Patrick aide knew of videotaping, but did not alert senators before news broke

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Patrick aide knew of videotaping, but did not alert senators before news broke
By Lauren McGaughy | May 11, 2015

AUSTIN – A senior staffer in Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's office knew lawmakers were being secretly videotaped by a conservative nonprofit, but did not make senators aware because it did not involve anyone in the upper chamber.

The Texas Department of Public Safety briefed Patrick Chief of Staff Logan Spence on the videotaping previous to the story breaking last week, Patrick spokesman Alejandro Garcia confirmed Monday. Spence did not ask DPS to brief the full Senate, however, because no senators were believed to have been targeted by the group.

The Chronicle last week first broke the news that an organization called the American Phoenix Foundation had amassed hundreds of hours of secret video and audiotape of Texas lawmakers this session to use against them ahead of the next election.

The more than 800 hours of footage the group claims to have amassed have now been turned over to conservative website Breitbart Texas.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Patrick-aide-knew-of-videotaping-but-did-not-6256153.php

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Obviously they were taping Democrats, I assume. I for one am so sick of these

pricks like the Breitbart assholes or O'Keefe.

Why dont they spend their time actually trying to accomplish something or improve something.

[Skittles]

2. repukes cannot run on their ideas or their plans

so they have to resort to bullshit tactics like suppressing the vote and secretly recording and taking things out of context

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. RAn into a con the other day who was flabbergasted at the contention that O'Keefe

doctored ACORN video.

He said there is no proof of that.

There is of course nothing but proof of that.

They are brain damaged, controlled and causing enough damage and harm to the rest of us that we may not survive.

[cloudbase]

5. They were taping Republicans

who are believed to be insufficiently conservative.

They're eating their own down here.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. Even worse. Republicans who dont HATE enough. I tell you, this is a real sick country

right now, real sick

[freshwest]

7. +1,000

[Gothmog]

3. This story is really strange

[czarjak]

8. Danny Patrick...

The great white hope of the Lone Star State. As big of an asshole as he looks like.