Not *those* billionaire brothers, top 2016 donors, Farris & Don WILKS give $15M to Carnival CRUZ

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/11/us-usa-election-wilks-specialreport-idUSKCN0RB0ZF20150911?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

[font size=5]Special Report: Touting morality, billionaire Texas brothers top 2016 donor list [/font]

.... Cisco has two stoplights but 10 churches. So it isn’t unusual for residents to turn to their pastors for guidance. What is out of the ordinary is for that pastor to also be a billionaire. Farris Wilks, 63, and his younger brother Dan, 59, made a fortune in the recent oil-and-gas drilling boom.

Also setting Farris Wilks apart is a little-noticed filing with the Federal Election Commission in July that showed he and Dan, together with their wives, had given $15 million to a Super PAC backing Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz.

The Cruz donation makes the largely unknown Wilks family the biggest donors in the 2016 race for the White House. So far, they have even outspent the billionaire Koch brothers, who have vowed to use their Freedom Partners network of conservative donors to pour $1 billion into the election.

"We support (Cruz) because he believes in the morality of the free market, in keeping our country safe, and in the right of the unborn not to be killed in their mother’s womb," Farris Wilks said in an email to Reuters, speaking on behalf of the Wilks family. ....

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