Updated Top Donor Lists:

Bell

Friedman

Perry

Strayhorn

Update: 30 Days Before the Election

 Chris Bell's Top Donors (Jan. 2003 - Sept. 2006)

NOTE: After Bell filed the Oct. 10, 2006 report covered here, media reported that Houston trial lawyer John O’Quinn has made $3.5 million in pledges to the Bell campaign (including $2 million in contributions and $1.5 million in loans). This would far surpass the $690,000 that home-builder Bob Perry had given to Governor Perry by Sept. 28.

Amount	Contributor	Employer	City
$424,329	Ricardo Weitz	Auto dealer & real estate	Houston
$250,000	Harold W. Nix	Nix Patterson & Roach attorney	Daingerfield
$170,000	Terralynn Swift	Swift Energy Co. owner	Houston
$110,000	Thomas W. Pirtle	O'Quinn Laminack & Pirtle attorney	Houston
$101,000	Lee Fikes	Bonanza Oil, Inc. president	Dallas
$100,000	Good Government PAC	Trial lawyer PAC	Corpus Christi
$92,500	Robert Turner	Wentwood Capital Advisors (real estate)	Austin
$80,000	Robert Patton, Jr.	Attorney	Fort Worth
$71,000	Poppi Georges-Massey	Homemaker	Houston
$64,500	Mauricio R. Celis	Attorney	Corpus Christi
$50,000	Lyndon Olson, Jr.	Travelers Insurance ex-CEO	Waco
$50,000	Robert Muse & Anne Bass	Bass Brothers Enterprises (oil)	Fort Worth
$48,000	Robert A. Ayres	Shield Ranch (among others)	Austin
$40,100	John Mullen	Architect	Dallas
$32,000	Timothy G. Ewing	Ewing & Partners (investing)	Dallas
$30,000	H. Brent Austin	El Paso Energy Service Co. CFO	Houston
$28,500	D. Kent Lance	Hill Partners developer	Austin
$25,500	Communications Workers	Labor PAC	Washington
$25,000	James Thorp	Thorp Petroleum owner	Houston
$25,000	Fred Baron & Lisa Blue	Baron & Budd attorney	Dallas
$21,000	Lias 'Jeff' Steen	Grant PrideCo vice president	Houston
$20,250	Thomas & Bridget Black, Jr.	Black Mann & Graham attorney	Lewisville
$20,000	Joaquin L. Rodriguez	Rodriquez & Assoc. attorney	Eagle Pass
$17,466	Eric G. Carter, Jr.	Eric G. Carter & Assoc. attorney	Pearland
$16,000	Gilbert T. Adams III	Gilbert Adams Law Firm	Beaumont
$15,000	Stephen Sellers	Sellers Investments, Ltd. president	Houston
$15,000	Eric Pulaski	BindView Corp. (software) executive	Houston
$15,000	AFL-CIO Texas	Labor PAC	Austin
$15,000	Morrie K. Abramson	Kent Electronics Corp. ex-chair	Houston
$14,500	Scott M. Clearman	McClanahan & Clearman attorney	Houston
$14,431	James Walker II	Walker & Hunter attorney	Houston
$13,500	Andrew & Patricia Kant	KSF Orthopaedic Center surgeon	Houston
$12,600	C. Mike Garver	BRH-Garver, Inc. construction	Houston
$12,500	Howard Hoover	BFI, Inc. trash	Houston
$12,500	Patricia Shield Ayres	Shield Ranch (among others)	Austin
$12,000	Nijad I. Fares	Wedge Equities partner	Houston
$11,000	Cecilia Boone	Container Store founder’s spouse	Dallas
$10,500	Edna Meyer-Nelson	Richland Investments real estate CEO	Houston
$10,100	David Ikeler	Turk Investments real estate broker	Sugar Land
$10,000	Marc & Wendy Stanley	Stanley Mandel & Iola attorney	Dallas
$10,000	David Mafrige	David Mafrige Interests real estate	Houston
$10,000	Denman H. Heard	Heard Robins Cloud Lubel…attorney	Houston
$10,000	David Bonderman	Texas Pacific Group investing partner	Fort Worth
$10,000	Across the Track PAC	African-American PAC	Sugar Land
$9,246	Jim A. Palavan	Geoscience Engineering owner	Houston
$9,167	Jason Stanford	Chris Bell’s campaign manager	Austin
$9,000	Truman Edminster	Edminster Hinshaw Russ (construction)	Houston
$8,225	*Max Garcia	Precious stone collector*	McAllen
$8,000	Arthur & Joyce Schechter	Schechter McElwee & Shaffer attorney	Houston
$8,000	Daniel C. Arnold	Retired attorney	Houston
$8,000	Roger Eichhorn	Retired University of Houston professor	Houston

*The campaign returned this contribution of precious stones in June 2006 after learning that it was illegal because the donor is a Mexican national.

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