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Pioneer Profiles: George W. Bush's $100,000 Club
 
Name: Richard & Nancy Kinder
Occupation: Chair & CEO, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
Industry: Energy & Natural Resources
Home: Houston, Texas

Political Contributions:
Bush Gubernatorial Races: 
 $119,409
Republican Hard Money: 
$46,000
Republican Soft Money: 
$240,000
Democratic Hard Money: 
$1,750
Democratic Soft Money: 
$0
Federal PAC Hard Money:
$1,600
Total Contributions:
 $408,759
Soft Money from Employer:
$0
to Republicans:
$0
to Democrats:
$0
Richard Kinder is an ex-president of Enron Corp., which is Bush’s top career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. (See Pioneer Ken Lay for more on this natural gas giant.) Kinder and ex-Enron pipeline executive Bill Morgan bought out the stock of Enron Liquids Pipeline in ’97 and formed Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Kinder Morgan, Inc. The companies form one of the country’s largest gas pipeline interests, worth approximately $10 billion.

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