When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane. How did they afford such a thing? Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it.
This makes sense when you consider that O’Rourke has run for almost every possible office in Texas except dog catcher and has lost every time. Beto probably jumped at the chance to help these Democrats.
This news is certainly not going to help their cause with Texas voters.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Now We Know: Beto O’Rourke’s PAC Funded Texas Dems’ Private Jet to Illinois
State lawmakers in Texas make just $7,200 a year. A group of Democratic legislators spent roughly four times that amount to take a private jet to Illinois in an attempt to block their Republican counterparts from passing a new congressional map. But they didn’t have to worry about the price tag—because Beto O’Rourke’s PAC picked it up.
That’s according to a report in the Texas Tribune, which cited two people involved in the effort to raise funds for Texas Democrats’ walkout. O’Rourke’s PAC, Powered by People, is “armed with a $3.5 million war chest” and has covered most of the costs associated with the walkout so far, including “air transport, lodging, and logistical support,” the outlet reported. Every dollar the group receives going forward will go toward supporting the walkout.
O’Rourke’s emergence as the walkout’s financier could land him in legal trouble. Lawmakers who flee Texas to prevent the state legislature from having enough members to pass laws are subject to $500-a-day fines under Texas house rules, which also prevent walkout participants from soliciting political contributions to pay those fines. Republican governor Greg Abbott has said that “any other person who ‘offers, confers, or agrees to confer’” such contributions to the “fleeing Democrat House members” may be in violation of state bribery laws.
Is anyone surprised by this?
NEW: @BetoORourke-backed organization, Powered by People, is a top funder of the Texas Democrats’ exodus over new congressional maps, per two people familiar.
Congressional Dems and the Soros-backed Texas Majority PAC are also in the mix. @TexasTribunehttps://t.co/Nh07hZPa3B
— Owen Dahlkamp (@Owen_Dahlkamp) August 5, 2025
If Beto is the best friend these Democrats have, they’re in serious trouble.
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