TEC has ruled that Texas Employees Retirement System (ERS) trustee - and GOP power broker - Bill Ceverha, and future politicians, do not have to disclose the value of gifts they receive.
Since 2001, Ceverha patrons Bob Perry and Louis Beecherl have contributed $1.9 million to the three GOP politicians who collectively appointed all of the ethics commissioners. During this same period, Bob Perry and Louis Beecherl contributed an additional $1.8 million to Texas’ state Republican Party.
Bill Ceverha is the first flunky to take the bullet for Texans for a Republican Majority’s illegal intervention in Texas’ 2002 election. If Texas’ top donor was willing to help pay Ceverha’s legal bills—and if Ceverha didn’t want to disclose the magnitude of Bob Perry’s gift—then apparently the least that the Republican leadership could do was to obliterate the public’s right to know about it. That’s exactly what their ethics appointees did.
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I'm just flabbergasted to learn that Texas HAS an Ethics Commision! What are the requirements for membership, I wonder?
"Have you ever kicked a puppy? Hard?
No? You're in!"
You get appointed if you are a friend of the governor. That seems to be the requirement.
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