这位得州参议院竞选人与捐赠者家族的联系可追溯至数十年前。去年，一个支持得州参议院竞选人肯·帕克斯顿的超级政治行动委员会收到一笔25万美元的捐款。捐款者自称“保罗·麦克拉伦”，是一名据称居住在得州普莱诺的“企业家”。
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades. Last year, a super PAC supporting Texas Senate hopeful Ken Paxton received a $250,000 donation from a man calling himself “Paul McLaren,” a supposed “entrepreneur” living in Plano, Texas.
但普莱诺并没有一个名叫“保罗·麦克拉伦”的人，竞选财务记录上填写的地址实际上是商业街商场内一个租用邮箱的地址。
But there is no “Paul McLaren” residing in Plano, and the address listed on the campaign finance record is for a rented mailbox in a strip mall.
事实证明，这名捐赠者是一名得州商人。他的父亲是一位知名的建筑行业高管；在承认提交虚假纳税申报表有罪多年后，他曾获得唐纳德·特朗普总统的赦免。
The donor, it turns out, is a Texas businessman whose father was a well-known construction executive who received a pardon from President Donald Trump years after he pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return.
本·波格说，他与妻子共同捐出这25万美元是为了支持帕克斯顿，并表示，使用该名字并非“为了隐瞒捐款来源”。
Ben Pogue, who said he and his wife made the $250,000 donation to support Paxton, said the name wasn’t “an effort to conceal the source of the donation.”