{"id":6391,"date":"2023-10-12T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/lt-gov-dan-patrick-wont-return-3-million-he-got-from-group-linked-to-white-supremacist\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:09:42","slug":"lt-gov-dan-patrick-wont-return-3-million-he-got-from-group-linked-to-white-supremacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/lt-gov-dan-patrick-wont-return-3-million-he-got-from-group-linked-to-white-supremacist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick won&#8217;t return $3 million he got from group linked to white supremacist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick\u00a0said he won&#8217;t return $3 million he received from a far-right political action committee whose leader last week held an almost seven-hour meeting with high-profile white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Patrick&#8217;s statement, released Wednesday afternoon, comes in response to a bombshell report by the Texas Tribune that Johnathan Stickland, president of the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, hosted Fuentes \u2014 a holocaust denier who&#8217;s called for a &#8220;holy war&#8221; against Jews \u2014 at the Fort Worth office of Stickland&#8217;s political consulting business, Pale Horse Strategies. Defend Texas Liberty, which made the $3 million in donations and loans to Patrick is funded by Texas oilmen Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, a pair of billionaires who have\u00a0bankrolled some of Texas\u2019 most extreme right-wing candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick\u00a0said he won&#8217;t return $3 million he received from a far-right political action committee whose leader last week held an almost seven-hour meeting with high-profile white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Patrick&#8217;s statement, released Wednesday afternoon, comes in response to a bombshell report by the Texas Tribune that Johnathan Stickland, president of the Defend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}