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Texas PAC Facts
Total Texas PAC Spending
Comparing Business, Labor & Ideological PACs
Business PACs Up Close
Ideological & Single-Issue PACs Up Close
Labor PACs Up Close
End Notes
The 100 Biggest PACs in Texas
Data analyzed in this report come from
expenditure data that general-purpose political action committees (PACs)
file with the Texas Ethics Commission. Contributions to candidates for
Texas statewide and legislative offices are the leading expenditure of
most of these PACs. However, some PACs also report other significant expenditures,
including contributions to federal candidates, out-of-state contributions,
direct mail costs, issue ad spending and payment of overhead costs. This
report only analyzes PACs that reported expenditures during 1997 or 1998.
These data are compared to earlier PAC expenditure figures found in a previous
Texas PACs report that Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) published in
October 1998. See below to learn how to obtain these and other TPJ reports.
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