When was the last time a speaker of the Texas House was even challenged in his own primary? Not in the last 20 years, according to the Texas Secretary of State's elections database. And since 1992, only four times has an incumbent speaker faced any challenge in their...
San Antonio has installed 120 electric-car charging stations with tax-dollars to subsidize the "fueling" needs of... 100 electric cars in the city. A new investigative report from KENS-5 investigative journalist Brian New finds -- not surprisingly -- many of the...
As a trial lawyer and politician, Todd Smith says whatever people want to hear. Too bad for them that he's saying different things. The problem for Todd Smith is that folks are starting to compare notes about what he says... and none of it is good for Texas. In...
Reading over the editorial endorsements of the last several days, the Dallas Morning News has a very focused criteria for their candidates: opposition to the Texas Budget Compact, and a disturbing “flexibility” on raising taxes. In endorsing moderate lackey Todd Smith...
No-bid contracts have apparently become a way of life for State Rep. Vicki Truitt. Tax-subsidized contracts which didn’t start flowing until after she got a plumb committee assignment, and really started flowing after she entered Speaker Joe Straus’ inner circle. But...
Well, the Dallas Morning News gets credit for being honest. Their endorsement in the Senate District 9 open-seat Republican primary contest is based on their desire for a Republican to champion tax increases. And in Todd Smith, they have their tax-hiking man. Texans...
Over the last 20 years, state government spending has increased 300 percent – nearly twice as fast as the sum of inflation and population. Frankly, we can’t afford that level of spending any longer. And yet Speaker of the House Joe Straus isn’t willing to put the...
The historic trend for the cost of state government has presented Texas taxpayers with a bill we increasingly cannot afford. For some time, we have consoled ourselves with the idea Texas is a small-government, low-tax state. And we are, when compared to the other...
It's reported State Rep. Vicki Truitt has received $350,000 in tax-funded no-bid contracts from at least one governmental entity, shortly after getting a chairmanship under the speakership of Joe Straus. Are sweetheart deals, undisclosed to the taxpayers, why Truitt...
Opponents of Texas' Voter ID law like to say election fraud isn't a problem. Perhaps that's because commiting in-person voter fraud is so easy, that it isn't a problem for them. James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released today video of one of their operatives...