New Appointees Contributed
To Perry’s Economic Growth

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Appointees' Huge Donations 
Created A Job—For Rick Perry

Task Force Appointee	Company	Individual Perry Contributions
James "Jim" Adams	TX Instruments (retired)	$3,000
Elaine Agather	JP Morgan Chase	$0
Ernesto Ancira, Jr	Ancira Auto Dealership	$4,000
Mark Bivins	Corsino Cattle Co.	$3,500
Anthony Chase	ChaseCom telecom./broadcasting	$2,000
Bob Davis	USAA insurance	$0
Larry Durrett	Southern Multifoods, Inc. fast food	$18,078
P.J. Ellison	Ellison's Greenhouses, Inc.	$2,000
Noe Fernandez	TX Building & Procurement Commission	$1,955
Mike Field	Clifford Field Krier Manning… law firm	$0
Malcolm Gillis	Rice University	$0
Dain Hancock	Lockheed Martin	$500
Alfred Jackson	Davis Hamilton Jackson & Assoc. securities	$75,000
David Lund	TX A&M University	$0
Erle Nye	TXU electric utility	$70,500
Terrence O'Mahoney	Delta Airlines pilot (former)	$0
Ross Perot, Jr.	Perot [computer] Systems Corp.	$98,500
Ray Perryman	Perryman Group economic research	$15,000
Gus Rodriguez	Basel Glass	$0
Wanda Rohm	Presto Business Cards	$100
Hector de J. Ruiz	AMD semiconductors	$0
Marvin Selig	Commercial Metals Co.	$500
Jane Anne Stinnett	JGG, Inc. cotton merchant	$750
Cheryl Thompson	Warren Electric Group electricity wholesaler	$3,600
Mort Topfer	Castletop [venture] Capital	$83,817
Russell Turner	United Space Alliance [NASA contractor]	$0
Massey Villarreal	Precision Task Group computer systems	$0
Michael Waters	Hendrick Health System hospital	$1,000
William Wise	El Paso Corp. natural gas	$64,000
	Total	$447,800

Most of Governor Rick Perry’s new appointees to a task force to create economic growth and jobs have ex-perience creating one job in particular — Perry’s.

Since 1997, Perry has taken a remarkable $447,800 in individual donations from his task force appointees.

Two-thirds of Perry’s 29 task force members have given to Perry’s recent political campaigns, led by $98,500 from task force chair Ross Perot, Jr.

Another top-donor is Alfred Jackson ($75,000). Jackson’s securities firm had a role in a recent pay-to-play scandal involving investment of state funds controlled by the State Board of Education.

The research firm of big donor Ray Perryman ($15,000) also created another important job. Perryman is the immediate past employer of Texas’ First Lady. •
 
 

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