Oh lookee, it's initiation season for the TX wingnut criminal cartel - such an honor!1

[UTUSN]

Meanwhile, their priorities are for legislating "constitutional Carry" for guns, voter suppression, war on women's bodies, and denying Medicaid expansion.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/07/sid-miller-todd-smith/

Top political aide to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller arrested in alleged scheme to take money in exchange for hemp licenses

.... The consultant, Todd Smith, ultimately took $55,000 as part of the scheme, an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Texas Tribune says. Smith and others involved in the scheme are alleged in the warrant to have solicited a total of $150,000 to guarantee a license, including a $25,000 upfront cost for a survey that they said was required to get a license in Texas. Some of the money would also go toward funding unnamed political campaigns, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit alleges that Smith committed third-degree felony theft.

“Todd Smith created by words and his conduct, a false impression of fact that affected the judgment of others in the transactions to obtain a hemp license and/or conduct a survey that was never attempted by Todd Smith," the affidavit says.

The allegations were investigated by the Texas Rangers' Public Integrity Unit, which is responsible for looking into claims of public corruption. ....

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[riversedge]

1. Another Repug CROOK.

[UTUSN]

2. The state wingnut criminal structure has No Vacancies in it, ain't it so?!1

[Xoan]

3. They're all scum.

[UTUSN]

4. Yet their small number of Old White zombies *vote* (to put and keep them there)

As BEGALA says, "Texas is not a Red state, it's a NON-VOTING state."

[stillcool]

5. that's just how Republicans do politics.

unless the wrong kind of person does it. But, that's just politics too.

[czarjak]

6. Sid "America Needs a Kristallnacht" Miller? Otherwise, I'm certain he's a really nice guy though.

[UTUSN]

7. I wanna bet he's deep into it even if not named so far.