Today I take on Texas House Representative Abel Herrero.

Today I take on Texas House Representative Abel Herrero.
5/1/2015

"An overwhelming 77% of Texas voters favor some form of softening of marijuana laws. HB507 is a bill which would decriminalize simple possession of small amounts of marijuana by changing the penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor. Decriminalization is a good first step. It keeps people out of jail and doesn’t ruin their life with a permanent criminal record. The bill would also save taxpayers $700 million a year that is currently spent prosecuting these cases.

This would seem like a sure bet for legislators and an obvious win with the voters, but apparently not for Rep. Abel Herrero, a Democrat from East Texas who chairs the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. Herrero has held the bill in committee since April 8th, supposedly the “collect information” and “decipher” the bill. This despite extensive expert testimony, a bill which is entirely self explanatory, and having Rep. Joe Moody who authored the HB507 as Vice-Chairman of his committee.

- See more at: http://www.americanbroadside.com/marijuana-decriminalization-hits-a-snag-in-texas/#sthash.4b09b3sx.uTfNcQm1.dpuf"

My friends Tinkerbell, Pirate John, and American Lee, have been working tirelessly to decriminalize cannabis possession. Their view that cannabis possession should not carry a felony conviction, is represented by the majority of American citizens. This one guy Abel Herrero is preventing Democracy from working and for this reason I feel authorized to destroy his political career.

1. Look through his past campaign contributions and look for any indication of money from a special interest group that would influence his decision to hold HB507.

https://www.ethics.state.tx.us/php/cesearchSimple.html

Compiling the data from just 2012:

Abel Herrero received $444,533.06 for a State House Representative campaign.

Major Campaign Contributors:
Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee $ 102,547.79
One Texas PAC $ 99,405.00
Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams LLP $ 4,500.00
Mostyn Law Firm, PC $ 70,000.00
Texans for Insurance Reform $ 15,750.00
Teachers Union $ 22,500.00

Abel Herrero, If you are reading this, don't mess with my friends. You mess with my friends its game over for you. I won't stop until I take your seat. Having said this, how hard is it to take someones seat...

.....Continuing to research campaign contributions, I looked into my rep Sarah M. Davis, whose biggest contributor is Texans for Lawsuit Reform. Texans for lawsuit reform?? hmm... TLR has given the most money $880k to Republican Larry Taylor. TLR is the biggest PAC donator to the Republican Party Candidates. Looking through the PACS who donate to TLR, I see the same organizations who donated to Sarah Davis donated to TLR... wonder what this is all about.

Doing some more research.. Does TLR fund Liberty Republican Reps in the state legislature?

Senate:
Konni Burton ($1,291,673)
Don Huffines ($15,000)
Bob Hall ($30,000)
Nicholas Van Campen Taylor ($12,000)

My friend Scotty Beam also says that these are liberty republicans (me, Im not so sure)
Charles Perry ($130,000)
Brandon Creighton ($159,500)

House:
Jonathan Stickland ($7,500)
David Simpson ($18,000)

I just want to point out that in  2006, TLR gave Democrat candidate Frank Malda, $718,000.

So it seems to me that TLR barely donates to the Liberty Republicans. Is TLR the reason that several bills did not make it out of committee including: decriminalizing cannabis and banning red light cameras? These two bills enjoyed wide amounts of support from both Democrats and Republicans and yet, the voice of the people was not heard. What is TLR relationship to Speaker Joe Straus voting block?