[ Report Home | Previous Page | Next Page ] Governor Perry’s War Chest: Who Said ‘Yes’ To ‘Governor No’?   IV. Top Donors

The top 25 overall sources of Perry’s campaign money (counting contributions by affiliated PAC and executives of these businesses) kicked in $5.4 million, or 17 percent of all the money that Perry raised. Eight of these major sources of Perry’s money have ties to Texans for Lawsuit Reform and collectively contributed more than $2 million. As illustrated by the list of Perry’s top individual donors at the bottom, all or most of the money from many of the donor sources listed above comes from a single company executive. The 35 top individual donors at the bottom of the page delivered $5.7 million, or 18 percent of all of Perry’s money.

 

Top 25 Overall Sources of Perry Contributions

Employer/PAC	Interest	City	Amount
*Sterling Group	Chemicals	Houston	$528,000
*Bob Perry Homes	Construction	Houston	$455,000
Wyly brothers	Finance	Dallas	$353,500
Hicks Muse Tate & Furst	Finance	Dallas	$283,481
Republican Party of TX	Ideological	Austin	$252,542
*Enron Corp.†	Energy	Houston	$252,000
Dell Computer	Computers	Austin	$236,818
Pilgrim's Pride	Agriculture	Pittsburg	$224,499
Associated Republicans of TX	Ideological	Austin	$222,450
*Kinetic Concepts, Inc.	Health	San Antonio	$208,649
*Contran Corp.	Finance	Dallas	$201,500
*Hunt Oil Co.	Energy	Dallas	$183,500
Shop Online	Computers	Dallas	$176,609
Texas Utilities (TXU Corp)	Energy	Dallas	$168,000
Home Interiors & Gifts	Retail	Addison	$164,000
Momentum Securities, Inc.	Finance	Houston	$162,506
Williams Brothers Construction	Construction	Houston	$160,000
Wal-Mart	Retail	Lubbock	$154,000
USA Waste Services, Inc.	Waste	Houston	$153,000
*Cogen Technologies	Energy	Houston	$152,000
Hyperion Resources, Inc.	Energy	Dallas	$150,000
NeoDyne Technologies	Computers	College Station	$150,000
*Beecherl Investments	Finance	Dallas	$149,500
Champion Ranch	Agriculture	Centerville	$146,500
Reliant Energy	Energy	Houston	$146,500
		TOTAL:	$5,434,554

Note: Table includes money from affiliated PACs and employees.
* Close ties to Texans for Lawsuit Reform (an affiliated PAC or executive is a
donor or sat on its board).
† During the Enron scandal, Perry gave $85,000 of this Enron money to an education fund.
 
 
 
 

Top 35 Individual Perry Donors

Donor	Company	Amount
*Bob Perry	Bob Perry Homes	$455,000
Charles/Sam Wyly	Wyly brothers (finance)	$263,500
*William McMinn	Sterling Group (chemicals)	$227,500
Lonnie 'Bo' Pilgrim	Pilgrim's Pride (poultry)	$224,499
*James Leininger	Kinetic Concepts (hospital beds)	$207,149
*Harold Simmons	Contran Corp. (finance)	$201,000
Nate E. Crain	Shop Online	$176,609
Charles Tate	Hicks Muse Tate & Furst (finance)	$176,500
James Lee	Momentum Securities, Inc.	$162,506
Donald J. Carter	Home Interiors & Gifts	$161,000
James Pitcock Jr	Williams Bros. Construction	$160,000
*J. Virgil Waggoner	Sterling Group (chemicals)	$158,500
*Ray Hunt	Hunt Oil Co.	$155,000
*Robert McNair Sr.	Cogen Technologies (electricity)	$152,000
Glenn Collins	NeoDyne Technologies (software)	$150,000
Albert Huddleston	Hyperion Resources (oil & gas)	$150,000
Larry Martin	USA Waste Services	$150,000
*Louis Beecherl	Beecherl Investments	$149,500
Richard Wallrath	Champion Ranch	$146,500
John Nau III	Silver Eagle Distributors (alcohol)	$142,500
R. Steven Hicks	Interfase Capital Partners (finance)	$138,516
George Hixon	Hixon Properties (oil & gas)	$138,500
Moshe Azoulay	American Garment Finishers	$137,500
J. Dan Brown	Brown Distributing Co. (alcohol)	$137,500
Woody Hunt	Hunt Building Corp.	$136,438
*Gordon Cain	Sterling Group (chemicals)	$136,000
H. Ward Lay	Lay Capital Group (finance)	$135,000
Peter Holt	Holt Caterpillar (Construction equipment)	$133,500
*Ken Lay	Enron Corp. (oil & gas)	$132,000
William Clements	SEDCO, Inc. (oil & gas)	$130,000
Gerald Stool	Greenway Investment (real estate)	$130,000
Lee Bass	Lee M. Bass, Inc. (oil & gas)	$127,592
Chaz Glace	Chasco Investments (Construction)	$126,600
Drayton McLane	McLane Co./Wal-Mart	$124,524
Ned Holmes	Parkway Investments (real estate)	$123,750
	TOTAL:	$5,681,683

Note: Money may include contributions from donors' immediate family members.
* Close ties to Texans for Lawsuit Reform (an affiliated PAC or executive is a donor
or sat on its board).