Tarrant Water Campaign Contributions Top $500,000

Where does everyone stand in this fund raising?

• “Our Water, Our Future, supports incumbents Marty Leonard and Jim Lane and has raised the largest pot of most money so far. The PAC, with former Mayor Mike Moncrief as treasurer reported contributions of $447,633.”

  • Betsy Price Campaign, $4,500;

  • attorney Dee J. Kelly, $10,000;

  • businessman John B. Kleinheinz, $25,000;

  • Dallas auto dealership owner Carl Sewell, $25,000;

  • Dallas-based liquor distributor Barry Andrews, $10,000;

  • Texas Rangers co-owner and Dallas oil billionaire Ray Davis,

  • $10,000; Dallas oil billionaire Ray Hunt, $25,000;

  • Hunt heiress Lyda Hill, $5,000;

  • Dallas software entrepreneur Milledge Hart III, $5,000;

  • Dallas oil billionare Trevor Rees-Jones, $10,000.

  • Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton of Millsap also contributed $25,000.

  • The Fort Worth Bass family’s Good Government Fund and PSEL PAC each contributed $25,000 to Our Water, Our Future.

• Save North Texas Water political action committee, which was formed to unseat Lane and Leonard, supports the candidacies of Craig Bickley and Michele Von Luckner. Wealthy Dallas businessman Monty Bennett has been a major contributor to the PAC and candidates through MJB Operating L.P.

Tarrant Regional Water Development Board has raised the ire of private property rights activists and supporters of transperancy in government records, which has led to this incredible fundraising for a water board.

For a longer list of donors to each PAC: Ft. Worth Business Press