Keyword: Ethics

Public Opinion on Ethics, E-Verify and the #TxLege Agenda for Thursday, March 9

| By: Jim Henson

The House General Investigating and Ethics Committee, chaired by State Representative Sarah Davis, is scheduled to consider over a dozen bills on government ethics.  The Senate Business and Commerce Committee will hear a variety of bills on different topics when they convene today, though a highlight is sure to be Senator Charles Schwertner's SB 23, which would require contractors doing business with the state to use the E-verify system.

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The real stakes of the Perry Indictment

| By: Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

Rick Perry’s governorship has transcended the spirit of the Texas Constitution. The indictment begs for a discussion of whether his version of the governorship is the one Texans want or need. 

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Why your candidate is corrupt and mine isn't

| By: Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

Partisan charges of political corruption have flared around the edges of the 2014 Texas elections, yet they haven’t become the focus of media coverage in the marquee races or fundamentally changed their dynamics or our expectations of the outcomes in November.

Why is it that intimations of corruption and political malfeasance stay in our peripheral vision while rarely coming into the kind of Sharpstown-like spotlight that defines an election?

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Ethics and Public Opinion of Rick Perry

| By: Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

Texas voters are concerned about public ethics, and about some of the issues that have attached to the governor over the last 12 years — but they're partisan about it, and that has made all the difference for Rick Perry.

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