Fact Checking the Galindo Mailers (UPDATED)

'NO Green Tax' talk from self-described green builder Galindo

June 3, 2008 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Science-Based “314 Action” PAC Attacks Congressional Candidate for Her Legal Work

PAC pitches hardball against Shannon Hutcheson in TX-10 Race

"...public office.” On the ph scale, the PAC’s campaign mailers attacking Shannon Hutcheson are pretty acidic...."

Feb. 26, 2020 News Post by Michael King

The Business of Educations at T.A.B.

The Texas Association of Business carried out an "educational" campaign for this election.

"...ethics laws. Yet T.A.B. President Bill Hammond insists the mailers were "educational," and therefore not subject to the same..."

Nov. 15, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Expensive Education for T.A.B.

"...At issue are some 4 million T.A.B. mailers sent to voters across Texas, which the business association..."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Place 3: Kim Goes Attack-Dog

Girl fights are all the rage

"...against lead challenger Randi Shade. The series of nasty mailers and an anonymous robocall – all with false or..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Key Court Rulings Expected in T.A.B. Case

The Texas Association of Business's legal future rests in the hand of two Travis Co. judges.

"...attacked certain candidates and praised others, T.A.B. maintains the mailers were "issue-oriented" and thus legal because they did not..."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Picking Up the TAB

The Travis Co. DA and the courts consider Texas Association of Business money spent during the fall campaign.

"...asking the court to rule first on whether the mailers are protected "issue ads" before it requires T.A.B. to..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

T.A.B. to Earle: Drop Dead, Democrat!

The Texas Association of Business sues the DA and claims "partisan politics" are behind the T.A.B. ethics case.

"...T.A.B. ad campaign. The $2 million blitz of "educational" mailers is credited, or blamed, by many observers with helping..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

T.A.B. Tells It to the Jury

"...T.A.B. brandished in the form of 4 million campaign mailers -- $2 million worth -- targeting fiercely competitive races,..."

Jan. 24, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Welcome to Tomstown

In the burgeoning Tomstown scandal, you can't tell the players or the plot without a program

"...campaign, funded with undisclosed corporate dollars. Hammond says the mailers were nonpolitical "issue ads" that were protected by the..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Who's Suing Whom

The battle over the Texas Association of Business political ad campaign is also being fought in the courts

"...Duncan, all Democrats, were targets of T.A.B.'s negative campaign mailers that T.A.B. claims were not political expenditures but "voter..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

T.A.B. Takes Legal Offensive

"...laws by using unidentified corporate money to pay for mailers targeting the race. The business group endorsed Stick in..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Statesman ignores Bill Bunch as part of its SOS history; Mary Arnold, Whole Foods and Lee Walker honored for their SOS dedication; the Austin Police Association's mailers for Rafael Quintanilla never got mailed; Mayor Kirk Watson will lay out his transportation vision.

"...So many mailers, so few recipients. How did only 7,000 of 21,000..."

June 9, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Texas Dems Set Their Eyes on the 2020 Prize

Their goal: Flip the state House of Representatives

"...spend it. ... $100,000 is the difference between two mailers and eight mailers" in a closely fought suburban seat...."

Oct. 25, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election Ticker: The Final Countdown

Vote-pocalypse now!

"...on Message: Two different, pretty nasty but strangely inept mailers hit District 9 mailboxes on Tuesday, slamming incumbent Kathie..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Voting With Our Wallets

Pretty soon, you’re talking about real campaign money

"...in support of a candidate,” such as RECA’s two mailers so far for Harper-Madison. They, along with other people..."

Oct. 31, 2018 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: How Much Money Is Too Much?

As Uber and Lyft's millions flood, Austin voters may have had enough of Prop 1

"...and Austin Unites) can withstand RWA's hurricane campaign of mailers, phone calls, and especially online and TV advertising. Our..."

May 6, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Cruz Trumps Iowa

Now the spotlight turns to Texas' problem

"...questioning (and possible legal investigations) over bizarre and suspect mailers sent out to Iowa voters accusing them of a..."

Feb. 2, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Gómez Goes Negative

Precinct 4 race heats up

"...about using his photo on one of her campaign mailers. We should clarify here that the whole world hasn't..."

March 1, 2010 News Post by Amy Smith

Doherty Launches Offensive on McCaul

Democratic challenger to TX-10 incumbent

"...has truly started – here come the ads and mailers!..."

Sept. 18, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Grading the Campaign Ads: The print edition

No one hits it out of the ballpark in this round

"...Campaign mailers are arriving with the regularity of sweepstakes sweet talk..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature

Indictments Pending: TRMPAC, TAB, and the Travis Co. D.A.

"...TAB with making prohibited corporate expenditures (one count for mailers, one count for TV ads, and one count for..."

April 11, 2008 News Feature

Bentzin's Bad Connection

District 48 candidate's acknowledgement that he hired political consultant John Colyandro to work on his Senate campaign in 2002 raises big legal questions

"...the group argues was protected free speech because the mailers did not expressly advocate voting for or against a..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...because, though corporate money helped bankroll thousands of political mailers, the mailers were educational in nature and did not..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

T.A.B., Mussolini: Earle Can't Tell the Difference

The DA lays into the Texas Association of Business as he tries to keep his criminal campaign finance probe alive.

"...For the prosecution, Cox argued that the group's campaign mailers were worded in such a way that any reasonable..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The T.A.B. Timeline

Reviewing the major events in the ongoing controversy of T.A.B. expenditures during last fall's campaigns

"...a direct-mail campaign to influence the November elections. The mailers targeted 24 legislative races, primarily attacking Democratic candidates, but..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature

News Top 10s

"...on two dozen House and Senate races, distributing scurrilous mailers that accused Democratic incumbents of being anti-education, anti-business, pro-mold..."

Jan. 3, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

T.A.B.: Probes and Countersuits

"...All four defeated Democrats were targeted by T.A.B. campaign mailers. Said Kitchen: "What they did is unprecedented ... and..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Capitol Chronicle

A right-wing mailout stirs up a firestorm among Texas' Republican legislators.

"...known as "FreePAC," which had sent out scurrilous campaign mailers against Ratliff and six other GOP incumbents (among them..."

March 15, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Has Round Rock ISD Hit Rock Bottom?

Maybe not yet

"...already done thousands of door hangers, they've already done mailers, full-color, full-page ads … They will have people to..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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