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A ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation says Ken Paxton's Senate financial disclosures appear to violate federal ethics law. The interesting question is what the pattern reveals about the disclosure syste…
Federal disclosure forms are designed to give voters a clear picture of a candidate's finances, but the same properties can appear as very different assets from one Paxton filing to the next.
The coverage frames this as a Paxton scandal, which obscures the more useful point: the disclosure regime depends almost entirely on filers taking it seriously, and there is little to make them.
When a candidate's net worth range moves by roughly $16 million in a year without new acquisitions, the filing has stopped functioning as disclosure and started functioning as narrative. Voters are left to close the gap themselves.
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Coverage framing the August outcome as a defeat missed that the ban amendment was only postponed for roughly 30 days at the elected board's own reque…
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