Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii for her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in 2018 and former U.S. While he overwhelmingly supports conservative campaigns and Republicans, Mellon also gave to two Democrats: U.S. Mellon ramped up his political donations in 2018. Mellon has not donated to Abbott, but he gave $2,500 to Republican gubernatorial challenger Allen West when West ran for Congress in Florida in 2012. Since 2018, heвЂ™s donated $30 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the House GOP super PAC, and he gave $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which tries to elect Republicans to the U.S. Last year, Mellon gave $20 million to America First Action, the main super PAC supporting TrumpвЂ™s reelection. Supreme Court, which struck down parts of it but left intact the section allowing officers to ask about immigration status. The law was challenged all the way to the U.S. Critics said the law would lead to racial profiling. In 2010, he gave an unsolicited $1.5 million to the legal defense of an Arizona law that required police to determine the immigration status of people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to The Washington Post. But he was a top donor to the reelection campaign of former President Donald Trump, who made building a border wall a top priority, and has previously donated money to defend legislation targeting immigrants. Mellon does not appear to have close ties to Texas. Mellon did not respond to multiple requests for comment made to his company, New Hampshire-based Pan Am Systems, and a marketing firm that handled publicity for his 2015 autobiography. By the end of the month, it had topped $54 million. 27, a state website that tracks donations to the crowdfunding effort said the fund had jumped to nearly $19 million. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon.Д«efore MellonвЂ™s donations, AbbottвЂ™s private fundraising campaign had stalled at about $1.25 million around mid-August, two months after its launchВ - a drop in the bucket for a project with a price tag estimated in the billions of dollars. Mellon is the 79-year-old Wyoming-based grandson of banking tycoon and former U.S. Greg AbbottвЂ™s $54 million border wall fund.ДЄ member of one of AmericaвЂ™s richest family dynasties, Timothy Mellon, contributed nearly 98% of the fundвЂ™s total donations when he donated $53.1 million in stock to the state in August, according to public records. AUSTIN ( Texas Tribune) - An out-of-state billionaire who has previously bankrolled attempts to defend controversial immigration laws is responsible for nearly all the donations to Gov.

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