Here are more major or otherwise noteworthy contributors to Rick Perry’s reelection campaign, from pages 501-1,000 (of 2,280) from the report filed on July 17 with the Ethics Commission.
*Hugh Fitzsimmons, investments, Houston, $10,000. (Former chairman of the Texas Racing Commission.)
*Morris Ester, president of Exxon-Mobil Production Co., Houston, $3,500 (two contributions)
*Paul Foster, oil, El Paso, $25,000
*L. Francis, investments, El Paso, $25,000 (Former mayor of El Paso?)
*Thomas Friedkin, automobile parts distributor, Houston, $50,000. (Profiled in Forbes as the “most audacious centimillionaire you have never heard of.” Hollywood stunt pilot and actor who played “Miner Tom” in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider.)
*Gary Elkins campaign, Houston, $1,000. (Republican state legislator.)
*Richard Gillikin, distributor of power generators and diesel engines, Dallas, $50,000.
*Kit Goldsbury, investments, San Antonio, $26,000 (two contributions)
*Sanford Gottesman, Austin, real estate, $10,000. (His son, Blake, was an aide to President Bush.)
*Windi Phillips Grimes, investor, Houston, $20,000. (The daughter of art patron and philanthropist Anne Marion, the great-grandaughter of 6666 Ranch founder Burk Burnett.)
*Robert Gunn, oilman, Wichita Falls, $10,000
*Kent Hance, attorney, Austin, $25,000. (A former state senator, congressman, and railroad commissioner.)
*Steve Hicks, radio executive, Austin, $25,000. (A media mogul who is the brother of Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks.)
*HILLCO PAC, Austin, $25,000. (I have not listed other PACS, but HILLCO is an influential lobbying firm at the Capitol.)
*George Hixon, real estate, San Antonio, $25,000 (two contributions)
*Forrest Hoglund, investments, Dallas, $25,000. (Former CEO of Enron Oil and Gas.)
*Ned Holmes, investments, Houston, $25,000 (two contributions)
*Ray Hunt, oil and real estate, Dallas, $25,000
*John Johnson, oilfield mud services, Houston, $25,000
*Luther King, investments, Dallas, $25,000
*James Lattimer, Lattimore materials, McKinney, $25,000
*Steve Letbetter, retired, Houston, $25,000. (Former CEO of Reliant Energy.)
