Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission has an ethics problem, which they compounded yesterday by hiring a former bureaucrat from the disgraced Texas "Ethics" Commission. HHSC is in hot water over no-bid contracts that appeared to have been handed out to the...
In open court today the attorney for the Texas Ethics Commission made a startling admission: his clients didn’t want to give up the tape of the August hearing because they were afraid Texans might hear it. In a hearing this morning, a Travis County judge said he would...
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...
Commission chairman Jim Clancy is president of the Houston law firm of Branscomb PC.