Jeb Bush Backed by Big East Texas Donor
Posted/updated on: March 9, 2015 at 4:42 pm
TYLER — A Tyler man who raised more than $350,000 for Mitt Romney in 2012 is putting his money on another out-of-state candidate for president. Oil and gas attorney Gaylord Hughey is the Republican Party’s top bundler for East Texas — and he says he’s going to raise money for former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. SMU political scientist Cal Jillson says, “People are also looking at former Governor Rick Perry, but he’s tainted by his failure in 2012. And they also see Senator Ted Cruz as a fairly narrow acquired taste.” Jillson says the big bundlers tend to support more moderate, institutional Republicans. He says Bush’s problem will be winning over skeptical social conservatives in places like Iowa and South Carolina.
