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So why hasn't Gov. Abbott sent the Texas Rangers to evict them from their offices? Baseball players with bats, or cops with guns, take your pick......

JALLEN wrote:From the Commission website:

The Texas Ethics Commission has eight commissioners. Four of the commissioners are appointed by the Governor, two are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, and two are appointed by the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Members of the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives who represent each political party submit lists of nominees to the appropriate state official for appointment. The commissioners serve for four-year terms.

4 of the Commissioners seem to have expired terms, 2 by the Governor and one each by the Lt. Governor and Speaker.

My point exactly.......how is it that they have not stepped down, since their terms have expired? Are they operating under some kind of temporary extension of their terms, or are they doing the unethical thing (oh, the irony!) and refusing to obey the law?

http://www.empowertexans.com/tag/joe-straus/ led me to this: http://www.empowertexans.com/features/e ... n-resigns/

After initially defying calls for his resignation, one long-time commissioner on the Texas Ethics Commission resigned late Friday. The resignation comes as evidence mounts that he may have been violating state lobby laws while serving on the commission.

Tom Harrison, a Democratic Party appointee on the Texas Ethics Commission (“TEC”) and the commission’s vice chairman, submitted his resignation to Gov. Abbott on Friday. Harrison was appointed to the TEC in 2004 after working as the agency’s executive director.

Despite a constitutional prohibition on TEC Commissioners serving more than two four-year terms, Harrison had continued to “hold-over” on the commission since his term expired in 2011. He is not alone. Three of the other seven TEC commissioners are also continuing to act despite having expired terms.

To me, THAT is even more disturbing than Strauss's appointment of a leftist democrat. If a judge's term expires and there is no-one to fill the vacancy, he does not continue serving as a judge until replaced. If a Congressman's term expires and there is no-one elected to replace him/her, he does not continue serving until replaced. If a president finishes two terms, and the two contestants to replace him are locked in litigation to determine the winner, the outgoing president does not continue serving past the expiration of his term until he is replaced.

This is a state constitutional issue for Texas, is it not? How is it that someone didn't just throw these bums out of their offices, since they occupy them in violation of the very law which created those offices in the first place?