GILMER — A review of Upshur County District Judge Lauren Parish’s campaign finance reports showed a majority of the six allegations filed with the Texas Ethics Commission against her by a tea party supporter are unsubstantiated. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Jim Doyle of Conroe filed the complaint against Parish on Feb. 6 with the Texas Ethics Commission, accusing her of multiple campaign finance report violations. Doyle has ties to the tea party and has filed complaints against political figures from Austin, Tomball, El Paso and other areas of the state.<\/p>\n
A primary point of Doyle’s complaint says Parish used political contributions to pay a spouse or dependent child for campaign work, violating the law. Todd Parish, who is listed as received two $500 expenditures on her campaign finance report, is Lauren Parish’s brother – not her husband or child, her attorney Sam Baxter said. Doyle said Monday afternoon that the ethics commission will disregard that portion of the complaint if she is permitted to pay her brother for work under election law. “There were things that weren’t explained in her campaign finance report,” Doyle said. “You’ve got to be really explicit when you fill out your reports so people know what’s going on.”<\/p>\n
Doyle earlier claimed that during the past two years, Parish had knowingly used campaign funds to pay her spouse for campaign work, made an unlawful contribution to a political committee, failed to fully disclose contributors’ primary occupations, job titles and employers or law firms, failed to fully disclose the recipients of political expenditures, and filed several incomplete reports. That’s according to William Elmer with the Texas Ethics Advisory Board. Parish is the 115th District Court Judge in Upshur County. She also serves Marion County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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