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Bill White quietly building a big-money machine for governor

7:39 AM Thu, Feb 25, 2010

While the Republicans for governor are battling it out -- raising the spending big bucks in pursuit of the GOP nomination, Democrat Bill White is quietly building a financial base to challenge in the fall. White's attracting support from the party's most potent donors -- trial lawyers, labor and the Democratic establishment. He'll need it if he's the nominee facing a Republican in November.

As I reported this morning, White collected $500,000 from the Democratic Governors Association, according to the latest filings. (Their Republican counterpart dumped $1 million into Perry's reelection four years ago). White also got $50,000 each from trial lawyers Thomas Umphrey of Beaumont, Joseph Jamail of Houston and Richard Mithoff of Houston. Here are some other big-money trial lawyer donations: $25,000 each from Russell Budd of Dallas, Domingo Garcia of Dallas and Cary Patterson of Texarkana; $15,000 from asbestos attorney Peter Kraus of Dallas and $10,000 each from Frank Branson and Marc Stanley, both of Dallas.

White got $50,000 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. And party stalwarts weighed in to begin buildling White's campaign treasury: Waco insurance executive Bernard Rapoport, $15,200; long-time Democratic strategist George Shipley of Austin, $15,000 and former Ambassador Lyndon Olson of Waco, $10,000.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/02/bill-white-quietly-building-a.html

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