Of the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls, Ted Cruz has emerged as the candidate of the Christian right. Yet he is also the candidate of the 1%, with just four people donating over $31 million to his campaign: eccentric billionaire Robert Mercer, longtime friend Toby Neugebauer, and two brothers, Farris and Dan Wilks.
The Wilks brothers, in fact, are both Christian conservatives and billionaires, having made their money in the fracking business, which they sold for $3.5 billion in 2011. There aren’t many billionaire pastors out there, but Farris Wilks is one of them.
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