Money Trail

My opponent Pat Lyons has raised 90% or more of his campaign donations from entities who do business with the State Land Office. He is raising unprecedented amounts of money from the oil and gas industry, the real estate industry and big agriculture. Yes, he is the incumbent and he is doing nothing illegal, but if these numbers don't beg for public financing of the land offices races in the future then we should just turn the whole agency over to the lessees.

Oil and Gas Interests --$211,000
Real Estate and Developers--$119,000
Ranching, Dairy, Agriculture--$175,000

That is creeping up towards half a million dollars from lessees at the Land Office to the coffers of Lyons. This brings enormous pressures to bear on the independence of the land office. Already, this is record breaking for the amount of money raised for a land office election.

To keep the record straight, I have recieved $1,000 from an oil and gas refiner and $10,000 from planned community developers.