Texas State Representative John Garza, and prolific
Dumbass, was nabbed by local television station WOAI for questionable use of
campaign funds. Among the questionable
spending:
- $900 for a Christmas dinner at a fancy steak
joint in San Antonio reported by him as a “meeting to discuss officer-holder
and campaign issues.” Unfortunately for
this ethically challenged politician, the dinner crowd was comprised of his
family members. WOAI reporter Brian
Collister pressed him on the issue.
Garza changed tunes a few times, first saying the dinner was a campaign
event attended by longtime supporters; then fessing up to his family being
there; then denying he ever said it, all in the same fucking piece. Moron.
- $4,000 to his wife, who is his campaign treasurer. He wrote up the expense as “contract labor
for campaign services.” He declined to
tell Collister what kind of work she did.
Nice.
Surprise Dumbass!
One of Garza’s advisors, Von Ormy Mayor Art
Martinez de Vara, sent Garza an email and accidentally copied reporter Brian Collister! In the
email, Martinez told Garza, “The less we give him, the less he has to work with
to make a story.”
Holy sheep shit!
Now we have a pair of dumbasses, apparently equally corrupt and
unethical, but also exceedingly stupid.
So, after being busted by Collister and WOAI,
Garza paid back his campaign a total of $6,000.
That covers the dinner, the $4K he paid his wife, and additional expenditures
on the purchase of a Tuxedo and boots, if you can fucking believe that.
Some tidbits from Garza’s press release (which was
more of an attack on his political opponent than anything). My comments are in blue text.
1. “My
integrity has always been paramount...”
Not anymore.
2. “To put any questions to rest and to force my opponent to focus on real issues affecting working families, I have reimbursed my campaign for any expenses that have been questioned.”
2. “To put any questions to rest and to force my opponent to focus on real issues affecting working families, I have reimbursed my campaign for any expenses that have been questioned.”
You wouldn’t
have any questions to put to rest, or money to reimburse if you hadn’t misappropriated
your campaign funds to begin with.
3. “…I will
not have my integrity brought into question.”
Too late.
4. “…to
have Philip Cortez call that [Garza’s integrity] into question, no matter how
outrageously, has had an impact on me and my reputation. I first ran for State
Representative to restore accountability to a district where it was sorely
lacking.”
You called
your integrity into question on your own by spending campaign money the way you
did.
5. “In an effort to hide his [Cortez’s] well-documented history of lying to voters, he has attacked Representative Garza’s unimpeachable integrity.”
I’m thinking
“unimpeachable” is an adjective you shouldn’t be using anymore to define your
integrity.
When are we as a society going to pass laws that
hold our public servants to higher standards, and increase their punishment
when caught and convicted of violating the law?
Now for some links:
1 comment:
Sometimes that combination of sleaze and stupidity is just too funny.
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