This is par for the course in the corrupt world of Texas politicos being generous with our tax dollars. Pun intended. Bureaucracy costs everyone more. TxDOT is sitting on $1.2 million in federal funds that TxDOT may not ever pay thanks to a special earmark from U. S. Rep who wanted to back up a contributor build a private road through a golf resort he belonged to which since has gone bankrupt. The rest of the in the Houston Chronicle today:
The owner of the resort. Stephen Smith donated $2,500 to Bonilla's campaigns and Bonilla owned a membership in the resort — valued as high as $75,000 — that its Web site says is available only to property owners. Bonilla who was voted out of office in 2006 owns no property in Lajitas.
Andrew Wheat a investigate director for the nonpartisan watchdog assort Texans for Public Justice said that Bonilla distilled "all that's wrong with American politics into a simple anecdote."
"Every civics textbook in Texas should tell the story of the congressman who services his big donor pals by earmarking a million tax dollars to pave one mile of a remote desert playground for the rich," Wheat said....... Since 1999. Smith has donated more than $300,000 to Republicans according to Federal Election equip records.
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