State Sen. John Whitmire didn’t break the law by spending $90,000 in campaign funds on sports tickets, the Texas Ethics Commission finds.
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Money Matters
The four major gubernatorial campaigns will spend big bucks โ maybe as much as $60 million โ between now and the March 2 primary. What is that deluge of cash and advertising going to look like? Ben Philpott, who’s covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
Posted inState Government
Money Matters
The four major gubernatorial campaigns will spend big bucks โ maybe as much as $60 million โ between now and the March 2 primary. What is that deluge of cash and advertising going to look like? Ben Philpott, who’s covering the 2010 elections for KUT News and the Tribune, filed this report.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: An App-y New Year
A rundown of the data we’ve published so far โ and a look ahead.
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State Government
Show Us the Money
The Texas Ethics Commission wants candidates and elected officials to come clean about their spending, and it’s adopted new rules that require them to do just that.
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Criminal Justice
On the Records: Hutchison vs. White Money
With some notable exceptions, few political donors cut checks to both candidates.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Give or Take a Million
If we didn’t think campaign finance law was confusing before this morning, well, we do now.๏ปฟ
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State Government
The $4.2 Million Question
How much of Bill White’s federal war chest could be used in a race for governor? Most of it.
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On the Records: Shami vs. Himself
Farouk Shami donated $4,800 to Bill White’s senate campaign. Now the money could be used against him in the govenor’s race.
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State Government
Debtors’ Treadmill, Part Two: Political Payday
Groups that offer high-interest, short-term consumer loans and want to avoid state regulation contributed more than $1.4 million to Texas politicians over the past nine years, Texas Ethics Commission records show.
