Interesting. Texas Secretary of State resigns...effective Friday of a holiday week

[Horse with no Name]

Seems odd coming off of an election. I wonder if she knows something we don't know?

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/20150121/texas-secretary-of-state-resigns

Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade today submitted her letter of resignation to Governor Rick Perry effective Friday, November 23, 2012.

"It has been the highest honor of my professional life to serve as the Secretary of State for the greatest state in our nation," said Secretary Andrade. "I am truly humbled by the trust and confidence Governor Perry placed in me nearly four and a half years ago and will forever be grateful for the opportunity to represent Texas in this esteemed office."

Secretary Andrade was sworn in as Texas' first Latina Secretary of State on July 23, 2008. She will leave office as the fourth-longest serving Secretary of State in Texas history. Prior to serving as Texas Secretary of State, Secretary Andrade served as chair of the Texas Transportation Commission.


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Secretary Andrade is also proud to have worked with Governor Perry promoting Texas economic development throughout the country and the world. The Secretary of State also serves as senior advisor and liaison to the Governor for Texas Border and Mexican Affairs, and serves as Chief International Protocol Officer for Texas.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Hmmm. The purger of state

http://info.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/pdf/HopeAndrade.pdf

First Latina Secretary of State
Led Voter-Suppression Drive
Perry’s Chief Elections Officer Used ‘Weak Matches’ To Burn
Not-Dead-Yet Voters. Will Andrade’s Donors Want Refunds?

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Lobby Watch suspects some people who gave
money to Texas’ “first Latina Secretary of State”
will be delighted with her discretionary choice to
use “weak matches” to try to suppress voter
turnout. Others may be disgusted.
Did voter suppression prompt ex-Clinton
Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to give
Andrade $250, for example? HEB Grocery chain
CEO Charles Butt gave Andrade $3,000. Does
HEB—or its customers—approve of voter
suppression schemes?

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After Governor Rick Perry appointed her
Secretary of State in 2008, Andrade raised
$134,391 in political contributions—even
though she is not an elected office. Andrade taps
her officeholder account to wine and dine, to
buy gifts, to pay her phone bill and to pay
accountants, fundraisers and other staff (see
expenditure table below). Andrade loaned her
officeholder account another $5,000 last year.
In her single largest expense, she blew $9,218
on her 2008 swearing-in luncheon at Austin’s
Four Seasons Hotel

[Horse with no Name]

3. So I guess she is in charge of suppressing the Hispanic Vote?

Kind of like Condoleeza Rice making the case against Affirmative Action...


This is really sickening.

[Berlum]

2. More time with la familia?

a typical Republican excuse for going AWOL before their RepubliPoo hits the fan.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. so true. It is curious, because it sounds like Perry must have liked her - so

maybe it's the reverse - she was told to do it all. Unlikely too.