īTil Your Well Runs Dry:

How the State of Texas Converted the Edwards Aquifer into a Multi-Million Dollar Commodity


Appended Tables :

Top Statewide Donors With EAA Permit Interests

State
Donations
‘06 Cycle
  Contributor  Donor's
 Primary
 Interest		 Donor-Related Permit Holder
Withdrawal
Right in '07
(Acre Feet)
$349,600
  United Services Auto Assoc.  Insurance United Services Auto. Assoc.
317
$175,448
  HB 'Bartell' Zachry Jr.  Construction U-Bar Ranch, Inc.
2,570
$95,813
  Dolph Briscoe  Agriculture Briscoe Ranch, Inc.
11,415
$79,120
  John & Anne Weisman  Construction Flying W Properties, Ltd.
2,567
$63,991
  Texas Industries TXI PAC  Construction TXI Hunter Cement Plant
263
$57,860
  Glen W. Morgan  Lawyers Glen W. Morgan
800
$41,250
  Christopher ‘Kit’ Goldsbury  Finance Rio Perla Properties, LP
991
$39,200
  Donald F. Faust  Misc. Business Donald Frank & Sidney Lynn Faust
600
$37,094
  David S. Zachry  Construction Capitol Aggregates, Inc.
355
$30,700
  John B. Zachry  Construction Capitol Aggregates, Inc.
355
$29,045
  CEMEX Employees PAC  Construction CEMEX Cement of TX, LP
4,021
$24,500
  Houston H. Harte  Communication Houston H. Harte
333
$22,890
  Kent M. Adams  Lawyers Southwest Texas State University
1,782
$19,500
  Brian McCoy  Agriculture Blanco River Investments
250
$17,833
  Murray L. Johnston  Construction U-Bar Ranch, Inc.
2,570
$17,100
  Curtis C. Gunn  Transportation Gee-Gee Ltd.
415
$15,840
  Ruth McLean Bowers  Energy Callaghan Road, Ltd.
385
$12,360
  Scott M. Kleberg  Agriculture SFD/Medio Creek Land Partnership
1,500
$12,250
  John & Diane Scovell  Real Estate San Antonio Resort Ltd. Partners
492
$10,000
  Melvin Brekhus  Construction TXI Hunter Cement Plant
263
$10,000
  Bill J. Tidwell  Construction Bill J. Tidwell
80
$8,970
  Richard M. Kleberg  Agriculture SFD/Medio Creek Land Partnership
1,500
$8,700
  Scott & Eleanor Petty  Agriculture Petty Ranch Co.
3,008
$7,500
  Bruce H.C. Hill  Lawyers Laguna Water II, Ltd.
3,119
$7,345
  Stephen L. Golden  Lawyers Rio Perla Properties, LP
991
$7,300
  Vulcan Materials Co. PAC  Construction Vulcan Construction Materials, LP
3,005
$6,000
  Dilworth Blackstone  Agriculture Blackstone & Frances Dilworth
2,304
$5,950
  David J. Straus  Transportation Retama Partners, Ltd.
186
$5,850
  Tim & Suzanne Word  Construction Dean Word Co.
693
$4,750
  Cecil Atkission  Transportation R.B. Willoughby & Cecil R. Atkission
2,524
$1,223,759
   TOTALS  
43,975
Note: Withdrawal total above double counts Capital Aggregates, which had two donors connected to it.

Permit-Related Contributions To Statewide Candidates

Amount In
2006 Cycle
  Recipient
Party
 Office
$192,200
  Rick Perry
R
 Governor
$78,350
  David Dewhurst
R
 Lieutenant Governor
$60,100
  *Carole K. Strayhorn
I
 Governor
$54,900
  Susan Combs
R
 Comptroller
$44,150
  Elizabeth A. Jones
R
 Railroad Commissioner
$29,500
  Don Willett
R
 Supreme Court
$20,500
  Wallace Jefferson
R
 Supreme Court
$16,404
  Todd Staples
R
 Agriculture Commissioner
$15,500
  Phil Johnson
R
 Supreme Court
$13,490
  Greg Abbott
R
 Attorney General
$7,000
  Jerry Patterson
R
 Land Commissioner
$6,100
  Scott Brister
R
 Supreme Court
$5,000
  David M. Medina
R
 Supreme Court
*Lost 2006 race
Note: Staples sat on Sen. Natural Resources during the 2005 session.