I'm putting this here in the P&OC forum in order to shed light on the utter corruption of a powerful GOP politician here in Texas. I'm also curious to see the Trump supporters' reaction to it.
This Empower Texas group is a Tea Party movement that wishes to hide campaign contributions so they are suing the state's Ethics Commission in hopes of gutting it to the point of being useless. The Ethics Commission oversees campaign finance and makes the donor list public. The Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is allowing it to happen. I would think that people on both sides of the aisle would agree that this is not good.
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A newly revived lawsuit threatens to strip the ethics commission’s power to enforce state laws that shine a light on where politicians get their money. The lawsuit is the latest in a years long siege from Empower Texans, a tea party group that promotes small government and low taxes and aggressively campaigns against establishment Republicans.
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“It is rare that the attorney general refuses to help its regulatory agency, particularly one of the most important agencies — the one that tracks money in politics,” said Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice, a group that tracks political spending. “The attorney general has turned his back on campaign finance regulation in the state, and it sends a terrible signal to those who might abuse campaign finance laws.”
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Being that Trump supporters are actively targeting "establishment Republicans" one can only assume that they are okay with these sort of things. Am I wrong?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...s-13161740.php
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