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VI. Top 80 Donor Sources Give $8 Million


(Includes Money from PACs, Businesses and Employees)
Amount Source Donor
Count 
Interest
$312,500 Enron Corp 29 Energy & Natural Resources
$221,427 Bass Family Enterprises 6 Energy & Natural Resources
$212,273 Sterling Software 3 Communications/Electronics
$179,200 Arter & Hadden 4 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$175,000 Denitech Corp. 1 Miscellaneous Business
$164,500 First National Bank 11 Finance
$164,000 Sterling Group 8 Energy & Natural Resources
$154,000 Beecherl Investments 2 Energy & Natural Resources
$153,000 Hicks Muse Tate & Furst 4 Finance
$148,358 MBNA America Bank 56 Finance
$135,000 Phil Adams Co. 1 Insurance
$133,000 Vinson & Elkins 23 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$129,500 Hixon Properties, Inc. 1 Real Estate
$125,000 Pilgrim's Pride 1 Agriculture
$124,449 BeautiControl Cosmetics 1 Miscellaneous Business
$121,000 Farmers Employee & Agent PAC 1 Insurance
$120,000 Cogen Technologies 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$119,409 Kinder Morgan Energy Partners 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$117,000 Home Interiors & Gifts 2 Miscellaneous Business
$117,000 International Bank of Commerce 5 Finance
$115,500 McLane Co. 3 Miscellaneous Business
$115,000 Wagner & Brown Ltd. 3 Energy & Natural Resources
$114,500 TX Auto Dealers Assoc. 1 Transportation
$110,000 Sanchez Oil & Gas 4 Energy & Natural Resources
$109,000 Freeman Spogli & Co 4 Finance
$109,000 Hunt Oil Co. 2 Energy & Natural Resources
$108,000 SCB Corp. (Southwestern Bell) 16 Communications/Electronics
$105,600 Goldman Sachs 7 Finance
$105,000 Falcon Seaboard Oil 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$103,000 Amend Group 1 Real Estate
$102,500 Colonial Casualty Insurance 1 Insurance
$102,000 Hutchison Energy 2 Energy & Natural Resources
$100,000 Rainwater, Inc. 1 Finance
$100,000 Aladdin Industries 1 Miscellaneous Business
$99,200 Shop Online 1 Communications/Electronics
$98,472 TX Assoc. of Realtors 1 Real Estate
$98,425 TX Dental Assoc. 1 Health
$95,400 TX Farm Bureau Ag Fund 1 Agriculture
$95,000 NationsBank 9 Finance
$95,000 Gaylord & Co. 1 Communications/Electronics
$92,000 Medical Cities, Inc. 2 Health
$90,000 CIC Corp 1 ??
$90,000 NeoDyne Technologies 1 Communications/Electronics
$90,000 Contran Corp 1 Finance
$89,436 W W Tichenor & Co 1 Communications/Electronics
$89,000 Baker & Botts 5 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$87,189 Locke Purnell Rain Harrell 2 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$86,000 Hyperion Resources, Inc. 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$86,000 Laredo National Bank 2 Finance
$85,000 Clarke/Bardes, Inc. 1 Insurance
$85,000 Sterling Chemical 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$84,000 Kinetic Concepts Inc. 3 Health
$77,500 TX Society of CPAs 1 Finance
$75,927 Moncrief Oil 4 Energy & Natural Resources
$71,000 Central & Southwest Corp 5 Energy & Natural Resources
$70,000 Galindo Group 1 Real Estate
$70,000 Titan Holdings, Inc. 1 Insurance
$70,000 Jenkens & Gilchrist 5 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$66,050 DX Holding Co. 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$66,000 Clear Channel Communications 1 Communications/Electronics
$65,000 Meridian Advisors 2 Finance
$64,000 United Services Auto Assoc. 3 Insurance
$63,925 Fulbright & Jaworski  6 Lawyers & Lobbyists
$63,000 Texas Utilities 8 Energy & Natural Resources
$62,000 Glazer's Wholesale Distributors 3 Miscellaneous Business
$62,000 Oklahoma Publishing Co. 1 Communications/Electronics
$61,000 Tejon Exploration 1 Energy & Natural Resources
$60,805 Cardinal Investment Co. 2 Finance
$60,500 TX Medical Assoc. 1 Health
$60,500 TX Manufactured Housing Assoc. 5 Construction
$60,000 University of TX 25 Other
$60,000 Tana Oil & Gas 2 Energy & Natural Resources
$60,000 Lacerte Software 1 Communications/Electronics
$60,000 Service Corporation International 7 Miscellaneous Business
$60,000 GOP Nat'l State Elections Com. 1 Ideological
$59,500 Trammell Crow 8 Real Estate
$58,500 ATN Signals Inc. 1 Communications/Electronics
$58,000 Union Pacific Corp. 7 Transportation
$57,500 HEB Grocery 2 Miscellaneous Business
$57,000 AT&T 2 Communications/Electronics
$8,039,545 Total 350  


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