29 Fisher Contributors Over $5,000

$150,000 Democratic Legislative Campaign Comm.

$103,834 Orbetuck PAC, Orgain Bell & Tucker law firm

$50,000 Texas Trial Lawyers Association PAC

$50,000 Wayne Reaud, Reaud Morgan & Quinn

$50,000 TX Dem. Party Legislature Victory Fund

$30,217 Texas Democratic Party

$25,000 Texas State Teachers Association PAC

$25,000 Williams Bailey Law Firm

$25,000 Nix Patterson & Roach, plaintiff law firm

$15,784 J. Hoke Peacock II, Orgain Bell & Tucker law firm

$15,000 The New Democrat Network

$14,500 Arthur (Buddy) Temple, Temple-Inland forestry fortune

$12,500 Ernest Cannon, Ernest Cannon & Assoc. (law)

$11,000 Gilbert Adams, Gilbert Adams law firm

$10,500 Texas AFL-CIO COPE Fund

$10,000 General Drivers, Warehousemen & Helpers Local Union 745

$10,000 David Bernsen, State Senator

$10,000 Lone Star Fund, leadership PAC of Martin Frost, D-TX

$10,000 Moore Landrey L.L.P, plaintiff law firm

$9,280 David Fisher, self

$7,000 Hubert Oxford, Beckenstein & Oxford (plaintiff)

$7,000 IBEW -- COPE PAC, Electrical Workers union

$6,500 Pat Maloney, Maloney & Maloney law firm

$6,000 Machinists Nonpartisan Political League

$6,000 Silber Pearlman L.L.P., plaintiff law firm

$6,000 Joe Penland, Quality [industrial] Mat Co.

$6,000 Texas State Assoc. of Fire Fighters PAC Fleming ex-exec VP IXC carrier (telecom)

$5,500 Daniel Miller


Biggest contributors are Democratic Party/trial lawyer/union sources

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