According to the Times:
NEW ORLEANS - Striding up the sidewalk of one of this city's most affluent neighborhoods on Monday evening, S. Scott Sewell seemed an unlikely figure to be attending a fund-raiser for Senator Ted Cruz. An oil industry executive, Mr. Sewell served in President George Bush's administration, lent a hand to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential recount, and was twice a chairman for Mitt Romney's Louisiana campaigns.
And there were a slew of other establishment types there... all making nice and ready to do the wink and nod.
Like Trump was an unlikely friend of the Clintons? So what - this is what executives do.