clong-term investment\u201d beyond the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n<p>He has also spent tens of millions of dollars funding media properties, including journalism schools and industry organizations, according to a report by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/george-soros-media-mogul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Palumbo, author of \u201cThe Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of\u00a0George Soros,\u201d said the billionaire funds many left-wing groups, media companies, and political candidates through his\u00a0Open Society Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Palumbo, during an interview for EpochTV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/george-soros-spent-18-billion-to-control-the-media-defund-the-police-and-elect-liberal-prosecutors_4530848.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facts Matter<\/a>\u201d program,\u00a0also said Soros uses his influence to control what is written about him.<\/p>\n<p>Soros\u2019s foundation claims to promote democracy and individualism, but in reality it supports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing Democrat mega donor George Soros has donated $1 million to help Beto O\u2019Rourke\u2019s efforts to unseat Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, filings show. Records filed with\u00a0Texas Ethics Commission published Tuesday show the billionaire donated the sum\u00a0to the Beto for Texas political action committee in June, according to The Hill.\u00a0O\u2019Rourke\u2019s campaign confirmed the donation to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}