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You can’t make this stuff up.

The Houston Chronicle published an investigative article about Galveston County Judge Seth Jones and Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fullen. Jones and Fullen are buddies. Jones donated to Fullen for his campaign. Fullen appeared in campaign videos for Jones. They pal around with each other. They probably go fishing together and attend local crawfish boils hosted by Commissioner Hank Dugie. Jones was Fullen’s best man. (ok. that’s not true but you get the idea. They are buds.)

So guess who the Judge is for Fullen’s lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement? Yep. Judge Seth Jones. (Background here) According to the article:

“Whenever you’re looking at judicial ethics, the first thing you want to decide is, does it pass the smell test?” Teachey said. “Most of the time, if it feels like it’s stinky, it probably isn’t appropriate for a judge.”

This stinks as bad as the garbage cans at the League City Park after Hank Dugie’s crawfish boil. (Seriously 3 days after the event the smell was horrible for those going to the dog park.) Jones should recuse himself in this trial. It just stinks. Lucky for Fullen Jones is a republican whose party has shredded law and order. They will do anything, pardon anyone, and look the other way for all MAGA republicans no matter what the crime is.

Fullen is in good hands.

I’m beginning to feel sorry for him.

Eric Dick was fined $40,000 by the Texas Ethics Commission. A formal complaint was filed against him as a HCDE Trustee. Two judges in Harris and Galveston County sanctioned him in two different lawsuits. A judge recently questioned the signature of a dead inspector. And his wife filed for divorce. And now another case has surfaced.

Last month, a judge ordered Eric Dick, an insurance attorney and HCDE Trustee, to clarify how an inspector could have signed a document he submitted to the court after having died nearly a year earlier. Dick responded as did the attorneys for the insurance company Dick sued. Dick claimed it was the inspectors son that signed the documents, not the dead guy. I have my doubts about Dick’s response but that is for later. The Judge has yet to make a ruling on this.

But according to My San Antonio, Dick did it in 2023 with a lawsuit against USAA. According to the article Dick’s client claimed damage to his home from an explosion and filed suit. From My San Antonio:

Then, a series of peculiar incidents happened, primarily centered around everyone’s inability to get ahold of Mitchell. A court-ordered inspection and appraisal of damage was cancelled after nobody could get ahold of Mitchell. Then, his attorney said it’s because he died. Mitchell had, in fact, not died, and his attorney withdrew the death notification shortly before a hearing on the matter.

The response, by the attorneys representing USAA, is almost funny.

“Thus, based simply on the record, it appears that Mr. Dick expired the Plaintiff, revived him to answer interrogatories, and expired him once more,” a USAA Insurance motion fighting Mitchell’s claims states – an unusually candid response in a public document from the company.

The case was dismissed.

LOL. Mr. Transparency my ass.

Last year the Texas Ethics Commission began an investigation into Jimmy Fullen, candidate for Sheriff. Fullen padded his campaign account with a fake $100,000 loan. In an amended report he simply removed it from his reports prior to the TEC completing their investigation.

Today that investigation has been completed but Fullen petitioned the TEC to make it “confidential” and the investigation results, fines, or any other disciplinary action will be hidden from the public. Seems odd since Fullen ran on being Mr Transparency. Based upon other ethics fines I would bet he was hit fairly hard for basically padding his bottom line with a fake loan. As I said before:

As noted previously Fullen has removed his $100,000 loan from this campaign reports as if it never happened, probably because it really never happened. He padded his account making it look like he raised a shit load of money. He actually didn’t. In his latest report he has a loan balance of only $24,052 which came from Mark Henry. The $100,000 loan he claimed to have given himself magically disappeared.

Go fuckin figure.