November 25, 2015

From Empower Texans For one Texas senator, there may be some difficult explaining to do around the Thanksgiving dinner table thanks to an undercover video released today by the American Phoenix Foundation. APF revealed during the latter part of the 84th legislative session they had been covertly filming the interactions between legislators, lobbyists, and staff…

  Thanks to Kelli Cook who forwarded this from Cahnman’s Musings Ever wonder why special interests get to run special districts like their own little government with little or no supervision by the Lege? Why they can rent voters to pass their bond propositions?  Why attempts at reform fail? Why the powerful get away with…