{"id":1162,"date":"2006-06-08T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2006-06-08T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T23:11:00","slug":"strayhorn-campaigning-with-state-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/strayhorn-campaigning-with-state-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Strayhorn campaigning with state funds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been acting up but hopefully it will let me get this message posted and let me get everyone&#8217;s opinion on this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Section 556.004 of the Government Code:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a7 556.004. PROHIBITED ACTS OF AGENCIES AND<br \/>\nINDIVIDUALS.  (a) A state agency may not use any money under its<br \/>\ncontrol, including appropriated money, to finance or otherwise<br \/>\nsupport the candidacy of a person for an office in the legislative,<br \/>\nexecutive, or judicial branch of state government or of the<br \/>\ngovernment of the United States.  This prohibition extends to the<br \/>\ndirect or indirect employment of a person to perform an action<br \/>\ndescribed by this subsection.<br \/>\n (b)  A state officer or employee may not use a state-owned or<br \/>\nstate-leased motor vehicle for a purpose described by Subsection<br \/>\n(a).<br \/>\n (c)  A state officer or employee may not use official<br \/>\nauthority or influence or permit the use of a program administered<br \/>\nby the state agency of which the person is an officer or employee to<br \/>\ninterfere with or affect the result of an election or nomination of<br \/>\na candidate or to achieve any other political purpose.<br \/>\n (d)  A state employee may not coerce, attempt to coerce,<br \/>\ncommand, restrict, attempt to restrict, or prevent the payment,<br \/>\nloan, or contribution of any thing of value to a person or political<br \/>\norganization for a political purpose.<br \/>\n (e)  For purposes of Subsection (c), a state officer or<br \/>\nemployee does not interfere with or affect the results of an<br \/>\nelection or nomination if the individual&#8217;s conduct is permitted by<br \/>\na law relating to the individual&#8217;s office or employment and is not<br \/>\notherwise unlawful.<br \/>\nAdded by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, \u00c2\u00a7 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.<br \/>\nAmended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1498, \u00c2\u00a7 1, eff. Sept. 1,<br \/>\n1999.<\/p>\n<p>Now look at the Comptrollers (state funded) website.<br \/>\nIs it just me or is she promoting her campaign on the website?<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.window.state.tx.us\/clips\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been acting up but hopefully it will let me get this message posted and let me get everyone&#8217;s opinion on this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Section 556.004 of the Government Code: \u00c2\u00a7 556.004. PROHIBITED ACTS OF AGENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS. (a) A state agency may not use any money under its control, including appropriated money, to finance or otherwise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/strayhorn-campaigning-with-state-funds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strayhorn campaigning with state funds?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-iK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}