Thirty Harris County campaigns — commissioners, judges, the DA, the sheriff, the constables — just filed their mid-year money reports. Read together, they reveal something one report never shows: the same names, writing checks across the whole building.
Each arc below links two campaigns funded by the same donors. The web is not evenly spread: it concentrates hard on Commissioners Court — the body that votes on the county's contracts and budget.
The densest edges in the network join Adrian Garcia, Rodney Ellis and Lesley Briones — three of the four county commissioners. Garcia and Briones alone share 68 donors. These are the offices that award the county's engineering, construction and professional-services contracts.
The twelve biggest repeat donors put in $602,000 between them. Engineering money, lobby money — and in one case, a sitting commissioner's own campaign fund giving to two other county candidates.
We matched the repeat donors against Harris County's own vendor-payment records. Two names appear on both sides of the ledger — funding the campaigns of the officials whose government pays them.
A third repeat donor, ACEC Houston PAC — the political arm of the region's consulting-engineering industry — gave $27,965 across four campaigns. Its member firms hold county engineering contracts.
Every arc on this page comes from reports candidates filed with the Harris County Clerk in July 2026. Commissioners Court votes on vendor contracts nearly every other Tuesday — the agenda is public too.
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