Comment about the State Bar of Texas and Politicians

In this election year there is a strong focus on ethics. Both candidates claim to be agents of change and emphasize their commitment to purge the government of corruption. Down with earmarks, pork and payouts. Clean the government and don’t tolerate corruption at any level. Politicians and other elected officials are public servants whose number one priority is to serve the public and not their own personal interests.
Or so it should be.
It is not in Texas.
In Texas, the State Bar refuses to discipline attorneys who commit serious crimes. An attorney can defraud his/her client, forge a client’s signature on the back of an insurance check and cash it, commit insurance fraud and other felonies that merit disbarment and jail time, and the State Bar of Texas will not discipline say attorney and allow him/her to continue practicing law in Texas with clean records. Any questions regarding as why the State Bar of Texas breaks Texas law by doing so remain unanswered. According to the State bar of Texas, their decisions are confidential and they don’t need to explain why they decide not to discipline an attorney who commits Professional Malpractice.
Who knows how many attorneys are in Texas practicing law when they should have been disbarred, courtesy of the State Bar.
Texas politician are no help either. The public can write to them and lead with them for some help, to no avail. Southern-Fried-Justice at its very worst.
We need transparency in the government. Regardless of which candidate will be elected by year’s end, we need transparency now. We need a government that doesn’t tolerate corruption and protects the public, something the State Bar of Texas, and Texas politicians, are unwilling to do.
Too much pork in the barrel.
We need change. We need a government that doesn’t treat the public as its private property, as if we were the serfs of old. We need a government that combats cronyism and will do what is in the public’s best interest.
A government that will never allow the State Bar of Texas to break Texas law in order to protect a dishonest attorney who committed felonies.
A government unlike the one we have now in Texas.
A real government.
We need change.
Let’s hope we get it.