The Beaumont Enterprise is reporting that outgoing-Comptroller Carole Keeten-Strayhorn has in her waning days in office hired on campaign staff and added employees. Cost to taxpayers? $40,000, for two months of work. For work that apparently wasn’t needed while she was attempting to convince taxpayers and voters to move her into the governor’s mansion. You can read the full story here.Â
The protracted fight over medical freedom has been costly to Bowden.
Jack County commissioners voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance protecting the unborn.
Nearly 73 percent of Republican voters approved a resolution in support of closed primaries during the primary election last month.
