834##Jack#A.#Abramoff###Washington#DC##Greenberg Traurig LLP#Government Affairs#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Lawyers & Lobbyists##P##0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
775##Peter#W.#Adams###Novelty#OH##Alliance Capital Management#Investment Manager#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
501##Stephen##Albano###Wilmington#MA##Offtech#Founder, CEO, President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
19##David#G.#Albert###Woodstock#MD##Park Strategies#Consultant#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
189##Anthony#J.#Alexander###Akron#OH##FirstEnergy Corp.#President & Chair##0###0#$10508000.00#$18142000.00#Energy & Natural Resources#Alexander was an Ohio Edison executive before it merged with two utility companies into FirstEnergy. Alexander also heads Ohio’s electric utility trade group. In these roles, he initially fought to protect his company’s electricity monopoly and then lobbied heavily to influence the terms under which the legislature deregulated Ohio’s electric markets in ’99. Ohio Edison spent $9.3 million on dozens of lobbyists and consultants in ’97 alone. It paid $453,700 to Gov. George Voinovich’s ex-Chief of Staff Paul Mifsud, who pleaded guilty in ’97 to concealing a $100,000 home remodeling discount that he received from a state contractor. It paid $76,000 to ex-Mahoning Valley Sanitary District Director Ed Flask, whom a state audit revealed had taken $1.9 million in consulting fees from vendors whom Flask hired at the sanitary district. Ohio Edison paid $124,000 to Sen. Roy Ray, who then sponsored a bill to bail out Ohio Edison and other utilities of the costs of their uncompetitive nuclear power plants. Alexander’s lobby phalanx also defends his company’s right to burn filthy coal that pollutes the air with sulfur dioxide, causing acid rain and respiratory ailments. In the early ‘90s, Ohio Edison operated the ninth-worst source of sulfur dioxide in the EPA’s Midwest-based Region 5.##P+#0#0#0#0#1#1#1#0#0
190##Joe#B.#Allen#III##Houston#TX##Vinson & Elkins#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#The $316,700 in contributions that Bush has taken from Vinson & Elkins (V&E) over his political life makes this corporate law firm his No. 3 career patron. This could not have happened without the approval of Allen, the Houston kingmaker who directs V&E’s political action committee. Allen emerged as Houston’s political heavy weight after coordinating the ‘92 mayoral election and transition team of developer Bob Lanier. Allen then lobbied Mayor Lanier for six years on behalf of corporate clients. Faced with a serious plan to reform city campaign financing in ’92, Lanier and the council instead passed a meaningless substitute drafted by Allen at the last minute. V&E pressures its 269 partners to make hefty annual contributions to Texas’ second largest non-party PAC. Partners can get credit for giving money directly to candidates of their choice only if they get the nod from Allen, who keeps the firm’s “Mystic Book” PAC ledger. V&E lawyers—who have a steady stream of Texas Supreme Court cases—contributed $287,680 to the most recent campaigns of its justices. V&E also employs Pioneer Thomas Marinis, Jr.##P+#0#1#1#0#0#1#0#0#1
502#Ms.#Ruth#Collins Sharp#Altshuler##2626 Cole Avenue, LB 24, Ste. 504#Dallas#TX#75204#Retired#Investor, philanthropist#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
503##Jeffrey#S.#Amling##135 E. Baltimore St.#Baltimore#MD#21202#Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown#Managing Partner of Global Media#$0.00#0###0#$17091000.00#$18916000.00#Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
191##Paul##Anderson###Deerfield Beach#FL##JM Family Enterprises#Top Staff Lobbyist##1#Federal Maritime Commissioner##0###Transportation#JM’s billionaire owner James Moran was convicted of tax cheating in the ‘80s. JM has not paid corporate income taxes in Florida since ‘92. JM subsidiary Southeast Toyota shook down local and state governments for $15 million in corporate welfare in ’99 after threatening to move to Georgia. Anderson lobbied Broward County officials for tax breaks without registering as a lobbyist as required by law.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
504##Lee#S.#Anderson##2605 Colonial Pkwy#Fort Worth#TX#76109#Retina Consultants PA#President#$0.00#0###0#$27000.00#$27000.00#Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
506#Mr.#Scott##Andrews#III#PO Box 1426#Middleburg#VA#20113#Winston Partners#Co-founder, Managing Partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
505##Mark##Andrews##1331 Lamar St., 900#Houston#TX#77019#American Exploration Co.#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
167#Mr.#George#L.#Argyros###Costa Mesa#CA#92626#Arnel & Affiliates#Chair & CEO##1#Ambassador to Spain##0###Finance#Argyros controls a diversified, real estate-based fortune. Forbes listed this ex-owner of the Seattle Mariners ball team among the 400 richest Americans in ’91. Apria Healthcare’s board asked Argyros to step down as chair under a conflict-of-interest cloud in ’98. Argyros repeatedly opposed plans to sell the company—until its stock price bottomed out. Then, he himself tried to buy the nation’s largest home health care chain on the cheap. “For the past six months, George has vigorously argued that this was the wrong time to sell the company because it was too cheap,” a source told the Los Angeles Times. “Now suddenly it’s the right time, as long as he’s buying it.” A decade earlier, Argyros spun the revolving door in Orange County, California, where he made a real estate fortune. Then-County Supervisor Bruce Nestande resigned to become an Argyros lobbyist during an ‘87 political-corruption probe (Nestande returned $18,000 in contributions from a businessman convicted of paying bribes to influence a county dump contract).##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0
507##Victor##Arias, Jr.##1801 Northern Oak Circle#Irving#TX#75063#Spencer Stuart#Executive consultant#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
509#Mr. & Mrs.#Tobin##Armstrong###Armstrong#TX#78338#Armstrong Ranch#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Agriculture###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
508##Gaylord##Armstrong##2300 Windsor Road#Austin#TX#78703#McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
621##Katharine##Armstrong###Dallas#TX#75205#Homemaker#Ex-UICI spouse#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
192##Jorge#L.#Arrizurieta###Miami Beach#FL##Huizenga Holdings, Inc.#Top Staff Lobbyist##1#Treasury transition team##0###Finance#Arrizurieta is a registered lobbyist for H. Wayne Huizenga’s AutoNation, Miami Dolphins and Decoma, Ltd. Two Florida House members complained in ’97 that Arrizurieta threatened them after they opposed a $60 million tax break for Huizenga. One member said Arrizurieta told his office that they could stop calling him for favors. Another member said Arrizurieta said that Huizenga would finance a candidate to run against him. Arrizurieta’s boss, Huizenga, contributed $15,000 to Bush’s gubernatorial campaigns. Arrizurieta, who used to work for U.S. Senator Connie Mack, told the press that his Pioneer money can be considered Huizenga cash. “We’re all one family,” he said. “I can assure you his handprints are all over it.” For another member of the Huizenga “family,” see Pioneer James Blosser.##P+#0#0#1#1#0#1#0#0#0
215##Jeanie##Austin###Orlando#FL##Jeanie Austin and Associates#President##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#An ex-vice president of a phone company, Austin co-chaired the Republican National Committee with Lee Atwater during President Bush’s administration. She unsuccessfully ran for the post again in ’98. The next year she became co-chair of Bill McCollum’s Senate campaign. The Florida Republican Party credits Austin for turning it into a force, helping to build the base that elected Bush Pioneer Robert Martinez as Florida’s first GOP governor in 20 years. Austin died in early 2000 of bone cancer. “Jeanie was fiercely loyal to my dad and to my family,” Gov. Jeb Bush said at the time. “She was a partisan in the good sense of the word.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
214##Alfred#S.#Austin###Tampa#FL##Austin Companies#President##0###0###Real Estate#Austin is a major developer of offices and hotels along Florida’s west coast, with a major concentration of developments around Tampa’s airport. Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Austin to the board overseeing this airport after Austin served as a major fundraiser for Bush’s ’98 campaign.  Austin is credited with recruiting Pioneer Robert Martinez for his successful run to become Florida’s first GOP governor in 20 years. Austin headed a major developer lobby initiative in the late ‘80s for a huge increase in state highway spending. Austin has been active in the Florida Council on Economic Education, which seeks to instill teachers and students with an appreciation of the market economy. The kids might find food for thought in an idea Austin’s father developed that has yet to catch on: a ready-to-eat dinner in a bottle that he called “pickled chicken.”#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
510##John##Avila, Jr.###Fort Worth#TX#76110-1239#Thomas S. Byrne Inc.#President#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
835##Catherine#Todd#Bailey###Louisville#KY##Chrysalis Ventures#Spouse of Managing Director#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
511##Jeffrey#C.#Barbakow###Santa Barbara#CA#93108#Tenet Healthcare#Ousted CEO & Chair#$0.00#0###0#$827000.00#$940000.00#Health###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
512#Mr.#Haley##Barbour###Washington#DC##Barbour Griffith & Rogers#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
513#H.#Doug##Barclay###Pulaski#NY#13142#Hiscock & Barclay LLP#Attorney#$0.00#1#Veterans transition team##0##$44000.00#Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
514#Mr. & Mrs.#Bob##Barnes###Odessa#TX#79762#Bob Barnes Companies#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
515##Gregory#C.#Barnes##507 Brazos St., Suite 211#Austin#TX#78701#Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
516##E.#William#Barnett###Houston#TX#77027#Baker & Botts LLP#Senior Counsel#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
517##John#W.#Barnhill#Jr.##Brenham#TX#77833#Blue Bell Creameries#Retired VP#$0.00#0###0##$192000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
518##Sam##Barshop###San Antonio#TX#78213#Barshop & Oles Company Inc#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
519##Roger#V#Barth###Washington#DC##Self-employed attorney#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
216##Joe#L.#Barton###Ennis#TX##US Government#U.S. Congressman & R-TX##0###0###Other#First elected in ‘84, Rep. Barton is one of Congress’ most conservative members. He has crusaded against things that politicians arguably cannot control: homosexuality, abortion and drugs. On the other hand, Barton has fought efforts to control guns and tobacco. Critics say tobacco influence explains the jihad that Barton’s subcommittee waged against the Food and Drug Administration (subcommittee counsel Alan Slobodin was an ex-president of the tobacco-funded Washington Legal Foundation). Like Bush, this ex-Arco consultant is a veteran of the oil industry, which reciprocates his unwavering support by regularly topping off his political war chests. While this “fiscal conservative” opposes most foreign aid, he was a top cheerleader for the $8 billion, now-defunct super collider boondoggle that Congress started building in his old district. Right or wrong, Rep. Barton has been known to stand alone. In two stellar examples, he was the sole committee member to request the resignation of International Olympic Committee head Juan Antonio Samaranch and to oppose immunity for junk-bond felons Michael Miliken and Ivan Boesky.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#1#0
520##Roy#Howard#Baskin#III##Waco#TX#76710#Jackson Walker LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
155#Mr. & Mrs.#Lee##Bass###Fort Worth#TX##Bass Family Enterprises#President & Owner##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Lee Bass manages the inherited oil assets of this now-diversified billionaire family, which is Bush’s fifth largest career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. When Bush’s ailing Harken Oil suspiciously won exclusive offshore drilling rights in Bahrain in ’90, the Basses bankrolled the venture. Two of Texas’ wealthiest Pioneer families, the Basses and the Wylys (see Charles Wyly, Jr.), mobilized their lobbyists to kill a ’97 bill that would have taxed investment partnerships in Texas, with the Basses threatening to move their operations to another state. Bush appointed Lee Bass chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which is in hot water for selling alcohol and tobacco ads for brochures distributed to park visitors. In a controversial ’98 move, the agency privatized wildlife by granting permits that allow landowners to trap and breed “wild” deer that they can sell on the hoof to hunters who lease their land. Yale returned the $20 million that Lee Bass gave it in ’95 for a Western Civilization program. Bass wanted to control related faculty appointments; critics said he would use this power to exclusively promote ideas of “dead white European males.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
776##David#Q.#Bates###San Antonio#TX##Public Strategies, Inc.#Senior Advisor#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
813##Lawrence#E.#Bathgate#II##Lakewood#NJ##Bathgate Wegener & Wolf#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists##P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
137#Mr.#George#S.#Bayoud#Jr.##Dallas#TX##Texas, Ltd.#Lobbyist/Consultant##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Bayoud was chief of staff to Bill Clements, the first post-Reconstruction GOP Texas governor, prior to becoming Secretary of State in ’89. As Clements’ chief of staff that year, Bayoud had to apologize to state senators for threats issued by Clements Appointments Secretary James Huffines (a Pioneer). Huffines told senators that the governor would veto their bills if they failed to confirm his appointees. Ex-Governor Ann Richards appointed Bayoud as the first chair of the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC), which was created in ‘91. During Bayoud’s tenure, the TEC dropped the ball on a proposal for electronic filing of campaign contribution reports, which set state campaign disclosures back 10 years. As TEC chair, long before he delivered $100,000 to Bush’s campaign, Bayoud once said, “To have someone write a $100,000 check for a candidate, to me, is deplorable.” Bayoud was president of the investment bank First Southwest Holdings. In ’99 he joined the board of directors of MyWeb Inc.com, a low-cost Internet service provider. Bayoud also was on the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, affiliated with the federal government’s abandoned Texas super collider boondoggle backed by Pioneer Joe Barton.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#1#0#0#0
1##Henry#C.#Beck#III##Dallas#TX##Beck Group#Chair & Owner##0###0##$390000.00#Construction#The Beck group is a general contractor for major commercial developments. Recently the company has built two Texas mega-malls for the Mills Corp. Another famous Mills Corp. employee is Bush’s predecessor, Ann Richards. Mills hired Richards to help convince regulators that they should grant Mills Corp. a special permit to fill 206 acres of the Hackensack River wetlands because there was no other reasonable place to build a mega-mall. Beck was elected in 2000 as the chair of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
23#Mr. & Mrs.#Louis#A.#Beecherl#Jr.#3801 Beverly Dr#Dallas#TX#75205#Beecherl Holdings#Owner##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#An ex-chair of the University of Texas Regents, Beecherl was a top cheerleader for a record  $380 million Dallas bond initiative to develop the banks of the Trinity River. Critics call it a boondoggle that will line the pockets of Beecherl and the other project boosters who happen to own land adjacent to this grandiose public works. Beecherl hired Pioneer lobbyist Bill Ceverha to push the project.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
521##J. Carter##Beese###Washington#DC##Riggs Capital Partners#President#$0.00#0###0##$453000.00#Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
522#Mrs.#Lea##Berman###Washington#DC##Berman Enterprises#Wife of Pioneer/Lobbyist Wayne Berman#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#1#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
156#Mr. & Mrs.#Wayne#L.#Berman###Washington#DC#20016#Berman Enterprises, Inc.#Lobbyist & Owner##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This ex-Bush Administration Commerce Department assistant secretary suspended Bush Pioneer fundraising to comply with a federal probe into his ties to ex-Connecticut treasurer Paul Silvester. Silvester was convicted in ’99 of taking kickbacks from the private money managers to whom he awarded contracts to invest state pension funds. Four other Pioneers were large donors to Silvester’s campaign (Herbert Collins, Thomas Foley, Maurice Greenberg and Peter Terpeluk, Jr.). Berman snagged a $500,000 “finder’s fee” for helping Pioneer Greenberg’s AIG Capital Partners land a contract to invest $100 million of these pension funds. Berman hired Silvester to work with his lobby firm (which was then Park Strategies) after Silvester lost a ‘98 re-election bid (see also Pioneer Christopher Burnham, another ex-Connecticut Treasurer who left office under an ethical cloud). Berman has lobbied for two other firms that won major investment contracts from Silvester. These firms are PaineWebber and the Carlyle Group.  The Carlyle Group was started by top officials in the Bush seniors’ administration (who reportedly gifted the former president an equity stake in this firm). Another Berman lobby client is the plaintiff firm Scruggs Millette Lawson Bozeman & Dent, which made a fortune leading state lawsuits against the tobacco industry. Finally, Berman lobbies for Flo-Sun, the Everglades sugar company owned by the “First Family of Corporate Welfare.” The Fanjul family has such extraordinary political access that President Clinton took a call from Alfonso Fanjul while being serviced by Monica Lewinsky.##P+#0#1#1#1#0#1#1#0#0
159#Mr.#Dennis#R.#Berman###Irving#TX#75038#Denitech Corp.#CEO & President##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Berman, who runs a copy machine leasing empire, was an elite Team 100 fundraiser for Bush seniors’ presidential race. Berman is the biggest individual contributor to the younger Bush’s two gubernatorial races, giving an extraordinary $175,000 to these campaigns—and earning him a sleepover in the Governor’s Mansion.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
523##Tom##Bernstein###Riverdale#NY#10471#Chelsea Piers Management#President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
524##Randy##Best###Dallas#TX#75021#Voyager Expanded Learning#Chairman#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
184#Mr. & Mrs.#Roland#W.#Betts###New York#NY##Chelsea Piers Management#Chair##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Betts is the chair of the company that owns the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex in New York City. He was Bush’s frat brother at Yale and the lead owner in Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership. Sale of the team to Tom Hicks (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks) made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Much of this profit derived from a large equity stake that other partners in the investment gifted to Bush, as well as the $135 million that local taxpayers forked out for the Rangers’ new Ballpark in Arlington. Betts’ Silver Screen Management is a major investor in Disney movies.##P+#1#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
525#Mr.#Eric##Bing##10830 Long Shadow Lane#Austin#TX#77024#Works.com#Ex-Vice President of Corporate Development#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
836##Carole#L.#Bionda###Nova Group Inc.#CA##Nova Group Inc.#Vice President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Construction##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
169#Hon.#Teel##Bivins##POB 15303#Amarillo#TX#79105#State of Texas#Rancher & State Senator##0###0#$3536000.00#$19758000.00#Other#State Senator Bivins is an overzealous Pioneer. He wrote state legislators in 50 states in ‘99, urging them to transfer $1,000 from their own war chests to Bush’s presidential campaign. Such diversions are illegal in at least four states. In the Texas Senate, Bivins has been a big supporter of school vouchers and limits on the rights of citizens to sue corporations. Bivins greased a hog deal in ’94 that brought a flood of animal factories to the Texas panhandle. These flesh factories were fleeing other states that were putting restrictions on animal fecal pollution (see Pioneer David Miner). Panhandle citizens were complaining about this problem to the state environmental agency. But Bivins and then-agency chair John Hall (who now lobbies for polluters) decided to severely restrict the right of citizens to hearings where they could challenge feed-lot water pollution, hydrogen sulfide emissions and air-borne plumes of manure. By the summer of ’95, feed-lot inspectors were ordered to stop issuing citations. Bivins is a past director of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association (see Pioneer Don Powell) and his campaign is strongly supported by the industry. “I see no reason why this area should not produce 75 percent of the world’s pork,” Senator Bivins has said.#P#P+#1#0#1#0#0#0#0#1#0
526##Tom##Bivins###Amarillo#TX#79109#Corsino Cattle Co.#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Agriculture###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
527##Mari Ann##Blatch###Mystic#CT#06355#Pequot Properties#Realtor#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
528##Mark#J.#Block###New Berlin#WI#53146#Telecommunications Group#President#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
217##James#J.#Blosser###Ft. Lauderdale#FL##Poole and McKinley#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#The local finance chair for Jeb Bush’s ’98 campaign, Blosser is an ex-executive in H. Wayne Huizenga’s empire that has encompassed Blockbuster Video, AutoNation, National and Alamo car rentals and sports teams. Blosser led efforts to tap tax dollars for new Dolphins, Marlins and Panthers stadiums before leaving Huizenga for Poole & McKinley. This entangled the firm in a conflict of interest after new Marlins owner John Henry hired the firm to win tax dollars for yet another new stadium. Poole & McKinley resigned from the job after Henry decided to fund the $400 million new stadium through taxes on rental cars—which would take a bite out of the empire of Blosser’s old boss, Huizenga.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
777##James#L.#Blythe###Dallas#TX##Blythe-Nelson#managing partner#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
529##Perry#E.#Bodin###Rowlett#TX#75087#Bodin Concrete Co.#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
218##Joseph##Bogosian###Arlington#VA##McQuire Woods Consulting#VP of Federal Public Affairs##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This co-founder of Young Professionals for George W. Bush was an aide to the late Rep. James J. Howard, R-NJ, in the late ‘80’s and was a staffer at the House Foreign Affairs Committee in ‘91. As a registered lobbyist for more than a decade, Bogosian has specialized in promoting international trade. Recent clients include utility GPU, Inc., Edison Mission Energy, Catamount Energy, Allegiance Healthcare, the Armenian Assembly of America and CSX. (Two other Pioneers are CSX executives: A. R. Carpenter and Thomas Fiorentino).##P+#0#0#0#0#1#1#1#0#0
171#Mr.#Michael#M.#Boone##3100 NCNB Texas National Bank Plaza#Dallas#TX#75202#Haynes & Boone#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Boone is a co-founder of this major corporate law firm. He helped the Dallas Stars and Mavericks sports teams negotiate a deal with the City of Dallas that put local taxpayers on the hook for a new stadium in ’98. These two teams are owned by two of the area’s richest men: H. Ross Perot, Jr. and Tom Hicks (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks). Boone also helped negotiate a strategic alliance between RadioShack.com and Microsoft.#R#P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#1
219##Rudy##Boschwitz###Plymouth#MN##Home Valu#Chair##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Boschwitz heads a big chain of home-improvement stores. Poorly funded populist Paul Wellstone ousted this ex-U.S. Senator in ’90 and whipped Boschwitz again in ‘96. Voters were underwhelmed by Boschwitz’s record in the Senate, where he opposed minimum wage increases, abortion and tough environmental rules, while championing weaker corporate liability, unfettered global trade and a flat tax. Voters also were repulsed by a ’90 Boschwitz mailer that told Jews that he was “more Jewish” than Wellstone. The letter attacked Wellstone for marrying a Christian and for not raising his kids Jewish.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
51#Ms.#Katherine#E.#Boyd###Hillsborough#CA##Katherine Boyd Interior Decoration#Owner##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#This owner of an interior decorating business is a heavy GOP contributor. She is also a friend of President Bush, who appointed her in ’90 to replace another Pioneer, Jennifer Dunn, on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
530##Jimmy##Bradley##5919 Bordeaux Ave.#Dallas#TX#75209#Self-employed investment advisor#Investment Advisor#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
175#Mr. & Mrs.#Daniel#H.#Branch###Dallas#TX##Winstead Sechrest & Minick#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#An ex-partner in the firm Langley & Branch, Branch now specializes in commercial real estate and lobbying for Winstead Sechrest & Minick. He has been  the firm’s co-chair of government relations. He was the Dallas fundraising chair of Bush’s gubernatorial races. Bush appointed him to the Texas Public Finance Authority board in ’95.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#1
531##Theldon#R.#Branch III###Houston#TX#77025#Branch Companies#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
778##Sanford#P.#Brass###Houston#TX##Gulf Coast Asphalt Co.#President#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
45#Mr. & Mrs.#Stephen#F.#Brauer###Bridgeton#MO#63044#Hunter Engineering Co.#President##1#Ambassador to Belgium##0##$354000.00#Miscellaneous Business#Brauer’s company makes lift racks and wheel-alignment equipment used to service vehicles. Brauer and Pioneer William DeWitt are part owners of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals are demanding a new, bond-financed stadium, despite the city’s recent major expenditures to remodel Busch Stadium. Brauer flew to Austin to meet with Bush in early ‘99 along with three other Missouri Pioneers: Adele Hall, Sam Fox and John Mahaffey.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
220##Tim##Bridgewater###Missouri City#TX##Interlink Management Corp.#Executive & Consultant##0###0###Finance#Bridgewater is a consultant and executive at Houston-based Interlink Merchant Bank, which has offices in New York City and Salt Lake City. The chair and co-founder of InterLink is Bush’s brother Neil. Neil is best known for sitting on the board of Silverado Banking Savings & Loan until ’88. In that year, Bush senior became president and federal regulators shut down Silverado at a taxpayer cost of $1 billion. Neil’s new business invests in energy, manufacturing and telecommunications in Asia. InterLink is a member of a group of Texas businesses that lobbies for unfettered trade with China.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
532##Tucker##Bridwell###Abilene#TX#79606#MANSEFELDT Investment Corp#President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
174#Mrs.#Nancy##Brinker##9410 Alva Court#Dallas#TX#75220-2203#Brinker International#Wife of Chair##1#Ambassador to Hungary##0###Miscellaneous Business#Nancy Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research, named for her sister, who died of that disease. Her husband, Norman Brinker, is the chair of Brinker International, which made its fortune off such restaurants as Steak & Ale, Bennigan’s, Chili's, Macaroni Grill, On the Border and Eatzi's. He is an ex-chair of the U.S. Polo Association who survived a near-fatal polo accident in ’93.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
221##William#O.#Brisben###Cincinnati#OH##W.O. Brisben Companies#President & Owner##0###0###Construction#This developer has a history of upsetting his neighbors. Brisben waged a seven-year battle with the city of Montgomery, Ohio to put an office tower in a residential area. After winning this court battle in ‘94, Brisben sued Montgomery for $19 million, which he claimed was the amount he lost during the project’s delay. Delays continued even after he won the case, however, as Brisben sought to pre-register tenants for the building. Brisben also alienated Kennedy Heights neighbors in ’94 when he decided to build low-income housing next to them instead of the condos he originally proposed.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
533#Mr. & Mrs.#Dick##Brooks###Dallas#TX#75225#Central & South West Corp.#Retired Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0##$14382.50#0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
534##Richard#E.#Brophy###Waco#TX##Naman Howell Smith & Lee#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
222##Leslie#J.#Brorsen###Falls Church#VA##Ernst & Young#Managing Dir. of Gov Relations##1#Treasury transition team##0#$3098000.00#$13121000.00#Finance#Brorsen was Senator Don Nickles’ (R-OK) chief of staff from ‘84 until ‘97, when he left to head the lobby shop at accounting giant Ernst & Young. Recently, accountants have lobbied for the right to have privileged communications with clients, placing them on the same footing as lawyers in their ability to be mum about hanky panky. Ernst & Young lobbyists are best known for seeking limits on liability for signing off on inaccurate or fraudulent financial reports. This bold lobby request came in the early ‘90s—just after the firm paid $400 million for signing off on the books of such failed savings and loans as Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#1#1#0#0
223##C.#David#Brown#II##Orlando#FL##Broad & Cassel#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Brown is the managing partner of the firm’s Orlando office, where he specializes in real estate and municipal bond law. He has helped clear the way for more than 5 million square feet of new commercial real estate and helped float hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds for Florida highways. He was the Central Florida finance chair of Jeb Bush’s gubernatorial campaign.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
535##Robert#H.#Brown#Jr.##Dallas#TX#75225#Frost Securities Inc#investment banker#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
224##W.#L.#Brown#Jr.##Louisville#KY##Brown-Forman Corp.#Retired Chair & CEO##1#Ambassador to Austria##0##$13000.00#Miscellaneous Business#Brown retired in ’93 as head of this company that makes Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort, Korbel Champagne, Lenox china and Hartmann luggage. After Brown’s departure, the company took a bold step in ‘99—naming the first woman to its board.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
817##George#R.#Buckelew####NJ####$0.00#0###0######P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
536##Alan#R.#Buckwalter#III##Houston#TX#77019#JPMorgan Chase Southwest Region#Retired Chair#$0.00#0###0#$26084000.00#$27404000.00#Finance###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
537#Mr.#J. Fred##Bucy#Jr.##Dallas#TX#75378#Texas Instruments#Retired CEO/President#$0.00#0###0#$1338000.00#$1463000.00#Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
538##J. Bruce##Bugg#Jr.##San Antonio#TX#78209#Argyle Investment Company#President/CEO#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
539#Mr. & Mrs.#Jerry##Bullin###Bryan#TX#77808#Bryan Research & Engineering#President#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
837##Steven#A.#Burd###Pleasanton#CA##Safeway Inc.#Chairman, President, and CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Miscellaneous Business##R##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
125#Hon.#Christopher#B.#Burnham###Greenwich#CT##U.S. State Deparment#Chief Financial Officer##1#State Department Chief Financial Official & Assistant Secretary of Resource Mgmt##0###Other#Burnham now directs this online investing company. He stepped down as Connecticut’s state treasurer in ‘97 to work for the investment companies PIMCO and Columbus Circle. Before resigning as state treasurer, Burnham awarded Columbus Circle a contract to manage $150 million in state pension funds. Burnham’s successor as treasurer, Paul Silvester, was convicted of taking kickbacks from private money managers to whom he awarded contracts to invest state pension funds (see Pioneer Wayne Berman).##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0
540##Robert##Burt###Winnetka#IL#60093#FMC Corp.#Retired Chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0#$1760000.00#$46583000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
157#Mr.#William#H. T.#Bush###St. Louis#MO#63124#Bush-O’Donnell Co.#Chair##0###0###Finance#This Bush uncle co-founded a venture capital firm. He heads his nephew’s fundraising operations in Missouri, which some analysts expect to be a potential swing state in November 2000. “Bucky” Bush sat on the board of the deluxe ocean liner company Intrav and received $405,000 for his shares in the company when it was purchased in ’99. RightCHOICE Managed Care, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri subsidiary, named him to its board in ‘97.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
158#Mr.#Jonathan##Bush###New Haven#CT##Riggs Investment Management Co.#CEO & President##0###0###Finance#Bush’s uncle Jonathan heads this investment firm. He founded its subsidiary, J. Bush & Co., of which he is chair. He also is an ex-chair of the New York Republican State Finance Committee. Bush credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his “success” in the Texas oil industry in the early ‘80s.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
541##Neil##Bush##11130 North Country Squire#Houston#TX#77024#Ignite! Inc.#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
542##Roger#P.#Byrne###Houston#TX#77063#Self-employed dentist#Dentist#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
543#Mr. & Mrs.#Douglas#B.#Campbell###Houston#TX#77238#Highway Pavement Specialties#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
164#Mr.#Joseph#C.#Canizaro###New Orleans#LA#70112#Joseph Canizaro, Inc.#Owner & CEO##0###0###Real Estate#Canizaro has developed more than $1 billion in Big-Easy real estate and is the chair of First Bank and Trust. He became one of the nation’s top individual “soft money” donors to the Republican National State Elections Committee in 2000 when he wrote it a $240,000 check. Of the check he said, “You have to participate in government if you want to get something out of it.” Indeed. A ’97 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) audit criticized Canizaro for heading a local housing authority committee that awarded a $493,865 contract to Robert Tucker, who sat on the board of Canizaro’s bank. HUD investigated why the contract went to a big contributor of New Orleans’ mayor instead of equally qualified lower bidders. Canizaro was one of 250 wheeler dealers to whom the city quietly gave free VIP parking space at the New Orleans airport in the late 80s.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
31##Stephen#G.#Canton###Bethesda#MD##Teleglobe Buisness Solutions#CEO##0###0###Communications#Canton runs this business-service division of Excel Communications. Excel is the king of “pyramid” long-distance phone marketing, in which people receive commissions for persuading others to switch to Excel’s phone service and then recruiting salespeople of their own. This sales network has a high turnover rate and limited experience, which has spawned problems with customers being illegally switched to Excel without permission (the federal government and Pennsylvania cracked down on such Excel “slamming” in the late ‘90s). Disillusioned salespeople also have had trouble getting refunds from Excel after they quit. Excel was temporarily expelled from the Better Business Bureau in its hometown of Dallas in ’96 in response to more than 100 complaints.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
838##Albert#R.#Cardenas###Miami#FL##Florida Republican Party#State Chairman#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Ideological##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
779##F.#Lewis#Carlisle###Easton#MD##M C CARLISLE LCC#retired stockbroker#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
544##David##Carmen###Washington#DC#20004#Carmen Group#President#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
32##A.#R.#Carpenter###Jacksonville#FL##CSX Transportaion#Vice Chair##0##$3800.00#0#$3000.00#$8603000.00#Transportation#Carpenter is one of three Pioneers who work for this railroad (see also Thomas Fiorentino and Joseph Bogosian). CSX joined three other major railroad interests in “Destination DC,” a ‘99 lobbying effort to prevent Congress from imposing new regulations on the industry through the renewal of the Surface Transportation Board. Carpenter organized a Bush fundraiser in ’99 that netted almost half a million dollars. He is one of the “Jacksonville Eight,” wealthy executives who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Jeb Bush’s ’98 gubernatorial campaign.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
153##Claiborne##Carrington###San Antonio#TX##C. Clarrington and Co.#President##1#President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (spouse)##0###Real Estate#Carrington developed the Collection Mall, an upscale retail center in San Antonio. His wife, Alice, is an art collector and dealer.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
545##Joey##Carter###Plano#TX#75093#Home Interiors & Gifts#Chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
154#Mr. & Mrs.#Charles#M.#Cawley###Wilmington#DE#19807-2815#MBNA America Bank#Chair, CEO, President##0##$4860.00#0###Finance#Cawley has pumped up credit card giant MBNA’s political activities since then-New York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato proposed limits on credit card interest rates in ’92. In ’98, MBNA and the rest of this industry that distributes credit cards like candy urged Congress to slash debt relief for “irresponsible” consumers who declare bankruptcy. MBNA executives gave more than $115,000 to Bush’s gubernatorial campaigns and MBNA was second only to Vinson & Elkins in Bush presidential donations in ’99—the year Cawley hosted a $1,000-a-plate Bush dinner in his home.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
839##James#E.#Cayne###New York City#NY##Bear Stearns & Co.#Chair; CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
166#Mr. & Mrs.#William##Ceverha##4306 Bobbitt#Dallas#TX#75229#Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#A co-founder of the Texas Conservative Coalition, this ex-state legislator was an author of a constitutional cap on state spending. Ceverha led a local group that defeated a Dallas referendum to fund a rail plan in ‘88. Ceverha resurfaced 10 years later, however, as a revolving-door lobbyist promoting a record $380-million Dallas bond initiative to develop the banks of the Trinity River. Critics call it a boondoggle to line the pockets of Ceverha’s client, Pioneer Louis Beecherl, Jr., and other tycoons who own adjacent land. Bush appointed Ceverha’s wife, Mary, to the Texas Board of Health. After heavy lobbying by Bush Pioneer Tom Loeffler’s firm, this board voted in ’99 to bury rules that would have restricted sales of the weight-loss supplement ephedrine, which had been linked to eight Texas deaths. One industry beneficiary of this policy is Pioneer Craig Keeland.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#1#0#0
546##John#T.#Chain#Jr.#2101 Indian Creek Drive#Fort Worth#TX#76107#Burlington Northern Railroad#Executive Vice Pres.#$0.00#0###0#$3000.00#$363000.00#Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
33##Elaine##Chao###Louisville#KY##U.S. Government#Labor Secretary##1#Labor Secretary##0###Other#Affirmative-action critic Chao is a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. Heritage receives major funding from Pioneer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. After he complained about its cautious position on trade with China, Heritage issued a new paper that was bullish on the topic. Chao was President Bush’s Peace Corps director and deputy secretary of Transportation. United Way of America hired her to clean up its wreckage in ’92, after charges that her predecessor spent $600,000 of charity funds on himself and a teen-age girl friend. Chao restored credibility but stumbled over her exit. Some board members offered her a goodbye gift of $292,500 out of their personal funds to supplement Chao’s $195,000 salary. She did not refuse the money until the media cried foul. Chao’s husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell, is the leading defender of special-interest campaign money in Congress.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
34##Martha##Chayet###Manchester#MA##Oxbridge Group#Executive##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Chayet is an executive head hunter for the banking industry. She helped then-Gov.  William Weld (a Pioneer) host the annual meeting of the National Governors’ Association in Boston in ‘94. Her husband, Neil L. Chayet, founded the lobby firm Chayet Communications, which represents the medical industry. He also broadcasts a legal news and call-in show.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
547##Felix#Y.#Chen###Dallas#TX#75287#PAJ inc.#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0##$141000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
814##Robert#B.#Chernin###Chester#NJ##CHERNIN INSURANCE AGENCY#President#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
548##Deepak##Chopra##948 Granvia Allamira#Palos Verdes Estate#CA#90274#OSI Systems Inc#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0#$275000.00#$4086000.00#Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
822##Chris##Christie#Esq.##Mendham#NJ##U.S. Justice Department#U.S. Attorney for NJ#$0.00#1#Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney##0###Other###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
549##Donald#O.#Clark##3010 Ellicott St. N.W.#Washington#DC#20008#Reed Smith Shaw & McClay#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
168#Mr.#Jim##Click###Tucson#AZ#85732#Jim Click Automotive Group#Owner##0###0###Transportation#Jim Click Automotive is one of the nation’s largest auto dealer companies, controlling 15 dealerships. Click is a huge source of GOP soft money. He says he learned both cars and politics from his late granduncle Holmes Tuttle, an archconservative car dealer who convinced Ronald Reagan to enter politics. Click flushed $25,000 down the toilet in the mid ‘80s, when Bush convinced him to invest in one of his infamous oil deals. He also got an award in ’98 from President Clinton's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities—which was chaired by Gore’s campaign chief, Tony Coelho.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
550##Ned##Cloonan###New York#NY#10270#American International Group#VP#$0.00#0###0#$60000.00#$619000.00#Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
815##Leonard#S.#Coleman#Jr.##Middletown#NJ##National League#President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
552#Mr.#John##Collins###Fort Lauderdale#FL#33334#Gulf Building Corp.#General Contractor#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
551#Mr.#Glenn##Collins###College Station#TX#77840#Neodyne Technologies Inc##$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
148#Mr.#Herbert#F.#Collins###Boston#MA#2108#Boston Capital Partners#Chair##0###0##$556000.00#Finance#Collins, whose real estate financing firm relies on federal contracts and tax credits, is politically hyperactive. As he pressed House Ways and Means Chair Bill Archer to shield a $2.6-billion tax break for his industry in ‘96, Collins led a funding drive for Archer’s son-in-law, who was seeking an Alabama congressional seat. Oddly, donors were urged to send these checks to Bill Archer’s home in Virginia. Collins also led President Bush’s New England campaign in ‘92. He and Boston Capital’s president were accused of exceeding the overall federal cap on political contributions that year by a whopping extra $17,000 each. In an ‘89 revolving-door scandal, Collins’ firm suspended then-Vice President Thomas Demery. When Demery had left his post as assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) three months earlier, his HUD files mysteriously vanished with him. Demery was suspected of—and later pled guilty to— steering HUD subsidies to politically connected developers. As it turned out, Collins entered the revolving door soon after Demery exited. New HUD Secretary Jack Kemp appointed Collins to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston in ‘90. Collins and five other Boston Capital executives were big contributors to the campaign of ex-Connecticut Treasurer Paul Silvester, who was convicted in ‘99 for taking kickbacks for investing state pension funds with private investment managers (see Pioneer Wayne Berman).##P+#0#0#1#1#0#0#1#0#0
41#Mr. & Mrs.#Pete#R.#Coneway##2247 Troon Road#Houston#TX#77019#Goldman Sachs & Co.#Retired General Partner##1#Treasury transition team##0###Finance#Coneway helps big oil companies such as Shell and Mitchell Energy invest their money. When Nashville wooed away the Houston Oilers with a new stadium (see Pioneer Bob Corker), then-Houston mayor Bob Lanier appointed Coneway to head a ’96 task force to study the need for new sports stadiums. Coneway’s panel recommended spending $625 million on sports facilities, including a $250 million baseball park (Pioneer Pat Oxford was a cheerleader for this project). That gleam in Coneway’s eye opened up this year as the Astros’ new Enron Field (see Pioneer Ken Lay), which was financed with $180 million in tax dollars. Coneway attended one of President Clinton’s infamous fundraising coffee klatches in ’95. Ex-Gov. Ann Richards appointed him as a University of Texas regent.#P#P+#0#1#1#1#0#0#0#0#0
35##James#Michael#Connolly###West Roxbury#MA##James Michael Connolly Associates lobby firm#President##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Connolly abandoned Boston’s ’82 mayoral race after media reports that he plagiarized his much-touted anti-corruption proposal. Today, Connolly is a poster boy for the need for reforms to combat appearances of political corruption. After raising millions dollars for the ’98 campaign of Gov. Paul Cellucci, Connolly hit the lobby, billing his ’99 clients $317,499. Connolly landed seven clients that feed from the trough called the “Big Dig,” the Massachusetts Turnpike boondoggle that is more than $2 billion over budget. In June 2000, the Turnpike Authority sheepishly reneged a contract with Connolly’s client Kenneth Flynn. Flynn’s plan to develop vacant turnpike land beat out five competitors, despite getting low grades from a neighborhood group. Flynn is an insurer who got fired as a building inspector in ’77 because his own “scandalous” rental properties were cited for 172 sanitary violations in two years. Bush Pioneer William Weld’s firm also excavates Big-Dig pay dirt.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0
816##Natale "Nat"#G.#Conti###Bernardsville#NJ##Conti Construction#President#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
553##Lou##Cook########$0.00#0###0######P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
554##Dan#W.#Cook#III#100 Crescent Court, Suite 1000#Dallas#TX#75201#MHT Partners#Senior Advisor#$0.00#0###0###Finance##P#P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
555#Mr.#Louis##Cordia##904 Vicar Lane#Alexandria#VA#22302#Corida Compaines#Government Relations#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
36##Bob##Corker###Chattanooga#TN##Corker Group, Inc.#President##0###0###Real Estate#Corker’s impact on Tennessee real estate includes: the investments of his huge firm; a non-profit he founded to make low-income housing loans; and the record $2.4 million he paid in 2000 for his new 30-room, 10,000-square-foot home. As state Finance Commissioner in the mid ‘90s, he sold the legislature on $55 million in state bonds to lure away the Houston Oilers with a new stadium. Corker also promoted a welfare hike to help recipients find jobs and opposed new special-interest loopholes that would erode the tax base. Corker knew whereof he spoke. He was so good at personal income tax gimmicks that he twice dodged the IRS altogether, according to records he released in his ‘94 U.S. Senate bid. Sen. Bill Frist defeated Corker in that nasty primary. The Corker camp branded Frist a cat killer (he got cats from the pound to use as med-school transplant guinea pigs). The Frist campaign called Corker “rotten” “pond scum.”##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
793##Alfred#W.#Cortese#Jr.##Washington#DC##Cortese PLLC#Attorney#$0.00#1#Justice transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
556##Will#A.#Courtney, Sr.###Fort Worth#TX#76116#Courtney & Courtney Properties#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
557#Mr. & Mrs.#Tom##Craddick###Midland#TX#79705#State of Texas#State Representative, Speaker#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
558#Mr. & Mrs.#Nathan##Crain###Dallas#TX#75206#Shop Online#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
559#Mr. & Mrs.#Ben##Crenshaw###Austin#TX#78705#Self-employed golfer#Pro Golfer#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
560##Les#T.#Csorba###Houston#TX#77056#Heidrick & Struggles#Partner#$0.00#0###0#($25000.00)#$61000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
60##Jim##Culbertson###Winston-Salem#NC##Financial Computing Inc.#President##0###0###Electronics#Campaign finance reformers organized a protest of big money in politics before an elite fundraiser that this computer executive threw for Bush in ‘99. Culbertson called the protest “unmitigated nonsense” because he said the event offered a chance for anyone—not just contributors—to meet Bush. In fact, after the event was rescheduled (so Bush could rush to South Carolina to head off a McCain primary threat), the fundraiser made clear that only “Host Committee Members” who contributed $10,000 would press Bush’s flesh. When the rabble who just contributed $1,000 got wind of it, they crashed the party.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
561##Bill##Cunningham###Dallas#TX##Bill Cunningham Insurance, Inc#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
840#Senator#Alfonse##D'Amato###New York City#NY##Park Strategies#Consultant#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Other##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
61##William##Danhof###East Lansing#MI##Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone P.L.C.#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#The son of a prominent Michigan judge, Danhof said he became a Pioneer in response to Bush’s call to Baby Boomers to stop letting their parents run the country. Danhof’s legal specialty is municipal law and finance.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
562##John#F.#Davis#III##Dallas#TX#75219#Pegasus Systems Inc#Chair; CEO#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
178#Mr.#Robert#Addison#Day#Jr.##New York#NY##Trust Company of the West#Chair & CEO##1#President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; Treasury transition team##0###Finance#Trust Company of the West is a massive private money management company that manages mutual funds for Dean Witter. Henry Kissinger sits on its board. Day is the grandson of the founder of Superior Oil Co. Trust played major back-room roles in early to mid-‘90s takeover battles for Santa Fe Pacific Corp, Blockbuster Entertainment and Chrysler Corp. Trust took major hits in the mid-‘90s from: the Mexican peso devaluation; troubled real estate holdings; and an exodus of top managers. Thereafter, Trust aggressively pursued would-be buyers. Negotiations kept breaking down, in part because potential buyers said Trust overvalued its assets. Day is a pal of Clinton’s ex-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and once entertained the Democratic chief on his yacht.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
563##Francois##de Saint Phalle###New York#NY##Warburg Dillon Read#Vice chair, chief operating officer#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
39#Mr. & Mrs.#Robert#H.#Dedman#Jr.#10300 Strait Ln.#Dallas#TX#75229#Club Corp International#Chair & CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Dedman’s dad built the world’s biggest golf resort chain. Dedman, Sr. was a golfing pal of President Bush, who invited him to Camp David. The elder Dedman gave $3 million to the University of Texas in ’97 for stadium improvements. UT’s publicists usually trumpet such gifts but were mum about this one, which came at a time when ClubCorp was the sole bidder for a $10 million contract to run a private club at UT’s football stadium. ClubCorp got the contract. After Dallas’ First Republic Bank failed in the late ‘80s at a record taxpayer cost of $3.6 billion, Dedman and other ex-directors and officers of the bank agreed to pay $17.5 million in ’93 to settle charges related to their roles in this colossal failure. They got off “too goddamned cheap,” according to a federal lawyer who worked the case. “Those were very rich, very important, and some very self-important people,” he said. “They don’t understand that when you have enormous problems you have to do something about it or quit the bank. It is endemic among directors across the country. But there is a peculiar brand of it in Texas.” Another fat cat ensnared in this scandal was H.R. “Bum” Bright, the ex-employer of head Pioneer James Francis.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
564##John##Delaney##1010 Wayne Ave., FL 10#Silver Spring#MD#20910#Linowes & Blocher#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
565##Randolph##DeLay##2419 Vintage Circle#Richmond#TX#77469#DeLay Group#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
566##Hector##Delgado##1111 Montana Ave.#El Paso#TX#79902#Delgado Acosta & Braden LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
63##Bob#M.#Devlin###Houston#TX##American General Financial Corp.#Chair, CEO, President##0###0###Insurance#Devlin is Houston’s highest paid executive, raking in more than $45 million per year. American General is one of the nation’s biggest financial services companies; its businesses include life insurance, retirement services and consumer loans. Florida’s insurance commissioner ordered an American General subsidiary to stop charging blacks more than whites for the same life insurance coverage in early 2000. State regulators said they uncovered evidence that thousands of African-Americans in Florida have been victims of this racial discrimination for decades and were charged up to 33 percent more than whites for a policy. Devlin said the policies were issued by companies that American General had acquired and that American had just recently discovered the existence of such policies.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
781#Mr.#Richard#M.#DeVos###Manalapan#FL##Alticor (formerly Amway)#Co-founder#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
26#Mr.#William#O.#DeWitt#Jr.#5695 Drake Rd#Cincinnati#OH#45243#Reynolds DeWitt & Co.#President##0##$55668.00#0###Finance#DeWitt and Pioneer Mercer Reynolds III owned Spectrum 7, the oil company that bailed out Bush’s hemorrhaging Bush Oil Co. in ’84. Both of these partners—who also own fast-food and convenience store interests—were big President Bush donors and major investors in the Texas Rangers baseball team, which made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Much of this profit derived from a large equity stake that other partners in the investment gifted to Bush as well as the $135 million that local taxpayers forked out for the Rangers’ new Ballpark in Arlington. DeWitt, whose family once owned the Cincinnati Reds, is an owner of the St. Louis Cardinals with Pioneer Stephen Brauer. The Cardinals’ owners are clamoring for a new $370 million stadium to be financed with tax-exempt bonds—despite major recent expenditures to remodel Busch Stadium. “For the Cardinals to be a great franchise, a new ballpark is critical for St. Louis,” says DeWitt. The new stadium would have 1,800 fewer seats than Busch, but would feature high-profit luxury boxes.#R#P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
567##Arthur#H.#Diedrick###Canton#CT#06019#Connecticut Development Authority#Chairman & President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
812##Ronald#F.#Docksai###Washington#DC#20004#Bayer Corp#VP Gov relations#$0.00#0###0#$2262000.00#$100294000.00#Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
780##Bill#J.#Dore###Sulphur#LA##Global Industries#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
568##Lacey Neuhaus##Dorn###San Antonio#TX#78209#D.C.'s Art in Embassies program#Former Director, Art Dealer#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
782##Thomas#C.#Dorr###Marcus#IA##DORR PINE GROVE FARM CO.#owner#$0.00#1#Agriculture transition team##0###Agriculture###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
569##John#E.#Drury##1111 Caroline #3003#Houston#TX#77010#Waste Management Inc#Chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0#$1748000.00#$14968000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
570##Archie#W.#Dunham###Houston#TX#77024#Conoco, Inc.#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0##$39699000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
62##Jennifer##Dunn###Bellvue#WA##US Government#US Representative##0###0###Other#Representing Seattle’s wealthy Microsoft suburbs, Rep. Dunn has led House fights to eliminate capital gains and inheritance taxes. Shallow appearances might suggest that Dunn was hustling for Bill Gates’ kid, but she said her real reason in battling the inheritance tax was because “it hurts communities with farms that have to be turned over to corporations and then developed.” This year Dunn also championed an amendment to bar the Interior Department from spending money on any new national monuments. This failed maneuver was an attempt to curb President Clinton, who recently protected 3.9 million acres out West by designating them as monuments. She also opposed federal rules to prevent workplace injuries.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0
571#Mr.#Alan#M.#Dunn###Arlington#VA#22207#Stewart & Stewart#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
143#Mr.#Patrick#J.#Durkin###Greenwich#CT##Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.#Managing Director##1#National Fish and Wildlife Foundation##0#$1674000.00#$2341000.00#Finance#Durkin is managing director of a major investment bank that is heavily involved in underwriting government bonds. This industry has long been tainted by “pay-for-play” scandals in which the firms that receive lucrative contracts to issue these government bonds also underwrite the campaigns of the politicians who award these contracts. In ’93, then-Illinois Gov. Edgar received $16,500 from First Boston Corp. (see Pioneer John Hennessy) and $19,000 from Donaldson Lufkin. Both firms were then underwriting major bond issues for the state, which had no bidding process to govern these contracts. Durkin left First Boston the following year to work for Donaldson Lufkin.##P+#0#1#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
826##James##Dwyer###Ocean City#NJ##Dwyer Real Estate Equities International#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
64##Richard#J.#Egan###Hopkinton#MA##EMC Corp.#Chair##1#Ambassador to Ireland; Commerce transition team##0#$8159000.00#$66619000.00#Electronics#EMC, which Egan co-founded in ’79, makes refrigerator-sized computer data-storage equipment. Among S&P 500 companies during the ‘90s, its stock ranked second only to Dell Computer. If the people that Egan got to contribute $1,000 to Bush had invested that same amount in Egan’s company in ’90, their stock would have been worth $523,000 by the end of the decade. Long after EMC became a major corporation, the company clung to an inbred board of directors dominated by Egan’s family and pals. One independent board member was muscled out in ’99 after questioning whether Egan and other executives were awarding themselves excessive compensation. Bush named Egan and other wealthy, hi-tech executives to his Technology Advisory Council in ’99. These counselors advise him on technology issues—and, with any luck, contribute to his campaign.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
829##Christopher#F.#Egan###Hopkinton#MA##Carruth Management, LLC#President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##R##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
841##Michael#J.#Egan###Hopkinton#MA##Carruth Management, LLC#Founder and Managing Member#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
65#Gov.#John##Engler###Mount Pleasant#MI##State of Michigan#Governor##0###0#$1438000.00#$2103000.00#Other#Engler is in his third and final term as governor and recently became head of the National Governor’s Association. Engler’s top environmental appointee organized a meeting in April 2000 between executives of polluting industries (including Pioneer Thomas Kuhn) and officials of states such as Texas, which face sanctions for flunking federal air standards. The goal of the meeting was to see how federal air standards might be relaxed if Bush becomes president. Engler’s signature policies include: banning local governments from suing gun makers, opposing abortion, shifting the tax load from progressive property taxes to regressive sales taxes and slashing funding for the arts, welfare and job development programs. He supports drug testing of welfare recipients and has opposed school vouchers while championing charter schools (see Pioneer J.C. Huizenga).##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0
572##Gregg##Engles###Dallas#TX#75201#Suiza Foods Corp.#chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
573#Mr.#Roger#A.#Enrico##8D Midwood Road#Greenwich#CT#06830#PepsiCo#Former Chairman & CEO#$0.00#0###0#$1827000.00#$1865000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
574#Hon.#Donald#Burnham#Ensenat###New Orleans#LA#70115#U.S. State Deparment#Chief of Protocol#$0.00#1#State Department Chief of Protocol##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
575##Sheldon#R.#Erikson##515 Post Oak Blvd., # 1200#Houston#TX#77027#Cooper Cameron Corp#Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0###0#$3456000.00#$9114000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
20##Melvyn#Mel#Estrin###Bethesda#MD##FoxMeyer Health Corp.#Co-chair, Co CEO#$0.00#0###0###Health###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
576#Mr.#Don##Evans###Midland#TX#79702#U.S. Commerce Departmnet#Secretary of Commerce#$0.00#1#Secretary Of Commerce#$77751.50#0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
843##Thomas##Everist###Sioux Falls#SD##L.G. Everist Co.#President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Construction##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
66##Charles (Tre)#W.#Evers#III##Orlando#FL##Consensus Communications#Owner##1#US Advisory Commission On Public Diplomacy##0###Communications#In the ‘96 presidential primaries, Evers airlifted crates of Florida oranges into a New Hampshire blizzard in a vain attempt to squeeze out a bigger turnout for Lamar Alexander. The sugar industry hired Evers’ firm in ‘96 to kill a measure that would have levied a tax on sugar grown in the Everglades in order to pay for the restoration of this unique wetlands. The industry’s $24 million campaign to defeat this initiative, which was headed by sugar executive Pioneer J. Nelson Fairbanks, was the most expensive political campaign in Florida’s history.##P+#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0#0
67##J.#Nelson#Fairbanks###Clewiston#FL##U.S. Sugar Corp.#President & CEO##0###0###Agriculture#Fairbanks led the industry’s $24 million ’96 lobby effort that defeated a proposed penny-a-pound tax on Florida sugar producers to clean up the Everglades. “This is a real victory for the citizens of Florida,” said Fairbanks, sugar-coating the truth at the industry’s victory party. “It’s a victory for the environment and the constitution.” The money for what was the most expensive political campaign in state history came from Fairbanks’ U.S. Sugar, the Sugar Cane Growers Co-op and Flo-Sun (which employs Pioneer lobbyist Wayne Berman). The Florida sugar industry owes its very existence to corporate welfare, since the federal Army Corps of Engineers drained much of its land. The industry employs an army of lobbyists to ensure its price subsidies and to protect the ban on Cuban sugar imports.##P+#0#0#0#1#1#0#0#0#0
68##Martha##Fallgatter###Bakersfield#CA##ARB, Inc.#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This lobbyist worked on the campaigns of Bush-Quayle and ex-California Governors Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian. Deukmejian rewarded her by appointing her to the California State University board in ’87. Since ’83, Fallgatter has been a consultant at Hill & Knowlton, the lobbying and public relations giant. The firm is infamous for devising the tobacco industry’s 40-year strategy of denying the health hazards of smoking and for fabricating Gulf War hysteria. The firm helped manufacture testimony that falsely accused Iraqi soldiers of killing hundreds of Kuwaiti babies by yanking them out of their hospital incubators.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
783##Richard#T.#Farmer###Cincinnati#OH##Cintas Corporation#Chair & Founder#$0.00#1#Veterans transition team##0#$91000.00#$424000.00#Miscellaneous Business##P#P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
69##Robert##Fee###New York#NY##Turner Construction Co.#President & CEO##0###0###Construction#A subsidiary of Germany’s HOCHTIEF, Turner is one of the world’s largest construction companies. Turner—which built Madison Square Garden and the UN Secretariat—depends heavily on government contracts. Recently Turner co-managed construction of Little Rock’s Alltel Arena, which cost taxpayers $80 million. The arena went over schedule and budget. Key pillars and beams were misaligned; 90 percent of the welds supporting the main concourse flunked industry standards; and chunks of concrete fell crashing to the floor. The various contractors involved have squabbled over who is to blame.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
577##Alan##Feld###Dallas#TX#75205#Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
784#Hon.#Tom##Fetzer###White Plains#NY##U.S. Tennis Association#Managing Director, Community Tennis program#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
578##James#C.#Finkle###Clifton#NJ##CB Finkle Jr. Co.#President#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
70##Thomas#Martin#Fiorentino###Jacksonville#FL##CSX Transportaion#VP of Communications##0##$3800.00#0#$3000.00#$8603000.00#Transportation#Fiorentino made a courageous stand against special-interest, sell-out politics in ‘97, when he denounced a Florida fundraiser in which fat cats who contributed $50,000 got a private audience with President Clinton and Al Gore. “You’ll get access to individuals in a small setting and you’ll get to show that you are a supporter in a very graphic way,” he fumed. “This is as close to the mother’s milk of politics as you can get.” One year later, Fiorentino resurfaced as one of the “Jacksonville Eight,” the wealthy executives who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Jeb Bush’s gubernatorial campaign. Fiorentino is one of three Pioneers who work for CSX (see A. R. Carpenter and Joseph Bogosian). This company joined three other major railroad interests in “Destination DC,” a ‘99 lobbying effort to prevent Congress from imposing new regulations on the industry. Like Pioneer John Rood, Fiorentino sits on the board of the James Madison Institute, a think tank that promotes school vouchers, welfare reform, free enterprise and low taxes. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future merged with the Madison Institute in ‘99.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
579#Mr.#David##Fisher###Des Moines#IA#50306#Onthank Company#Chairman and President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
580##J. Stuart##Fitts##PO Box 670748#Dallas#TX#75367#Dutko Group#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
581##I.D.##Flores#III##Dallas#TX#75205#Ceres Capital Partners#investment banker#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
71#Dr.#Edward##Floyd###Florence#SC##Floyd Medical Associates#Physician##0###0###Health#Dr. Floyd makes a buck off smokers coming and going. As a vascular surgeon for more than 30 years, he has operated on many smokers who suffer from tobacco-related hardening of the arteries. Dr. Floyd also owns allotments to grow 932,000 pounds of tobacco a year—enough for 26.3 million packs of cigarettes. Asked by a reporter in ’98 how he squares his tobacco plantations with his professional oath to do no harm, Floyd said, “You know, I just never have thought about it in those terms.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
186#Mr.#Thomas#C.#Foley###Greenwich#CT##NTC Group, Inc.#Chair##0###0###Finance#Foley, who once worked at Citicorp Venture Capital, founded NTC in ‘85 to do leveraged buyouts. His first buyout was towel manufacturer Bibb Co., which he financed with pricey junk bonds. Unable to digest this costly financing, Bibb threw in the towel in ’96, declaring bankruptcy. Foley is a major investor in good government. He made the top-10 list of Bob Dole’s career patrons and was a big contributor to the failed re-election bid of ex-Connecticut Treasurer Paul Silvester, who was convicted in ‘99 for taking kickbacks for investing state pension funds with private investment managers (see Pioneer Wayne Berman).##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
150#Mr. & Mrs.#William#P.#Foley#II##Santa Barbara#CA#93105#Fidelity Title Co.#Chair & CEO##0###0###Real Estate#The recent merger of Fidelity Title and Chicago Title created the nation’s biggest real estate title company. The merger culminated 20 years of rapid growth for Fidelity under Foley, an aggressive West Point graduate who has been called “the Bruce Lee of title insurers.” California’s attorney general sued Fidelity and other title companies in ‘99, charging them with saddling California consumers with $500 million in excess fees. Foley also heads CKE Restaurants, which controls the Carl’s Jr. hamburger chain.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
582##Gene##Fondren###Austin#TX#78767#Texas Auto Dealers Assn#President#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
21##Matt##Fong###Los Angeles#CA##Strategic Advisory Group#President#$0.00#1#Under Secretary of the Army (Withdrew); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp Advisory Committee Chair##0#$7394000.00#$7604000.00#Finance###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
72##Jose#Angel#Fourquet###Brooklyn Heights#NY##Inter-American Development Bank#U.S. Executive Director##1#U.S. Director of Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-Am Foundation Board##0###Other#Fourquet co-founded Young Professionals for George W. Bush with Pioneer Joseph Bogosian. This Goldman Sachs investor is trying to help Bush court East Coast Hispanic votes by targeting small and medium-sized Hispanic businesses.##P+#0#1#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
830##Frank#E.#Fowler###Lookout Mountain#TN##Self-employed art consultant#Art Consultant#$0.00#1#President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities#$0.00#0#$0.00##Miscellaneous Business##R##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
48#Mr. & Mrs.#Sam##Fox###Saint Louis#MO##Harbour Group#Chair & CEO##0###0###Finance#With annual revenues of more than $1.5 billion, Harbour Group has executed more than 100 leveraged buyouts since it started in ’76. He gave more than $300,000 to GOP candidates and groups in ’99. He ranks among the nation’s top donors of “soft money,” having contributed $435,000 of it to the Republican Party since ’97. Fox hosted a record-setting Washington fundraiser in 2000 that took in $21 million. His personal wealth has been pegged at more than $500 million. Fox flew to Austin to meet with Bush in early ‘99 along with three other Missouri Pioneers: Adele Hall, Stephen Brauer and John Mahaffey. He oversees the national Republican Jewish Coalition.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
170#Mr. & Mrs.#James#B.#Francis#Jr.##Dallas#TX#75205#Francis Enterprises, Inc.#President##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Jim Francis, head of the Bush’s Pioneer operation, says he started the Pioneers after people kept saying, “I really want to do something for George and I want to give you a big portion of my life.” Francis has been among Bush’s closest political confidantes. Bush appointed Francis in ’95 to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Francis was sued in this capacity by citizens whom DPS officers arrested at the Governor’s Mansion in ’99 for peaceful protests against Bush’s failure to close a loophole benefiting big air polluters. Francis often acts as a quasi-lobbyist—without registering as one. In recent years, Francis:  Earned $40,000 as Denton County’s state legislative consultant;  Coordinated a group seeking to turn I-35 into an international superhighway;  Was hired to defeat a state partnership tax proposal (see Pioneer Charles Wyly, Jr.); and Helped H. Ross Perot, Jr., split the town of Westlake to advance his development plans.  Francis called a state election official in’97 to tell her that a judge had just de-annexed a Westlake subdivision where an alderman opposed to Perot’s plan lived. Francis asked the official to tell the town’s secretary how to disqualify the alderman from a pending city ballot. Francis’ intervention was troubling on several levels, not the least of which was the fact that no judge had de-annexed the alderman’s land.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
583##Charles##Francis###Washington#DC#20007#DCI Group#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#1#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
584##Stephen#E.#Frank###Rosemead#CA#91770#Southern California Edison#Chair, President, CEO#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
585#Hon.#Barbara#Hackman#Franklin###Bristol#CT#06010#Barbara Franklin Enterprises#President, CEO#$0.00#1#Labor transition team##0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
183#Mr.#Bradford#M.#Freeman##11100 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 1900#Los Angeles#CA#90025#Freeman Spogli & Co#General Partner##0###0###Finance#Freeman formed an investment banking firm in the ‘80s with Pioneer Ron Spogli and current Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Riordan split with the other two partners in ’88, when they decided to specialize in big leveraged buyouts of more than $100 million. Recently Freeman Spogli announced plans to expand into venture capital. Freeman heads fundraising for Bush’s campaign in this crucial state. An architect of $100-million deals, he takes offense at the notion that Bush’s campaign is being bankrolled by the super rich. “People talk about special interests,” he scoffs. “How can you have special interests when you have 170,000 donors?” Try 212 Pioneers raising more than $21 million.#R#P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
73##Russ#F.#Freeman###Fargo#ND##Nilles Hanson & Davies, Ltd.#General Partner##1#Ambassador to Belize##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Freeman specializes in corporate law, business law, probate, and estate planning. He heads Bush’s North Dakota fundraising.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
586##Tom##Frost, Jr.###San Antonio#TX#78296#Frost National Bank#Senior Chairman#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
74##Jeff##Fuqua###Orlando#FL##Amick Construction#President##0###0###Construction#Despite the ethical clouds over this general contractor’s previous tenures on airport boards, Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Fuqua to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) in ’99. In ’94, the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated gifts that public officials took from firms that they had hired to underwrite government bonds. The probe revealed that Fuqua and other GOAA members took expensive tickets to Broadway shows and sporting events from underwriter PaineWebber. A ’93 media expose of GOAA travel policy violations prompted Fuqua and two other members to return $1,079 that they improperly billed to that board.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
587##Ramiro#A.#Galindo###Bryan#TX#77801#R A Galindo Inc#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
842##Frank#T.#Gargano###Dix Hills#NY##Self-employed attorney#Attorney#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Lawyers & Lobbyists##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
588##Rich#L.#Gelfond###New York#NY#10028#IMAX Corp#Co-CEO#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
785##Joseph B. & Alma##Gildenhorn###Washington#DC##JBG Companies#Owner#$0.00#0###0#$275000.00#$275000.00#Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
589##John#T.#Gill###Dallas#TX#75225#Self-employed physician#Orthopedic Surgeon#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
827##George#R.#Gilmore###Toms River#NJ##Gilmore & Monahan#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
22##Tony##Gioia###Buffalo#NY##Gioia Management, Inc.#President & CEO#$0.00#1#Ambassador to Malta##0###Finance###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
75##David##Girard-diCarlo###Philadelphia#PA##Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley LLP#Attorney##1#Transportation transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#DiCarlo is the CEO of this corporate law firm, where he specializes in corporate, labor and transportation law. An East Coast political powerbroker, Girard-diCarlo is a pal of Pioneer Go. Tom Ridge and chairs Bush’s Pennsylvania finance operations. He also co-chairs the Philadelphia committee hosting the 2000 National Republican Convention. President Bush appointed him to the corporate board that oversees AMTRAK.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
76##Charles#L.#Glazer###Greenwich#CT##C.L. Glazer Co., Inc.#Owner##0###0###Finance#Glazer has his own investment management and institutional brokerage firm. He is a member of the Republican National Committee. Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III appointed him to the University of Virginia Board in early 2000.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
786##Christopher#K.#Gleason###Johnstown#PA##Gleason Agency#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
131#Mr. & Mrs.#D.#Stephen#Goddard#Jr.##Katy#TX##Arthur Andersen#Managing Partner##0###0#$90000.00#$4656000.00#Finance#Goddard manages the Gulf Coast office of this huge global accounting and business services firm where he specializes in servicing multinational energy companies. He sits on the board of Texas A&M’s George Bush School of Government.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
590##Ronald#J.#Goldman###Fort Worth#TX#76109#Ronnie's#President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
77##Steve##Goldsmith###Indianapolis#IN##Baker & Daniels#Attorney##1#Corp. for National and Community Service Board##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Critics of Goldsmith’s tenure as Indianapolis mayor dubbed him “ambition in a suit.” This ambition was checked when Goldsmith lost his ’96 gubernatorial bid. Recently Goldsmith joined the corporate law firm of Baker & Daniels, where he specializes in government affairs. Although Goldsmith’s wife, Margaret, is Dan Quayle’s cousin, Goldsmith backed Bush well before Quayle withered on the primary vine. In early ’99, Goldsmith signed on as a top domestic policy advisor to Bush and Goldsmith and Pioneer Al Hubbard hosted an early Bush fundraiser in Indianapolis. After Goldsmith was first elected mayor in ’91, he drew national attention for preaching the gospel of privatizing a raft of city services. Critics said it opened the flood gates of political contributions from private vendors seeking city contracts. Goldsmith’s privatization zeal mellowed some after the department that maintained city vehicles convinced him to let it bid against the private sector for its job. The bureaucrats submitted the winning bid and then proceeded to deliver the service even cheaper than what they had bid. Still, Goldsmith’s failed rally cry on the gubernatorial campaign trail was, “I’ve been CEO of Indianapolis. I want to privatize all of Indiana.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
787##Leslie#A.#Goodman###Sacramento#CA##Strategic Communications#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
818#Sen.#William##Gormley###Mays Landing#NJ##State of New Jersey#State Senator#$0.00#0###0#$1813000.00#$1944000.00#Other###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
591##Robert#E.#Grady###San Francisco#CA#94123#Carlyle Group#Managing Director, Carlyle Venture Partners#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
78##Robert#T.#Grand###Indianapolis#IN##Barnes & Thornburg#Lobbyist##1#Justice transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Grand is the managing partner of this corporate law firm, where he specializes in public finance and governmental regulation. He is a registered lobbyist who was an administrative assistant to Gov. Robert Orr from ’79 to ‘83. Grand was appointed to the board of the charitable Indianapolis Foundation in ’95 by then-Mayor Steve Goldsmith, a Bush Pioneer.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#1
79##Maurice 'Hank'#R.#Greenberg###New York#NY##American International Group#Chair & CEO#$26957106.00#0###0#$60000.00#$619000.00#Insurance#Like Pioneer Heinz Prechter, President Bush took big-donor insurance magnate Maurice “Hank” Greenberg along with him on his ’92 trade mission to Asia. As a result of this “access,” AIG got to sell more insurance in Japan and became the first foreign company allowed to sell insurance in China. Besides being a huge political funder, Greenberg is a major underwriter of the Heritage Foundation think tank (see Pioneer Elaine Chao). Imagine his horror to discover a Heritage thinker urging Congress to postpone its 2000 vote on normalizing trade with Greenberg’s beloved China. After Greenberg threatened to cut off funding, the think tank rethunk its position and issued a new report: “How Trade With China Benefits Americans.” AIG scored a revolving-door coup in ’98 when it hired Ernest Patrikis, an official departing the powerful Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a “special adviser” to Greenberg. An AIG subsidiary, AIG Capital Partners Inc., paid a $500,000 “finder’s fee” to Pioneer Wayne Berman, who helped the company land a contract to manage $100 million in state pension investments from ex-Connecticut Treasurer Paul Silvester. Silvester was convicted in ’99 of taking kickbacks from the private money managers to whom he awarded investment contracts. AIG paid Greenberg more than $6 million in ’98 alone. Pioneer Robert J. O’Connell also was an AIG executive until recently.#R#P+#0#0#1#1#0#0#1#0#0
592##G. Michael##Gruber###Dallas#TX#75229#Godwin Gruber#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
788##John#R.#Guarino######Green Grocer (retired)#retired#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
593##R. David##Guerra###McAllen#TX#78501#International Bank of Commerce#President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
80##Mark##Guzzetta###Boca Raton#FL##Water Resources Corp.#President##0###0###Real Estate#Guzzetta is a long-time business crony of the Bush family. He was a key fundraiser for President Bush and Jeb Bush. In early 2000, Guzzetta and four partners—including Pioneer Ned Siegel—sold their Boca Raton Blue Lake Corporate Center for three times what they paid for it four years earlier. The broker of the deal to sell the property to Guzzetta’s group was Jeb Bush and his partner Armando Codina, a right-wing Cuban American National Foundation leader. (When Broward Federal S&L failed in ’88, taxpayers ate $285 million in bad loans—including $4.1 million to pay off the Miami office of Jeb and Codina). A major problem with this property was that surrounding roads were already overloaded and city planners estimated that developing the site would generate another 70,000 car trips a day. Regulators conditioned the development on the owners spending $106 million for road expansion. Guzzetta instead requested a city exemption from these rules, pledging to promote mass transit as an alternative. City council members who blocked this exemption by a one-vote margin in ’99 raised concerns about giving favors to politically connected special interests. Shortly before the vote, Jeb Bush appointed Guzzetta to the Florida Transportation Commission, which has authority over state road-building guidelines and mass transit expenditures. Guzzetta’s group filed two lawsuits to try to override the council’s vote.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
594##Michael#R.#Haas###Dallas#TX#77069#Chicago Title Insurance#Sr. Sales Manager#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
595##Rolf##Haberecht###Dallas#TX#75205#VLSI Packaging Corp.#Chair; CEO#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
596##Craig##Haffner###Studio City#CA#91604#Greystone Communications, Inc.#President#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
225##Fred#Jones#Hall###Oklahoma City#OK##Fred Jones Companies, Inc.#Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
49##Adele##Hall###Shawnee Mission#KS##Hallmark Cards#Homemaker##0##$19963.00#0#$15000.00#$471000.00#Communications#Hall is married to Donald J. Hall, chair of Hallmark Cards. Hall ranks 139 among the Forbes 400 Richest Americans. The Halls are leading GOP donors. Adele Hall held a fundraiser for Bush before he publicly announced his presidential candidacy. She flew to Austin to meet with Bush in early ‘99 along with three other Missouri Pioneers: Stephen Brauer, Sam Fox and John Mahaffey. Adele Hall vice chairs President Bush’s Points of Light Foundation.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
81##Tim##Hammonds###Washington#DC##Food Marketing Institute#CEO & President##1#Agriculture transition team##0###Miscellaneous Business#Hammonds, who heads this grocery trade association, is no health food nut. Hammonds has headed lobby efforts to promote food irradiation and to prevent the government from testing beef for E. Coli infections. He also opposed regulations to protect check-out workers from repetitive-motion injuries.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
597##Kent#R.#Hance###Austin#TX#78701#Hance Scarborough Wright#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
598#Mr.#Jon#F.#Hanson###Hackensack#NJ#07601#Hampshire Management Company#Real Estate#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
599##John#K.#Harkins####TX##Bosch Telecom, Inc.#Business Dev Manager#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
82##James#"Buck"#Harless###Gilbert#WV##International Industries, Inc.#Owner##1#Energy transition team##0###Energy & Natural Resources#Campaign money from James “Buck” Harless and others in the coal and timber industries casts a huge shadow over West Virginia government. Gov. Cecil Underwood’s predecessor filed lawsuits to collect $12 million that coal companies and their contractors owed the state Workers’ Compensation Fund. Gov. Underwood, who got 12 percent of his war chest from coal interests, borrowed a Harless executive to head his transition team. The ex-coal executive that Underwood named as Employment Programs Commissioner decided to halt any new suits against deadbeat coal interests in ’97. At the time, labor contractors that Harless hired to mine his coal owed the state fund at least $2.6 million. That year, when the state Division of Natural Resources (DNR) sought to assemble a state task force to find a way to acquire spectacular Blackwater Canyon, legislators financed by the timber industry killed the measure before it could even be debated. “Timber baron Buck Harless was one of Governor Underwood’s biggest financial contributors,” noted WV Citizens Action Director Norm Steenstra. “It appears the Senate is unwilling to take any kind of leadership position on this issue for fear of losing Buck Harless’ campaign money.” A West Virginia University (WVU) trustee complained in 2000 that a contractor hired to remove cancer-causing asbestos from a UWV arena had received up to 29 OSHA safety violations since ’94, including “serious” ones such as failing to give workers equipment to prevent asbestos inhalation. “As someone who has a lot of experience with OSHA, that’s not an undue number of violations,” Trustee Harless said. In the same period, Harless’ lumber company settled 24 violations, including 13 “serious” ones.##P+#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0#0
147#Mr. & Mrs.#James#A.#Haslam#III##Knoxville#TN#37939-0146#Pilot Corp.#CEO##1#Commerce transition team#$3800.00#0###Energy & Natural Resources#Pilot Corp. operates a national chain of convenience stores and travel centers. Haslam sits on the board of First Tennessee Bank National Corp. and the restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday, Inc.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
600#Dr.#Brack#G.#Hattler##200 Lothrop St. #C700#Pittsburgh#PA#15213#University of Pittsburgh#Surgeon#$0.00#0###0#$1806000.00#$14340000.00#Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
820##Ellsworth#G.#Havens###Florham Park#NJ##ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL#vice president for corporate development#$0.00#0###0###Health###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
83##Joyce##Haver###Phoenix#AZ##Joyce A. Haver & Associates AKA "The Rainmakers"#Owner##0###0###Communications#Haver is an ex-vice president of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, a business booster group once headed by Pioneer James Simmons. Haver raised money for the ’94 campaign of Gov. Jane Hull, who encouraged her to become a Bush fundraiser. Haver now runs her own “strategic marketing” firm that works on economic development, public relations and event planning. Her attempts to rename the firm “The Rainmakers” hit a legal snag: the name was already registered to a car wash.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
601##Albon#O.#Head#Jr.##Fort Worth#TX#76102#Jackson Walker LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
30#Mr.#Richard##Heath##4707 Park Lane#Dallas#TX#75220#BeautiControl Cosmetics#Ex-CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#As head of BeautiControl, a cosmetics company with annual sales of $130 million, Heath contributed $125,000 to Bush’s gubernatorial races. After Bush reciprocated by appointing him as vice chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, Heath stepped down as head of the company, which his wife, Jinger, still chairs.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
819##David#V.#Hedley###Morristown#NJ##Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette#Retired Managing Director#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
602##Jeffrey#M.#Heller###Dallas#TX#75205#Electronic Data Systems (EDS)#President & COO#$0.00#0###0#$39775000.00#$800000000.00#Electronics###P-#0#1#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
603##Raymond#C.#Hemmig###Parker#TX#75002#Retail & Restaurant Growth Capital#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
84##John#M.#Hennessy###New York#NY##Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.#Retired Chair##0###0#$1674000.00#$2341000.00#Finance#Hennessy was a Treasury Department assistant secretary in the early ‘70s. He became managing director of First Boston Corp. in ’74 and chair of CS First Boston in ’89. He retired as chair at the end of ’96. He then became one of a dozen elite GOP fundraisers who anointed Bush as their candidate after a ’98 hunting trip at a Texas ranch owned by Pioneer Heinz Prechter. First Boston has been involved in “pay-for-play” scandals, in which the firms that receive lucrative contracts to issue government bonds underwrite the campaigns of the politicians who award these contracts. In ’93, then-Illinois Gov. Edgar received $16,500 from First Boston Corp. and $19,000 from Donaldson Lufkin (see Pioneer Patrick Durkin). Both firms were then underwriting major bond issues for the state, which had no bidding process to govern these contracts.##P+#0#1#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
2##Hans##Hertell###San Juan#PR##Fernandez & Hertell#Attorney##1#Ambassador to Dominican Republic##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This attorney and businessman is a delegate to the Republican National Convention for the Republican Party of Puerto Rico. This party is still dominated by Honorary President Luis A. Ferre, a 96-year-old wealthy industrialist and ex-governor who leads the island’s statehood drive.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
789##Thomas#O.#Hicks###Dallas#TX##Hicks Muse Tate & Furst#partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
54#Mr. & Mrs.#R.#Steven#Hicks###Austin#TX##AMFM, Inc.#Vice-Chair##0###0###Communications#R. Steven Hicks and his brother Tom both founded major radio companies that merged in ’99 into AMFM, Inc. After Clear Channel Communications devoured AMFM later that year, Tom Hicks became its vice chair. Tom Hicks made Bush a millionaire 15 times over when he bought the Texas Rangers in ’99. Just as local taxpayers enhanced the value of Bush’s Rangers by paying $135 million for their stadium, Hicks and Ross Perot, Jr. got Dallas taxpayers to spend $125 million on a stadium for their Dallas Stars and Mavericks in ’98. Tom Hicks heads the corporate raider firm Hicks Muse Tate & Furst (Bush’s No. 4 career patron). Hicks Muse long wanted to tap the $13-billion University of Texas (UT) endowment for its takeover deals. As Bush assumed office in ’95, Hicks was confirmed as a University of Texas Regent and hired lobbyists to push a bill creating the UT Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO). With Hicks as its first chair, UTIMCO began doling out contracts to private investment firms to manage portions of the endowment. A scandal blew up when the media discovered that UTIMCO awarded many of these lucrative contracts to firms tied to Hicks and Bush—including one that former President Bush reportedly owns a piece of. The UTIMCO board doling out these contracts included Clear Channel Chair L. Lowry Mays and the Pioneers Tom Loeffler, A.W. Riter, and A. R. Sanchez. Ed Bass and Pioneer Charles Wyly owned two firms that landed some of these contracts.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
85##Mike##Hightower###Jacksonville#FL##Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida#Lobbyist##1#Labor transition team##0#$9419000.00#$49611000.00#Health#One of Florida’s leading special-interest lobbyists, Hightower held a huge lobby fundraiser at his home in late ’99 as part of the Florida Republican Party’s effort to raise $20 million for the 2000 elections. Addressing the crowd, House Speaker John Thrasher credited such business money for the Republican takeover of the state legislature and the GOP’s subsequent passage of anti-consumer “tort reforms.”  Hightower’s employer has a direct interest in tort and liability issues. Blue Cross opposes proposals to make HMOs liable for harm that patients suffer when HMOs deny doctor-prescribed care.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
604##Elsie#H.#Hillman###Pittsburgh#PA#15213#Rock Hill Ventures#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
790##Roderick & Carla##Hills###Washington#DC##Hills Enterprises, Ltd.#Chair#$0.00#1#US Trade Representative transition team##0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
59#Mr. & Mrs.#J.#Roger#Hirl###Dallas#TX##Occidental Chemical Co#CEO & President##1#Energy transition team#$90762.25#0###Energy & Natural Resources#Armand Hammer, who developed a reputation as “the Godfather of American corporate corruption” when he ran Occidental Petroleum, used to brag that he had the late Senator Al Gore, Sr. “in my back pocket.” To this day, the Gore family collects $20,000 each year from Occidental for a mineral lease. The company’s chemical subsidiary, however, is on excellent terms with Bush’s administration; its PAC contributed $5,000 to his latest gubernatorial race. Occidental Chemical in one of the world’s leading producers of chlorine and caustic soda chemicals. It is a member of the Texas Chemical Council. Members of this trade group account for 74 percent of the toxic emissions in Texas—which leads the nation in such pollution. Occidental’s Texas facilities dump more than 1 million pounds of toxic emissions into Texas skies each year. Every major city in the state either flunks—or is on the verge of flunking—federal air standards. Rather than tackling air pollution, the Bush administration has pressured the federal government to relax its air-quality standards.##P+#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0
605##Robert#B.#Hixon###Houston#TX#77027#John L Wortham & Sons#Executive Committee#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
606##James#M.#Hoak###Dallas#TX#75240#Hoak Capital Corp.#chairman#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
607##Jerry#H.#Hodge###Amarillo#TX#79109#Maxor National Pharmacy#chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
86##Alfred##Hoffman#Jr.##Ft. Meyers#FL##Watermark Communities, Inc.#Chair##0###0###Real Estate#Hoffman heads Watermark Communities (WCI), a $550 million-a-year company that builds golfing-centered retirement communities. One of Florida’s largest developers, he is also one of the state’s largest owners of undeveloped land. Hoffman paid $550 million for Westinghouse’s real estate arm in ’96. He also paid $32 million in ’97 for a Coral Gables yacht club that had been hammered by Hurricane Andrew; he bought the land from Gov. Jeb Bush’s ex-partner Armando Codina, a leader of the right-wing Cuban American National Foundation. Hoffman was Jeb Bush's state finance chair and headed his inaugural committee.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
608##Richard#F.#Hohlt##7901 Kent Road#Alexandria#VA#22308#Hohlt & Company#Lobbyist#$0.00#1#Treasury transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
609##Mickey##Holden##4603 Cherokee Terrace#Dallas#TX#75209#Holden Production Group#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
176#Mr. & Mrs.#Robert#B.#Holland#III##Dallas#TX##Triton Energy Corp#Chief Operating Officer##1#World Bank, Alternate Executive Director##0###Energy & Natural Resources#Holland became chief operating officer of Triton in ’98, when major Bush-backer Tom Hicks (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks) became chair of this international oil company. The move came after a volatile period for the company marked by battered stock prices and shareholder lawsuits. Holland is a fishing buddy of Bush’s. He was the state chair of Jack Kemp’s ‘88 campaign.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
610##Ned#S.#Holmes####TX##Parkway Investments#CEO & pres#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
87##David##Horowitz###Los Angeles#CA##Center for Study of Popular Culture#Full-time former leftist##0###0###Communications#This one-time, New Left activist is the right-wing’s apostate cause celebre.  He has saturated the media for 10 years with attacks on political correctness, homosexuality, promiscuity, commies, Clintonism and affirmative action. In ’99, he made a foray into party politics by publishing The Art of Political War, a GOP politicking primer. His Popular Culture Center has a $3 million annual budget, operates a direct-mail operation and employs a full-time Horowitz publicist.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
88##Nevils#D.#Horton#Jr.##Eatonton#GA##Horton Industries, Inc.#CEO & President##0###0###Real Estate#This Pioneer founded Horton Homes—now Horton Industries—in a chicken house in ’70. It is now a major producer of manufactured housing, with $305 million in sales in ’99.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
611##Timothy#J.#Howard####CA####$0.00#0###0######P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
140#Mr. & Mrs.#Allan#B.#Hubbard###Indianapolis#IN##E&A Industries, Inc.#Ex-President##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Hubbard’s E&A Industries is the parent of Car Brite, Inc., which makes chemicals used to recondition cars. Hubbard also has stakes in a Minneapolis plastics company, a Pittsburgh real estate company and Centillion Data Systems software company. Hubbard is a former state GOP chair who once served as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle. Yet Hubbard and Pioneer Steve Goldsmith hosted a fundraiser for Bush before Quayle withered on the primary vine. Hubbard’s wife, Kathy, also is a Pioneer.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
89##Kathy##Hubbard###Indianapolis#IN##E&A Industries, Inc.#Wife of Ex-president##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#See profile of Pioneer spouse, Allan Hubbard.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
90##Randall#D.#Hubbard###Palm Desert#CA##Hollywood Park Racetrack#CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Hubbard took control of Hollywood Park racetrack after a corporate power struggle in ’91. Hubbard is a pragmatist who realizes that race tracks have more to do with gambling than they do with horses. When the Indian gaming and riverboat casino craze took off in the late ‘80s, Hubbard pioneered the idea that his industry couldn’t beat them so it had to join them by installing slot machines and casinos. Hollywood Park’s casino eventually outgrew the racetrack side of the business, which Hubbard sold off in ’99. Now Hubbard wants to legalize racetrack slot machines in California through a voter initiative. To increase market share, he also promotes virtual gambling through the Television Games Network.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
612##Albert##Huddleston###Dallas#TX#75205#Hyperion Resources#Executive#$0.00#0###0#$65000.00#$2849000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
613##David##Hudnall####TX#75205#Omnicom Management Services#President#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
614##Kristen##Hueter###San Francisco#CA#94111#Kristen Hueter & Assoc.#Political Consultant#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
138#Mr. & Mrs.#James#R.#Huffines###Austin#TX##Morgan Keegan & Co.#First Vice President##0###0###Finance#Huffines became an executive at the securities firm Morgan Keegan after it acquired his Capitol Securities Group in ’93. As appointments secretary to Gov. Bill Clements in ’89, Huffines reportedly threatened to veto the bills of state senators who voted to reject Clements’ appointees. One senator said Huffines asked him, “Is this vote worth risking your entire legislative program?” Other senators said Huffines warned them that, “We’re taking names.” The incident prompted an apology from Clements Chief of Staff George Bayoud, Jr., another Pioneer.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
91##Richard#E.#Hug###Arnold#MD##Environmental Elements#Chair emeritus##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Hug is the ex-chair of Environmental Elements Corporation (EEC), a leading supplier of air pollution control systems. Hug, Pioneer Shelly Kamins and Ellen Sauerbrey are leaders of Bush’s Maryland campaign. Hug helped Sauerbrey set a state fundraising record in ’98 by raising $6.4 million for her losing gubernatorial campaign. Hug also has served on a Maryland Chamber of Commerce committee that urged the state to legalize casino gambling.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
135#Mr.#Gaylord#T.#Hughey#Jr.#305 Ferrell Pl.#Tyler#TX#75702#Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Most lobbyists balk at being characterized as special-interest whores but Hughey is comfortable in that role. Representing small natural gas producers, he attended a ’96 hearing on the state of Texas’ energy industry in drag. In case his intentions were unclear, he explained that he dressed as a “madam” to protest underregulated competition from intrastate gas pipeline companies. Changing clothes and roles, Hughey lobbied against state regulation in ’99 for Pioneer Concrete and North Texas Cement Co. Pioneer has 22 plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Residents of a Southlake subdivision sought a hearing from Bush’s Natural Resources Conservation Commission in ’99 to block the reopening of an adjacent Pioneer plant that was closed down for operating without a permit. The agency said it expected to deny the citizens a hearing on the grounds that the plant does not pose air-quality problems. This was news to neighbor Wanda Stowe, who said, “Pollution from this plant covers everything in our surrounding area with dust.” North Texas Cement ran into regulatory obstacles in the mid-‘90s that halted its burning of hazardous waste to fire its kilns. Instead, it proposed burning old tires as fuel. In addition to lobbying with the firm of Potter & Gunn, Hughey is an attorney at Hughey Oil.##P+#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0#1
92##J.C.##Huizenga###Grand Rapids#MI##National Heritage Academies#Owner##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Huizenga is a major GOP donor who heads a manufacturing concern, Huizenga Industries, a securities firm, West Michigan Equities, and National Heritage Academies (NHA). NHA is seeking to turn a profit on its 20 publicly funded charter schools that promise a back-to-basics moral education. For-profit school companies have flocked to Michigan under Pioneer John Engler because it offers high per-pupil reimbursement rates and does not require charter schools to contribute to the state pension plan. NHA’s morality play has triggered two lawsuits arguing that the company has violated the constitutional separation of church and state by promoting a Christian mother’s prayer group and by teaching creationism science classes. NHA filed its own suit against Detroit suburb Canton Township, which denied NHA a permit to build a 650-student school. The town said the school was too big for the purchased lot and that school traffic would generate excessive traffic. The parties settled the suit in June 2000.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
615##Ralph#T.#Hull###Houston#TX#77019#Self-employed attorney#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
616##Daniel##Huneke###Prospect#KY#40059#Dancor Inc#President#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
617#Mr.#Gary#H.#Hunt###Corona Del Mar#CA#92625#Irvine Company#Ex-Executive Vice President, Sr. Advisor#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
619##William#O.#Hunt###Dallas#TX#75287#INTELLICAL#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
618#Mr.#Ray#L.#Hunt###Dallas#TX#75201#Hunt Oil Co.#Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
791##Woody#L.#Hunt###El Paso#TX##Hunt Building Corp#Owner#$0.00#0##$71641.50#0#$60000.00#$97599000.00#Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
620##Charles##Hurwitz###Houston#TX#77057#MAXXAM Inc#CEO, Chair#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
622##Warren#Bruce#Idsal###Dallas#TX#75205#UICI#Ex-Vice President#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
623##Hector#F.#Irastorza#Jr.##Washington#DC##Republican National Committee#COO of 2004 Republican National Convention#$0.00#1#Deputy Assistant to the President for Management and Administration##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
624#Mr.#Alphonso#R.#Jackson###Dallas#TX#75230#U.S. Depart. Housing & Urban Development#Deputy Secretary#$0.00#1#Department of Housing & Urban Dev, Deputy Secretary##0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
808##Elizabeth 'Sissy'##Jeffett Smith###Dallas#TX##self-employed sports marketer, novelist#Sports marketing; novelist#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
93##Chris##Jenny###Wayland#MA##Parthenon Group#Managing Partner##0###0#$145000.00#$145000.00#Miscellaneous Business#Jenny’s consulting firm specializes in helping corporate executives invest money. Jenny hosted a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee at his offices in 2000. To attend, couples paid $20,000, the maximum legal amount for “hard money” party donations. Very special guests attending were Bush and Gov. Paul Cellucci.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
179#Mr.#Walter#E.#Johnson###Houston#TX##Southwest Bank of Texas#Chair & CEO##0###0###Finance#Johnson started Southwest after First Interstate took over his Allied Bank of Texas in ’89. His Southwest Bancorp. of Texas, is Houston’s largest independent bank holding company, with $3 billion in assets.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
94##Thomas#L.#Johnson###Austin#TX##Associated General Contractors of Texas#Executive Director; Lobbyist##0###0###Construction#As the director of this powerful construction trade group, Johnson is a registered state lobbyist. When a branch of the trade group held its 75th birthday party in Austin in ’99, top state officials from Bush on down made an appearance. One topic that would have been out of place at such a festive event was the industry’s safety record. Construction is Texas’ most dangerous industry, regularly accounting for one-fifth of the state’s fatal, work-related accidents. Johnson got so mad at a 20 percent jump in the appraised value of his house overlooking Austin in ’95 that he wrote a book, Fighting Back—A Practical Guide to Reducing Your Property Taxes. After suing the county, Johnson got his appraisal lowered from $491,979 to $435,000.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
3##Karen#A.#Johnson###Austin#TX##U.S. Government#Assistant Secretary of Education##1#Department of Education, Assistant Secretary of Legislation##0###Other#Johnson’s resume includes stints as: director of the State Bar of Texas; assistant state attorney general; and president of an energy company. As a lobbyist in recent years her most lucrative client has been the Texas Good Roads Transportation Association, which paid her up to $150,000 a year. Other recent clients include the City of Austin, the Texas State Teachers Association, Entergy gas company and Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. She is on the board of Bush’s Governor’s Business Council and she listed her occupation as being a Bush campaign field representative a month after she became a president of United Way of Texas in February 2000.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
625##David#V.#Johnson###Bay Harbor#MI#49770#Victor International Corp#Chairman#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
46#Mr.#Robert#Wood#Johnson#IV##New York#NY##Johnson Company, Inc.#Chair & CEO##0###0###Finance#Robert Woods Johnson No. 4 is an heir to the Johnson & Johnson health care fortune, who heads his own personal investment company. He bought the NFL’s New York Jets for $635 million in January 2000. Johnson attended a ’98 hunting get together that Pioneer Heinz Prechter hosted for Bush and 12 top GOP fundraisers at his 10,000-acre Texas ranch. Bush emerged from this bird hunt as the GOP moneyed elite’s candidate. Johnson also was a hit. He amused the other big guns on the hunt by whipping out an elephant gun.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
626##John#W.#Johnson###Houston#TX#77019#Permian Mud Services#executive#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
627##George#Dean#Johnson#Jr.###FL##Extended Stay America, Inc.#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0#$192000.00#$540000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
95##Don#D.#Jordan###Houston#TX##Reliant Energy#Retired Chair#$7195892.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Reliant is the new name of the former Houston Industries, the parent of Houston Lighting & Power. It turned a $622 million profit in ‘99. Jordan is retiring as Reliant’s chair at the end of 2000, when he expects to be replaced by R. Steve Letbetter, the company’s Pioneer CEO. Jordan recalls his toughest challenge as completing Texas’ first nuclear plant. The South Texas Nuclear Project went 15 years and millions of dollars over budget. Reliant was the fourth largest employer of Texas lobbyists in ’99, spending up to $1.8 million on a phalanx of 43 lobbyists. Between ’95 and ’98, the company’s political action committees spent $631,324 to influence politicians, moving $25,000 to Bush. Bush has been reliable for Reliant. When Texas deregulated its electric markets in ’99, Reliant achieved its goal of making ratepayers bail it out for the cost of its nuclear plant, which cannot compete in an open market. Exploiting a “grandfather” loophole, Reliant never installed modern pollution controls on filthy old power plants that have annual air-pollution emissions equivalent to that of 670,482 cars.##P+#0#1#0#1#1#1#0#0#0
628##Robert#W.#Jordan###Dallas#TX#75225#Baker & Botts LLP#partner#$0.00#1#Ambassador to Saudi Arabia##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
629##Paul#C.#Jost###Alexandria#VA#22314#Chandler Management Corp#Owner#$0.00#0###0##$348000.00#Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
630#Mr. & Mrs.#Gurumurthy##Kalyanaram###Dallas#TX#75248#GK Associates#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
123#Mr.#Sheldon#B.#Kamins###Potomac#MD##Blum Frank & Kamins#Owner##0###0###Real Estate#Kamins’ firm built the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Capitol Place office complex, which were one of DC’s largest private developments in the ‘80s. He has been a major fundraiser for pro-Israel PACs and the GOP. Kamins became the chair of Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC in ’97, long after this PAC hit its zenith as the financial arm of the ’94 Republican revolution. Kamins’ GOPAC chairmanship came on the tail of a two-year congressional ethics investigation of Gingrich that resulted in a reprimand and a $300,000 fine for misleading Congress. Kamins defends that episode as “a badge of honor.”##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
631##Robert##Kaminski###Dallas#TX#75219#Robert Kaminski Interests, Inc.#President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
96##Stephen##Kass##19440 Shirley Ct#Tarzana#CA#91356#Meris Laboratories, Inc.?#Ex-CEO##0###0###Health#Bush campaign contribution reports identify this Pioneer as a self-employed investor. Could this be the same Stephen B. Kass who ran a company that was charged with Medicare fraud? That Stephen B. Kass was involved in a bizarre corporate power struggle. The board of a San Jose-based medical lab company, Meris Laboratories, fired Meris’ co-founder, Chris Riedel in ’92. Riedel said his firing was orchestrated by then-Chief Operating Officer Kass. Riedel said he was grooming Kass as his successor—until he developed doubts about Kass’ abilities. After Riedel was canned, he threatened to file two suits against Meris: one for wrongful dismissal and a separate class-action charging Meris with corporate mismanagement. The day after Riedel issued this threat, the company reappointed him as chair. This arrangement was short-lived, as suits and countersuits ensued. In the end, Riedel took an $18 million golden parachute and Kass became Meris president and CEO in ‘93. That same year, the company was hit with a whistleblower suit that accused it of routinely billing Medicare and Medi-Cal for tests that doctors never ordered. The company settled the suit for $5.2 million in ’97 and filed for bankruptcy that same year. Tarzana-based Unilab Corp. bought its remains in ’98.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
792##Ron##Kaufman###Washington#DC##Dutko Group#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
824##Munr##Kazmir###Closter#NJ##Quality Health Care Providers#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Health###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
794#Ambassador#Robert#B.#Keating###Washington#DC##International Bank for Reconstruction#Executive Director#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
141#Mr.#Craig##Keeland###Dallas#TX##Youngevity, Inc.#President##0###0###Health#Youngevity sells herbal “anti-aging” and ephedrine weight-loss products. Keeland contributed $1,001 to Bush’s gubernatorial campaign in late ‘97, when the Texas Department of Health was drafting tough new regulations to govern marketing and labeling of ephedrine weight-loss products, which were linked to eight Texas deaths since ’93. Then the industry orchestrated a lobbying and political contribution blitz, hiring Pioneer Tom Loeffler’s lobby firm. Bush’s Texas Board of Health (including Pioneer Bill Ceverha’s wife) and the Texas Health Commissioner voted in ’99 to replace their staff’s tough ephedrine rules with indulgent rules drafted by the industry. This change benefited ephedrine vendors such as Keeland.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
226##E.G. "Ken"##Kendrick###Paradise Valley#AZ##Datatel, Inc.#Founder#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
845##John#C.#Kern###Cincinnati#OH##Reynolds, DeWitt & Co.#Investment Banker#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
632#Mr.#John#W.#Kessler###New Albany#OH#43054#John W. Kessler Co.#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
633#Dr.#Aman##Khan###Dallas#TX#75230#Cancer Center Assn.#physician#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
97##Bobbie & Bill (Bill '04 only)#Greene#Kilberg###McLean#VA##Northern Virginia Technology Council#President##0###0###Other#Kilberg became head in ’98 of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), a regional high-tech industry group that represents the local offices of such companies as AOL and EDS. NVTC claimed credit in 2000 for lobbying Virginia to become the first state in the nation to enact a commercial code governing Internet-based electronic contracts. Back before Al Gore invented the Internet, Kilberg worked as an attorney at the DC corporate firm of Arnold & Porter. She was also a White House aide to presidents Nixon, Ford and Bush. For President Bush, she “directed communications and policy relations between the White House and all interest groups in the United States, with a special emphasis on the business community.”#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
634##I.#K.#Kim###Dallas#TX#75248#TECO Unlimited##$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
635##Thomas#R.#Kincaid###Coppell#TX#75019#Capital Group Home Mortgage Co.#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
37#Mr.#Richard & Nancy##Kinder##2121 Kirby Dr. A. 123#Houston#TX#77019#Kinder Morgan Energy Partners#Chair & CEO##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Richard Kinder is an ex-president of Enron Corp., which is Bush’s top career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. (See Pioneer Ken Lay for more on this natural gas giant.) Kinder and ex-Enron pipeline executive Bill Morgan bought out the stock of Enron Liquids Pipeline in ’97 and formed Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Kinder Morgan, Inc. The companies form one of the country’s largest gas pipeline interests, worth approximately $10 billion.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
98##Jim##Kittle#Jr.##Carmel#IN##Kittle's Furniture#CEO & President##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Jim Kettle and his brother John own Indiana’s largest furniture retail chain, with 12 Hoosier stores. They expanded into a regional presence in ’96 when they began opening stores in Ohio. Kittle’s Furniture posted sales of $67 million in ’99.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
11##Robert "Bob"#K.#Kjellander#Jr.##Springfield#IL##Illinois Republican Party#National Committeeman#$0.00#0###0###Ideological###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
636##David#H.#Knapp###Houston#TX#77098#LYKES BROS, INC.#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
637##Jack##Knox##300 Crescent Court #1630#Dallas#TX#75201#Sixx Holding Co#chair, ceo, President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
99##Dorothy#Bush#Koch##8015 Greentree#Bethesda#MD##Wine Institute#Spouse of CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Bush’s kid sister, Dorothy Bush Koch raises money for local charities and for her family’s campaigns. She married Robert P. Koch at Camp David in ‘92. Robert Koch is an ex-aide to then-Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and then-Democratic Whip Tony Coehlo, who until recently chaired Al Gore’s campaign. Koch is now an executive and lobbyist at the Wine Institute, the trade group of the California wine industry. This lobby has promoted unfettered trade with China and lobbies to protect the millions of corporate-welfare tax dollars that it receives to market its products abroad. The Wine Institute appointed two of the Gallo brothers to its board in ’99. The Gallo family, which produces one out of every three U.S. bottles of wine, knows something about lobbying. The Gallos got the so-called “Gallo Amendment” enacted in ’86 to allow them personally to dodge $104 million in inheritance taxes when they passed on the family fortune.##P+#1#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
44#Mr.#C.#Michael#Kojaian###Bloomfield Hills#MI##Kojaian Companies#Executive Vice President##0###0##$316000.00#Real Estate#This big Detroit developer owns Kojaian Properties and Kojaian Management Co. In ’96 Kojaian’s family bought a 14 percent stake in Grubb & Ellis, one of the nation’s biggest commercial real estate companies. Kojaian and Pioneer Heinz Prechter formed an investment group in ’99 to acquire trouble auto supplier JPE, Inc. for $18.4 million. The CEO of that company, which changed its name to ASCET, is ex-GOP Congressman Dick Chrysler. Kojaian has been a major funder of Pioneer Gov. John Engler; he also picked up the $43,500 bill that Bush racked up for Iowa’s Republican straw poll. For Kojaian, $100,000 in Pioneer money is small potatoes. He became one of the nation’s top individual “soft money” donors in 2000 by writing a $250,000 check to the Republican National State Elections Committee.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
795##Charles#G.#Kopp###Philadelphia#PA##Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
16##Hersh##Kozlov###Cherry Hill#NJ##Wolf Block Schorr & Solis Cohen; also TRM Co.#Senior Partner#$0.00#0###0#$1646000.00#$1646000.00#Lawyers & Lobbyists###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
796##Thomas#F.#Kranz###Los Angeles#CA##Inman Law Firm#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
797##Edward#D.#Kratovil###Greenwich#CT##UST Inc.#Vice President#$0.00#0###0###Agriculture###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
129#Mr.#Thomas#R.#Kuhn###Potomac#MD##Edison Electric Institute#President##1#Energy transition team##0###Energy & Natural Resources#This trade group of investor-owned electric utilities has pressured Congress to go slow on electric deregulation. It also has sought to ensure that consumers are forced to bail out utilities for bad investments in nuclear power plants that cannot compete in a deregulated market. Kuhn was among the invitees to a 2000 meeting in which executives of polluting industries huddled with officials of states that face sanctions for flunking federal air standards. The meeting, organized by Pioneer Michigan Gov. John Engler’s top environmental appointee, explored how federal air standards might be relaxed if Bush becomes president. Kuhn hosted a ’99 meeting of the “Air Quality Standards Coalition,” an industry front group devising ways to sabotage proposed EPA rules to cut air pollution in national parks. Kuhn also circulated a ’99 fundraising letter that reveals that Bush is putting a competitive squeeze on business supporters by carefully tracking how much it gets from different industries. Bush campaign fundraisers “have stressed the importance of having our industry incorporate the 1178 tracking number in your fundraising efforts,” Kuhn wrote. “It does ensure that our industry is credited, and that your progress is listed among the other business/industry sectors.”##P+#0#0#0#1#1#1#0#0#0
12##E. Floyd##Kvamme###Menlo Park#CA##Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers#Partner Emeritus#$0.00#1#President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology Cochair; Commerce transition team##0###Finance###P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
638#Mr.#Rob##LaKritz####MI##US Government#spec. assist. to Dep. Treas. Sec.#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
146#Mr. & Mrs.#David#M.#Laney###Dallas#TX##Jenkins & Gilchrist#Attorney##1#Amtrak Board of Directors##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Laney specializes in corporate and banking law. Bush appointed him as a Texas Department of Transportation Commissioner in ’95. As a Bush transportation point man, Laney lashed out in 2000 against federal rules that will slash federal highway funds to Texas cities that flunk federal air standards and fail to come up with credible plans to clean up their acts. Laney said such “draconian” measures could create more traffic jams that would pollute the air even more.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
639#Mr.#Mark##Langdale###Dallas#TX#75225#Posadas USA Inc#President#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
126#Mr.#James (& Sandy)#C.#Langdon#Jr.##Washington#DC##Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld#Managing Partner##1#President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; Energy transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Langdon heads the energy practice of this corporate law firm, representing multinational oil and gas companies, as well as oil-producing foreign nations. He helps these clients cut financial and privatization deals. Although he is not a registered lobbyist, Langdon involves himself in energy-related issues before Congress. Langdon is a personal friend of Bush, who has taken a lead role in his beltway fundraising. In this role, Langdon was on the hot seat after Bush spent more than half of the record $68 million he had raised by the time of the New Hampshire primary—and still got trounced by John McCain. “People have been questioning, ‘Where are we on the spending?’” Langdon said at the time. “There’s a decent amount of that kind of discussion. You can’t get beat like that and not have this happen.” Langdon’s father was a Texas Railroad Commissioner during the ‘60s and ‘70s. During this oil regulatory agency’s energy-crisis hey day, the three powerful commissioners acted as a mini-OPEC, controlling how much oil Texas produced.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
640##Garland#M.#Lasater#Jr.##Hebbronville#TX##Transport Life Insurance#Ex-President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
641##Steve##Late###Odessa#TX#79765#Bronco Chevrolet Buick BMW#auto delar#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
100##Franklin#L.#Lavin###Canton#OH##Bank of America#Regional Manager##1#Ambassador to Singapore##0#$649000.00#$3392000.00#Finance#Though the Bush campaign lists his address in Canton, Ohio, Lavin appears to be an Asia-based banker. Prior to his current post as Bank of America’s regional manager in Singapore, Lavin was Citibank’s vice president of emerging markets in Hong Kong. He is an ex-director of the Asia Pacific Policy Center, which former Reagan and Bush administration officials formed to forge closer ties between the United States and business officials in Southeast Asia. President Bush appointed Lavin as an Asian specialist in the Department of Commerce. In the Reagan administration, he was the White House political director and held posts at the State Department and the National Security Council.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
642##Herman#Ward#Lay##5956 Sherry Lane, #1616#Dallas#TX#75225#LAY Capital Group LLC#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
38#Mr. & Mrs.#Kenneth & Linda##Lay##3195 Inwood Dr.#Houston#TX#77019#Enron Corp.#Chair & CEO#$42409946.00#1#Energy transition team#$128221.81#0#$5896000.00#($66657000.00)#Energy & Natural Resources#The $550,025 that the Enron Corp. gave Bush over the years makes it his No. 1 career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. “Virtually every … aspect of Enron’s operations is overseen by the federal government,” a ’96 Dallas Morning News story noted. Not surprisingly, this global natural gas giant and its top executive are big political contributors who keep revolving doors whirling. Lay hired President Bush’s cabinet members James Baker and Robert Mosbacher as they left office. After President Bush’s ’93 Gulf War victory tour of Kuwait, Baker and other members of his entourage stayed on to hustle Enron contracts. The Clinton administration also threatened to cut Mozambique’s aid in ’95 if the world’s poorest country awarded a pipeline contract to a different company. Enron got Bush to contact Texas’ congressional delegation in ’97 to promote a corporate welfare program in which U.S. taxpayers finance political risk insurance for the foreign operations of corporations such as Enron. Enron plants around Houston—which surpassed LA for the title to the nation’s worst air—are “grandfathered” air polluters that exploit a loophole in state law to avoid installing modern pollution-control technologies. Earlier this year the Houston Astros inaugurated their new Enron Field, which was financed with $180 million in public tax dollars and $100 million from Enron. In return, Enron landed tax breaks and a $200 million contract to power the stadium. Topping Enron’s political wish list in Texas was deregulation of the state’s electrical markets. Bush signed this dream into law in ’99.##P+#0#0#0#1#1#0#1#0#0
101##Fred#W.#Lazenby###Nashville#TN##Southlife Holding Co.#Retired Chair & CEO##0###0###Insurance#Lazenby was a life insurance executive for almost 40 years. He spent three-fourths of this time at National Life & Accident Insurance Co., which was acquired by Pioneer Maurice Greenberg’s American International Group in ‘82. Lazenby next founded Southlife Holding Co. He retired from that company in ’94. Lazenby was the state finance chair for U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson and heads the state finance operation of the Bush campaign.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
55#Mr. & Mrs.#Howard#H.#Leach###San Francisco#CA##Cypress Farms, Inc.#President##1#Ambassador to France##0###Agriculture#Leach is an ex-Republican National Committee finance chair and was a member of President Bush’s “Team 100” fundraising elite. He complained to President Bush in ’92 that California growers needed a big subsidized gulp of Central Valley water. When they got it just 10 days later, Common Cause complained that this big donor’s receipt of a special perk created an appearance of impropriety. Ex-Gov. Pete Wilson appointed this farming, timber and investment tycoon as a University of California Regent; Leach helped Wilson raise $9.5 million for his re-election. As chair of the Regents in ’95, Leach led a majority of the board in voting to end affirmative action in the UC system.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
846#4#Michael##Lebovitz###Chattanooga#TN##CBL & Associates Properties Inc.#Senior Vice President for Mall Projects#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Real Estate##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
643##Winnie##LeClercq###Atlanta#GA#30326#Delhaize America#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
847##Stephen#M.#Lessing###Cold Spring Harbor#NY##Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.#Managing Director#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##R##0#1#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
102##Ronald#Steve#Letbetter###Houston#TX##Reliant Energy#Ex-CEO & Ex-Chair##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Reliant is the new name of the former Houston Industries, the parent of Houston Lighting & Power. It turned a $622 million profit in ‘99. Letbetter recently replaced Pioneer Don Jordan as CEO of this company. Jordan recalls his toughest challenge as completing Texas’ first nuclear plant. The South Texas Nuclear Project went 15 years and millions of dollars over budget. Reliant was the fourth largest employer of Texas lobbyists in ’99, spending up to $1.8 million on a phalanx of 43 lobbyists. Between ’95 and ’98, the company’s political action committees spent $631,324 to influence politicians, moving $25,000 to Bush. Bush has been reliable for Reliant. When Texas deregulated its electric markets in ’99, Reliant achieved its goal of making ratepayers bail it out for the cost of its nuclear plant, which cannot compete in an open market. Exploiting a “grandfather” loophole, Reliant never installed modern pollution controls on filthy old power plants that have annual air-pollution emissions equivalent to that of 670,482 cars.##P+#0#1#0#1#1#1#0#0#0
644##John#P.#Lewis###Dallas#TX#75230#Lewis Hollingsworth#Managing Partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
810##Drew##Lewis###Lederach#PA##Union Pacific Corp#Ex-Chair#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
645##Bill#M.#Lindig##150 Gessner PH. II#Houston#TX#77024#SYSCO Corp.#President; CEO#$0.00#0###0#$141000.00#$104668000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
831##Carl#H.#Lindner###Cincinnati#OH##American Financial Group, Inc.#CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Insurance##R##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
646##Mary#M.#Ling##11230 Peachgrove St., #107#North Hollywood#CA#91601#Law Offices of Hogg & Benson#Public Relations#$0.00#1#President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
647##Jack#E.#Little###Houston#TX#77024#Shell Oil Co.#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
28#Mr. & Mrs.#Tom & Nancy##Loeffler##203 Ridgemont#San Antonio#TX#78209#Arter & Hadden#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Ex-Congressman Tom Loeffler is a revolving-door lobbyist close to two Bush administration scandals. After Bush appointed him to the University or Texas Board of Regents, Loeffler joined the scandal-plagued board overseeing UT endowment funds (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks). His firm then delivered a lobbying coup, getting Bush’s Board of health to kill off proposed rules to restrict sales of a ephedrine-based diet remedies linked to eight Texas deaths (see Pioneers Bill Ceverha and Craig Keeland). The Center for Public Integrity ranked Loeffler’s firm as Bush’s No. 10 “career patron,” with the Loefflers delivering more than half of this cash. Loeffler seemed predestined for special-interest lobbying. An ’84 Public Citizen survey found that he voted with consumers in just one out of 40 key votes—Congress’ worst voting record. Loeffler also topped a list of five members of Congress whose campaigns received illegal corporate money from Vernon Savings & Loan, which failed at a taxpayer cost of $1.3 billion. A Vernon officer told an ‘89 grand jury that Loeffler offered to set up a meeting with then Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III if they helped pay Loeffler’s debt from a failed ’86 gubernatorial bid. Four Vernon executives then moved $8,000 in laundered corporate money to Loeffler’s campaign, this officer testified, just before federal regulators forced them to resign.#P#P+#0#0#1#0#0#1#1#0#1
648##Robert#L.#Looney###Austin#TX##Texas Oil & Gas Assn#President; Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
649#Mr.#Jorge#Luis#Lopez###Hialeah#FL#33010#Verner Liipfert Bernard#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
799##Robert#H.#Lorsch###Los Angeles#CA##RHL Group, Inc.#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
162#Mr. & Mrs.#Jeff#B.#Love##3744 Invood#Houston#TX#77019#Locke Liddell & Sapp#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Love is a partner at this corporate law firm. He headed Houston-area fundraising for the ’96 re-election of Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Phillips. Texas state judges are elected to office through expensive partisan campaigns. Much of the money these judges raise comes from lawyers and litigants who have cases in their courtrooms. With Love’s aid, Chief Justice Phillips raised $1.3 million in ’96, taking at least 43 percent of these funds from interests with cases before his court. Phillips says he opposes this practice, yet he was not compelled to engage in it: his opponent raised just $20,056. Love’s firm, which argues a steady stream of cases before the Texas Supreme Court is a big part of the problem. Locke Liddell & Sapp lawyers are the third largest source of docket-tainted political contributions to Texas Supreme Court justices. Bush’s top political advisor, Karl Rove, ran the campaigns of many of these Texas Supreme Court justices. Though this judicial-selection system is a cause of national embarrassment, Bush supports the status quo.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#1
650##Tom##Luce###Dallas#TX#75225#Luce & Williams, LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
800##Mark#Neil#Ludwig###Washington#DC##Bryan Cave LLP#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
848##John##Mack###Rye#NY##Credit Suisse First Boston#CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
651##Wales##Madden#III##Amarillo#TX#79109#Self-employed attorney#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
50#Mr. & Mrs.#John#B.#Mahaffey###Springfield#MO##Mahaffey Enterprises#President##0###0###Communications#Mahaffey owns a string of radio stations in several states. One of his stations in Rolla, Missouri,  ran a talk show for three years hosted by David Steelman, who was Sen. John McCain’s state campaign chair. Three weeks before Missouri’s 2000 presidential primary, this Bush Pioneer pulled the plug on Steelman’s show and another one hosted by local Democratic activist Bob Jones. It was the stuff of great talk radio. “This was meant to squelch discussion because the man who owns the transmitter is for George W. Bush,” Steelman said. “We were muzzled because we offended a big-time Bush backer,” Jones declared. One of Mahaffey’s attorneys said that management based the decision on a concern that the local hosts’ “discussion on national politics may not be as objective or live up to their journalistic responsibility for objectivity.” Apparently, conservative political talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Oliver North do meet Mahaffey’s standards of objectivity: their shows kept running in Rolla. Mahaffey is a pal of Sen. Chris Bond, who chairs Bush’s Missouri campaign. Mahaffey and fellow Missouri Pioneers Sam Fox, Adele Hall and Stephen Brauer made a pilgrimage to Austin back in March ’99 to meet with Bush.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
652##Matthew#E.#Malouf###Dallas#TX#75219#Malouf Interests Inc#real estate development#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
653##Jeffrey#A.#Marcus###Dallas#TX#75205#Chancellor Media Corp#President & CEO#$0.00#1#Ambassador to Belgium##0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
654#Ms.#Adair#Wakefield#Margo###El Paso#TX#79902#Adair Margo Art Gallery#Owner#$0.00#1#President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (Chair)##0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
56#Mr. & Mrs.#Thomas#P.#Marinis#Jr.##Houston#TX#77002#Vinson & Elkins#Attorney##1#Justice transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Marinis specializes in tax and federal election law at this corporate law firm. For more on the looming political shadow this firm casts over Texas, see his colleague, Pioneer Joe B. Allen.##P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
655#Mr. & Mrs.#Harold##Marshall###Dallas#TX#75205#Transouth Financial Corp.#Retired President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
656##Vidal#G.#Martinez###Houston#TX#77019#Curtis Mallet-Prevost et al.#Attorney#$0.00#0###0#$418000.00#$1338000.00#Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
103##Robert (Bob)##Martinez###Tampa#FL##Carlton Fields#Managing Director Government Relations##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Though not a lawyer, Martinez heads lobby efforts of the Carlton Fields law firm. His recent federal lobby clients include Genentech and Whitehall Corp., which competes for Air Force and other aviation-maintenance contracts. His ’99 Florida lobby contracts include general contractor Batson-Cook Co., Hot-in-Place, Inc., which makes recycled highway pavement materials and P.G. Corbin Group, which has won contracts to issue Florida state bonds. Martinez became Florida’s first GOP governor in 20 years in ’87. During his administration, then-Vice President Bush headed the South Florida Drug Task Force. After Bush became president, he appointed Martinez as his drug czar in ’91. An irony of these anti-drug posts is that both President Bush and Martinez received large campaign contributions in the late ‘80s from Leonel Martinez (no relation to this Pioneer), who was arrested in ’89 and later convicted for importing 300 kilos of cocaine. A highlight of Robert Martinez’s administration was his strict enforcement of Dade County anti-obscenity laws, which he invoked to go after rap artists 2 Live Crew.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#1
104##William##Martini###Newark#NJ##U.S. Government#US District Court Judge##1#US District Court Judge##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Martini’s specialty at this corporate law firm is administrative law, government relations and white-collar criminal defense. His background in government relations comes from a single term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Backed by a Republican party intent on taking out Democratic incumbent Herbert Klein, this relatively unknown member of the Clifton City Council raised a large amount of money for his successful ’94 race. Martini’s wife, Gloria, works for the Swiss chemical and drug company Ciba-Geigy##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
657##Mark##Masinter###Dallas#TX#75231#Harberg-Masinter Co#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
849##Fernando##Mateo###Irvington#NY##Mateo Express#President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
658##Charles##Mathewson##9295 Prototype Dr.#Reno#NV#89511#International Game Technology#Chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
659##Frederick#D.#McClure###Dallas#TX#75201#Public Strategies, Inc.#Consultnt#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
801##William#P.#McCormick###Portland#OR##McCormick & Schmick Management Group#Chair, Founder#$0.00#1#President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities##0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
105##Sharon#L.#McCutchin###Dallas#TX##Jerry McCutchin Drilling Co.#Owner's spouse##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Sharon McCutchin is married to Jerry McCutchin, as in Jerry McCutchin Drilling Co. To downsize when they moved from Houston to a multimillion home in Dallas in ’92, this oil family had a garage sale—in their airplane hangar. One item that they sold off was the dry-cleaner’s rotating rack that this Pioneer used to retrieve her wardrobe from her 1,500-square-foot closet.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
660##Michael#R.#McElwrath###Woodlands#TX#77381#Operations Management Group#executive/attorney#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
661##M. Colleen#Colleen#McHugh###Corpus Christi#TX#78404#Strasburger & Price LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
662##Gordon##McKenna###Arlington#TX##TeleQuest#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
663##Drayton##McLane#Jr.##Temple#TX#76504#McLane Group#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
664#Hon.#W. Edwin##McMahan###Charlotte#NC##State of North Carolina#House Representative#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
106##Colin#Riley#McMillan###Roswell#NM##U.S. Government#Navy Secretary##1#Navy Secretary; Student Loan Marketing Association Board##0###Other#McMillan runs an oil explorations company and is chair of Roswell’s First Federal Savings Bank. His 55,000-acre Three Rivers Cattle Co. ranch ranks him as the state’s 23rd largest landowner—edging out ABC’s Sam Donaldson. When New West Research did an open-records request to learn which landowners were asking the federal government to exterminate wildlife on their land, Colin McMillan’s name was on the list. He asked Uncle Sam to expend the public’s purse to snuff out coyotes, mountain lions and black bears on his ranch. McMillan sent this request to the same federal government that lists the black bear as a threatened species. To deal with the Russian bear, President Bush appointed McMillan as an assistant secretary of defense in ‘90. McMillan made a failed bid for the U.S. Senate in ’94. He considered running for Rep. Joe Skeen’s seat in 2000—until Skeen decided to run for reelection.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
107##Andrea & Dean##McWilliams###Austin#TX##Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyists##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Almost all of the 45 state lobby contracts that Andrea McWilliams reported in ’99 were for the relatively modest value of $10,000 or less. But the sheer number of them added up to an annual lobby income of up to $465,000. Many of her clients were big business interests, including businesses of two Pioneers: Lee Bass and Ken Lay. McWilliams also hustled on behalf of lesser-known special interests such as Government Records Services, which has a near monopoly on restoring and archiving government records. Each session, its lobbyists try to sneak through a bill that would charge citizens an extra $10 preservation fee for every public record filed in the state. The bill has not passed—yet. This lobbyist’s husband was the spokesman for one-term state Senator Michael Galloway, who lost his ’98 reelection bid. Dean McWilliams then hit the revolving-door lobby, reporting 10 lobby contracts in ’99.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0
821#Hon.#Gualberto##Medina###Caldwell#NJ##NET 2 PHONE#Vice President, International Affairs#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
665##Thomas#M.#Mercer#Jr.##Dallas#TX#75220#Ceres Capital Partners#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
108##Jules#Frank#Mermoud###Washington#DC##Aegis Communication#Ex-Senior VP##0###0###Communications#Aegis, formerly known as ATC Communications, is a telemarketing firm with such clients as American Express and AT&T. Mermoud is a former ATC director and senior vice president. He worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Presidents Reagan and Bush. As a delegate to the GOP National Convention in ’96, Mermoud advocated a huge income tax cut for his hometown of Washington, D.C.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
666#Mr.#P.##Merritt###Kilgore#TX#75662#Merritt Tool Company#Owner#$0.00#0###0##$679000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
667##Jack#L.#Messman###Fort Worth#TX#76132#Union Pacific Resources Co.#chair & CEO#$0.00#0##$77064.00#0#$108000.00#$113000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
127#Mr.#David#A.#Metzner###Alexandria#VA##American Continental Group#Managing Director##1#Commerce transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Metzner founded this lobby shop in ’94 with Shawn Smeallie, who was a legislative aide in President Bush’s White House. Previously, Metzner lobbied to land U.S. contracts for the aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin was still on his ’98 client list, which has broadened to include gambling, medical, hi-tech and other special interests, including India’s government. Pioneer Peter Terpeluk, Jr., also is a managing director of this firm.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
668#Mr.#Fred##Meyer###Dallas#TX#75205#Aladdin Industries LLC#Ex-CEO, Chair#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
669#Dr.#Adib#R.#Mikhail###Woodlands#TX#77380#Self-employed physician#Physician#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
181#Mr. & Mrs.#Vance#C.#Miller##3815 Beverly Dr#Dallas#TX#75205#Henry S. Miller Co.#Chair & CEO##0###0###Real Estate#Miller heads a huge real estate brokerage and contributed $20,000 to Bush’s gubernatorial campaign, yet he has trouble paying his bills to Uncle Sam. Federal bill collectors spent a decade trying to get $23 million out of him to cover his guarantees of bad real estate loans. “I take a dim view of people who do not pay their bills,” Federal District Judge Joe Fish told Miller in ’98. “Especially when no effort seems to have been made to pay.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
802##James#C.#Miller###Orlando#FL##Greenberg Traurig#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
670##Charles##Miller###Houston#TX#77002#Meridian Advisors Ltd#Chair#$0.00#1#Education transition team##0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
671##Tyree#B.#Miller###Dallas#TX#75225#Bank One#Chair#$0.00#0###0##$34687000.00#Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
109##David##Miner###Cary#NC##State of North Carolina#State Representative##0###0###Other#State Rep. David Miner is one of the state’s most aggressive fundraisers. Asked in ’96 why he had set a fundraising goal of $500,000, Miner replied that that sum “will help scare off some people.” Rapid development is a major issue in Miner’s Wake County district and developers are top donors to his hefty war chest. “If you don’t like growth,” Miner said in ’97, “you should move out of Wake County.” As chair of the House Commerce Committee in ‘98, Miner moved a bill to allow liquor to be sold by the glass in conservative Robeson County. He moved the bill just five days after the Chamber of Commerce backing the bill took Miner’s suggestion that they hire his campaign consultant as its lobbyist. Miner was involved in a money-in-politics scandal involving the state’s filthy corporate pig farms. The State Board of Elections ruled in ’98 that the corporate pig industry—under the misnomer “Farmers for Fairness”—acted as a political action committee without registering as one. Corporate pig interests countered that the state Republican House leadership—including Miner—passed a state moratorium on new hog operations in ’96 to punish the industry for failing to meet their demands for $200,000 in contributions. The Board of Elections ruled that it lacked evidence to act on this complaint when the main witness lost his memory of the event. The pig industry then shifted new operations to the greener pastures of places such as Texas (see Pioneer Teel Bivins). During a contested GOP primary race for Congress in ’94, Republican activists said Miner responded with a racial slur when they told him they were backing Fred Heineman. One Heineman supporter said Miner retorted, “I don’t see how a Jew from New York can come down here and be a viable candidate.” Miner denies saying this about Heineman, who is Lutheran.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#1#0
110##Stephan#M.#Minikes###Washington#DC##Thelan Reed & Preist#Lobbyist##1#Organization for Security and Cooperation##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Minikes heads the government affairs practice at this firm, which reported $2.5 million in lobby income in ’98. Minikes is a specialist in government contracting. He registered as a hired gun for 13 clients, including: Asea Brown Boveri Combustion Engineering Nuclear Operations, Suiza Foods, SPD Technologies and Metromachine Corp. During the Nixon administration, Minikes was a senior vice president of the federal Export-Import Bank. The Export-Import Bank doles out millions of dollars of corporate welfare to multinationals in the form of government-supported export credits.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
111##Suzie##Mitchell###West Bloomfield#MI##Mitchell Research & Communications#President##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Mitchell heads her political consulting and polling firm. She and two other Michigan Pioneers, Heinz Prechter and Paul Welday, organized “American Dreamers.” It seeks to drum up Bush contributions from minorities, who are an endangered species among the Pioneers’ ranks. Mitchell says she starts her Pioneer pitch with a soft putt, saying how personable Bush is and how much he cares about schools. If that fails, she pulls out her Michigan driver, saying, “If anything hurts the auto industry and kills it as [Gore] would like to, we are in some serious trouble here.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
672##Bob##Monahan##859 Emmittsburg Road#Gettysburg#PA#17325#Monahan Group#President#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
673#Mr. & Mrs.#Tom & Therse##Moncrief###Fort Worth#TX#76107#Moncrief Oil#indep. oil producers; Investments#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
177#Mr.#Philip#O'Bryan#Montgomery#III##Dallas#TX##P.O.'B Montgomery & Co.#Chair, CEO, President##0###0###Real Estate#Montgomery owns a commercial real estate brokerage.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
674##Ike#J.#Monty###El Paso#TX#79932#Investment Builders#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
675##Jeffrey#S.#Moorad###Newport Beach#CA#92660#Steinberg Moorad et al/#Sports Agent#$0.00#0###0#$53000.00#$53000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
676##S. Reed##Morian###Houston#TX#77019#DX Service Companies#President#$0.00#0###0##$58000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
677##Clifton#H.#Morris#Jr.##Fort Worth#TX#76132#Americredit Corp#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
678##Gene#Vaughn#Morrison###Canyon#TX#79015#Meyers & Associates#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
112##H.#Gary#Morse###The Villages#FL##Villages of Lake-Sumter#CEO##0###0###Real Estate#Morse has said that Florida’s droves of  incoming elderly are to that state what gold and oil once were to California and Texas. One industry observer called Morse’s Villages of Lake-Sumter “the fastest-selling retirement community in the history of Florida.” Its rapidly growing population has surpassed 21,000 retirees. Morse’s company also is a growing political force. It gave more than $80,000 to the Florida Republican Party in Jeb Bush’s ’98 election year and Morse himself gave $100,000 in soft money to the Republican National Committee in March 2000.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
679##Robert##Mosbacher#Jr.##Houston#TX#77019#Mosbacher Energy#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
803##Dianne#Ingels#Moss###Dallas#TX##William Moss Corp.#Chair's spouse#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
113##Dennis##Muchmore###Haslett#MI##Muchmore Harrington Smalley & Associates#Partner##0###0###Communications#An ex-vice president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Muchmore worked as an aide to three state senate committees before founding one of Michigan’s largest lobby firms. Its corporate clients include Amway, AT&T, Seagram’s, the Detroit Tigers, HMOs and many other hi-tech, insurance and energy companies. The firm helped defeat a proposed smoking ban for restaurants in Detroit’s Wayne County in ’98.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0
680##Robert#F.#Murchison###Dallas#TX#75229#Murchison Capital Partners#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
114##Robert#Madison#Murphy###El Dorado#AR##Murphy Oil Corp.#Chair##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#An oil exploration and production company, Murphy Oil recently began retailing gas through service stations it is building at Wal-Mart stores. Murphy heads the “Murphy Commission,” which was launched in ’96 by the conservative Arkansas Policy Foundation. The commission is a group of Arkansas businesspeople who want to make government “more lean, focused, affordable and accountable.” One of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s first acts upon becoming governor in ’96 was ordering state agencies to work with Murphy’s commission. The commission has urged the state to repeal its capital-gains tax, issue report cards for schools and embrace charter schools.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
862##Palmer#N.#Murray###Los Angeles#CA##Morgan Stanley##$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00#$0.00#Finance###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
681##John#R.#Muse###Dallas#TX##Hicks Muse Tate & Furst#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
29#Mr.#Charles#D.#Nash#Sr.#P.O. Box 1988#Austin#TX#78767#Capitol Chevrolet, Inc.#Owner##0###0###Transportation#Nash owns Austin’s Capital Chevrolet; his son, Jr., owns Chuck Nash Chevrolet in nearby San Marcos. Chuck Nash is a former chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission appointed by ex-Gov. Bill Clements. The Texas Automobile Dealers Association is one of the state’s most powerful lobbies. It has lobbied successfully to preserve its members’ monopoly by prohibiting cars to be sold over the Internet in Texas by anyone but a registered dealer.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
682##John#L.#Nau#III##Houston#TX#77019#Silver Eagles Distributors#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
683##Jim##Neale###Dallas#TX#75201#Quorom Energy#President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
115##Patrick#M.#Nesbitt###Los Angeles#CA##Windsor Capital Group#Chair##0###0###Real Estate#Nesbitt started out doing market research and site location for fast-food chains. He started in the real estate business by buying The Continent: a 60-acre, mixed-use development in Columbus, Ohio. Today, Nesbitt owns hotels and provides consulting services to this industry. He is the nation’s largest private owner of Embassy Suites Hotels. Windsor also acquires shopping centers, apartment projects, and multi-use commercial properties. Like Pioneer Norman Brinker, Nesbitt is a polo fanatic. He owns an ocean-view polo ranch in Santa Barbara, complete with stables, a waterfall and 25,000 square feet of residential space.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
684##Walter#E.#Neuls###Plano#TX#75093#Colonia Casualty Insurance#exec#$0.00#0###0###Insurance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
4##Andres#R.#Nevares###San Juan#PR##Nevares Sanchez-Alvarez & Mendez#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Nevares is the managing partner of this Puerto Rican law firm. He specializes in construction, insurance, estate, tort, banking and mergers-and-acquisitions law. He lectures on construction litigation and is a member of the Associated General Contractors of America. Nevares is an alternate for the 2000 Republican National Convention for the Republican Party of Puerto Rico. This party is still dominated by Honorary President Luis A. Ferre, a 96-year-old wealthy industrialist and ex-governor who leads the island’s statehood drive.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
685##Fred#R.#Nichols###Tyler#TX#75703#TCA Cable TV#Vice President#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
116##James#B.#Nicholson###Detroit#MI##PVS Chemicals, Inc.#CEO & President##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Nicholson’s PVS Chemicals is a major global producer of sulfuric acid for car batteries. It operates plants in Canada, Mexico and Thailand. Nicholson is the vice chair of auto seat manufacturer Douglas & Lomason Co. Nicholson did not survive the primary of his ’96 U.S. Senate run, despite having spent almost $4 million of his own money. “He literally tried to buy the race,” said Inside Michigan Politics editor William Ballenger. Nicholson had promised to reform welfare and Congress as well as to end corporate welfare. He described himself as pro-choice, though he opposed public funding of abortion and defended such state restrictions as parental-consent rules. The year Nicholson lost his expensive race, Michigan voters passed a casino gambling law. As co-chair of a ’96 Detroit casino task force, Nicholson said he wanted the city to recruit large casinos—to keep locals from leaving the state to gamble.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
57#Mr. & Mrs.#Dennis#E.#Nixon###Laredo#TX##International Bank of Commerce#Chair & CEO##0###0###Finance#Nixon’s International Bank of Commerce (IBC) has 90 branch banks with assets of more than $4.5 billion. IBC has extensive financial dealings with Mexican banks, businesses and maquiladora assembly plants. Nixon was a major proponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He is an ex-president of the Laredo Chamber of Commerce and is a member of Bush’s Business Council. Nixon raised $300,000 for Bush’s last gubernatorial campaign in a single fundraising event.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
117##Alan#P.#Novak###Coatesville#PA##Conrad O'Brian Gellman and Rohn#Attorney##1#President's Commission on White House Fellowships##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Novak is an attorney at this corporate law firm, which counts Big Tobacco among its clients. He specializes in municipal law, serving as the solicitor for several local governments. He also chairs the Pennsylvania Republican Party. One of its state committee principles reads: “The forced redistribution of wealth and the over regulation of the free enterprise system—even under the guise of law for the purpose of advancing misguided notions of social or economic justice—is destructive of the fabric of society, and must not be tolerated.”##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
24#Mr. & Mrs.#Erle#A.#Nye##Energy Plaza#Dallas#TX#75201#Texas Utilities (TXU)#Chair & CEO#$1886580.00#1#Energy transition team#$138947.85#0#$12928000.00#$88468000.00#Energy & Natural Resources#TXU is the leading source of so-called “grandfathered” air pollution in Texas. The ‘71 state Clean Air Act exempted existing industrial plants from new pollution rules. Rather than investing in clean air, dirty companies have lobbied to protect their loophole. Bush responded by inviting polluters to voluntarily cut their emissions—even though they have had three decades to do this. Bush’s industry volunteers need not say how much pollution they plan to reduce—or by when. Today, every major city in Texas either flunks federal air standards or is on the verge of doing so. When state environmental officials complied with federal orders to devise a plan to clean up the Dallas Metroplex’s filthy air this year, TXU and other area polluters filed suit to try to dodge compliance. For other urban areas about to flunk the test, Bush urged the EPA in 2000 to let Texas cheat by pretending that there is insufficient data to classify their air quality. TXU and Reliant Energy (see Pioneers Don Jordan and R. Steve Letbetter) blocked plans to deregulate state electricity markets until ’99. The ’99 deregulation legislation granted their demand that consumers bail them out of their investments in nuclear power plants that cannot compete in a free market. Bush appointed Nye as a Texas A&M Regent.##P+#0#1#0#1#1#1#0#0#0
811##Christine#Davis#O'Brien###Austin#TX#78731#AstraZeneca#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0##$44000.00#Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
5##Robert#J.#O'Connell###Springfield#MA##Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.#Chair & CEO##0###0##$480000.00#Insurance#O’Connell was president of U.S. Life Companies, a subsidiary of Pioneer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s American International Group, until he joined MassMutual in ’99. This life insurance concern is part of MassMutual Financial Group, a global financial services company with more than $200 billion in assets. MassMutual recently bought a Hong Kong insurance company to use as a portal into Asian markets. O’Connell sent a letter to some of his employees in ’99, informing him that he and his wife, Claire, had each contributed $1,000 to Bush’s campaign. The letter then urged the recipients to send checks to their boss, O’Connell, so he could forward them to the campaign. A Federal Elections Committee spokesperson said the tactic was legal, so long as it was confined to executive and administrative staff and provided that these employees were under no pressure to contribute!##P+#0#1#1#1#0#0#0#0#0
686##Ralph##O'Connor##1001 Fannin St., Ste. 622#Houston#TX#77002#Highland resources#Oil and Gas Investor#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
185#Mr.#Joseph#J.#O'Donnell###Boston#MA##Boston Concessions Group#CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#O’Donnell operates food concessions at sports and entertainment facilities in some 30 states. He is a good friend of Boston mayor Thomas Menino and put ex-Menino Chief of Staff David Passafaro on his payroll. Menino has been raising objections to plans floated by Gov. Paul Cellucci and the owners of the Boston Red Sox to charge taxpayers up to $320 million for a new Sox stadium. The mayor says he is opposed to hitting up taxpayers for so much money. The rumor mill has suggested an ulterior motive: that the mayor is fronting for O’Donnell, who could buy the Sox at a lower price without a new stadium deal. Menino and O’Donnell say this is hogwash and O’Donnell says he has no interest in buying the Sox. Stay tuned.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0
832##E. Stanley##O'Neal###New York#NY##Merrill Lynch and Co.#Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##R##0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
139#Mr. & Mrs.#Joseph#I.#O'Neill#III#2511 Sinclair Avenue#Midland#TX#79705#O'Neill Properties#President##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#A childhood friend of Bush, O’Neill introduced Bush to his wife, Laura. O’Neill manages his family’s oil properties. His late father, Joseph I. O’Neill, Jr., was an independent oil producer and the first president of the once-powerful Permian Basin Petroleum Association.##P+#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
687##C. Patrick##Oles#Jr.##Austin#TX#78703#Barshop & Oles Company Inc#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
118##John##Ong###Akron#OH##B.F. Goodrich#Reitred Chair##1#Ambassador to Norway; Treasury transition team##0###Energy & Natural Resources#B.F. Goodrich left the tire business in ’87; John Ong retired from the surviving aerospace and chemical company in ’97. Ong was a big wheel in big business, heading the powerful Business Roundtable. He and his fellow CEOs of the Roundtable helped slay Clinton’s ‘94 health-care plan, which they attacked as runaway big-government spending. A year later, Ong made an impassioned plea for big-government spending for his industry in the form of increased federal research and development funds.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#0#0#0
688##Robert#R.#Onstead###Houston#TX#77002#Onstead Interests Ltd.#Executive#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
689#Mr.#H.#Monty#Osteen#Jr.##Augusta#GA#30909#Southtrust Bank#Chair, CEO#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
690##Karen##Overbeck##25301 Borough Park, Suite 120#Woodlands#TX#77380#Texans for Lawsuit Reform#Communications Director#$0.00#0###0###Ideological###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
119##Bill##Owens###Denver#CO##State of Colorado#Governor##0###0#$1499000.00#$1712000.00#Other#Prior to his ’98 gubernatorial election, Owens worked for a manufacturer of industrial belts and hoses, did business consulting for Deloitte & Touche and lobbied for an oil trade association. He also was a state treasurer who had been in the state house for 12 years. Owens’ gubernatorial campaign promised lower taxes and a repeal of the state’s personal property tax. He opposed abortion except in extreme cases: rape, incest or endangerment of a mother’s life. His top gubernatorial priorities have been a tax cut, limiting civil lawsuits and legislation to issue report cards for schools.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0
182#Mr. & Mrs.#Patrick#C.#Oxford###Houston#TX##Bracewell & Patterson#Managing Partner##1#Justice transition team##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This corporate lawyers specializes in the energy industry and financing corporate and civic deals. In this latter capacity, Oxford was a cheerleader for a ’96 initiative in which Houston-area voters narrowly voted to build a $265 million new stadium for the Houston Astros and renovate the old Astrodome to try to attract an NFL team to replace the departing Oilers (see Pioneer Bob Corker). Oxford led a team of lawyers who donated $225,000 worth of pro bono aide to help Houston host the ’92 Republican National Convention. He was the Houston-area chair of Bush’s ’98 reelection campaign after Bush appointed him as a University of Texas Regent in ‘97. In this role, Oxford joined the board of the University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO) in ‘99 to fill vacancies created by the departure of two of Bush’s all-time biggest donors: Tom Hicks (see Pioneer brother R. Steven Hicks) and Pioneer Tom Loeffler. A scandal ensued at UTIMCO during their tenure when the media revealed its board had awarded lucrative investment contracts to cronies of Hicks and to top Bush donors such as Pioneers Charles Wyly and Lee Bass.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#1
121##William#J.#Palatucci###Westfield#NJ##William Palatucci & Associates#Owner##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Palatucci is a GOP political consultant who provides legal counsel to the firm Dughi & Hewit. He managed Gov. Tom Kean, Sr.’s re-election in ‘85. He also consults and fundraises for Bush in New Jersey, where he managed both Bush seniors’ presidential campaigns. Palatucci helped host a 2000 fundraiser attended by Bush and Gov. Christine Todd Whitman that netted more than $500,000 for Bush’s campaign coffers.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
6##John#N.#Palmer#Sr.##Jackson#MS##GulfSouth Capital, Inc.#Chair##1#Ambassador to Portugal; Commerce transition team##0###Finance#Palmer headed SkyTel Communications until this wireless company’s recent acquisition by MCI WorldCom. His new venture provides venture capital to finance companies that rely on Internet and wireless-based technologies. Palmer has funded a Harvard economist to study what can be done to create a telecommunication industry hub in Mississippi. He was the Mississippi finance chair of President Bush’s ’92 campaign and has assumed that role again for Bush.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
15##Tony##Parker##818 Connecticut Avenue NW#Washington#DC#20006#Snelling and Snelling#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
691#Mr.#Gerald#L.#Parsky###Los Angeles#CA#90024#Aurora Capital Group#Chairman#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
850##George#E.#Pataki###New York#NY##State of New York#Governor#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Other##R##1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
188#Mr.#James#E.#Paul#Jr.##El Paso#TX##Tejano Sports; El Paso Diablos#President##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Paul has owned several minor-league sports franchises and is a guru of sports marketing: figuring out how to maximize sales of anything and everything at sports events. He is the ex-owner of the El Paso Diablos baseball team and the current owner of the local Buzzards Hockey team. Paul managed to get the City of El Paso to build a new 10,000-seat stadium for the Diablos in the early ‘90s. Living up to his new team’s name, he is now trying to cut a deal to get taxpayers to finance part of the costs of a new stadium for the Buzzards. Paul was the athletic director at New Mexico State University until ’99, when he resigned to raise money for Bush. Paul owns a stable of horses that race at Ruidoso Downs.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
17##Bill##Paxon###Alexandria#VA##Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
7##Stephen#P.#Payne###Houston#TX##Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyist##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Payne is a lobbyist. His ’99 clients were and J.P. Morgan Securities, the City of Houston and Harris County. He is the Houston-area’s honorary U.S. Consul for Latvia.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
142#Mr.#Marshall#B.#Payne###Dallas#TX#75201#Cardinal Investment Co.#Vice President##0###0##$168000.00#Finance#Payne is a partner in Cardinal Investment with Pioneer Edward “Rusty” Rose. This duo owns major stakes in Ace Cash Express (which cashes checks for the working poor for up to 6 percent of face value) and aviation and defense electronics firm Sierra Technologies. Payne and Rose were partners with Bush in the Texas Rangers deal that made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Much of this profit derived from a large equity stake that other partners in the investment gifted to Bush, as well as the $135 million that local taxpayers forked out for the Rangers’ new Ballpark in Arlington.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
692##John##Pease####TX####$0.00#0###0######P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
693#Mr.#Robert#R.#Penn###Dallas#TX#75219#Penn  Resources Inc#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
860##Jerry##Perenchio###Los Angeles#CA##Chartwell Partners LLC#Chair#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
120##Tom##Petway#III##Jacksonville#FL##Zurich Insurance Services#Chair & CEO##0###0###Insurance#After Jeb Bush lost his ’95 gubernatorial race, Petway invited him to join the board of the Ideon Group, a company that spent lavishly on its executives and board and tanked several months later because there was little market for its heavily promoted new products. The weirdest of these was a $250 annual fee that ensures that a credit card holder’s children will be searched for if they get abducted. Jeb also was a small investor in Petway’s quest to bring NFL football to Jacksonville; taxpayers were hit up for $150 million to renovate the Gator Bowl for the Jaguars. In ‘98, Petway and his company contributed $100,000 to the Florida Republican Party, which spent millions of dollars on ads promoting Jeb. Jeb then appointed Petway head of the State Board of Regents, where Petway led the charge to ban affirmative action.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
695#Mr.#John#T.#Pickens###Dallas#TX#75231#Pickens Financial Group##$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
696#Mr.#Mike##Pickens###Dallas#TX#75205#Pickens Energy Corp.##$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
694#Mr.#Bryan##Pickens###Dallas#TX#75231#Pickens Resource Group##$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
697#Mr.#William#C.#Pickens###Dallas#TX#75225#Pickens Company Inc#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
40#Mr.#Robert#H.#Pickens##8111 Preston Rd #800#Dallas#TX#75225#Pickens Companies#CEO##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Pickens does oil and gas exploration and development. Circumstantial evidence suggests Robert H. Pickens is related to T. Boone Pickens, the corporate takeover king of Mesa Oil fame.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
698##James##Pikl###Dallas#TX#75243#True & Sewell LLP#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
699##Lonnie##Pilgrim###Pittsburg#TX#75686#Pilgrim's Pride Corp.#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Agriculture###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
700#Mr.#Sergio##Pino###Miami#FL#33155#Century Partners Group#Founder, Director, President, CEO#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business##P#P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
701##Gary##Polland###Houston#TX#77046#Polland & Cook LLP#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
804##Lisa##Pollard######Self-employed political consultant#Political Consulting#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
702##Judy##Pollock##3883 Turtle Creek Blvd.#Dallas#TX#75219#Pollock and Associates#Consultants#$0.00#0###0######P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
703##David#M.#Porter###Fort Worth#TX#76107#PNL Companies#Real Estate Manager#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
806##Frank##Powell###Houston#TX##Coastal Corporation#Sr. VP of Government Affairs#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
173#Mr. & Mrs.#Donald#E.#Powell###Amarillo#TX##Boatmen's First National Bank of Amarillo#Chair & CEO##1#Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Board Chair##0###Finance#This bank president is a Bush appointee who heads the Texas A&M University regents. Powell blocked a ’96 plan for the technical-oriented school to start a humanities center. “We want to ensure that research dollars aren’t used to persuade or encourage questioning certain events or our perspective of history,” Powell said. Powell supported the regents’ decision to make the George Bush School of Government independent of A&M’s liberal arts program. Some faculty members protested the decision, arguing that removing the school from broader academic oversight might turn it into a retirement home for ex-politicians. Powell has served on the board of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. Its ex-director, Pioneer Teel Bivins, helped cripple state environmental protections against animal fecal pollution, thereby rolling out the brown carpet that turned the Texas Panhandle into a capital of corporate hog farming.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
704##Clinton##Pownall##14205 Hunters Trace Lane#Clermont#FL#34711#Computer Bus Consultants Inc.#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
705##Malcolm#S.#Pray#Jr.##Greenwich#CT#06831#Pray Automobile Corp#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
161#Mr.#Heinz#C.#Prechter###Southgate#MI#48195#Prechter Holdings#Chair##0##$22589.00#0###Transportation#American Sunroof Corp. is the chief asset of Prechter’s holding company, which also has media, development and beef interests. Prechter was a top fundraiser in ’88 for President Bush.  Bush then appointed Prechter chair of the president’s Export Council and took him on a ’92 trade mission to Japan, where Prechter landed a contract to supply sunroofs for all of Honda’s US-made cars. Prechter was driving a Mitsubishi convertible, however, when he got busted for doing 110 mph down a residential Southgate, Michigan street in ‘97. Prechter hosted a hunting get together for Bush and 12 top GOP fundraisers at his 10,000-acre Texas ranch the next year. Bush emerged from this hunt as the GOP moneyed elite’s candidate. Prechter and two other Michigan Pioneers, Suzie Mitchell and Paul Welday, organized “American Dreamers,” an effort to raise money for Bush from minorities who are rarely sighted among the Pioneers. Prechter’s zeal for Bush fundraising is so great that he reportedly made a pitch when he found himself standing next to a potential donor at a urinal.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
47#Mr.#John##Price###Salt Lake City#UT#84115#J P Realty Inc#Chair & CEO##1#Ambassador to Mauritius##0###Real Estate#Price’s firm is one of the region’s largest commercial real estate companies. Yet in ’99 one of Price’s companies attempted to dodge $109,000 in local property taxes on its $6.5 million corporate jet. Company lawyers first said the jet was really housed in Wyoming. When this didn’t fly, they argued that the tax was not applied uniformly. In the midst of this dispute before state Tax Commissioners appointed by Gov. Mike Leavitt, the governor hitched a ride with Price to a GOP event on this very tax-stealth jet. The same year, Price and other fly boys successfully lobbied the legislature to cut the aircraft tax in half. Perhaps this is why Price is so generous to politicians. He and one other financier accounted for 21 percent of the $2.75 million that individuals in Utah gave to federal PACs and candidates in the ’96 election cycle. Price’s share was about twice the amount of his shirked jet tax. “One vote alone doesn’t change much,” he explained. “With money you can influence many people and help to get many votes.” Or you can get money from people who can’t vote. As a Pioneer last year, Price squeezed five $1,000 Bush checks out of his grandchildren—the youngest of whom were three-year-old twins (the campaign has since said it will return money from donors under 13). When Bush rails against “junk lawsuits,” think of Price. He lured a JC Penny store away from a mall in Orem to his new mall in nearby Provo. When Orem’s City Council offered to help its local mall with a corporate welfare package, Price sued the city for unfair competition (even though his Provo mall also was on the dole). Several small businesses that thought they were signing a petition against corporate welfare were surprised to find themselves listed as plaintiffs in Price’s lawsuit. They quickly withdrew from the suit and a judge threw out the charges in ’98.##P+#0#0#1#1#0#0#0#0#0
180#Mr.#Chesley##Pruet##P.O. Box 31#El Dorado#AR#71731#Pruet Drilling Co.#President##1#National Museum Services Board (spouse)##0###Energy & Natural Resources#This oil millionaire is a close friend of President Bush and a major GOP donor, who has chaired Arkansas fundraising for Ford, Reagan, President Bush and Bush. The Reagan and Bush administrations appointed him to the National Petroleum Council and the John F. Kennedy Center Advisory Committee. Pruet toured Latin America as a trade advisor to President Bush, who also dispatched him to the former Soviet Union to advise him on the oil industry there. He is a past director of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and First National Bank of El Dorado. The $57,000 that Pruet gave federal PACs and candidates in the ’98 election cycle ranked him among the country’s top 400 political donors that year. “I give for better government, less government,” he said.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
149#Mr. & Mrs.#John#S.#Rainey###Columbia#SC#29202#Easlan Capital, Inc.#Chair##0###0###Real Estate#Rainey is a tax attorney who heads a real estate development company. He also has served as the chair of the state-run electric utility—even after the governor fired him in late ‘99. Rainey, who was appointed to the South Carolina Public Service Authority by Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges’ GOP predecessor, argued that the new governor lacked authority to oust him before the end of his term. The dispute went to the state Supreme Court, which ruled in July 2000 that Rainey must go.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
706##Frank##Rapoport##536 West Wayne Ave.#Wayne#PA#19087#Pepper Hamilton LLP#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
707##John Robert "Bobby"##Ray###Houston#TX#77079#Goodman Family of Builders#President#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
13##Ralph##Reed###Atlanta#GA##Century Strategies#President#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists##P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
708##Michael##Reilly###Arlington#TX#76011#Reilly Brothers Property Co#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
861##Thomas#A.#Renyi###Wyckoff#NJ##The Bank of New York#Chair, CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
852##Harold##Reynolds###Greensboro#GA##Linger Longer Development#Real Estate Developer#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Real Estate##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
122##James#M.#Reynolds#III#2561 Lake Oconee Pkwy#Greensboro#GA#30642#American Real Estate#Owner##0###1###Real Estate#Reynolds is a developer of the Reynolds Plantation Golf Resort that covers 7,000 acres of woodlands overlooking Lake Oconee. The resort, which is owned by Bush Pioneer Mercer Reynolds, is clearing additional lakeside land to build million-dollar homes and a Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The Plantation boasts of having raised $700,000 for Bush at a single ’99 fundraiser. Gov. Zell Miller appointed James Reynolds in ‘97 to the state Department of Natural Resources Board. Environmental groups said Zell’s appointments to this board lacked a demonstrated commitment to environmental protection. They cited the fact that just one of his five nominees had a background in environmental protection, while two of them were developers. “You cannot have a board administering the cleanup of Georgia’s waters and polluters when they are in the industries that are being regulated,” said Conservation Society President Terry Hughey.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
27#Mr.#Mercer##Reynolds#III#300 Main St#Cincinnati#OH#45202#Reynolds DeWitt & Co.#Chair##1#Ambassador to Switzerland#$55668.00#0###Finance#DeWitt and Pioneer Mercer Reynolds III owned Spectrum 7, the oil company that bailed out Bush’s hemorrhaging Bush Oil Co. in ’84. Both of these partners—who also own fast-food and convenience store interests—were big Bush senior donors and major investors in the Texas Rangers baseball team, which made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Much of this profit derived from a large equity stake that other partners in the investment gifted to Bush as well as the $135 million that local taxpayers forked out for the Rangers’ new Ballpark in Arlington. Reynolds also owns Reynolds Plantation Golf Resort, which covers 7,000 acres of woodlands overlooking Lake Oconee on Reynolds’ grandfathers’ old wood pulp plantation. The resort, which was developed with Bush Pioneer James Reynolds, is clearing additional lakeside land to build million-dollar homes and a Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The Plantation boasts of having raised $700,000 for Bush at a single ’99 fundraiser.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
851##Thomas#M.#Reynolds###Washington#DC##US Government#US Representative#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Other##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
193##Tom##Ridge###Harrisburg#PA##U.S. Department of Homeland Security#Secretary##1#Department of Homeland Security Secretary; American Battlefield Monuments Commission##0###Other#Gov. Ridge served 12 years in Congress. Prior to the 2000 GOP National Convention, Ridge stirred controversy as a possible Bush vice presidential candidate because he is a Catholic who supports limited abortion rights (he opposes late-term abortions and supports such restrictions as parental-consent laws). Gov. Ridge approved $320 million in taxpayer money to build four sports stadiums in ’99—after taking $180,000 in contributions from owners of the beneficiary teams. Ridge’s top environmental appointee, James Seif, is a Bush campaign advisor who attended a 2000 meeting in which executives of polluting industries huddled with state officials of states such as Texas that face sanctions for flunking federal air standards. Participants explored how federal air standards might be relaxed if Bush becomes president (see Pioneer Thomas Kuhn).##P+#1#0#0#1#0#0#0#1#0
709##Thomas##Riley###Bedford#NH#03110#Riley Enterprises#Real Estate#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
710##Brett##Ringle###Dallas#TX#75205#Hunt Petroleum#Vice President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
134#Mr. & Mrs.#A.#W.#Riter#Jr.#403 Bluebonnet#Tyler#TX#75701#Pinstripe Investments#Managing Partner##0###0###Finance#Riter heads an investment company and invested in the gubernatorial campaigns of Bush, who appointed him to the University of Texas Board of Regents. In that capacity, he was named to the board of the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), which manages the university’s endowment. A scandal ensued at UTIMCO when the media revealed its board had awarded lucrative investment contracts to cronies of its former chair, Tom Hicks, and to top Bush donors such as Pioneers Charles Wyly and Lee Bass. Riter is an ex-chair of NCNB bank in Tyler.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
711##Forrest##Roan###Austin#TX#78767#Cantey Hanger Roan & Autrey LLP#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
712##Thomas#A.#Roberts###Rye#NY#10580#Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0#$80000.00#$80000.00#Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
713##Corbin#J.#Robertson#Jr.##Houston#TX#77019#Qintana Minerals Corp#President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
714##Marcos##Rodriguez##7700 Carpenter Freeway#Dallas#TX#75247#Metroplex Broadcasting Ltd.#Owner#$0.00#1#National Council On Disability##0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
152#Hon.#Sig##Rogich###Las Vegas#NV##Rogich Communications Group#President##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Rogich is a political and PR consultant who advised ex-President Reagan and President Bush. Rogich devised the Bush ads that prominently featured a ridiculous Michael Dukakis cruising in a tank. President Bush appointed Rogich as his ambassador to Iceland, but recalled him in a failed effort to save his ’92 reelection campaign. Ex-heavyweight champ Mike Tyson also hired this former state boxing commissioner to burnish his image after biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in a match. Rogich himself needed a little image polish in April 2000 after the Las Vegas City Council ignored the advice of its own lawyer and voted to approve a controversial liquor permit for a property Rogich owned. With the liquor license, Rogich’s property was worth $3.5 million because it could be used as a topless bar; without the license it was worth perhaps $2 million. Rogich is a consultant to several of the council members who tossed the topless-bar premium his way. Critics said his political influence induced the council to override zoning restrictions that prohibit bars from being within 1,500 feet of a school or another bar.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
194##Raul##Romero###Houston#TX##S&B Infrastructure#CEO##1#Transportation transition team##0##$5049000.00#Construction#Romero is an executive at an engineering and construction firm that is a major recipient of government contracts. Bush first appointed him to the General Services Commission, which oversees state contracting. Subsequently, he appointed Romero as a University of Texas Regent. The Bush campaign has tapped Romero to round up Hispanic CEOs to contribute to the campaign.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
195##John##Rood###Jacksonville#FL##Vestcor#Chair & CEO##0###0#$599000.00#$12680000.00#Real Estate#Rood started Vestcor as a multifamily housing brokerage. It has expanded into broader real estate development, construction and management services. Like fellow Bush Pioneer Marty Fiorentino, Rood sits on the board of the James Madison Institute, a think tank that promotes school vouchers, welfare reform, free enterprise and low taxes. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future merged with the Madison Institute in ‘99. Jeb Bush appointed Rood to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
715##Tim##Rooney###Dallas#TX#75205#Manhattan Construction Co#President & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
196##Evans##Rose#Jr.##Pittsburgh#PA##Cohen & Grigsby#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This attorney specializes in corporate, estate and municipal-finance law. He sits on the boards of several Pennsylvania corporations and is a University of Pittsburgh trustee.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
42#Mr.#Edward#W.#Rose#III##5 Willow Road#Dallas#TX#75205#Cardinal Investment Co.#President##0###0##$168000.00#Finance#Rose is the founder and president of Cardinal Investments, which he now operates with his Pioneer partner Marshall Payne. The company has major stakes in Ace Cash Express (which cashes checks for the working poor for up to 6 percent of face value) and aviation and defense electronics firm Sierra Technologies. Rose was Cardinal’s sole owner in ’86, when he participated in a sneaky deal with one of Bush’s biggest donors. Richard Rainwater, an ex-investment advisor to the oil-rich family of Pioneer Lee Bass, arranged to borrow $300 million at high interest rates to buy Darling-Delaware Co. and other animal-fat rendering companies. Darling-Delaware had been a profitable, tax-paying company. After the takeover it was swamped with huge debt payments. Meanwhile, its new owners rewarded themselves with $180 million in “special dividends.” Suddenly, the company was operating at a loss. It stopped paying taxes and even collected a multi-million-dollar refund from the U.S. Treasury. Taxpayers got bilked while Rainwater, Rose and their cronies divvied up the $180 million in “special-dividend” fat. In a subsequent deal, Rainwater and Rose joined other investors and Bush in buying the Texas Rangers. Rose was a general partner with Bush at the Rangers, which made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Much of this profit derived from a large equity stake that other partners in the investment gifted to Bush, as well as the $135 million that local taxpayers forked out for the Rangers’ new Ballpark in Arlington.##P+#0#1#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
716##Billy##Rosenthal###Fort Worth#TX#76109#Penrose Group LLC#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
717##Laura##Rowe###Houston#TX#77027#Hicks Thomas & Lilienstern, LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
718##Robert##Rowling###Irving#TX#75062#TRT Holdings Inc#Owner#$0.00#0###0#$125000.00#$313000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
719##James#R.#Royer###Houston#TX#77005#Turner Collie & Braden#President, CEO#$0.00#0###0##$833000.00#Construction###P-#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
197##Larry##Ruvo###Las Vegas#NV##Southern Wines & Spirits#Owner##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Las Vegas liquor wholesaler Ruvo spreads his political contributions across the spectrum, from Teddy Kennedy and Bob Kerrey to John McCain and Bush. Back home in Nevada, a meeting of the Nevada Senate Legislative Affairs Committee was cancelled in ’99 for lack of a quorum. It seems there was a scheduling conflict—with the gala opening of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Casino. Casino lobbyist Harvey Whittemore arranged for two wealthy political donors to send corporate jets to taxi seven legislators to the event: one jet for Democrats and another for Republicans—furnished by Ruvo. This jet-set mini scandal sparked an ethics debate over whether or not the expenses of this excursion were reportable. Critics said lobbyists were using intermediaries like Ruvo to avoid having to report lobby expenses. Ruvo was a partner with Whittemore in a golf course development at Lake Tahoe. A month after Ruvo gave the legislators an airplane lift, the Senate Judiciary Committee—whose chair rode on Ruvo’s plane—moved a bill to help Whittemore build a controversial private pier at Tahoe.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
720##Terrence#J.#Ryan###Fort Worth#TX#76116#KMK Consulting Co.#Senior Consultant#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#1#1#0#1#1#0#0
198##John#"Chip"#Saltsman#Jr.##Nashville#TN##Tennessee Republican Party#Chair##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#As GOP state chair, Saltsman is leading the media and political war against Vice President Gore in his home state. Saltsman is a former head of the Tennessee Republican Caucus who also was Gov. Don Sundquist’s administrative assistant. Saltsman has raised more than $1 million for a host of GOP candidates, including Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft and the late Georgia Sen. Paul Coverdell.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
721##Alann#Bedford#Sampson##4809 Lafayette#Fort Worth#TX#76107#Van Cliburn Foundation#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
58#Mr. & Mrs.#A.#R. "Tony"#Sanchez#Jr.##Laredo#TX##Sanchez-O'Brien Oil & Gas#CEO##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Sanchez owns an oil and gas company, is the top shareholder in the International Bank of Commerce and owned a failed S&L. His empire has given $320,150 to Bush’s campaigns, making Sanchez his No. 2 career patron. Bush appointed Sanchez to the UT Regents, where he got a seat on UT Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO). This board awarded lucrative contracts to manage parts of UT’s $13 billion endowment to firms with close ties to Bush and UTIMCO’s first chair, Tom Hicks (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks). As a Regent, Sanchez is best known for his ethnic and architectural stands. Sanchez called for the suspension in ’97 of a UT Law School professor who said minority students cannot compete because they come from cultures of failure. When Regent Chair Don Evans (Bush’s campaign chair) recently included few Hispanics on a board to pick a new South Texas medical school president, Sanchez wrote him that, “I have always used words like bigotry and racism sparingly, but they seem regretfully appropriate now.” A campus architectural committee selected a noted European firm to design a new art museum in ’99. But Regents led by Rita Clements and Sanchez, who deigned the building to be too modern, vetoed its design. The Regents then formally assumed control of all UT building decisions, suggesting that aesthetic matters of taste are best left to big-donor, political appointees. Sanchez’s own aesthetics are well established. After he completed a stint on the Texas Parks and Wildlife commission, that agency granted him a controversial ’93 permit to drill gas wells in Falcon State Park. Of this windfall Sanchez said, “There would be no greater joy than to see a beautiful park that our children and adults can go to and learn about the oil and gas industry.” Sanchez is reportedly mulling a possible 2002 gubernatorial race—under the flailing banner of the Texas Democratic Party.##P+#0#0#1#1#0#0#1#0#0
722#Mr.#David#I.#Saperstein##325 N. Carolwood#Los Angeles#CA#90077#Metro Networks#Founder#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
124#Mr.#Dwight#C.#Schar###Mc Lean#VA##NVR Homes#CEO##0###0###Construction#Schar heads the DC area’s largest homebuilding company. He is a self-described “hard-core” Republican, who is Bush’s Virginia finance co-chair. Schar is a member of a powerful regional business group, the Northern Virginia Roundtable.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
199##William#R.#Scherer#Jr.##Fort Lauderdale#FL##Conrad & Scherer#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Scherer is a partner at Conrad & Scherer which specializes in commercial litigation and medical malpractice defense. Scherer, a member of the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, represents hospitals in the South Florida area. Scherer also has been involved in Florida development projects. He was a partner with magnate H. Wayne Huizenga in downtown Fort Lauderdale’s controversial $32 million New River Village apartment project in the early ‘90s. Project neighbors lost a suit that they brought to try to stop the development from being built on parkland along the New River. The developer arranged to lease the parkland from Broward County but repeatedly failed to pay their rent.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
825##Joel#A.#Schleicher###Watchung#NJ##Interpath#Chair, CEO#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
723##John#P.#Schmitz###McLean#VA#22101#Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
53#Ambassador#Rockwell#A.#Schnabel###Los Angeles#CA#90049#Trident Capital#Managing Director##1#US Representative to European Union##0###Finance#Schnabel is an investment banker who co-founded Trident Capital in ‘93. It invests in information and business-service companies. Schnabel did a stint in President Bush’s administration as the Acting Commerce Secretary. In this role, Schnabel attacked a bill that sought tough export controls on U.S. technology that could be used in foreign nuclear weapons programs. Schnabel said it interfered with the powers of the executive branch. Earlier, he was Reagan’s Ambassador to Finland.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
724##Larry##Schoenbrun###Dallas#TX#75240#Gardere & Wynne LLP#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
807##William#G.#Schubert###Cypress#TX##U.S. Department of Transportation#Maritime Administrator#$0.00#1#Dept. of Transportation, Maritime Administrator##0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
853##Stephen#A.#Schwarzman###New York City#NY##Blackstone Group#President and CEO#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Finance##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
200##Peter##Secchia###Grand Rapids#MI##Universal Forest Products#Chair##0###0###Agriculture#Secchia helped build up the Michigan GOP and was a major backer of President Bush. That administration, sharply criticized for doling out ambassadorships to top contributors, appointed Secchia as ambassador to Italy.  The choice was controversial because of Secchia’s crude behavior–including reports of mooning one woman at a GOP convention and calling another a “bitch.”#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
132#Mr. & Mrs.#Nicholas#T.#Serafy#Jr.#205 W. Levee St.#Brownsville#TX#78520#Proficiency Testing Services#President & CEO##0###0###Health#Serafy heads Proficiency Testing Services and is the managing partner of Seracon Diagnostics. Both companies are biological testing labs. Bush appointed Serafy in 2000 to the Texas Youth Commission, which oversees programs and corrections facilities for delinquent youths.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
725##Dan##Shelley###Austin#TX#78739#Self-employed lobbyist#Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
52#Mr.#Allan#"Bud"#Shivers#Jr.##Austin#TX##Texans for Quality Health Care#President##0###0###Health#The son of a former Texas governor, Shivers heads an HMO trade group that opposed a ’97 Texas law that makes HMOs liable for harm that patients suffer when an HMO denies doctor-prescribed care. This law took effect after Bush failed to veto it (which would have angered doctors and patients) or sign it (which would have angered a powerful industry). Shivers is also a spokesperson for Texas’ leading tort reform group, Texans for Lawsuit Reform. Through its PAC and board members, the group contributed $3.6 million to Bush’s gubernatorial campaigns. He rewarded them by declaring a raft of “tort-reform” bills—which he eventually signed into law—as a legislative “emergency.” These laws severely limit the liability of Texas businesses and professionals. Bush appointed Shivers as chair of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
130#Mr. & Mrs.#Ned#L.#Siegel###Boca Raton#FL##Siegel Group#President##1#Overseas Private Investment Corp. Board##0###Real Estate#Whether this commercial developer does a deal under the name NLS Communities, SGS Communities or Blue Lake, Inc., chances are it will require some kind of special treatment. A controversial Delray Beach high-rise he pushed in ’99 exceeded local height rules and had three times the usually permitted density of units per acre. Critics of his 240-home Boca Raton development proposal said it would overwhelm already overcrowded schools. Siegel then gave $50,000 to the local school, whose principal said the money was to be kept quiet to avoid any appearance that Siegel was trying to buy support. Somehow, news of the gift leaked just before a hearing on Siegel’s rezoning request—which he lost by a single vote. Recently, Siegel and fellow owners of Boca Raton’s Blue Lake Corporate Center sought a special exemption to dodge millions of dollars in road impact fees that planners required as a precondition of their development of their property. After the city council rejected their exemption by a one-vote margin, Siegel’s group filed two lawsuits in an attempt to override the council’s vote (see Pioneer Mark Guzzetta).#R#P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
8##Martin#J.#Silverstein###Philadelphia#PA##Martin J. Silverstein & Associates#Attorney##1#Ambassador to Uruguay##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Silverstein founded this law firm, which also has an office in Vorhees, New Jersey. Silverstein is active in the Republican Jewish Coalition, where Pioneers Sam Fox and Sheldon Kamins are respectively the honorary chair and vice chair.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
201##James#P.#Simmons###Paradise Valley#AZ##James P. Simmons & Associates#President##0###0###Finance#Simmons’ firm advises financial service companies—and he has some experience to draw upon. President Bush was on the board of a Midland, Texas bank that Simmons headed in the ‘50s. Later, Simmons ran the United Bank of Arizona for 25 years. Simmons sold United Bank for $334 million in ‘87 to London-based Standard Charter. Shortly thereafter, several of United’s biggest borrowers defaulted, causing huge losses. Standard then sued United’s accounting firm, Price Waterhouse, for signing off on financial books that hid so many bad loans. Standard won a $341 million from a jury, but state judges overturned that verdict. Simmons headed the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, the business booster group that incubated the career of Pioneer Joyce Haver.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
726##L.E.##Simmons###Houston#TX#77002#SCF Partners#President#$0.00#0###0#$1758000.00#$3124000.00#Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
727##Robert E.W. & Mary Louise##Sinclair###Dallas#TX#75205#Castleton Management, Inc.#Retired Partner#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
728##Daniel#J.#Sitomer###Los Angeles#CA#90210#Direct Line Partners#Partner#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
729#Ms.#Windy##Sitton###Lubbock#TX#79410#Sitton's Selections#Owner#$0.00#1#Canadian River Compact Commission##0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
202##Gregory##Slayton###Palo Alto#CA##ClickAction#CEO & President##1#Commerce transition team##0###Electronics#Slayton’s ClickAction, formerly MySoftware, is an Internet-based marketing giant. Featured in Po Bronson’s “The Nudist on the Night Shift,” Slayton is described as “a Silicon Valley leader that takes gung-ho to a whole new level.” Slayton is the gung-ho chair of Silicon Valley Bush-2000, a group of high-tech execs that contributes bytes, bits and bucks to Bush’s campaign.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
730##Thomas#W.#Smith###Greenwich#CT#06830#Prescott Investors, Inc.#President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
203##Clifford##Sobel###Hackensack#NJ##Net2Phone#President##1#Ambassador to Netherlands##0###Communications#Before his latest venture, which integrates Internet and long-distance phone services, Sobel founded a company that designed and sold retail display racks. Sobel has been a leading fundraiser for New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and former U.S. Rep. Jim Courter, who is president of IDT. Sobel also chairs the board of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a think tank that promotes laissez-faire policies. In ’90, Sobel headed the national fundraising efforts of Republicans for [reproductive] Choice.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
731##William#T.#Solomon###Dallas#TX#75221#Austin Industries Inc#chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Construction###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
732##Lionel & Kathy##Sosa###San Antonio#TX#78204#Sosa & Associates#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
160#Mr.#Alex#G.#Spanos###Stockton#CA#95207#A. G. Spanos Companies#Chair##0##$19064.36#0###Real Estate#Spanos’ company develops and manages apartments and other real estate. He also owns the NFL’s San Diego Chargers. Three years ago, taxpayers agreed to spend $78 million to renovate the Chargers’ Qualcomm Stadium in return for a pledge that the Chargers would stay in San Diego until 2020. The city also has agreed to buy any leftover tickets that the Chargers do not sell at games. While this all seems like a sweetheart deal, Spanos now says the Chargers need a new stadium. If there is something wrong with the current one, this comes as news to the NFL, which is holding the Super Bowl there in 2003. “Given the current climate,” the team recently announced, “the Chargers do not expect the public to pay” for any new stadium.#P#P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
733##Rick##Sperry###Haverford#PA#19041#R.S. Sperry & Associates#President#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
165#Mr.#Ronald#P.#Spogli###Los Angeles#CA#90025#Freeman Spogli & Co#Owner##0###0###Finance#Spogli attended Harvard Business School with Bush. He later formed an investment banking firm in the ‘80s with Pioneer Brad Freeman and current Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan in the ‘80s. Riordan split up with the other two partners in ’88, when they decided to specialize in big leveraged buyouts worth more than $100 million. Freeman Spogli recently announced plans to expand into venture capital deals.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
823##John#R.#Stafford###Essex Falls#NJ##Wyeth#Ex-Chair#$0.00#0###0###Health###P+#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
204##Manuel#N.#Stamatakis###Wayne#PA##Capital Management Enterprises#CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Stamatakis founded his own management consultant firm. Gov. Tom Ridge appointed him to head up a committee charged with finding ways to streamline government. Stamatakis is also chair of the Delaware River Port Authority, which is leading a $430 million project to renovate Philadelphia’s old navy shipyards.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
144#Mr.#Craig & Dorothy##Stapleton###Greenwich#CT##Marsh & McLennan#President##1#Ambassador to Czech Republic##0#$666000.00#$2488000.00#Finance#Stapleton is married to Bush’s cousin Dorothy. He is head of Marsh & McLennan’s real estate practice. The company owns Putnam Investments & Marsh Mercer Consulting Group. Stapleton worked in President Bush’s White House and was an investor with Bush in the Texas Rangers ball team, which made Bush a millionaire 15 times over. Bush’s profits got a boost from the other partners, who gifted him extra equity in the deal, and by local taxpayers, who paid $135 million for the team’s new stadium. Stapleton organized a ‘98 Bush fundraiser that netted $250,000.##P+#1#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
43#Mr.#Roger#T.#Staubach##6750 LBJ Freeway, Ste. 1100#Dallas#TX#75240#Staubach Co.#Chair##0###0###Real Estate#This ex-Dallas Cowboys quarterback, now heads a real estate development firm. In building a 1,060-unit residential development project in Dallas, the company fumbled its ’99 attempt to receive $7.6 million in city subsidies. The company abandoned this quarterback sneak amid charges that it was poised to receive special treatment that non-celebrities had never received. The city had never before provided such subsidies for a residential project.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
735##Russell#D.#Steagall###Fort Worth#TX#76136#Self-employed musician#Musician#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
854##Shawn & Michelle##Steel###Beverly Hills#CA##Shawn Steel and Associates#Attorney#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Lawyers & Lobbyists##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
855##John#T.#Steen#Jr.##San Antonio#TX##Self-employed attorney#Attorney#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Lawyers & Lobbyists##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
205##Glenn##Steil###Grand Rapids#MI##Compacito, Inc.#CEO##0###0###Miscellaneous Business#Steil spearheaded efforts to pass a ’92 state constitutional amendment that limits the terms of elected officials—including eight-year limits for senators. With the wisdom he acquired by serving six years in the Senate, Sen. Steil now says 12-year senatorial term limits would better serve the public interest.##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#1#0
736#Ms.#Sandra##Stein###Los Angeles#CA#90067#Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Leach#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
737#Mr.#Thomas#G.#Stemberg##Five Louisburg Square#Boston#MA#02108#Staples, Inc.#CEO, Chairman, Founder#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
738##Steven##Stodghill###University Park#TX#75205#Lynn Stodghill#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
739##Gerald#Harris#Stool###Dallas#TX#75220#Greenway Investment Co.#President#$0.00#0###0###Real Estate###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
740##Theodore#H.#Strauss###Dallas#TX#75219#Bear Stearns & Co.#Sr. Managing Director#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
9##Charles#J.#Swindells###Portland#OR##US Trust Co.#Executive##1#Ambassador to New Zealand##0###Finance#Swindells works for the Pacific Northwest branch of this company, which bills itself as the nation’s first trust company. U.S. Trust does private banking, investment, taxes, and estate work for affluent families.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
741##Jeff#L.#Swope###Dallas#TX#75225#Champion Partners, Ltd.#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
833##Eric##Tanenblatt###Atlanta#GA##Long Aldridge & Norman#Attorney#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Lawyers & Lobbyists##R##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
742##Jack##Taylor###St. Louis#MO#63124#Enterprise Rent-A-Car#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
128#Mr. & Mrs.#Peter##Terpeluk#Jr.##Chevy Chase#MD##American Continental Group#Managing Director##1#Ambassador to Luxembourg##0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Terpeluk worked in the Small Business Administration for the Reagan administration. He ran his own lobby firm, Terpeluk & Associates, before joining Pioneer David Metzner at American Continental in ’94. American’s client list includes gambling, medical, hi-tech and other special interests, including India’s government. Terpeluk was President Bush’s campaign finance chair in ’92. He and Pioneer Wayne Berman are finance co-chairs of the Republican Governors Association. Berman made $500,000 off his close ties ex-Connecticut Treasurer Paul Silvester, who was convicted in ‘99 for taking kickbacks for investing state pension funds with private investment managers. Terpeluk was a big donor to Silvester’s campaign.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
743#Hon.#Mac##Thornberry###Amarillo#TX##US Government#Representative#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
744##Lee##Thurburn###Fort Worth#TX#76109#Flashnet#Chair & CEO#$0.00#0###0###Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
745##Bart##Tiernan###Syosset#NY##Self-employed attorney#Attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
746##Rice#M.#Tilley#Jr.##Fort Worth#TX#76102#Law Snakard & Gambill PC#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
856##William "W.R."#Robert#Timken#Jr.##Canton#OH##The Timken Company#Chair, CEO#$0.00#1#Securities Investor Protection Corp. Chair#$0.00#0#$0.00##Construction##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
747#Mr.#Joe##Ting###Houston#TX#77013#Metro Bank#Vice Chair#$0.00#1#President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders##0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
748##Arnel##Trovada###Dallas#TX##Trovada Public Relations#founder & pres#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
14##Sol##Trujillo###Denver#CO##Graviton#CEO#$0.00#1#Commerce transition team##0###Electronics###P+#0#1#0#1#0#0#0#0#0
857#Dr.#John#B.#Tsu###Millbrae#CA##JFK University#Professor#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Other##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
858##Bob##Tuttle###Beverly Hills#CA##Tuttle-Click Auto Group#Owner, Auto Dealer#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Transportation##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
749#Mr.#Dirk#W.#Van Dongen###Washington#DC#20008#National Assn. of  Wholesale Dist.#President; Lobbyist#$0.00#1#Commerce transition team##0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
750##Robert#C.#Vaughn###Dallas#TX#75205#Vaughn Petroleum, Inc.#CEO#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
136#Mr.#Jack#C.#Vaughn#Jr.#3617 Normandy Avenue#Dallas#TX#75205#Vaughn Petroleum, Inc.#Vice President##0###0###Energy & Natural Resources#Vaughn petroleum develops oil fields in Texas and Alaska. Bush appointed Jack Vaughn, Jr. to the board of the Trinity River Authority.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
10##Rene##Vazquez Botet###San Juan#PR##Self-employed physician#Physician##0###0###Health#This doctor is a delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention for the Republican Party of Puerto Rico. This party is still dominated by Honorary President Luis A. Ferre, a 96-year-old wealthy industrialist and ex governor who leads the island’s statehood drive.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
751##John##Vernon####TX#75024###$0.00#0###0##$119000.00####P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
752##Ed and Ann##Vetter###Dallas#TX#75229#Edward O Vetter & Assoc.#Retired owner#$0.00#0###0###Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
753##Kris Anne##Vogelpohl###Galveston#TX#77551#Self-employed physician#Physician#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
754##Jeffrey#W.#Vogt###Farmington#CT#06032#Environmental Systems#Executive#$0.00#0###0#$9301000.00#$70537000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
809##Michael#J.#Vollman###Austin#TX##Vignette Corp.#EVP worldwide operations#$0.00#0###0##$1082000.00#Electronics###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
755##Paul##Wageman###Dallas#TX#75270#Winstead Sechrest & Minick#attorney#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
207##Thomas#E.#Wagner###Cleveland#OH##Calfee Halter & Griswold#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#This attorney presented the state of Ohio with its biggest legal bill in ’98. The state attorney general hired Wagner to provide legal assistance to the Ohio Department of Insurance in its ’97 takeover of the state’s largest medical malpractice insurance company. For his work, Thomas submitted a bill for $1.6 million, which accounted for 8 percent of all the money Ohio paid for outside counsel that year.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
206##Raymond##Wagner###St. Louis#MO##Enterprise Rent-A-Car#VP Legislative Affairs##1#IRS Oversight Board; Labor transition team##0###Transportation#Wagner lobbied Congress in ’99 for a special-interest bill that would protect car rental companies from certain kinds of lawsuits. Wagner is the son of Loretta Wagner, one of Missouri’s staunchest anti-abortion activists and a delegate to the last three GOP presidential conventions. Wagner’s wife, Ann, is the state GOP chair. She was a top aide in Sen. John Ashcroft’s gubernatorial administration from ‘85-‘93.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#0#0#0
756##Sue##Walden###Houston#TX#77069#Walden & Associates#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
757##Kent##Waldrep###Plano#TX#75093#Kent Waldrep National Paralysis Foundation#Director#$0.00#0###0###Other###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
758##Bill##Walker###Metairie#LA#70005#Howard Weil#President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
759#Ms.#Elsie##Walker###Chevy Chase#MD#20815#Mountain Institute#Consultant#$0.00#0###0###Ideological###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
187#Mr. & Mrs.#Roger#Windham#Wallace###San Antonio#TX##Public Strategies, Inc.#Senior Vice President##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Wallace is an executive at one of Texas’ top corporate lobby and public relations firms that employs numerous former government officials. Wallace headed the International Trade Administration as a deputy undersecretary to Bush administration Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher.  Wallace was a leading proponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mosbacher made a last-minute cancellation of an appearance before the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention in ’91 and got Wallace to take the bullet for him. Members were angry at Mosbacher for refusing to adjust the ’90 census, which failed to count millions of minorities. Some members of La Raza booed Wallace and others walked out on his address. Wallace is a long-time GOP fundraiser, who headed President Bush’s Houston-area presidential campaign in ‘80. When Reagan won the GOP nomination that year, Wallace joined his national campaign. In the private sector he was an assistant to oil tycoon Roy M. Huffington and headed Mosbacher’s venture capital firm, Mosbacher de Mexico. He also started his own oil investment firm, Tobin-Windham Interests.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#1#1#0#0
760##Tony##Walters####PA####$0.00#0###0######P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
761#Mrs.#Heather#Hill#Washburne##4675 Christopher Place#Dallas#TX#75204#Charter Holdings#President's spouse#$0.00#0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
859##Ray##Washburne###Dallas#TX##Charter Holdings#President#$0.00#0##$0.00#0#$0.00##Real Estate##P##0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
762##Chuck##Watson###Houston#TX#77240#Eagle Energy Partners#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
763##Bill##Webb###Austin#TX##Texas Motor Transportation Assn.#President; Lobbyist#$0.00#0###0###Transportation###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
208##Frederick#L.#Webber###Arlington#VA##Chemical Manufacturers Association#CEO & President##1#Labor transition team##0###Energy & Natural Resources#Fred Webber is the Eveready Bunny of special-interest lobbying, hopping from one tarnished trade group to another. After a decade as a paper industry PR flak, Webber became an executive at the Edison Electric Institute (see Pioneer Tom Kuhn) in time for Three Mile Island. Months after the $1-billion disaster in ’79, Edison dispatched Webber to convince senators that a bill to shut down nukes without adequate emergency-response plans would be “a major step backward.” After a stint as head of the National Soft Drink Association, Webber answered the ’88 call of the pariah S&L industry to find somebody—anybody!—to take over the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. The Clinton administration offended Webber in his current role as the No. 1 chemical lobbyist when it issued executive orders in ’93 directing federal agencies to reduce purchases of products containing harmful chemicals. Webber blasted the executive order as an “end-run around Congress,” though his group aired no such complaint when President Bush’s Council on Competitiveness used such orders to gut environmental rules. Webber once did Labor and Treasury Department stints in the Nixon and Ford Administrations.##P+#0#0#0#1#1#1#0#0#0
764##Jerry##Weintraub###Beverly Hills#CA#90212#Warner Brothers#Producer#$0.00#0###0###Communications###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
209##Ronald##Weiser###Ann Arbor#MI##McKinley  Associates#CEO##1#Ambassador to Slovak Republic##0##$30000.00#Real Estate#This real estate investor is Bush’s Michigan finance chair. Weiser raised Pioneer money from the business community by telling would be-donors that Bush would be the first businessman in decades to win the presidency. But it was not always business money that Weiser expended to get out this message. In ’99, Weiser and Michigan House Speaker Chuck Perricone got caught using state resources to raise Weiser’s Pioneer money for Bush. Perricone marshaled his staff and other office resources to coax Republican colleagues to attend a Bush fundraising meeting with Weiser at a lobby firm. “Clearly it’s a violation of the law,” said the state’s Common Cause director. “A mistake was made,” Perricone admitted. “I regret it. It’s embarrassing.”##P+#0#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0
145#Hon.#William#F.#Weld###Cambridge#MA##McDermott Will & Emery#Attorney##0###0###Lawyers & Lobbyists#Weld stepped down as governor of Massachusetts in an apparent miscalculation of the prospects of the Senate confirming him as President Clinton’s ambassador to Mexico. After this fiasco, Weld signed on with an international law firm, where Weld reportedly focuses on litigation and financial issues. Like Bush Pioneer James Connolly, Weld’s firm has lobbied for a piece of the “Big-Dig” Massachusetts Turnpike boondoggle that is more than $2 billion over budget. Robert Cordy, who was legal counsel in the administrations of Weld and current Gov. Paul Cellucci, also now works at Weld’s firm. Cordy and Weld reportedly helped Keane, Inc. win a Big-Dig-related contract to develop valuable land that the turnpike no longer needs.##P+#0#0#0#1#0#1#1#0#1
210##Paul##Welday###Farmington Hills#MI##Rep. Joseph Knollenberg#Chief of Staff##0###0###Other#Welday’s boss, Rep. Joe Knollenberg, has led the congressional charge to force the Environmental Protection Agency to scale back its ‘98 policy initiatives to protect minority communities from absorbing a disproportional share of toxic pollution—so-called “environmental racism.” Welday has also crusaded to repeal federal “low-flow” toilet standards that are designed to save water. “It’s a grassroots movement,” Welday says. “People are saying, ‘Get the government out of my bathroom.’” Along with fellow Michigan Pioneers Heinz Prechter and Suzie Mitchell, Welday heads “American Dreamers,” a drive to raise money for Bush from minorities that traditionally supported the Democratic Party.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1#0
163#Ms.#Jimmy##Westcott###Dallas#TX#75205#Jayhawk Acceptance Corp.#Homemaker##0###0###Finance#Ms. Jimmy Westcott is active in Dallas-area charities. She is married to Carl Wescott. This ex-car dealer offered auto-training programming via satellite, a business that grew into Wescott Communications, a multi-million-dollar educational programming company. After selling the company to K-III Communications in the late ‘90’s for $422 million, Carl Wescott founded Jayhawk Acceptance Corp. This company provides used car dealers with high-interest financing for high-risk customers. Unbeknownst to investors, Jayhawk itself turned out to be high risk. The company declared bankruptcy after eating $16 million in bad loans in ’96.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
172#Mr. & Mrs.#Robert#H.#Whilden#Jr.##Houston#TX#77002#BMC Software, Inc.#General Counsel##0###0##$7112000.00#Electronics#Whilden worked 39 years at the corporate law firm Vinson & Elkins, where he started out defending insurance companies before moving into the firm’s general corporate practice. Whilden was head of the firm’s corporate securities section and nearing mandatory retirement in ’99, when he switched horses to become general counsel for his former client, BMC Software.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#1
211##J.#Roger#Williams###Dallas#TX##Roger Williams Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge#Owner & Vice-chairman##0###0###Transportation#This Dallas car dealer is a major donor to Republicans in general and Bush in particular. Williams helped throw Bush’s second gubernatorial inauguration bash. Rumors suggest that the next campaign Williams finances may be his own. Party insiders say Williams is interested in running for the state senate if a vacancy is created in the political reshuffling that would follow a Bush move to the White House.#P#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
765##Phillip#E.#Williams#Jr.##Dallas#TX#75229#Self-employed physician#Neurosurgeon#$0.00#0###0###Health###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
151#Mr.#George#M.#Williams###Houston#TX#77068#Williams Partners, Inc.#CEO & Managing Partner##0###0##$94000.00#Finance#Williams is an investment banker.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
766##Garland##Williamson###Kingsport#TN#37660#Eastman Chemical#Vice President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
767##William##Wise###Houston#TX#77002#El Paso Energy Corp.#Chair, CEO, President#$0.00#0###0#$283000.00#$131594000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
768#Mr. & Mrs.#Blair & Laura#P.#Woodall###Dallas#TX#75209#Woodall Holdings#investments#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
805##David#F.#Work###Houston#TX##BP Amoco Corp.#reginal pres#$0.00#0###0##$12831000.00#Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
133#Mr.#Robert#J.#Wright##7777 Forest Lane, No. C-840#Dallas#TX#75230#Medical Cities, Inc.; Crow-Wright Co.#President##0###0###Real Estate#Robert Wright has been a partner of commercial real estate magnate Trammell Crow for almost 30 years. Crow-Wright Co. and Medical Cities, Inc.—which Wright founded—develop and manage medical facilities nationwide.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
25#Mr. & Mrs.#Charles#J.#Wyly#Jr.#5906 Deloache Avenue#Dallas#TX#75225#Ranger Capital Group#Ex-Vice Chair##0###0#$1125000.00#$6571000.00#Finance#Brothers Sam and Charles Wyly and their vast business empire are Bush’s No. 9 career patron. Their empire has included oil, mining, restaurant and retail holdings. The family sold its computer companies—Sterling Software and Sterling Commerce—for $8 billion in 2000. Soon thereafter, the media learned that “Republicans for Clean Air,” which was running $2.5 million of pro-Bush TV ads attacking John McCain as an environmental  marauder, was really Sam Wyly. Commercial interests may have shaped Wyly’s views of these candidates. A new Wyly venture, GreenMountain.com gets people to pay a premium for purportedly environmentally friendly electricity. The company has lobbied to get “green” certification for power generated from incinerated animal waste. Sen. McCain ostracized a $30-million tax credit for chicken-shit power he discovered in a ’99 tax bill. McCain denounced it as ludicrous pork. In contrast, Bush’s University of Texas Regent appointees gave the Wylys’ Maverick Capital a lucrative contract to invest $96 million of UT’s endowment (see Pioneer R. Steven Hicks). Two of Texas’ wealthiest Pioneer families, the Basses and the Wylys mobilized to kill a ’97 bill that would have taxed investment partnerships in Texas. Wyly hired Pioneer honcho James Francis to get it done.##P+#0#0#1#1#0#1#0#0#0
769##Barry##Wynn###Spartanburg#SC#29302#Colonial Group#President#$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
771##John#H.#Young###Houston#TX#77002#John H. Young Inc.#President#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
770##Bracebridge#H.#Young#Jr.##Nantucket#MA#02554#Mariner Investment Group##$0.00#0###0###Finance###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
772##Fausto##Yturria#Jr.##Brownsville#TX#78521#Yturria ranch#Owner#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
212#Dr.#Zach##Zachariah###Sea Ranch Lakes#FL##Self-employed physician#Cardiologist##0###0###Health#Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah is a cardiologist who lives outside of Fort Lauderdale.#R#P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
213##Kenneth#B.#Zangara###Albuquerque#NM##Ken Zangara Dodge#Owner##1#Interior transition team##0###Transportation#This car dealer pleaded no contest in ‘92 to misdemeanor charges that he had defrauded 80 employees of a previous car dealership out of more than $20,000 in wages and benefits. Zangara was put on a three-year probation and ordered to pay the affected workers $73,000 in restitution. This skeleton in Zangara’s closet became an issue in New Mexico’s ’98 attorney general race. After GOP candidate David Iglesias attacked Democratic opponent Patricia Madrid for having a convicted felon volunteering for her campaign, she accused him of being bankrolled by a car dealer who was indicted for fraud and embezzlement.##P+#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
773##Fred#S.#Zeidman###Houston#TX#77019#Seitel, Inc.#Chair#$0.00#0###0###Energy & Natural Resources###P-#0#1#0#0#0#0#0#0#0
774##Bob##Zincke### Woodlands#TX#77381#Kroger#President#$0.00#0###0##$126000.00#Miscellaneous Business###P-#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0#0