James Leininger

IN the last decade and a half, James Leininger figures, he has invested more than $100 million in a calculated bid to transform Texas. His money helped elect the three most powerful politicians in the Lone Star State: the governor, the lieutenant governor and the House speaker. It helped Republicans capture both houses of the Legislature in Austin for the first time in more than a century. It allowed business-friendly jurists to take over the Texas Supreme Court.