Gov Race 2010: Fat Cats Empty Pockets For Hutchison

by: Libby Shaw

Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:40 PM CST

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Dawnna Dukes Takes Tens of Thousand of Dollars from "Swift Boat" Republicans

by: Matt Glazer

Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM CST

According to the KVUE News report (a must watch video), "The latest campaign finance reports show Craddick supporters are happy to help Dukes."

In the KVUE piece, Andrew Wheat of the non-partisan good-government group Texans for Public Justice elaborates:

Again, and again, and again, you see the very same people who are giving to Tom Craddick are giving to Dawnna Dukes.

"Again, and again, and again, you see the very same people who are giving to Tom Craddick are giving to Dawnna Dukes," said Andrew Wheat of Texans for Public Justice, an organization that studies the influence of money in politics.

Democratic primary voters in House District 46 need to know that Rep. Dukes is being funded by the same Republican moneymen who funded the 'Swift Boat' campaign and continue to give millions of dollars to the Republican Party of Texas, Tom Craddick, and Rick Perry.

According to documents filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, some of Rep. Dukes's largest contributors include the following Republicans and corporate interests:

• Bob Perry - The largest Republican donor in Texas, who contributed more than $4,000,000 to the Swift Boat attack ads
• Harold Simmons - The largest importer of nuclear waste in Texas who also gave more than $3,000,000 to the Swift Boat attack ads
• Hillco - A Republican lobby shop and PAC closely allied with Speaker Craddick.  According to this report from TPJ, Hillco was a conduit for Bob Perry money making its way to Craddick D's.
• Bill Miller - A lobbyist who has served on Speaker Craddick's transition team and acted as Speaker Craddick's spokesperson during the previous Speaker's race.
• John Nau - A Perry appointee who joined the Governor, voucher proponent Jim Leininger, and right-wing ideologue Grover Norquist, on Governor Perry's infamous yachting trip to the Bahamas - has given hundreds of thousands to Republican politicians and causes.

By her own admission, some of Rep. Dukes's largest donors are Republicans who gave more than $7 million to fund the disgusting Swift Boat attack ads against John Kerry.  If she will take money from these Republican moneymen, are there any Republicans Dawnna Dukes won't take money from?

Brian Thompson has been endorsed by the Texas Progressive Alliance and we encourage you to fight the Republican money by donating today and volunteering your time.

Cornyn Names Corrupt Neo-Con to Campaign

by: Matt Glazer

Tue May 01, 2007 at 07:07 PM CDT

The 2008 re-election campaign will be head by ultra-conservative, anti-tax at all cost, John Nau.  Nau is currently the director of the Texas Historic Commission (who has a bill on the floor this week that is holding parks hostage). Nau is also a director of the Leininger funded Texas Public Policy Foundation.

In other words, he makes Grover Norquist look rational.  Ok, that's not possible, but you get the point.

Speaking of Norquist, TPJ points out that Nau and Norquist helped DeLay launch the K Street project.  Good choice Cornyn. Good. Choice.

According to QR, the other co-chairs include:

Major finance co-chairs include Bob Rowling in Dallas, Kit Moncrief in Ft. Worth, John Schweitzer in Austin, Ned Holmes in Houston, John Steen in San Antonio, Herb Wade in Central Texas, Bill Harley, Gaylord Hughey and Whit Riter in East Texas, Sam Susser on the Gulf Coast, Granger MacDonald in the Hill Country, Clyde Seibman in North Texas, Four Price in the Panhandle, Nick Serafy in South Texas, and Robert Brown in El Paso.

We will obviously look into the rest of these individuals, but the old saying is, "the character of a man can be determined by the quality of the friends he keeps."

Leininger, DeLay, Norquist, Nau, Bush, Gonzales... out of touch?  Yes.