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
Patrick says Phelan refused to join him and Gov. Greg Abbott in a budget letter prioritizing school choice.
Judge Reed O’Connor cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn a federal ban on bump stocks as justification for the ruling.
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Duante Newton’s defenders called the verdict a “significant Constitutional victory.”