Happy Hour 231: Big Dollars For Big Donors: Greg Abbott's Pay-To-Play Scheme, with Public Citizen

We're joined today by Adrian Shelley and Cassidy Levin of the national watchdog group Public Citizen, who have uncovered a massive and years-long apparent pay-to-play scheme in which large-dollar donors to Governor Greg Abbott's campaign finance PAC appear to have been rewarded with very large, and in some cases, dubiously documented, state contracts - a situation that, while legal under Texas law, clearly raises considerable ethics questions.Learn more about Public Citizen's Texas office at https://www.citizen.org/article/about-the-public-citizen-texas-office/.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress Texas and how you can support our ongoing work at https://progresstexas.org/.