Businesses! Book deals! 2020 Democrats to deliver socialism on their own silver platters
by Emily Larsen
| April 03, 2019 12:02 AM
The 2020 Democratic field is running hard to the left as the Democratic Party celebrates socialism. But several of the candidates can well afford taking down capitalism at this point, because they're already multimillionaires and have incomes in the top 1 percent.
Former Reps. Beto O’Rourke and John Delaney, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper are among the wealthiest Democratic presidential candidates. Other hopefuls have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees.
OpenSecrets.org estimates that O’Rourke was worth around $9 million in 2015. His 2017 House financial disclosure form shows assets ranging from $3.6 million to $16.6 million and liabilities ranging from $1.3 million to $5.8 million.
The former Texas representative co-founded an El Paso web and software company in the late '90s, but much of his wealth comes from his wife Amy O'Rourke. She is the daughter of real estate tycoon Bill Sanders, who Forbes estimated is worth around $500 million.
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