Wonder How C4n3p Raises Her Campaign Funds?
Lisa Sandberg of the San Antonio Express-News offers this interesting analysis of how Carole 4-Names, 3-Parties (C4n3p) engages in fundraising shenanigans:
In her quest to become the next governor, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has continued to accept, despite criticism, hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from attorneys whose firms appear to have a stake in tax rulings made by her staff.
Campaign records indicate that over the past 18 months, the comptroller, the self-described "tough grandma" who is running for governor as an independent, has received roughly $788,000 from individuals working for firms that practice tax law.
All of which raises a thorny question: Should an elected officeholder who leads an agency charged with settling tax matters take money from people whose livelihoods may depend on agency rulings?
Good-government watchdog groups say no, and so did a state audit last year, which concluded that Strayhorn had accepted nearly $2 million in contributions over 51/2 years from donors who — within a year of their donations — benefited from tax reductions totaling $461 million.
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Recent campaign reports indicate Strayhorn received more than $750,000, at least 19 percent of her total, last year from attorneys who worked for mostly full-service firms that do tax law in addition to other specialties. She received another $38,000 from similarly situated attorneys during the 2006 special session, 12 percent of what she raised during that period.
The contributors include employees of Ryan and Co., a tax consulting firm that gave Strayhorn $602,000 in 2005 and was named in the audit as being the biggest donor of 19 firms that represent businesses in tax disputes before the comptroller's agency.
Read the whole story here.
In her quest to become the next governor, Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has continued to accept, despite criticism, hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from attorneys whose firms appear to have a stake in tax rulings made by her staff.
Campaign records indicate that over the past 18 months, the comptroller, the self-described "tough grandma" who is running for governor as an independent, has received roughly $788,000 from individuals working for firms that practice tax law.
All of which raises a thorny question: Should an elected officeholder who leads an agency charged with settling tax matters take money from people whose livelihoods may depend on agency rulings?
Good-government watchdog groups say no, and so did a state audit last year, which concluded that Strayhorn had accepted nearly $2 million in contributions over 51/2 years from donors who — within a year of their donations — benefited from tax reductions totaling $461 million.
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Recent campaign reports indicate Strayhorn received more than $750,000, at least 19 percent of her total, last year from attorneys who worked for mostly full-service firms that do tax law in addition to other specialties. She received another $38,000 from similarly situated attorneys during the 2006 special session, 12 percent of what she raised during that period.
The contributors include employees of Ryan and Co., a tax consulting firm that gave Strayhorn $602,000 in 2005 and was named in the audit as being the biggest donor of 19 firms that represent businesses in tax disputes before the comptroller's agency.
Read the whole story here.
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