Cornyn Takes Money From Champions Of Trans-Texas Corridor
By Vince Leibowitz on Jul 13, 2008 in 2008 Texas Elections
As the July reports of political action committees trickle in on the Texas Ethics Commission’s website, there are several interesting contributions that have popped up from the Zachry Construction Company Political Action Committee. Zachry, of course, is a major pro-toll road ally that is playing a major role in the construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Perhaps the most interesting contribution was to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Cornyn got a $5,000 contribution from the PAC on March 1 of this year.
That’s particularly interesting because Cornyn has claimed opposition to the Corridor, and considering that Cornyn has authored the legislation to create the Mexican superhighway that would connect to the TTC–with U.S. Tax Dollars.
Others who took Zachry’s money include:
Congressman Michael Burgess: $1,500 on 5/5/08
State Senator John Carona: $1,000 on 6/11/08
Congressman John Carter: $1,000 on 3/1/08
State Sen. Frank Corte: 500.00 on 3/1/08
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst: $2,500 on 6/15/08
Rep. Phil King: $500 on 3/1/08
Congressman Lamar Smith: 1,500 on 6/23/08
Railroad Commissioner Michael L. Williams: 1,500 on 3/1/08 and $1,500 on 6/12/08
it also looks like they gave money to the following:
Roy Blunt-$2,000
Dan Branch-$500
Kim Brimer-$2500
Betty Brown-$500
Joe Crabb- $500
Henry Cuellar- $1500
Joe Driver- $750
Dawnna Dukes- $500
Craig Estes- $1000
Kino Flores- $500
Juan Garcia- $500
Charlie Geren- $500
Glenn Hegar- $2000
Eddie Lucio- $250
Brian McCall- $2500
Jose Menendez- $750
Doug Miller- $500
Rene Oliveira- $500
Aaron Pena- $500
Wayne Smith- $500
Tara Ybarra- $500
Judith Zaffirini- $1500