Sunday, October 19, 2014

I Challenge Anyone to Find 1 Contributor Who is Pro-Little Guy, Pro Women





or even Pro Average Citizen?

 





i m not suggesting these people are bad people but only that they have interests goals and objectives adverse to yours and mine; that is, given that You and I are average citizens. Corporate Welfare, Public–Private Partnership (PPP) TLR













As different in personality as these Contributors may be, most share two crucial characteristics: They are wealthy, and that wealth has been accumulated in businesses—from construction to alcohol—profoundly threatened by lawsuits. The existence of these lawsuits, in their minds, has less to do with corporate failings than with the greed of lawyers and what TLR describes as “the disengagement of the average citizen in the formulation of policy.”


SIMMONS, HAROLD CLARKINDIVIDUAL20$1,310,000
PERRY, BOBBY JACK (BOB)INDIVIDUAL26$842,765
TROUTT, KENNY AINDIVIDUAL14$725,000
ABBOTT, GREGINDIVIDUAL3$675,000
PERRY, DOYLENEINDIVIDUAL13$495,000
WARREN, KELCY LEEINDIVIDUAL5$480,000
PICKENS JR, THOMAS BOONE (T)INDIVIDUAL14$473,674
TEXANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORMNON-INDIVIDUAL17$427,816
HAMMOND, STEVAN AINDIVIDUAL7$400,000
NAU III, JOHN LINDIVIDUAL15$398,564
FRIEDKIN, THOMAS DANINDIVIDUAL7$394,705
ROWLING JR, ROBERT BINDIVIDUAL15$386,523
RAY II, JAY RICHARD & CARISSAINDIVIDUAL2$350,000
REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP CMTENON-INDIVIDUAL10$325,000
MCNAIR, ROBERT C (BOB)INDIVIDUAL8$313,500
LEININGER, JAMES RICHARD (JIM)INDIVIDUAL15$299,008
HUNT, RAY LEEINDIVIDUAL12$295,000
ANWAR, SYED JAVAIDINDIVIDUAL8$271,887
Q INVESTMENTSNON-INDIVIDUAL19$266,483
WALTON, ALICE LOUISEINDIVIDUAL9$265,000
FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKINON-INDIVIDUAL33$258,815
VINSON & ELKINSNON-INDIVIDUAL19$255,910
HIRSCH, LAURENCE E (LARRY)INDIVIDUAL9$252,500
TROUTT, KENNY A & LISA CINDIVIDUAL1$250,000
MCLANE JR., DRAYTONINDIVIDUAL1$250,000
PITCOCK JR, JAMES DOUGLASS (DOUG)INDIVIDUAL7$245,000
HILL JR, ALBERT GALATYN (AL)INDIVIDUAL10$237,500
KINDER, NANCY GINDIVIDUAL3$225,000
MORIAN, S REEDINDIVIDUAL10$222,939
REES-JONES, TREVOR DINDIVIDUAL5$222,500
DUNCAN, DAN LINDIVIDUAL10$222,259
ANDREWS & KURTHNON-INDIVIDUAL15$220,000
AT&TNON-INDIVIDUAL13$218,000
FOSTER, PAUL LINDIVIDUAL8$214,500
RYAN & CONON-INDIVIDUAL6$210,000
LINEBARGER GOGGAN BLAIR & SAMPSONNON-INDIVIDUAL30$209,700
MEWBOURNE, CURTIS WINDIVIDUAL3$201,000
HILES, NANCY & MARCUSINDIVIDUAL1$200,000
LATTIMORE JR, JOHN VICTORINDIVIDUAL12$195,000
VALERO ENERGYNON-INDIVIDUAL23$190,712
RICHARD R SCOTT 1991 TRUSTNON-INDIVIDUAL4$190,000
ELLIS JR, J RALPHINDIVIDUAL11$180,000
TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSNON-INDIVIDUAL15$174,500
HOLMES, NED SWEENEYINDIVIDUAL20$162,442
PEROT JR, HENRY ROSS (H R)INDIVIDUAL13$160,000
NORTH CYPRESS MEDICAL CENTER OPERATING CONON-INDIVIDUAL2$155,908
FLORES, JAMES CINDIVIDUAL2$150,000
GOOD GOVERNMENT FUNDNON-INDIVIDUAL13$150,000
GREATER HOUSTON PHYSICIANS MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONNON-INDIVIDUAL2$150,000
MARTIN III, RUBEN SINDIVIDUAL16$147,425
HEAVIN, HOWARD (GARY)INDIVIDUAL18$145,442
ALAMEEL, DAVID MINDIVIDUAL4$140,000
CROW, HARLAN RINDIVIDUAL9$140,000
MCCOMBS, BILLY JOE (RED)INDIVIDUAL12$139,353
ANSARY, HUSHANGINDIVIDUAL6$138,500
USAANON-INDIVIDUAL21$133,017
HILLCO PARTNERSNON-INDIVIDUAL14$132,720
MITCHELL, LEE ROYINDIVIDUAL8$132,000
ODONNELL JR, PETER JINDIVIDUAL15$130,000
LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPPNON-INDIVIDUAL16$129,797
ANDREWS, BARRY GINDIVIDUAL18$127,200
STEDMAN, STUART WESTINDIVIDUAL6$126,250
TEXAS APARTMENT ASSOCIATIONNON-INDIVIDUAL12$126,000
GOSS, RANDALL GINDIVIDUAL12$123,745
WARD, ROSS MICHAEL (MIKE)INDIVIDUAL11$121,955
FROST, HOLLOWAY E (HOLLY)INDIVIDUAL4$120,000
BANK OF AMERICANON-INDIVIDUAL15$118,000
TEXAS OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATIONNON-INDIVIDUAL13$117,000
FERTITTA, TILMAN JINDIVIDUAL6$116,000
COLLINS, RICHARD H (DICK)INDIVIDUAL14$112,000
MCLANE JR, ROBERT DRAYTONINDIVIDUAL2$110,000
TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONNON-INDIVIDUAL28$107,448
MCNAIR SR, ROBERT CINDIVIDUAL3$106,000
Q INVESTMENTSNON-INDIVIDUAL2$105,000
FORD, GERALD JINDIVIDUAL6$104,850
GRIMES, WINDIINDIVIDUAL4$102,500
GREEHEY, WILLIAM E (BILL)INDIVIDUAL3$102,500
DANNENBAUM, JAMES D (JIM)INDIVIDUAL11$102,500
HILDEBRAND, JEFFERY DINDIVIDUAL2$101,261
BODENSTEDT, JAMES H (JIM)INDIVIDUAL2$101,000
CROW, TRAMMELL SIMONTONINDIVIDUAL2$100,500
BORDER HEALTHNON-INDIVIDUAL2$100,000
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL STATE ELECTIONS CMTENON-INDIVIDUAL1$100,000
THIEL, PETER AINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
FLORES, CHERYL H (CHERIE)INDIVIDUAL1$100,000
DEASON, DARWIN AINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
HOLT, PETER M & JULIANNA HAWNINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
WALTRIP, ROBERT L (R L)INDIVIDUAL2$100,000
BASS, LEE MINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
HUDDLESTON, ALBERT DINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
RAPIER III, GEORGE MINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
SIMMONS, L EINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
KLEINHEINZ, JOHN BINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
RAY II, JAY RICHARDINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
HAUG, DAVID LINDIVIDUAL2$100,000
MOORE, ARDON EINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
MARLING, KIM & ROBERTINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
MITCHELL III, AMY & N MALONEINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
STEELE, BRANDONINDIVIDUAL1$100,000
MCGINNIS LOCHRIDGE & KILGORENON-INDIVIDUAL12$98,500



No. 84 - Ray Lee Hunt ($6 billion), owner of Hunt Oil, another massive, privately owned oil companies.

PAYDAY LOAN AND TITLE LOANS



Auto Title Loans and Pay Day LoansThe presumption is not that the industry’s business model is predatory, but that its customers are financial illiterates too stupid to read the fine print. The poor things. Legislators don’t understand that Those People are making a rational choice. Many of them understand that they’re being ripped-off, but paying too much is better than the alternative: having their electricity or phone cut off, not being able to buy groceries, getting evicted. The options available to working people trying to survive on wages are different from those available to wealthy legislators with mutual funds, mineral rights, blind trusts, 401(k)s, college savings accounts, and all the other taken-for-granted accoutrements of casual affluence. They don’t understand how the other half lives.


With the courts closed and the Legislature supine, the good people of TLR will have remade the world in their image, one in which there is no recourse for wrongdoing, one in which the powerful simply get their way.