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Editorials Praise Keller Ethics Fine

By Steve Hall

Two Texas newspaper editorial boards examine Judge Sharon Keller's $100,000 fine ordered by the Texas Ethics Commission. Today's Dallas Morning News carries, "Keller's ethics fine is hefty but fair." When the Texas Ethics Commissionimposed a six-figure punishment on Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals cried foul. Her attorney deemed the $100,000 fine excessive and vowed to appeal. From the start of this saga, Keller has suggested that her error-riddled personal financial statements were simply the result of relatively minor oversights, laying blame on her elderly father for acquiring properties without her knowledge. But the ethics commission report makes clear that Keller's failings go beyond the question of which family properties have her name on them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).