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</div><div>o far, 486 donors from Southern states have given as much as they legally can to the Trump campaign, including seven donors who have maxed out their giving to Trump Victory. Texas is home to the most at 209, followed by Florida with 152, Louisiana with 54, and Virginia with 24. Among them are people with deep ties to the oil and gas industry as well as a prominent leader in the private prison business — both industries that have benefited greatly from Trump administration policies. They include:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Kelcy Warren, chair and CEO of Energy Transfer Equity of Dallas. This is the company <a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/09/meet-texas-billionaire-and-gop-donor-behind-north-dakota-pipeline-controversy" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline</a>, which sparked <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20082019/standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-impact-assessment-court-double-capacity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">months of protests</a> over its route through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation but that was approved by the Trump administration in 2017. Energy Transfer's net income more than quadrupled in 2017 due to the pipeline approval and Trump’s tax legislation, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-21/double-boost-from-trump-gives-kelcy-warren-huge-pipeline-gain" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">according to Bloomberg</a>. Its stock value has also <a href="https://psmag.com/magazine/trump-and-friends-cash-in" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">fared well</a> under Trump, and the company has <a href="https://psmag.com/magazine/trump-and-friends-cash-in" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">an inside man in the White House</a>: Energy Secretary Rick Perry was on Energy Transfer's board from 2015 until 2017, when he joined Trump's cabinet. Warren and his wife, Amy, have donated a combined $721,200 to Trump Victory, including the maximum $5,600 each to Trump's campaign.</li> <li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Syed Javaid Anwar, CEO of Midland Energy in Midland, Texas. Midland Energy is an oil drilling and exploration company founded by Anwar in 1984. Anwar told E&E News that his interest in politics stems from the latest boom-and-bust cycle affecting oil prices, which began about a decade ago. Anwar and his wife, Vicky, have been actively contributing large sums to Republican candidates since 2012; their recent donations included <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060105113" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">$1.7 million</a> to various Texas Republicans during the 2018 midterms. And now they appear to be jumping full-throttle into presidential giving. Anwar, who is friends with former President George W. Bush, <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060105113" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">told E&E News</a> that though he was initially skeptical of Trump's candidacy, he wound up donating an unspecified amount to Trump's PAC before the 2016 election. The Anwars have each donated the $5,600 maximum to the Trump campaign, included in their $275,000 contributions each to the Trump Victory Fund.</li> <li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">The Saulsbury family of Saulsbury Industries in Odessa, Texas. <a href="https://www.saulsbury.com/About-Us/History" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Saulsbury Industries</a> is a oil and gas conglomerate that engineers and constructs energy infrastructure nationwide, including natural gas processing facilities and oil pipelines. Political contributions are a family affair for the Saulsburys: Father Charles "Dick" Saulsbury Sr., an Arkansas native who founded the company, donated $110,000 to Trump Victory this year while his wife Amelia gave $50,000 and his oldest son Charles "Bubba" Saulsbury Jr. donated $172,500, though none of their donations went directly to the Trump campaign. However, sons Matt and Mark Saulsbury and daughter Diane Zugg have all given the legal maximum to the Trump campaign through donations to Trump Victory. In total, the family has given $560,600 to Trump Victory and $16,800 to the Trump campaign. The family has a history of involvement in conservative Texas politics, while Charles Sr. has been <a href="https://www.oaoa.com/news/business/article_bce847d2-8abd-11e7-bc96-63eb9c342afd.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">heavily involved</a> in conservative religious and pro-Second Amendment activism.</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">George Zoley, CEO of the GEO Group in Boca Raton, Florida. The GEO Group is one of the largest for-profit private prison companies in the country. GEO facilities hold 32 percent of the immigrants detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States, according to 2017 ICE data <a href="https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/DWN%2520Spreadsheet%2520Memo.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">obtained by the Detention Watch Network</a>. The Trump administration's immigration policies have been <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/08/30/473966/private-prisons-profiting-trump-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">lucrative </a>for the GEO Group's bottom line:<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-a-boom-time-for-private-prisons/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> 23 percent </a>of the company’s revenue came from ICE in 2017, up from 10 percent in 2007, and <a href="https://www.axios.com/private-prisons-immigrant-detention-8e5b3317-8ecf-476c-b915-25330852e66f.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">$480 million in federal funding</a> has been directed from ICE to the GEO Group since Trump's inauguration. On an earnings call with shareholders earlier this year, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/a-private-prison-ceo-is-hopeful-about-the-budget-deals-boost-for-ice-detention/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Zoley told investors</a> that he was "hopeful" that increased federal funding for immigrant detention would, in the words of an inquiring shareholder, "translate into business opportunities."</li></ul>The ranks of Trump's maxed-out Southern donors also include Duke Buchan III of Florida, an investment manager who is the current ambassador to Spain; Isaac Perlmutter of Florida, the chair of Marvel Entertainment; Christopher Goldsbury of Texas, the former owner of Pace Picante Sauce; and Pat Chazen of Texas, whose husband, Stephen Chazen, is the CEO of Magnolia Oil & Gas, an oil extraction company in South Texas. See the complete list here:
Committee Name (Last, First) Total YTD Contributions to Committee State Employer OccupationTRUMP VICTORY BUCHAN, RICHARD DUKE MR. $360,600 FL HUNTER GLOBAL INVESTORS LP FOUNDER & CEOTRUMP VICTORY PERLMUTTER, ISAAC MR. $360,600 FL MARVEL BRANDS LLC EXECUTIVETRUMP VICTORY PERLMUTTER, LAURA MRS. $360,600 FL RETIRED RETIREDTRUMP VICTORY SEALE, LYSSA $360,600 TX RETIRED RETIREDTRUMP VICTORY SEALE, ROBERT H. MR. III $360,600 TX RETIRED RETIREDTRUMP VICTORY WARREN, AMY MRS. $360,600 TX AMY WARREN CREATIVE OWNERTRUMP VICTORY WARREN, KELCY MR. $360,600 TX ENERGY TRANSFER EQUITY CHAIRMAN AND CEOTRUMP VICTORY MOSKOWITZ, CHERNA MRS. $339,000 FL RETIRED RETIREDTRUMP VICTORY BYRD, BARNEY D. MR. $325,600 TN GEN CAP AMERICA, INC. PRESIDENT & CEOTRUMP VICTORY GOLDSBURY, ANGELA $200,000 TX RETIRED RETIRED
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