Ted Cruz’s personal wealth has skyrocketed since his 2016 presidential campaign — and it’s not just from ghostwriters authoring three books for Cruz since he lost to Donald Trump.
A recent financial disclosure reported by Insider revealed his six-figure investments in Exxon Mobil and a natural gas company — even while he served on the Senate Commerce Committee that held a 2022 hearing on rising gas prices.
We’ve known that Ted Cruz’s campaign is one of the largest recipients of oil and gas money, but this stunning revelation proves there is no conflict of interest too unsavory to keep Cruz from lining his own pockets.
Texans deserve a U.S. Senator who will put their interests first, not multibillion-dollar fossil fuel corporations as climate change wracks our planet.