Straus names House committee chairs
AUSTIN — House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, has shuffled the chairmen of several key committees but kept intact the same gang of lieutenants to run the lower chamber’s panels. Straus announced...
View ArticleEx-Houston state lawmaker becomes lobbyist
AUSTIN — Former state. Rep. John Davis, a Houston Republican who did not seek re-election in 2014, has officially kicked off a new career: lobbyist. Continuing a long revolving door tradition that some...
View ArticleTMF, Menendez get feisty during TV debate
AUSTIN — State Reps. Trey Martinez Fischer and Jose Menéndez traded sharp jabs during a joint television appearance that aired Friday, just days before early voting starts in the runoff race to...
View ArticleTMF vs. Menéndez Senate race price tag: $2.3 million
AUSTIN — Two San Antonio Democrats and a powerful special interest group combined to drop more than $1.2 million since Jan.1 in the race to replace state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte — ratcheting up an...
View ArticleGov. Greg Abbott inaugural donor list
These are the donors that gave a total of $4.7 million to fund Gov. Greg Abbott’s inauguration festivities.
View ArticleJudge dismisses ethics case against MQS
DENTON — A state district judge Wednesday dismissed a ruling from the Texas Ethics Commission that found conservative powerbroker Michael Quinn Sullivan violated state law by failing to register as a...
View ArticleTesla pushes bill to bypass Texas auto dealers
AUSTIN — Backed with an army of lobbyists to storm the Capitol, Tesla Motors is asking state lawmakers to allow it to operate up to 12 dealerships in Texas. State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, filed...
View ArticleAUDIO: Van de Putte bids farewell to the Texas Senate
AUSTIN — Leticia Van de Putte, retiring from the Texas Legislature to run for San Antonio mayor, delivered an emotional farewell speech from the floor of the state Senate Tuesday, waxing on roughly 25...
View ArticleEx-Dewhurst aide sentenced to 87 months in prison for campaign embezzlement
AUSTIN — A longtime political adviser to David Dewhurst was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in federal prison for embezzling millions of dollars from the former lieutenant governor’s campaign...
View ArticleFormer TEC Chair: Commission should halt enforcement actions
AUSTIN — The former chair of the Texas Ethics Commission says the state regulator of campaign finance and lobby laws is equivalent to a toothless watchdog and should halt all enforcement actions...
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