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Why Ray Hunt is so powerful
By Gary Jacobson | September 24, 2007 at 6:47am | 1 
The first family of Dallas is not named Perot, or Cuban, or Jones or Hicks.
And it won’t be Bush when the president leaves the White House in 2009 and returns to Big D.
The first family of Dallas is Hunt.
It has been ever since Haroldson Lafayette Hunt moved his oil company to the city in the 1930s so he could be closer to his banker and good train service.
It’s even truer today because of Ray Hunt, the most powerful Hunt - and there have been a lot of them - since old H.L. While H.L. was always trying to find a U.S. president who would listen to him, his son has found one in George Bush.
