Today, thanks to Jay Jordan at the Courier we read how the Montgomery County Attorney has refused to request an Attorney General’s Opinion on the lawfulness of RENT-A-VOTERS saying its a question of fact and not of law. Below find the latest list of STATEWIDE RENT-A-VOTERS all using STINGRAY SERVICES in Spring Texas as their MAILING ADDRESS. The list reveals 123 voters in 18 counties. ( 11 from Montgomery County ) None of the these RENT-A-VOTERS are going to jail. And we are not saying they should. But where is the equal protection of the law. Don’t ask JD & BD who will do anything to protect horses but not innocent people!
Yet to JD Lambright and BD Griffin this is merely a fact question. Do they really have no curiosity as to how it can be lawful? Anyone can read a AG request letter sent to the AG in 2003 HERE which was answered. The RENT-A-VOTER AG request is modeled after it. There is no difference. It all boils down to the intention, volition and action of the County Attorney.
Does anyone care?
( original raw data received from Texas Secretary of State will be made available at no cost any member of the media.)
I understand over 25 MUD’s in Fort Bend County have MUD Director elections this May.
Agreed that an AG opinion is needed, whether through JD Lambright or from our request to Paxton several weeks ago. Not only is the law ambiguous but obviously unequally applied (even an attorney can see that, including my good friend Mr. Yollick)!! Did I just read from Mr. Yollick that developers paying (rent-a) voters to vote one way is actually legal? Seriously!?! At any rate, we sent a letter to the AG several weeks ago, asking him to drop it. I believe the admin has a copy and may want to attach it to this or the post above.
Hmm- I understand what “Rent-A-Voter” services are and I wish JD would request that AG opinion.
Not an attorney or politician but just the average voter in the most corrupt county in all of Texas. I fully understand what a rented voter is and all it’s implications.
We can see training, licensing and oaths don’t mean much to some attorneys.
An interesting and intriguing question of fact is that of 10 million horses in the USA approximately 1 million are in Texas, strikingly that is the same as the number of Texas attorneys. Which of these produce the most crap is undetermined at this time.
http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/us-has-95-million-horses-most-world-report-says
“Anyone who is not an attorney can understand that.” Your statement means that anyone who is not an attorney can understand that, but the implication is that some attorneys might not understand that. Why? Because they hold a license? Because they undergo training in the legal method? Because they take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States? Because they are taught not to follow ethics? Because they are taught to follow ethics? Because you don’t like them? Because you like them?
Is the problem that attorneys are so jaded that they can’t view matters objectively? Could that be the situation with a poor victim of a situation as well, i.e., that he may have difficulty viewing a matter objectively?
Who needs analytical thought nowadays when it’s so much easier and faster to throw stereotypes on the table and blow people away because of the class within which we place them: attorneys, Tea Party supporters, Republicans, Democrats, liberals, conservatives, Congressman, politicians, Christians, Muslims, Jews, descendants of Confederate soldiers, people who live in Texas. It’s so easy. It’s so fun. We’re all done.
I come to the defense of non attorneys and you go into a rant publicly defending the cabal of ethically, legally trained and licensed oath breakers who mauled us.
instead, when will you publicly defend your long time friend Jim Jenkins?
I did not exclude all attorneys – merely included all non attorneys
I guess I fall within your ignorant stereotype. But doesn’t the AG from whom you’re requesting the opinion also fall within your stereotyped class of ignorance? Please explain that to me, because I don’t “understand that” either.
AN AG opinion REQUEST will force the AG to reconcile the two groups in PUBLIC
That’s why we need it. Anyone who is not an attorney can understand that.
Let’s keep the eye on the ball. The issue is not the rent-a-voters, because, clearly, under Texas law, that is permissible (despite its unsavory nature). We don’t need an AG opinion on it, because the AG already rendered an opinion on it as did the Secretary of State. The problem that Heath, Jenkins, the Doyle family, and others confronted was the selective criminalization of the statute against them because they dared to go against one particular real estate developer who had a lot of political clout and could convince a state senator to lobby the attorney general to prosecute them.