Any well-heeled Republican residing in a stretch of 47 Texas counties from Texarkana to Corsicana might expect these days to get a call from Gaylord T. Hughey, a prominent oil and gas attorney in Tyler. Hughey, like several other Texas lawyers in a variety of practices, uses his free time to raise money in that swath of East Texas for a super-PAC—or what’s described legally as an independent expenditure-only political action committee.
A super-PAC, unlike presidential candidates’ traditional campaign organizations, may receive unlimited funds from individual donors. Hughey is known among Texas GOP operatives as “the don of East Texas” because of his fundraising prowess in those parts. Usually, Hughey asks fellow East Texans to give at least $25,000, for starters, to a super-PAC, named Right to Rise, which currently supports former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s bid for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
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