In order to avoid short-term consequences, the agency has agreed to an order that will be its undoing.

In order to avoid short-term consequences, the agency has agreed to an order that will be its undoing.
Despite having only two of eight appointments, House Speaker Joe Straus effectively controls the TEC.
Senator: “We’re turning political discourse into what the TSA is turning air travel into.”
“I’m trying to start with the easy ones.”
Ethics commissioners double down on COGEL, an international consortium of speech regulators that once gave its highest prized to the disgraced IRS director.
Steve Wolens turned the TEC into a weapon against Texans. Now Straus is sending him there to keep it one.
The Texas Ethics Commission has yet another bad day in court.
Rogue agency wants more money to defend laws they concede violate the constitution.
At a time when grassroots conservatives are calling for reformers to be appointed, these two would be a step in the wrong direction.
Commissioners invoke grand juries to justify their secrecy and power, but they lack accountability.