Texas GOP Vote

Texas Senator John Carona (R-Dallas) has been working hard for several years trying to get the State of Texas to enforce the existing laws on employee misclassification and add some teeth to the current laws by increasing the penalties for misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they are truly employees. Misclassification is also one of the biggest ways unethical employers skirt employment law and give jobs to illegal immigrants who work as day laborers.

Last week, I reported on a hearing held in the Texas Senate on Sen. Carona's bill, SB 676. While no one spoke in opposition to the bill, and commercial

Wal-Mart Corporation, Luan Mai (the Lumberton Walmart manager who worked to authorize this contribution), and Lumberton Realtor Joan Abshire (the person in charge of the political action committee) have violated Texas Election Laws in a MAJOR way with an ILLEGAL $25,000 money exchange, according to the facts presented in a complaint against them. The Texas Ethics Commission is investigating, and at a minimum, large fines will be assessed with a maximum of one year in prison possible for the Class A Misdemeanor.

This article about a Walmart campaign finance violation is just the tip of the iceberg. I will be writing more articles in the near future detailing a much bigger problem with this local Lumberton, TX Walmart to include evidence of local public corruption, and even bribery.

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The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) Chairman Steve Munisteri has sent an open letter to U.S. Congress Speaker Boehner, expressing Texas’ GOP grassroots’ extreme disappointment with the recent tax-and-spend-but-no-spending-cuts “deal” cut with the White House. He also encourages the GOP Washington leadership to stand stronger against further “fiscal irresponsibility”, referring to the debt ceiling and tax debate starting already.

Please take a few moments to call your Congressman, Senator, and Speaker Boehner to encourage them to stand strong for free market solutions and bona fide

The Montgomery County Commissioners Court appears to be poised to undermine the legal authority of the county attorney’s office.

Out of concern for a friend who did not win the job she sought with the associated retirement benefits, the commissioners have expressed

The following statement was released Thursday, after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) rejected non-binding mediation with the Delphi Salaried Retirees. Recent media reports have indicated that the U.S. Treasury Department and PBGC made decisions that resulted in approximately 20,000 salaried Delphi retirees from across the country taking a severe cut in their pension benefits.

I am disappointed to learn that the PBGC has rejected the request of Delphi Salaried Retirees to engage in non-binding mediation. With countless retirees throughout Ohio and across the county, PBGC’s refusal of the Delphi Salaried Retirees’ good faith

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 Last week the House Ethics Committee found that Democrat Rep. Laura Richardson (CA) pressured taxpayer-funded official staffers to campaign on her behalf, destroyed evidence and tampered with witnesses:   Read more »

Former (well, soon to be former) State Rep Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton Backdoor Deal with Hardin County Judge?   Read more »

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

E-mails released Friday show that the Obama administration insisted that drug companies pay for an ad campaign to sell ObamaCare to the public through ad firms closely linked to the White House:

“PhRMA’s REPRESENTATIVE INDICATED THAT PhRMA WAS NOT PREPARED TO RUN ADVERTISEMENTS BEFORE SEEING HOW THE HEALTHCARE LEGISLATION DEVELOPED”: (Energy and Commerce Staff, “Investigation Update: Closed-Door ObamaCare Negotiations,” House Energy and Commerce Committee, 6/8/2012)

AD FIRM FOUNDED BY OBAMA ADVISOR DAVID AXELROD HIRED BEFORE PhRMA EVEN AGREED TO JOIN THE EFFORT:

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is a political committee devoted to maintaining and increasing the 239-member Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today is the last day of stimulus funding for the loan guarantee program that infamously backed now-bankrupt Solyndra with a $535 million loan—and Obama’s Department of Energy is doing its best to make sure there’s no money left in the bank when the fund expires at midnight.   Read more »