The Texas Freedom Network issued the following press release today: The president of the Texas Freedom Network today called on state lawmakers to investigate ethics concerns swirling around the Texas State Board of Education’s management of the Permanent School Fund and to reconsider their failure this spring to let voters decide whether the board should […]
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SBOE Ethics Woes Draw Legal Attention
In an editorial today, the Austin American-Statesman reports that Travis County Attorney David Escamilla’s office is taking a preliminary look into a report that two Texas State Board of Education members failed to disclose gifts from a firm bidding on work for the board. The Dallas Morning News last weekend reported that Rick Agosto, D-San […]
SBOE Committee to Discuss Ethics Concerns
This requires close watching. Faced with growing a growing list of ethics concerns regarding the Texas State Board of Education‘s management of the Permanent School Fund, the board’s Finance Committee is meeting on Friday to review ethics rules. The Austin American-Statesman has the story here. What isn’t clear, however, is whether some board members are more interested […]
Hoping Hate Will Win Votes in Texas?
When it comes to right-wing extremism, sadly, Texas seems to provide an abundance — especially with political attacks on gay people. Case in point: Congressman Louis Gohmert, an East Texas Republican. Last week during debate over hate crimes legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Gohmert launched into a diatribe comparing homosexuality to bestiality, necrophilia […]
New Revelations on SBOE Ethics Concerns
The Dallas Morning News just dropped another ethics bomb on the Texas State Board of Education. The newspaper reports that two board members “have received thousands of dollars in gifts from a company seeking a lucrative contract with the board, records show, and those members have not reported the gifts on financial disclosure forms.” Today’s […]
