[ Report Home | Previous Page | Next Page ] Texas PACs 2000 Election Cycle Democratic: $8,191,688

Five Democratic PACs spent more than $100,000 apiece, led by the almost $6 million spent by the Texas Democratic Party. The Texas Democratic Partnership PAC spent the next-largest pot of Democratic money to defend the party’s narrow House majority. Bill Hobby—the wealthy candidate who lost a 1998 Comptroller race—controls the Hobby Texas Fund. The D.C.-based Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee funneled union money¹² into Texas’ two costliest legislative races (incumbent Senator David Cain and failed Senate candidate David Fisher). Finally, Congressman Martin Frost’s 24th District Fund bankrolled the Tarrant County Democratic PAC. The Tarrant County Democratic PAC transferred this money to the federal 21st Century PAC, which pays the Tarrant County Democrats’ payroll and office expenses.