Updated Top Donor Lists:

Bell

Friedman

Perry

Strayhorn

Update: 30 Days Before the Election

 Rick Perry's Top Donors (Jan. 2003 - Sept. 2006)

Amount	Contributor	Employer	City
$690,000	Bob & Doylene Perry	Perry Homes president	Houston
$271,918	SBC Corp.	Telecom	Austin
$215,760	Thomas Dan Friedkin	Friedkin Co’s (auto dealer)	Houston
$195,185	Charles Wood, Jr.	Dallas Fire Insurance chair	Dallas
$185,000	Alice L. Walton	Wal-Mart heiress	Mineral Wells
$181,179	Richard Scott	Trans-Global Solutions president	Houston
$181,000	Lonnie A. 'Bo' Pilgrim	Pilgrim's Pride Poultry chair	Pittsburg
$175,240	Paul L. Foster	Western Refining Co. president	El Paso
$150,000	TX Dental Assoc.	Dentist trade group	Austin
$138,333	Johnny Baker	Baker Managers LLC	Houston
$130,000	James L. Huffines	Huffines Auto Dealers president	Dallas
$130,000	TX Real Estate Assoc.	Realtor trade group	Austin
$129,422	Gerald Rubin	Helen of Troy (beauty products)	El Paso
$128,000	Erle A. Nye	TXU Energy Corp. ex-CEO	Dallas
$125,600	Phil D. Adams	Phil Adams Co. insurer	Bryan
$125,500	Richard Wallrath	Champion Window	Centerville
$122,304	Larry Anders	Summit Alliance Co’s insurer	Dallas
$121,300	Robert D. Gillikin	Cummins So. Plains (engines) president	Dallas
$120,001	James R. Leininger	Kinetic Concepts (hospital beds)	San Antonio
$120,000	Dian Graves Owen Stai	Owen Healthcare (drugs)	Abilene
$117,644	Ned S. Holmes	Parkway Investments (real estate) CEO	Houston
$117,115	David & Teresa Disiere	Deep South Holding (insurer) CEO	Southlake
$116,197	Charles W. & Judy Tate	Capital Royalty (finance) chair	Sugar Land
$115,000	George C. Hixon	Hixon Properties chair	San Antonio
$115,000	Harold Simmons	Contran Corp. (nuclear waste) chair	Dallas
$113,666	J. Robert Brown	Desert Eagle (beer) chair	El Paso
$111,598	Dan L. Duncan	Enterprise Products Partners (chemicals) CEO	Houston
$111,000	HillCo PAC	Lobby firm PAC	Austin
$110,500	Gary R. Petersen	EnCap Investments manager	Houston
$108,901	Charles B. Lawrence	Kirby Corp. (shipping) chair	Houston
$106,127	Robert T. Brockman	Universal Computer Systems CEO	Houston
$106,000	Morton L. Topfer	Castletop Capital (investing) owner	Austin
$105,400	B.J. 'Red' McCombs	Red McCombs auto dealer president	San Antonio
$105,302	Woody & Gayle Hunt	Hunt Corp. construction CEO	El Paso
$105,000	Moshe Azoulay	American Garment Finishers Corp.	Dallas
$105,000	Lowry & Peggy Mays	Clear Channel (radio) chair	San Antonio
$105,000	Kenny & Lisa Troutt	Mt. Vernon Investments (telecom)	Dallas
$102,500	James Dannenbaum	Dannenbaum Engineering	Houston
$102,500	L. Frederick Francis	Bank of the West vice chair	El Paso
$102,262	Robert Rowling	TRT Holdings (oil/hotels) CEO	Irving
$101,235	John McStay	McStay Investment Council	Dallas
$101,000	Donald J. Carter, Jr.	Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc.	Addison
$101,000	Clifton L. Thomas, Jr.	Speedy Stop Convenience Stores	Victoria
$100,600	Larry Martin	USA Waste ex-executive	Houston
$100,431	James Lee	E*Trade Professional Trading (investing) CEO	Houston
$100,000	Lee Bass	Bass Brothers (oil) president	Fort Worth
$100,000	Louis A. & Julie	Beecherl Co’s (oil) president	Dallas
$100,000	William Boothe	Boothe Eye Care	Dallas
$100,000	J. Dan Brown	Brown Distributing (beer) CEO	Austin
$100,000	Ralph & Joy Ellis, Jr.	Belmont Oil & Gas Corp. chair	Irving
$100,000	Fulbright & Jaworski	Law firm	Houston
$100,000	Kent R. Hance	Hance Scarborough law firm	Austin
$100,000	Forrest E. Hoglund	Enron Oil & Gas ex-chair	Dallas
$100,000	Ray L. Hunt	Hunt Consolidated (oil) president	Dallas
$100,000	Ronald Steve Letbetter	Reliant Energy ex-CEO	Houston
$100,000	Joe R. & Teresa Long	First State Bank ex-chair	Austin
$100,000	J. Frank Miller III	JPI Co’s (developer) CEO	Irving
$100,000	Lee Roy Mitchell	Cinemark USA (movie theaters) CEO	Plano
$100,000	T. Boone Pickens, Jr.	BP Capital (oil, water investing) CEO	Dallas
$100,000	Bobby & Phyllis Ray	K Hovnanian homes	Plano
$100,000	Richard & Jill Salwen	Dell, Inc (computers) ex-VP	Austin
$100,000	Jeff D. Sandefer	Sandefer Capital (oil investing)	Austin
$100,000	James Schneider	Dell, Inc (computers) CFO	Austin
$100,000	L.E. Simmons	SCF Partners (investing) president	Houston
$100,000	Michael Stevens	Michael Stevens Interests (apartments)	Houston
$100,000	Robert Waltrip	Service Corp. Int’l (funerals) CEO	Houston
$100,000	Frank & Mary Yturria	Yturria Ranch owners	Brownsville
$100,000	HB 'Bartel' Zachry, Jr.	Zachry Construction	San Antonio

 

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