Wendy Davis fined for ethics violation

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

AUSTIN — Former state Sen. Wendy Davis has been fined by a state regulator for failing to properly disclose her business relationships with two lobbyists, capping a years-long ethics inquiry that erupted into a flashpoint during her 2012 re-election campaign.

The Texas Ethics Commission, in an order released this week, ruled on a complaint lodged nearly three years ago by Davis's Republican opponent, Mark Shelton, toward the end of a rancorous multi-million dollar state Senate campaign that Davis narrowly won.

The commission found "credible evidence" that Davis, an attorney, ran afoul of state law by failing to report on personal financial disclosure forms her connection to lobbyists registered on behalf of two law firms she did work for. The commission also ruled that Davis did not disclose the two law firms as entities that employed lobbyists and also compensated her.

The violations occurred on reports detailing Davis's financial activity for calendar years 2010 and 2011.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas_legislature/article/Wendy-Davis-fined-for-ethics-violation-6251816.php

[yeoman6987]

1. I wonder if this is BS. Who forgets where they worked during the year

especially when getting paid. I smell BS here.

[blackspade]

2. What a bunch of BS

[ananda]

3. And yet the far worse Texas Reeps skate free.

Especially since the lege has moved the investigation and prosecution
office for political breaches out of Travis County into the friendly
arms of the ... wait for it ... Texas Rangers.

[yallerdawg]

4. She'll be doing something great!

I saw her on C-Span at a lecture and discussion on women's issues. She was awesome! Gave me a new term for coded sexist messaging - "wolf-whistle."

We'll be watching out for wolf-whistles for a long time to come!

[midnight]

5. kick

[Javaman]

6. you see whats going on here right?

cement head perry is under investigation, so the rebukes go after Wendy. (also payback for that crook tom delay)

to paraphrase an old line from the movie Untouchables, "you put one of us on trial, we will put one of yours in the political hell".