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Rudy’s Texans
Some fancy titles announced today for some influential Texans who think ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani should be president of the United States.
T. Boone Pickens, hailed in the Giuliani press release as “legendary oilman and one of American’s best-known entrepreneurs,” was named to Giuliani’s executive committee for the Southwest region. Pickens, the release notes, has contributed more than $5 million to a “wide range of Republican causes.”
Dallasite Tom Hicks was named to the executive committee and as Texas state finance chair for the campaign. Hicks’ Hicks Holdings LLC owns the Texas Rangers (the baseball team, not the legendary law enforcement team), the Dallas Stars hockey team and half of Liverpool FC, an English soccer team.
Hicks’ Texas vice chair will be James H. Lee of Houston, president and founder of JHL Capital Securities, LLC, an institutional broker-dealer in Houston. Lee raised more than $200,000 for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
Previously, Giuliani named Houston lawyer Pat Oxford as chairman of the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee, the entity that soon will morph into the ex-New York mayor’s presidential campaign committee.
Oxford is managing partner of Bracewell & Giuliani (formerly Bracewell & Patterson,) a worldwide law firm based in Houston.
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By mateo
April 18, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this
why of course, haven’t there always been an extra large number of devout Predatory Capitalists in TEXAS? R. Giuliani is a contemporary purveyor of pure pristine no-compromise REAGANOMICS. for heck’s sake, the man was IN the REAGAN Administration! he doesn’t render two sentences without basically turning it into a REAGAN seance!