Endnotes
1 This does not include candidates or officials who were defeated in the 2006 election. The data analyzed here cover from January 2005 through the eve of the November 2006 election.
2 Although the ostensible effective date of these rules was August 2005, the Ethics Commission did not implement them until January 2006.
3 No speaker candidate committees reported any travel gifts during the period studied here.
4 Senate Bill 1 passed the Senate on January 18, 2007 with only two dissenting votes from Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
5 “Congress Finds Ways Of Avoiding Lobbyist Limits,” New York Times, February 11, 2007.
6 Friedkin’s Gulf States Toyota was a small corporate donor to Tom DeLay’s indicted Texans for a Republican Majority PAC.
7 “For Perry, big game means big business,” Dallas Morning News, December 12, 2006.
8 Justice Medina’s companion was professional mediator Dwight Jefferson, a former state district judge and one-time co-captain of the U.T. football team.
9 This trip does not otherwise appear in this report because it was financed by Medina’s campaign rather than by a donor.
10 Representatives Carter Casteel (R-New Braunfels), Kino Flores (D-Palmview) and Peggy Hamric (R-Houston). Casteel and Hamric otherwise are excluded from this report because they were defeated in 2006. The other members who attended one of these two junkets are Representatives Warren Chisum (R-Pampa), Jim Keffer (R-Eastland) and Ed Keumpel (R-Seguin), as well as Senators Ken Armbrister (D-Victoria) Representatives, Todd Staples (R-Palestine) and Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands).
11 “Payments in lieu of taxes were rebuffed,” Dallas Morning News, June 4, 2006.
12 “Apartments’ owner repaying debt to county, schools,” Dallas Morning News, June 7, 2006.
13 June, July, August and September—according to averages reported over a recent 30-year period.
