The "Texan's for Public Justice" report below is Interesting but not surprising!

I personally am tired of Greg Abbot's typical "It's not my job" response to several issues I have brought to his attention in the past few months concerning property rights related to oil and gas issues, property tax, and other issues - like the Senior and Disabled citizens of Texas that were not included in Governor Perry's property tax reduction plan and how the citizens of Hico, TX, did not know they were getting a "commercial" oil and gas waste disposal well at the edge of town until the drilling rig went up.

I have met and talked to David Van Os on two occasions about issues facing the citizens of Texas and I firmly believe that he will represent the people if he is elected Attorney General in November.

I still have hope that the Texas voters will decide who will be our next Attorney General - not MONEY!

I have also had the opportunity to work with Dale Henry, statewide candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner. Dale and his wife Ruth reside in Lampasas, TX. I have discussed many issues with him concerning oil and gas, property rights, and groundwater issues with Dale in the past few months. I am convinced that Dale will represent the people of Texas if he is elected Texas Railroad Commissioner in November.

I'm a Republican and I'm voting for David Van Os for Attorney General, Dale Henry for Railroad Commissioner, and Ernie Casbeer for State Representative, District 59. I will not be voting for Rick Perry (again) for Governor but I am considering Kinky Friedman.

I highly recommend these candidates for those who want to see changes in Austin.

And now for the link from Texans for Public Justice-

Researchers identified the interests behind more than $8 million of Abbott’s campaign money, finding that business interests accounted for more than 99 percent of his total. Abbott, an ex-Texas Supreme Court justice and former corporate lawyer, received the most money ($1.4 million) from the Lawyers and Lobbyists sector (led by Vinson & Elkins). He also received more than $1 million from the Miscellaneous Business sector (led by Houston beer magnate John Nau). Abbott’s top overall donor was, of course, Houston home-builder Bob Perry, who gave the attorney general a remarkable $470,265. The next-largest donors were Kenny Troutt, who made a fortune from his Excel phone company, and energy and water investor T. Boone Pickens.

Researchers identified the interests behind just $36,290 of Van Os’ campaign money. This was because he relied much more on harder-to-identify small donors and because his campaign did a poor job of identifying the occupation and employer of even some of its top donors (e.g reporting one $2,000 donor as nothing more than a “Political Action Committee”). Labor unions are Van Os’ top source of support. Two of his top donors are unions that previously employed this candidate: the Communications Workers of America and the AFL-CIO. While Abbott received a negligible share of his money from unions, the absolute amount that he received from labor ($15,900) almost rivals what Van Os obtained from this sector ($18,800).

Go take a look at the charts comparing the money takes.