Letter from taxpayer requesting investigation sent to    county or    district attorney

Just what don't cities, counties and school districts                                           NOT understand about                                  "It's NOT Your Money"?                          Next Session let's win one for the Taxpayer! The First Step to Taxpayer Protections is to eliminate the illegal practice   of Lobbying with taxpayer dollars to get more taxpayer dollars. In an effort to keep out tax dollars from being spent to work against the taxpayer, we decided to investigate some counties and see if they were in compliance with the law. We choose 38 counties and our attorneys sent FOIA (freedom of information) requests to all counties.  Then we asked taxpayers in the counties we targeted to send letters to their district and county attorneys. Those counties which have "yes" by them are counties where taxpayers sent in a letter to the District Attorney or the County Attorney asking them to investigate the use of tax dollars to lobby for more taxpayer dollars. If your county does not have a "yes" beside it would you consider sending a letter to your county or district? Click Here.    We filed our first lawsuit on June 2nd and word quickly circulated in the capitol and in special interest group circles.  We were told that when word hit the capitol it was like a "shock wave"! We have had incredible press and found one posting where school superintendants were advised to read the articles on the lawsuit!  Of course school personnel lobby on our dollars as well.   We continue to get information from the FOIA requests which show big associations are lobbying with YOUR MONEY to get more of YOUR MONEY!

FOIA Request        made to county clerk or auditor

Response

Complaince With  Open Records  Act

In or out of   compliance with Section 89.002 -     cannot pay    for lobbying activities with general funds

Yes

Yes