Leppert Lauds Lively’s Fund-raising Knack

Bill Lively has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the years for SMU, the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the 2011 Super Bowl. So, maybe he should try his hand at bailing out the cash-strapped city of Dallas. Mayor Tom Leppert may have been thinking something like that last night when he introduced Lively for the Entrepreneurs for North Texas outfit at its ninth annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship bash honoring Lively in Dallas. The other day, City Council member “Ron Natinsky and I Googled, ‘Need to Raise Money.’ And guess what came up?” Leppert cracked to an A-list crowd including Ray Hunt, Charles Wyly and Jim Keyes. “A picture of Bill Lively.”