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Houston homebuilder Bob Perry (no relation), who gave $600,000 directly and another $3 million through a GOP governors group backing Perry.
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Bob Perry is a major supporter of efforts to limit civil lawsuits against business. The governor delivered on one of the homebuilder’s top priorities — creation of an agency to evaluate complaints over defective homes.
Critics said the agency was designed to slow lawsuits against builders. Following complaints by homeowners, the Legislature abolished the agency.
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Other big Perry donors include Dallas investor Harold Simmons, whose nuclear waste site in Andrews County still faces approval by a Perry-dominated board on whether to accept toxic waste from other states. The decision could be worth millions of dollars. Simmons gave Perry $250,000.
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Texans for Lawsuit Reform, which supports limiting lawsuits against business, gave $150,000. Investment manager Robert Zorich gave $15,000. Zorich’s firm, EnCap Energy Capital Fund, is cited in a whistleblower’s memo that alleges the governor’s appointees pressured managers of the Teacher Retirement System to invest in the companies of big Perry donors, including EnCap.
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Other large donations to Perry include $100,000 from the Chickasaw Nation of Ada, Okla., which operates gambling casinos. He received $50,000 from Houston highway contractor James Dannenbaum; $10,000 from former Democratic state Sen. John Montford, who heads the lobbying effort at General Motors ; and Irving hotel-chain owner Robert Rowling, a Perry appointee to the University of Texas Board of Regents.
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