This is the third of four lists of big-bucks and otherwise interesting contributors to the Rick Perry campaign. Donors appear in alphabetical order in the campaign’s filing with the Texas Ethics Commission. This posting encompasses pages 1,001 through 1,500 of a 2,280-page filing.
*Anne Marion, art patron and philanthropist, Fort Worth, $25,000. (Her Texas pedigree is more fully explored following the information about her daughter, Windi Phillips Grimes.)
*Larry Martin, rancher, Houston, $25,000
*Drayton McLane, Temple, food distribution, Temple, $5,000. (Let’s hope the Houston Astros’ owner is saving his money for trading deadline.)
*John McStay, investments, Dallas, $25,000
*J Miller III, real estate, Irving, $25,000. (The vice-chairman of the Texas Tech University board of regents.)
*Vance Miller, real estate, Dallas, $25,000
*Lee Mitchell, Cinemark Theaters, Plano, $25,000
*James R. “Jim Bob” Moffett, Freeport-McMoRan, New Orleans, $25,000 (The bane of the Austin tree-huggers.)
*Phil Montgomery, real estate, Dallas, $25,000. (Along with fellow Perry donors Thomas Friedkin and Ned Holmes, he is a member of the Parks and Wildlife Commission.)
*Jacob Monty, attorney, Houston, $25,000
*Bob Mosbacher, Sr., energy, Houston, $1,000. (Secretary of Commerce in the first Bush administration.)
*Robert Mosbacher, Jr., energy, Houston, $6,000, (Headed Bush 41’s Texas campaign in 1996; fired Karl Rove for–can you imagine this?–leaking.)
*Bill Munday, automobile dealer, Austin, $25,000
*David Nance, gene therapy, Austin, $25,000
*Shirley Neeley, commissioner of education, Austin, $500
*Walter Negley, industrial distribution, Houston, $10,000. (The grandson of the late George R. Brown, a lifelong political patron of LBJ.)
*Robert Nickel, investor, Dallas, $25,000
*Drew Nixon, CPA, Carthage, $250. (Former state senator remembered for something other than lawmaking.)
*Erle Nye, chairman of Texas Utilities, Dallas, $25,000
*Peter O’Donnell, investor and philanthropist, Dallas, $25,000. (His legacy includes the Republican party, which he helped build; the University of Texas at Dallas, the creation of which he advocated; and a cutting-edge high tech research facility at UT-Austin. At his urging, Governor Bill Clements signed a tax bill to end a 1987 budget impasse.)
*Joseph O’Neill III, energy properties, Midland, $100. (He and his wife introduced W. to Laura and remain the closest of friends with the First Couple.)
*Bob Perry, homebuilder, Houston, $25,000. (Texas’s most prolific political donor. His sugar plum was Rick Perry’s signature on special-interest legislation in 2003 making it more difficult for disgruntled homeowners to sue their builders.)
*Ray Perryman, economist, Waco, $25,000. (Economic development guru and former employer of First Lady Anita Perry.)
*Greg Peters, Zilliant business software, Austin, $25,000
*T. Pickens, investments, Dallas, $25,000. (Yes,it’s Boone. His latest billion came from hedging gasoline.)
*Robert Pickering, investments, Houston, $25,000
*Lonnie Pilgrim, Pittsburg, Pilgrim’s Pride chicken processing, $100,000. (The largest contribution to Perry to this point in the report.)
*Polunsky & Beitel, attorneys, San Antonio, $25,000
*Paul Pressler, former appellate judge, Houston, $250. (Instrumental in the rise of the religious right, in both its theological and political dimensions.)
*Bobby Ray, homebuilder, Plano, $37,500. (But what’s his last name?)
*Fernando Reyes, military contractor (cots), San Antonio, $11,300
*Tex Robertson, recreation, Burnett, $1,000. (He operates Camp Longhorn.)
*Regina Rogers, attorney and philanthropist, Houston, $5,000 (two contributions).
*Kevin Rollins, CEO Dell Computers, Austin, $10,000
*Ron Lewis, lobbyist, Austin, $5,000. (A former legislative colleague of Perry’s who continues to be a close friend.)
*Gerald Rubin, personal care products, El Paso, $25,000
*Mike Rutherford, oil, Houston, $15,000. Pat Rutherford gave $6,000.
*Rick Salwen, former general counsel for Dell, Austin, $25,000
*Jeff Sandefer, investor, Austin,$25,000. (Will be inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame later this year.)
*Joe Sanderson, farmer, Laurel, Mississippi, $25,000
*Stan Schlueter, lobbyist, Austin, $5,000. (Mentored Representative Perry in the ways of the Legislature.)
*James Schneider, Dell CFO, Austin, $25,000
*Kenneth Schnitzer, automobile dealer, Dallas, $25,000
*Richard Scott and William Scott, rail storage and maintenance, Nederland, $125,000. (Richard, the president of Trans-Global Solutions, gave two contributions of $50,000, tying him with Bo Pilgrim as the largest Perry donor so far, and William one of $25,000. )
