Texas: Leo

Now this is interesting. According to Lone Star Project, Ed Johnson, the deputy voter registrar of Leo Vasquez office, (Leo took over the office of Tax Assessor and Collector when Paul Bettencourt quit, much like Sarah Palin) is under fire again.
Last month, the Lone Star Project revealed that Harris County Associate Voter Registrar, Ed Johnson, is a paid employee of a GOP political consulting firm, Campaign Data Systems (CDS), owned by Republican State Representative Dwayne Bohac. On the firm’s website Bohac boasted that the CDS voter data file is enhanced by information culled from “driver license” records.

Leo Vasquez has an opportunity to put the controversy concerning Ed Johnson, his assistant voter registrar, to rest by releasing his emails, phone records, and internet activity over the last few years. Instead, he whines in an OP-ED.
Recently, last year’s baseless allegations of improprieties within the voter department of the tax office have garnered renewed attention from the local media and various unaccountable bloggers. These attacks are nothing more than partisan “witch hunts” attempting to smear the record of my predecessor and the staff I inherited.
He is talking about a lawsuit filed because the rate of voter registration denial is grossly higher than other large counties, and that his predecessor, Paul Bettencourt quit just 2 weeks after being re-elected, and that there have been numerous complaints about the office concerning voter suppression, and that Leo got the job not because he won, but because he had 3 buddies on the County Commission, and that his assistant voter registrar is moonlighting selling the data that he is in charge of, as well as testifying in favor of a voter ID bill.