MERCER REYNOLDS

Election rigging

Considered, along with his business partner William DeWitt Jr., to be "Rove's bosses" in Jim March and Jill Simpson's election theft diagram. Reynolds and DeWitt were key financiers of Jeff Averbeck's GOP-aligned technology firm SmarTech, which is identified as a central base of operations in the electronic rigging of elections that is alleged to be supervised by Rove.

Corporations

• Reynolds, DeWitt & Co.: Co-founder (1979), co-chair (1979-2001)
• Spectrum 7: Co-chair (1980-1985)
• Reynolds Plantation: CEO (1985-2001), CEO and chairman (200?-????)

Sports teams

• Texas Rangers: Co-owner (1989-1998)

Campaigns and PACs

• 2000 George W. Bush presidential campaign: Ohio finance chairman
• 2004 George W. Bush presidential campaign: National finance chair

Government positions

• United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (2001-2003)

Controversies

Arbusto Energy involvement

Spectrum 7, an oil company started by Reynolds and his business partner William DeWitt Jr., effectively rescued George W. Bush's failing Arbusto Energy in 1984 by merging with it.