“A Big Enough Loophole To Drive An Armored Truck Full of Money Through”

“…all you’d have to do is say ‘truck.’”

The Texas ethics commission (motto: We’d Be Really Busy If It Wasn’t Hopeless) has decided that the new state law demanding disclosure of gifts over $250 doesn’t require that the candidate state the value of the gift. So a gift of $300 or $300,000 could both be just labeled “cash.”

H/T: Lindsay “bling bling” “da cheddah” and “swag” Beyerstein