The Sources of George W. Bush

, a non-profit group that tracks the role of money in Texas politics, has released a detailed report on the sources of George Bush's two gubernatorial runs in Texas.

Bush's benefactors include people who mass marketed quack cures for baldness, corrupted college athletes, laundered money, peddled government influence, misled investors, financed David Duke, dodged taxes, dumped toxic pollution and own companies that sold shock batons to dictators

Many of Governor Bush's big gubernatorial donors are resurfacing among his "Pioneer" fundraisers, who are raising at least $100,000 apiece for his presidential campaign.

It should come as no surprise, therefore, that Bush has been very reticient to release the names of all of his "Pioneers." I don't blame him: I'd be ashamed to be publicly associated with the likes of these.