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Last thread we agreed that top donors to any party are the "special interests" who are working to gain influence for their goals and issues with candidates in a party. I detailed the Dems last time. Now lets get a good look at the Republicans. #txlege /1
There are 9,133 unique contributors to Republicans running for Texas House. How much of what candidates have received has come from the Top 20 Republican donors (which we can hopefully all agree would be “Special Interests”? Remember, the top 20 are 0.2% of the total donors. /2
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD001 VanDeaver, Gary - 6%
HD002 Flynn, Dan - 35%
HD003 Bell, Cecil - 18%
HD007 Dean, Jay - 13%
HD008 Harris, Cody - 69%
HD009 Paddie, Chris - 31%
HD010 Wray, John - 21%
#txlege /3
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD011 Clardy, Travis - 21%
HD012 Kacal, Kyle - 13%
HD013 Leman, Ben - 62%
HD014 Raney, John - 42%
HD016 Metcalf, Will - 14%
HD017 Cyrier, John - 12%
HD018 Bailes, Ernest - 50%
#txlege /4
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD019 White, James - 21%
HD020 Wilson, Terry - 29%
HD024 Bonnen, Greg - 45%
HD025 Bonnen, Dennis - 22%
HD026 Miller, Rick - 44%
HD028 Zerwas, John - 16%
HD029 Thompson, Ed - 32%
#txlege /5
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD030 Morrison, Geanie - 30%
HD032 Hunter, Todd - 15%
HD033 Holland, Justin - 19%
HD034 Hale, Chris - 0%
HD041 DeShazo, Hilda Garza - 0%
HD042 De La Garza, Luis - 0%
HD043 Lozano, JM - 18%
#txlege /6
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD044 Kuempel, John - 25%
HD045 Strange, Ken - 0%
HD046 Nila, Gabriel - 0%
HD052 Flores, Cynthia - 64%
HD053 Murr, Andrew - 32%
HD054 Buckley, Brad - 0%
HD055 Shine, Hugh - 9%
#txlege /7
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD056 Anderson, Charles - 9%
HD057 Ashby, Trent - 15%
HD058 Burns, DeWayne - 21%
HD059 Sheffield, JD - 57%
HD062 Smith, Reggie - 73%
HD063 Parker, Tan 44%
HD064 Stucky, Lynn 25%
#txlege /8
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD065 Simmons, Ron - 29%
HD068 Springer, Drew - 23%
HD069 Frank, James - 56%
HD070 Sanford, Scott - 38%
HD071 Lambert, Stan - 13%
HD081 Landgraf, Brooks - 8%
HD082 Craddick, Tom - 38%
#txlege /9
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD083 Burrows, Dustin - 14%
HD084 Frullo, John - 30%
HD085 Stephenson, Phil - 21%
HD086 Smithee, John - 29%
HD089 Noble, Candy - 0%
HD091 Klick, Stephanie - 13%
HD097 Goldman, Craig - 30%
#txlege /10
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD098 Capriglione, Giovanni - 60%
HD099 Geren, Charlie - 36%
HD102 Koop, Linda - 34%
HD015 Anderson, Rodney - 25%
HD108 Meyer, Morgan - 12%
HD112 Button, Angie Chen - 8%
#txlege /11
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD117 Berlanga, Michael - 0%
HD120 Payne, Ronald - 0%
HD121 Allison, Steve - 54%
HD122 Larson, Lyle - 29%
HD126 Harless, Sam - 32%
HD127 Huberty, Dan - 29%
HD129 Paul, Dennis - 16%
#txlege /12
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD130 Oliverson, Tom - 20%
HD132 Schofield, Mike - 24%
HD133 Murphy, Jim - 9%
HD134 Davis, Sarah - 32%
HD135 Elkins, Gary - 11%
HD136 Dale, Tony - 10%
#txlege /13
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors?
HD138 Bohac, Dwayne - 12%
HD144 Villarreal, Ruben - 88%
HD147 Wang, Thomas - 0%
#txlege /14
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors? Here are candidates who were not successful in the primary or runoff
HD004 McKee, Ashley - 24%
HD023 Faircloth, Wayne - 54%
HD054 Cosper, Scott - 50%
HD060 Largent, Jim - 0%
#txlege /15
What % of total Rep candidate donations have come from the top 20 Rep donors? Here are candidates who were not successful in the primary or runoff
HD073 Campbell, Dave - 49%
HD106 Bedsole, Clint - 62%
HD107 Ruzicka, Joe - 22%
HD114 Villalba, Jason - 49%
#txlege /16
The average from the top 20 Rep House donors was 24% of total contributions. Remember, the top 20 donors make up just 0.2% of the total contributors. That starts to speak to a few voices having too much say in how things go. #txlege /17
Last one on this thread. When you look at what the top 20 Rep House donors have given to R candidates, it totals $5.6MM. The total overall given is $15.7MM. 0.2% of donors gave almost 36% of total contributions. Is that too much influence? #txlege /end
I'll post the third part in the Top 20 series, the deep dive on the Empower Party, tomorrow. My fingers and brain are tired tonight.

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Aug 31, 2018
We can add Kel Seliger in SD31 to the list of Republicans being attacked by Empower Texans as we head to the general. Rather than “money from Austin”, it’s switched up to money outside his district. #txlege
Tim Dunn and ET World seems like they are really mad about wasting all that money on Mike Canon.
$349k - Empower Texans
$50k - Kyle Stallings
$20k - Texas Right To Life
$20k - Tim Dunn
$10k - Dick Saulsbury
#txlege
And wasting all that money on Stuart Spitzer in HD4
$183k - Empower Texans
$57k - Texas Right To Life
$40k - Darlene Pendery
$36k - Jonathan Strickland Campaign
$18k - Stacy Hock
$10k - Constituents Focus
And on and on and on
#txlege
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Aug 29, 2018
Tim Dunn and Empower Texans are sending out letters to folks in House District 2, attacking Dan Flynn, the Republican incumbent. Yes, thats right. The republican incumbent is being attacked by the extreme end of the republican party as we near the general election. #txlege
First off, Empower is telling people to use transparency texas . org for campaign finance data. This is a site with campaign finance stuff, but what they don't tell you is that Empower Texans owns the site. Show up for data, read Empower propaganda. Not very transparent. #txlege
Empower is attacking Dan Flynn for 52% of his contributions coming from Austin. And yes, the 52% is a real number. Flynn has had $430k contributed to his campaign since 01/01/17, with 52% of it coming from an Austin address. #txlege
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Aug 25, 2018
Since Jessica was good enough to bring up Paxton and Empower and declare "He's their man", I thought I pull together a mini-thread and few pie charts to help illustrate that fact. #txlege
In the 2014 election cycle, Ken Paxton was running for AG for the first time. From 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2014, Paxton raised:
$8,323,245 from 3,951 donors
$4,443,856 (53%) from the top 100 donors
$1,098,470 came from ET World (DOES NOT include a $1,000,000 loan from ET) #txlege
When you look at the Ken Paxton 2014 election cycle, the ET World money breaks down as:
Empower Texans - $402,470 (does not include a $1,000,000 loan from ET to Paxton)
ET9 (major ET donors) - $600,000
ETR (ET related donors) - $96,000
Total - $1.1m
2014 - He's their man #txlege
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Aug 16, 2018
Looks like Texas Alliance For Life is doing "pay to play" advertising for some candidates.
02/25 - Mailer supporting Jason Villalba $11,886
02/28 - Villalba donation for $12k
02/28 - Mailer supporting JD Sheffield $10,483
06/08 - Sheffield donation for $11k
#txlege
And then there is a $17k donation from Texas House Leadership Fund to Texas Alliance For Life on 03/14. Right after TAFL had spent $16,657 on mailers for Capriglione & Cosper ($13k on 02/28), and Clardy ($3.6k on 03/02), all candidates that THL had supported. #txlege
I know stuff like this has just been “politics”. This is the kind of thing the Empower World does, specifically with the New Leadership PAC (which I’ve talked about before). Please, let’s be better than that and not stoop to that level.
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Aug 15, 2018
I've looked at the 19 Empower Texans candidates still on the ballot. Some serious money pouring in, dominating a candidates finance report. It's even more startling when you see the 23 candidates who didn't advance in the primaries.
#txlege
23 Empower Texans endorsed / funded by the ET World candidates got knocked out in the primaries. There was A LOT of money poured into these candidates from all across ET World. The graphic shows you just how much ET World filled up their coffers vs regular folks. #txlege
There are just 4 knocked out ET World candidates who received less than 50% of their money from an ET / ET related source:
43% Susanna Dokupil
41% Brandon Hall
35% Chris Fails
0.2% Amber Pearce (late endorsement in a crowded field, but not any money of note)
This is nuts #txlege
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Aug 14, 2018
What will follow is a snapshot of the contributions and donors to each Texas Senate race. I'll post the candidates by Republican, Empower, and Democrat. Pies will be added in fits and starts, but all will be in this thread.
SD2
Bob Hall (E) running against Kendall Scudder (D)
Since 01/01/17 raised $1,382,313
657 donations
$2,103 avg
ET / TRL - $503k (36.4%)
ET9 - $208.5k (15%)
ETR - $269k (19.4%)
ET World Total - $980.5k (71%)
Top Donors
- Empower Texans ($393k)
- Dan Patrick ($247k)
#txlege
SD2
Kendall Scudder (D) running against Bob Hall (E)
Since 01/01/17 raised $131,596
920 donations
$143 avg
Top Donors
- Cristan Shamburger ($39.8k) 30%
- Kolby Flowers ($20k) 15%
Donations from
- Commerce 32.4%
- Dallas 16.9%
- Forest Hills 15.2%
#txlege
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