Local government spending is quickly becoming a taxpayer challenge. Find out just how quickly local spending is growing and how we can begin to reverse the trend in this TPPF presentation to Americans for Prosperity's All Politics is Local conference.
My Journey to Understand El Paso’s Lobbying Expenses
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legislature in their proposed budgets. As more fully articulated in Sec. 140.0045 (b)(2) of...