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Cornyn's Corporate Sponsors

Top Individual Donors 

PACs2000
Cornyn’s top 25 individual donors gave him $2.2 million, accounting for 22 percent of his big-check contributions. Many of these top donors owe their fortunes to highly litigious industries. All but seven of them are donors to the Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) PAC, which received $2.5 million from these same donors since its 1994 founding.
 
 
Cornyn's Top Individual Donors
Contributor Company  Money 
 To Cornyn 
 Money To 
 TLR's PAC 
*Bob Perry Bob Perry Homes
$185,000
$140,000
*James Leininger Kinetic Concepts (hospital beds)
$146,500
$175,000
*William McMinn Sterling Group (chemicals)
$125,000
$190,000
*Thomas Hicks Hicks Muse Tate & Furst (finance) 
$115,000
$5,000
*Kenneth Lay Enron Corp. (electricity)
$115,000
$80,000
*Richard Weekley David Weekley Homes
$104,500
$432,000
*Charles Butt HEB Grocery
$101,111
$10,000
*Gordon Cain Sterling Group (chemicals)
$96,000
$240,000
*Robert McNair, Sr.  Cogen Technologies (electricity)
$91,000
$475,000
*James Elkins, Jr. First City Bancorp (retired)
$85,000
$46,000
*J. Virgil Waggoner Sterling Group (chemicals)
$85,000
$23,500
*David Underwood Everen Securities
$84,570
$97,500
*Louis Beecherl, Jr. Beecherl Investments
$80,250
$21,000
*Herb Vest HD Vest Financial Services
$80,000
$0
*Dan Duncan Enterprise Products Co. (gas)
$70,000
$58,000
*Harlan Crow Trammell Crow (real estate)
$66,000
$331,500
*Albert Huddleston Hyperion Resources (oil)
$65,000
$25,000
*Richard Salwen Dell Computer
$62,028
$500
*S. Reed Morian D X Service Co. (chemicals)
$60,000
$36,000
Thomas Luce III Luce & Williams (law)
$53,000
$0
J. Ralph Ellis, Jr. Belmont Oil & Gas Corp.
$52,000
$0
*Harold Simmons Contran Corp. (finance/waste)
$51,000
$130,000
Glenn Collins NeoDyne Technologies (software)
$50,000
$0
Steven B. Solomon CT Holdings (software)
$50,000
$0
George Farris Memorial Hermann Healthcare
$45,000
$0
Charles/Sam Wyly Diverse software & retail empire
$45,000
$0
 
TOTALS:
$2,162,959
$2,516,000
Note: Money includes contributions from named individuals and their family members.
* Donor to Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) PAC.



8  Next came Accident and Injury Pain Centers owner Robert M. Smith ($32,000) and the Texas Hospital Association ($27,500).
9  This subsector just counts donors that are predominantly engaged in health insurance. Interests with broader insurance lines fall into the Insurance category.

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