The exterior of the George W. Bush Presidential Center is seen Friday, April, 5, 2013, in Dallas. The roughly 227,000-square-foot center built on the campus of Southern Methodist University houses Bush’s presidential library, a museum and a policy institute. The dedication of the center will be on April 25. (AP Photo/Kim Johnson Flodin) Photo: Kim Johnson Flodin, Associated Press
There is an afterlife for Bush Pioneers and Rangers, the monikers given to the top bundlers of campaign contributions for George W. Bush.
It can be found on 5.2 acres of Dallas real estate on the campus of Southern Methodist University, home of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
A library, museum and think tank, the homage to the 43rd president will be dedicated Thursday, April 25, marking a Texas-sized reunion for Bush loyalists and political patronage appointees.
It coincides with a bipartisan push in Congress — backed by watchdog groups such as the Sunlight Foundation — to require presidential libraries to disclose donor information.
The Bush Center is pledging to release the names of most, but not all, of its donors. The kicker is they won’t be available online.
Many of them are Pioneers and Rangers, meaning they bundled $100,000+ and $200,000+ for Bush’s election and re-election campaigns, respectively.
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