More Money than Greg

As of January, the Texas governor had about $105,000,000 sitting in his campaign account. That’s an impressively gargantuan figure, especially so given that he was forced to deplete nearly his entire cash cache four years ago in a reelection fight against two hard-line primary challengers and, then, an equally well-funded Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke. 

As Greg Abbott nears the end of three terms, or a dozen years, and sits at the apex of political power in Texas, the one thing that’s known about him is he loves to solicit campaign funds. (Whether it’s a matter of skill or inertia is undetermined.) He has a long callsheet of hundred-millionaire and billionaire buddies. Since Abbott got into state politics in the mid-’90s as a state Supreme Court justice, and later as attorney general on his way to the governor’s mansion, he’s raised roughly half a billion dollars.

Abbott’s warchest, which formally operates as Texans for Greg Abb...