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Update: 30 Days Before the Election
Chris Bell's Top Donors (Jan. 2003 - Sept. 2006)
NOTE: After Bell filed the Oct. 10, 2006 report covered here, media reported that Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn has made $3.5 million in pledges to the Bell campaign (including $2 million in contributions and $1.5 million in loans). This would far surpass the $690,000 that home-builder Bob Perry had given to Governor Perry by Sept. 28.
Amount |
Contributor |
Employer |
City |
$424,329 |
Ricardo Weitz |
Auto dealer & real estate |
Houston |
$250,000 |
Harold W. Nix |
Nix Patterson & Roach attorney |
Daingerfield |
$170,000 |
Terralynn Swift |
Swift Energy Co. owner |
Houston |
$110,000 |
Thomas W. Pirtle |
O'Quinn Laminack & Pirtle attorney |
Houston |
$101,000 |
Lee Fikes |
Bonanza Oil, Inc. president |
Dallas |
$100,000 |
Good Government PAC |
Trial lawyer PAC |
Corpus Christi |
$92,500 |
Robert Turner |
Wentwood Capital Advisors (real estate) |
Austin |
$80,000 |
Robert Patton, Jr. |
Attorney |
Fort Worth |
$71,000 |
Poppi Georges-Massey |
Homemaker |
Houston |
$64,500 |
Mauricio R. Celis |
Attorney |
Corpus Christi |
$50,000 |
Lyndon Olson, Jr. |
Travelers Insurance ex-CEO |
Waco |
$50,000 |
Robert Muse & Anne Bass |
Bass Brothers Enterprises (oil) |
Fort Worth |
$48,000 |
Robert A. Ayres |
Shield Ranch (among others) |
Austin |
$40,100 |
John Mullen |
Architect |
Dallas |
$32,000 |
Timothy G. Ewing |
Ewing & Partners (investing) |
Dallas |
$30,000 |
H. Brent Austin |
El Paso Energy Service Co. CFO |
Houston |
$28,500 |
D. Kent Lance |
Hill Partners developer |
Austin |
$25,500 |
Communications Workers |
Labor PAC |
Washington |
$25,000 |
James Thorp |
Thorp Petroleum owner |
Houston |
$25,000 |
Fred Baron & Lisa Blue |
Baron & Budd attorney |
Dallas |
$21,000 |
Lias 'Jeff' Steen |
Grant PrideCo vice president |
Houston |
$20,250 |
Thomas & Bridget Black, Jr. |
Black Mann & Graham attorney |
Lewisville |
$20,000 |
Joaquin L. Rodriguez |
Rodriquez & Assoc. attorney |
Eagle Pass |
$17,466 |
Eric G. Carter, Jr. |
Eric G. Carter & Assoc. attorney |
Pearland |
$16,000 |
Gilbert T. Adams III |
Gilbert Adams Law Firm |
Beaumont |
$15,000 |
Stephen Sellers |
Sellers Investments, Ltd. president |
Houston |
$15,000 |
Eric Pulaski |
BindView Corp. (software) executive |
Houston |
$15,000 |
AFL-CIO Texas |
Labor PAC |
Austin |
$15,000 |
Morrie K. Abramson |
Kent Electronics Corp. ex-chair |
Houston |
$14,500 |
Scott M. Clearman |
McClanahan & Clearman attorney |
Houston |
$14,431 |
James Walker II |
Walker & Hunter attorney |
Houston |
$13,500 |
Andrew & Patricia Kant |
KSF Orthopaedic Center surgeon |
Houston |
$12,600 |
C. Mike Garver |
BRH-Garver, Inc. construction |
Houston |
$12,500 |
Howard Hoover |
BFI, Inc. trash |
Houston |
$12,500 |
Patricia Shield Ayres |
Shield Ranch (among others) |
Austin |
$12,000 |
Nijad I. Fares |
Wedge Equities partner |
Houston |
$11,000 |
Cecilia Boone |
Container Store founder’s spouse |
Dallas |
$10,500 |
Edna Meyer-Nelson |
Richland Investments real estate CEO |
Houston |
$10,100 |
David Ikeler |
Turk Investments real estate broker |
Sugar Land |
$10,000 |
Marc & Wendy Stanley |
Stanley Mandel & Iola attorney |
Dallas |
$10,000 |
David Mafrige |
David Mafrige Interests real estate |
Houston |
$10,000 |
Denman H. Heard |
Heard Robins Cloud Lubel…attorney |
Houston |
$10,000 |
David Bonderman |
Texas Pacific Group investing partner |
Fort Worth |
$10,000 |
Across the Track PAC |
African-American PAC |
Sugar Land |
$9,246 |
Jim A. Palavan |
Geoscience Engineering owner |
Houston |
$9,167 |
Jason Stanford |
Chris Bell’s campaign manager |
Austin |
$9,000 |
Truman Edminster |
Edminster Hinshaw Russ (construction) |
Houston |
$8,225 |
*Max Garcia |
Precious stone collector* |
McAllen |
$8,000 |
Arthur & Joyce Schechter |
Schechter McElwee & Shaffer attorney |
Houston |
$8,000 |
Daniel C. Arnold |
Retired attorney |
Houston |
$8,000 |
Roger Eichhorn |
Retired University of Houston professor |
Houston |
*The campaign returned this contribution of precious stones in June 2006 after learning that it was illegal because the donor is a Mexican national.
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