Jim Hightower

Hightower and Associates
81 San Marcos Street
Austin, TX 78702

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Phone: 512-477-5588
Fax: 512-478-8536

Who are the big-money givers behind the candidates?

Dallas Oilman H.L. Hunt was a billionaire in a time when such massive wealth was unusual, back in the 1950s and '60s. H.L. was also politically bonkers--so far out there on the right-right-right wing that he considered Dwight Eisenhower a commie. In 1960, Hunt published a novel called Alpaca, in which he set forth his utopian vision for the governance of America. In the happy plutocratic kingdom he envisioned, the richer you are, the more votes you get.

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