TxDOT Admits They Hired Lobbyists (Violation of the law)!

1/22/08

TxDOT Commissioner Ted Houghton admits TxDOT violated the law.

At the packed Town Hall meeting in Hempstead on 1/22/08, TxDOT Commissioner Ted Houghton admitted TxDOT hired lobbyists to meet with county judges in the path of the Trans Texas Corridor TTC-69 as he defended the "necessity" of TxDOT hiring lobbyists to "lobby" elected officials (he used the word "lobby" multiple times).

This action is in DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE LAW:

Texas Government Code:
§ 556.005. Employment of Lobbyist

(a) A state agency may not use appropriated money to employ, as a regular full-time or part-time or contract employee, a person who is required by Chapter 305 to register as a lobbyist. Except for an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, a state agency may not use any money under its control to employ or contract with an individual who is required by Chapter 305 to register as a lobbyist.

Category:

News & Politics

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• txdot
• ted
• houghton
• lobbyists
• texas
• ttc
• transportation
• rick
• perry
• ttc-69

[sunshinevote]

and I used to work for TXDOT! Screw them!