In advance of two hearings in Bexar County this week, Empower Texans has submitted to the court a video outlining the contradictory statements made by Murphy Turner Associates. The short video, created at the direction of lead counsel Joe Nixon of Beirne, Maynard...
Texas Scorecard
Sullivan & TFR to TEC: ‘Nuts’
Texas has lawless agencies and rogue elected officials attempting to regulate the very speech our founding fathers wanted most desperately to protect.
Recommendations: Texas Constitutional Amendments
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility releases recommendations for the 2013 election.
Ethics Commission Votes To Waste Money Fighting Transparency
At a special meeting in Houston today the Texas Ethics Commission voted to authorize the hiring an outside law firm in their fight to keep audio recordings of an an August hearing secret. At an August "preliminary hearing" into politically-motivated charges filed...
Ethics Commission Fights Transparency
In their fight to keep the doors tightly shut on the operations of their agency, the Austin-based Texas Ethics Commission has announced it will hold a closed-door meeting in Houston on Friday. Their meeting is in regards to a lawsuit filed by Empower Texans demanding...
Davis Enters Gubernatorial Race
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility’s president offers a statement on Wendy Davis’ gubernatorial race.
Murphy Turner & Associates Ordered To Pay $41,000 Bill
A state district judge in Bexar County today ordered Murphy Turner & Associates to pay $41,000 in discovery costs in a trademark infringement case. The lawsuit results from alleged infringement on the Empower Texans name "Texans for Fiscal Responsibility." The suit...
Ethics Commission Breaks Law, Hides from Sunlight
Is Texas Ethics Commission chairman Jim Clancy overseeing an ‘unsupervised’ agency?
Ethics Commission Suppresses Testimony
Commission chairman Jim Clancy is president of the Houston law firm of Branscomb PC.
Letter to Governor Rick Perry
Texans want less government growth, not more.