Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts is replacing an elderly casino magnate accused of sexual misconduct in a high-ranking position in the Republican Party—but relax, it’s not the one you’re probably thinking of.
Regardless, since Joe Ricketts, Todd’s billionaire father and fellow right-wing activist, anointed him the heir of a nonprofit called Ending Spending and put him in charge of its super-PAC arm, the ESAFund, in 2012, Todd has raised a massive amount of funding for extreme right-wing Republican candidates.
