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That’s Bianca Gracia meeting with Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes head of the Oath Keepers the day before the Jan 6 riot. Tarrio and Rhodes were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States by a unanimous vote by a jury. They are each serving over 20 years in prison.

Gracia is running for the Texas House against State Representative “Little Baby” Briscoe Cain, of Deer Park, pictured below with his mom and younger siblings. Cain was one of those republicans who voted to impeach Ken Paxton and has little if any accomplishments to brag about but as the Houston Chronicle has said:

We’re no fans of state Rep. Briscoe Cain and his botched attempt to lead the passage of a voter suppression bill, but we’ll take his buffoonery and occasional principled stand over the far edges of extremism. 

So who is funding Gracia? Since filing Gracia has raised over $173,000 which is nothing to sneeze at. $105,000 came from those giving $5,000 or more. Patrick Byrne of Utah and former CEO of Overstock, gave her $25,000. Over $100,000 came from out of state. Only $11,000 came from within Deer Park.

You can see her top donor below.

Busted. Again.

After The Texas Tribune exposed the white wing PAC, Defend Texas Liberty, of having a day long meeting with a known white supremacist, Nick Fuentes (go ahead, look him up), the billionaires who created the fund have created a new PAC, Texans United for a Conservative Majority.

I wrote a few days ago about the funding and expenditures from DTL was drying up. Well that’s because it’s hard to do business, even in the Republican Party, after being associated with a Hitler lover and other white supremacist organizations. So they just created a new one. As with DTL, Texans United for a Conservative Majority raised about $2 Million from two donors, Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks. These are the same guys who created and funded DTL.

They have spent almost $700,000 in support of extreme white wing candidates challenging those who voted to impeach Ken Paxton or who are against school vouchers including Brent Money who was running for the special election to replace Bryan Slaton. Slaton was expelled the House after providing alcohol to an underaged intern and porking her all night. Slaton was funded by the two billionaires. They also funded Money who lost even after donating $85,000.

Here is who these white wingers are donating to:

Cocked eyed bastard was trying to be sneaky. The judge wouldn’t allow it.

So the ethically challenged, indicted, adulterer, Ken Paxton, was acquitted by some Texas Senators who lost the balls to do what most real conservatives wanted. They all whined about the impeachment from the House lacked evidence (it didn’t) and wasn’t enough to remove him from office (it was). So he got off.

But….the impeachment proceedings was created by the civil suit Paxton had settled with a number of staff members who sued under the Whistleblower Act for wrongful termination. Paxton settled for $3 Million and wanted the tax payers to pay it. The House investigated and based upon the evidence, impeached him. The settlement was not paid and the civil suit continues.

So now Paxton has to give a deposition, under oath, in the civil case. Instead he gives up. He surrenders. Instead he admits guilt. NBC Ft Worth sums it up perfectly: “He wrote [to the Judge] he no longer will contest accusations he illegally fired the whistleblowers after they reported him to the FBI for bribery and corruption.” To get out of being deposed he gives up. He will not contest the fact he took bribes.

Unfortunately for Kenny, the Judge will have nothing to do with this. Paxton is going to have to give a deposition. He will spend 4+ hours taking the fifth when asked “Did you order the firing of the staff members?” which in a civil suit is just as good as saying “You’re goddamn right I did it”. This is so bad some Senators are calling for a new impeachment trial. From NBC Ft Worth:

Springer was one of those who lost his balls in the trial but he isn’t running for reelection so he doesn’t need his balls anymore. At least he has a pair to realize what Paxton is doing.

The Texas GOP. The Group Of Pussies.

There is no bottom.

Mayra Flores is a Mexican MAGAt. She won a special election in south Texas and served for about 6 months. On New Years Eve she made a series of mistakes leaving her with egg on her face.

On NYE Mayra tweeted a picture celebrating life on the ranch. It went down hill from there. Here it is:

From Lone Star Left:

In fact, this yummy meal wasn’t from Flores’s family ranch; it wasn’t even from America. As Twitter user Ben Anderson discovered, the picture Mayra Flores used on New Year’s Eve, claiming it was a family meal on her family ranch, was a STOLEN picture from the Guyanese Facebook Page,

Once she was caught, she deleted her Twitter account, then created a new one, then began banning users from her account once they found her and made fun of her. Besides that, Mexican Americans don’t eat stew on NYE. We eat Carne Guisada. It’s a Mexican version of stew. It’s delicious, nutritious, filling. It’s bad enough that a small percentage of Mexican Americans are MAGAts but this culinary fuck up is bad.

Mayra is a Mexican MAGAt. She like Trump is a fuckin liar, a cheat, a disgrace to all Mexican Americans and to the human race. She lies to her God, her Country, and with her Family.

What a fucking disgrace.

Dang. It is hard to get away from this guy.

Through an open records request the Texas Ethics Commission provided an excellent list of unpaid TEC fines over the past 10 years. The complete list can be viewed here. Leading the field of those who have refused to pay is Harris County Department of Education Trustee Eric Dick.

Dick was fined $30,000 and $10,000 for two different violations. The $30,000 fine leads the field of 47 that are unpaid. (Note Sharon Faye Keller is the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was fined a whopping $100,000 but settled with the TEC for $25,000 and paid it. More later) Dick’s $30,000 came from a Final Order issued by the TEC. The $10,000 came from an agreement by the TEC and Dick. I expect the $10,000 to be paid. The $30,000 fine has been referred to the Texas Attorney General for collection.

The TEC provided a great 13 page list of those who have been fined over the last 10 years. Their summary of the data is as follows:

It’s an impressive list with an 88% rate of collections. Of the 367 sanctions by the TEC 43 were referred to the Texas Attorney General for collections. More on that later. Only 4 of the 43 have been collected.

There needs to be a deeper look into the 43 fines referred to the Texas AG.