With top Democrats, Waco man has rapport Longtime friend Clinton to speak at dinner honoring prolific donor 'B' Rapoport By Paul Thissen AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, May 19, 2006 WACO — Bernard Rapoport is proud of his wall of photographs. .... His politics remain largely Democratic, though he has donated $10,000 to independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn.
"For all his wealth and power, he remains down-home and humble," said Bob Mann, a veteran Democrat who also teaches journalism at the University of Texas, Huston-Tillotson and Texas State universities.
Rapoport was born into politics, he said, but not money. His father, who fled czarist Russia in 1905, was the leader of the Socialist Party in San Antonio.
"I was raised in a family that did not have means, but there was a lot of love in the house," he said.
His parents insisted that he needed to "have a sense of outrage at injustice," he said.
He started giving money to Democrats before he had much to give.
His first contribution was $1,000 to Homer Rainey's gubernatorial campaign in 1946. At that point he and his wife, Audre, made only about $5,000 a year from the jewelry store they ran. .... more
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