Too Much Money Is Not Enough : Big Money and Political Power in Texas

by Kinch, Sam, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781893385085
• ISBN10: 1893385086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Bookworld Services

Summary

The book provides an engaging, easy-read introduction to the huge influence of money in Texas politics. Readers will learn a lot about the influence of special interests from the text as well as interviews of 15 former legislators, who give a candid insider's view of how big money runs Texas.

Author Biography

Sam Kind 61, is a retired political reporter who covered his first legislative session in 1961 and his first governor's race in 1962. Other than six years in Washington, D.C., covering Congress and national politics, his professional life has been in Austin, where he was state political writer and assistant bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News from 1970 until 1984, when he started Texas Weekly, currently the state's largest political newsletter Ann Kilday 47, is a free-lance writer based in Austin. She is a former Capitol correspondent for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News. She spent two years in the Morning News' Washington bureau, covering the Texas congressional delegation, and later worked as assistant state editor for the San Antonio Express-News

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(2)
Why are We Telling This Story?	3	(9)
A Separate Deal for the Judges	12	(5)
Poli SCI 101: Politicians Choosing Their Voters	17	(5)
It's the Money that Matters	22	(5)
Who Gives and Why?	27	(5)
Polls and Political Holes	32	(5)
Perspectives from Some of the Players	37	(74)
Former House member and state senator from Jasper	38	(5)
Don Adams
former House member from Springlake and former House speaker	43	(5)
Bill Clayton
former House member from Irving and former aide to Gov. Bill Clements	48	(4)
Bob Davis
former House member from Portland	52	(8)
Robert Earley
former House member from Dallas	60	(2)
Charles Gandy
former House member from Godley and former chief of staff to the late Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock	62	(4)
Bruce Gibson
former House member and former state senator from Houston	66	(5)
Gene Green
former House member from Wichita Falls	71	(5)
John Hirschi
former House member from Galveston	76	(8)
Mike Martin
former House member from Georgetown	84	(5)
Parker McCollough
former House member and state senator from Arlington	89	(6)
Bob McFarland
former House member from Dallas	95	(3)
Paul Ragsdale
former House member from Dripping Springs	98	(6)
Alec Rhodes
former House member and state senator from Galveston	104	(7)
A.R. (Babe) Schwartz
Where do we go from Here?	111	(14)
Afterword	125