Checking Trial Lawyers’ Contributions
Trial lawyers do contribute heavily to Democrats. Image courtesy StockMonkeys.com at flickr.com/86530412@N02Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It’s not news that so-called personal-injury trial lawyers have been key Democratic supporters. But a spokeswoman for Texans for Lawsuit Reform said specifically that trial lawyers have accounted for more than 80 percent of the Texas Democratic Party’s donations for more than a decade. KUT’s Emily Donahue spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American- Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas about the assertion.
The total donations totaled $14 million from these kinds of interests. A little over a third, $5 million, came from a single group; that was the Texas Democratic Trust, which was an effort steered by the late Fred Baron of Dallas.
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