If you want to get elbows-deep into the fight between Nelda Wells Spears and Glen Maxey, check out this thread on the Burnt Orange Report. Maxey and Spears’ treasurer Bill Aleshire have pulled out the long knives and are really going at each other, with plenty of other voices chiming in as well. Maxey, a former state representative for District 51, is challenging Spears in the Democratic primary for the office of Travis County Tax Assessor-Collector (and Voter Registrar), an office she has held for 16 years. Aleshire, of course, is the former Travis County judge, as well as one of Spears’ predecessors in the tax assessor office.

This article appears in December 21 • 2007.

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