One Week Out & The Money Comes Rolling In: $1.2 Million From Leininger
By Vince Leibowitz on Oct 31, 2006 in 2006 Texas Elections ![[Post to Twitter]](/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter.png){kind=icon}
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[This is Part I of a two part-post on financial reports].
Once again, James Leninger is doing his very best to buy seats in the Texas House of Representatives.
Like meth addicts looking for their next fix, it seems that Republican candidates for Texas House cannot get enough of the school voucher advocate’s cash—either in direct expenditures or through political action committees.
After years of tracking Leninger’s money through the various and sundry PACs he cretes, co-opts, or gives to, you’d think he might try a bit more innovative of an approach. However, he’s giving to expected PACs: Craddick’s Stars over Texas PAC, Texans for Lawsuit Reform and other PACs that are the bread and butter of the radical Republican religious right.
Leininger has contributed nearly $1.2 million to various candidates and political action committees since September 30.
These include:
$100,000 to Texans for Lawsuit Reform
$100,000 to Associated Republicans of Texas Campaign Fund
$50,000 to the Republican Party of Texas
$83,000 to Talmadge Heflin
$125,000 and $10,000 to Stars over Texas PAC
$165,000 to Texans for Lawsuit Reform
$5,000 to Friends of David Buryear
$100,000 to Texans for Lawsuit Reform
$50,000 to Michael Esparza
$15,000 to Nelson H. Baldio
$75,000 to Associated Republicans of Texas
$50,000 to David Dewhurst Committee
$100,000 to Associated Republicans of Texas
$170,000 to Texans for School Choice PAC
$5,000 to Texans for Don Willett
$5,000 to Will Wilson
According to Harvey Kronberg’s Quorum Report, Leininger’s largesse is responsible for a significant percentage of money raised by several of the PACs to which he has contributed during the most recent reporting period:
•Associated Republicans of Texas: 69.8% of its funding is
from Leininger
•Texans for Lawsuit Reform: 26.8% of funding is from Leininger
•Stars over Texas: 34% of funding from Leininger.
•Republican Party of Texas PAC: 17.3% of funding came from Leininger.
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