Jerry Eversole and the GOP. Texas sized embarrassments

I'm not sure who is more of an embarrassment to the state of Texas, Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole for using his donors money for golf, antique western wear, cattle (yes, cattle), chaps, art, and antique guns, the Texas Ethics Commission for letting him get away with it, the Republican Judge who gave Eversole just 3 years probation for lying to the FBI, or the republican party for allowing this to happen under their watch. I think all are to blame and all have brought more shame to this once great state of Texas.

For a state owned and operated for the last decade by the so called "tough on crime" bunch of conservatives, Texas has become the great state of crime wussies. The Texas Ethics Commission has led the pack with insignificant slaps on the wrists of those found violating campaign finance laws. Eversole was fined $75,000 and had to repay only $40,000 of the $200,000 he stole from his campaign and the $75,000 could be paid with his campaign funds. Even Eversole's defense can be paid with his campaign cash. This is par for all of those who the TEC has ruled against.

The Ethics Commission is under Sunset review this year and Jerry Eversole and our Texas resident double dipper, State Representative Joe Driver, will be mentioned throughout testimony as well as their lack of enforcement of laws governing the campaign finances.

The republicans on the Sunset Committee ought to have their names dragged through the mud also. These so called "conservatives" have done absolutely nothing to uphold the law or give the TEC the power to do so. Instead they passed laws that have actually protected elected officials who steal campaign cash or violate other campaign laws. They have made this state a laughing stock across the nation when it comes to fair punishment of crimes committed by elected officials and they have passed on legislation that would have give the TEC the power of fair punishment.

Eversole, Driver, Linda Harper-Brown, and many other double dipping, campaign cash raiding, so called "conservatives" have embarrassed this state. And our elected officials have given them the political cover to do so.

Tough on crime? I don't think so. They are more like the "Crime Wussies".