Houston PAC leaders face $45K in fines for operating illegally, not filing finance reports
of accepting $20,319 in contributions and making $15,486 in expenditures while the organization legally was inactive because it had no campaign treasurer, according to two sworn complaints first filed in 2021. The TEC placed the PAC on inactive status in 2016.Political action committees are required to submit semiannual finance reports to the ethics commission. The last time that the PAC filed a report was in 2014.
“TCBD-HC’s activity presents particular cause for public concern because it appears from TCBD-HC’s 2020 endorsement slate and its banking records that TCBD-HC may be ‘selling’ its endorsements in exchange for financial contributions,” the TEC said in its final orders released in February. “TCBD-HC has avoided potentially unpleasant public inquiry on this unsavory topic by evading its reporting obligations.
“The allegations are outrageous and attempt to intimidate. The Republican-packed ethics commission goes against its own rules in trying to make an example of Black people,” Shanks said. “We have deniers who have infiltrated the board to make their voice heard throwing anything political falsehood against the wall to make it stick…We plan to appeal in court and fight back against Republican cronyism.
Jim Sharp, former justice of the First Texas Court of Appeals from 2019 to 2014, donated $500 to the PAC in 2016, and $250 in 2020. He was endorsed by the inactive political committee when he ran for the Texas First District Court of Appeals in 2020. Harvey, Hawkins and Robinson denied any knowledge of the PAC's alleged violations and said they did not purchase endorsements from the political committee.Following complaint about Sugar Land mayor, H-GAC says it cannot enforce its own ethics rules
Hawkins was one of the only 13 candidates endorsed by the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats-Harris County in 2016. The list has grown substantially since then, covering more than 90 candidates in the most recent cycle in 2022.“My contribution was a contribution” Hawkins said.“I have never purchased anything from the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats – Harris County.”
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