The oil barons have chosen their candidate for president, and it isn’t either of the Texans who are running.
Jeb Bush’s campaign disclosed Wednesday donations from pipeline magnate Richard Kinder, “Dallas” heir Ray Lee Hunt, Hilcorp Energy Co. founder Jeffery Hildebrand, fracking billionaire Trevor Rees-Jones, and investing tycoon T. Boone Pickens. Each gave the individual maximum of $2,700 last quarter.
The five oil barons all reside in Texas, whose junior senator, Ted Cruz, and former governor, Rick Perry, are also seeking the Republican nomination and have been outspoken industry proponents. Bush, though now a Floridian, of course has deep family ties to the state and the industry.
