Clean Up Texas Politics | Houston Chronicle: Scary idea- Andy Taylor may be right
Clean Up Texas Politics | Houston Chronicle: Scary idea- Andy Taylor may be right: "A story by Chronicle Austin reporter R.G. Ratcliffe the other day raises a frightening question.
What if Andy Taylor is right?
Taylor is the Houston lawyer for the Texas Association of Business, the group that in 2002 raised and spent $1.7 million in 42 secret corporate contributions to buy the Texas Legislature.
It then bragged about its success.
And based on the results, especially the refusal of the Legislature to raise business taxes to more fairly and fully fund public schools, TAB has every reason to brag.
TAB, you may recall, ran a coordinated effort with U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (TRMPAC) to target key legislative races and pour in money for ads supporting favored candidates and attacking their opponents.
The result was a speaker of the House who appears to be totally indebted to TAB and TRMPAC, a cadre of Republican legislators devotedly grateful to them, a bundle of indictments and several lawsuits.
7 unseated, he boasted"
What if Andy Taylor is right?
Taylor is the Houston lawyer for the Texas Association of Business, the group that in 2002 raised and spent $1.7 million in 42 secret corporate contributions to buy the Texas Legislature.
It then bragged about its success.
And based on the results, especially the refusal of the Legislature to raise business taxes to more fairly and fully fund public schools, TAB has every reason to brag.
TAB, you may recall, ran a coordinated effort with U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (TRMPAC) to target key legislative races and pour in money for ads supporting favored candidates and attacking their opponents.
The result was a speaker of the House who appears to be totally indebted to TAB and TRMPAC, a cadre of Republican legislators devotedly grateful to them, a bundle of indictments and several lawsuits.
7 unseated, he boasted"
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