This article is Part 4 of a four-part series demonstrating how the money in a lobby sector can impact state politics and legislation. Read the first three articles here, here, and here.
Dennis Paul
Texas House of Representatives District 129
$45,438Cash on Hand
$425,397Total Contributions
$497,633Total Expenditures
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Financial Activity
Top Contributors
Total Contributions | Name |
---|---|
$45,309.66 | Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC |
$28,918.06 | Greg Abbott |
$15,000.00 | Texas Leads PAC |
$12,500.00 | Texas REALTORS Political Action Committee |
$12,250.00 | San Jacinto Republican Women (DISSOLVED) |
$10,000.00 | Larry Taylor |
$7,500.00 | Bay Area Republican Women PAC |
$6,000.00 | Political Action Committee for Engineers |
$6,000.00 | State Farm Agents Political Action Committee |
$5,000.00 | Farmers Employee & Agent PAC of Texas (DISSOLVED) |
Top Payees
Total Expenditures | Payee |
---|---|
$334,618.88 | The Yates Company |
$45,000.00 | Dennis Paul |
$13,000.00 | The What's Up Radio Program |
$12,228.00 | Larry M Hicks CPA |
$11,250.00 | Adrienne Sun |
$10,000.00 | Conservative Media Properties LLC |
$10,000.00 | Conservative Republicans of Harris County |
$5,000.00 | Police Inc |
$4,686.50 | South Belt-Ellington Leader |
$4,438.25 | Sprint 2 Print |
Top Personal Contributions
From reports filed by the recipients of these funds, it appears these transactions originated from personal rather than campaign accounts.
Total Contributions | Candidate | Committee |
---|---|---|
$1,000.00 | San Jacinto Republican Women | |
$870.00 | Bay Area Republican Women PAC |
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Texas politicians and PACs are required to file reports with the Texas Ethics Commission listing all their campaign contributions and expenditures. The most recent reports — which include all transactions for the last half of 2018 — were just released. Two major things to pay attention to in these reports: 1) final numbers on both donations and spending for the 2018 Election Cycle, and 2) perhaps even more interesting, a list of all donations made to Texas politicians after the election.
Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) is in the business of electing politicians who will vote “correctly” on lawsuit & tort reform issues, while not rocking the boat in the Capitol. They’ve become one of the most powerful and well-known PACs in the state using this model, and show no signs of changing their game plan.