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Continued taxpayer-funded salary and benefits payments to a convicted, incarcerated elected official?
Grassroots America questions constitutionality of continued taxpayer-funded salary & benefits to a convicted, incarcerated smith county clerk – Calls on district attorney Jacob Putman and the Smith County Commissioners Court to review the Texas Supreme Court’s definition of ‘gratuitous’ payments.
Salary and benefits payments to an incarcerated county elected official?
We raise a simple – yet vitally important – legal matter regarding the continuation of salary and benefits payments to an incarcerated county elected official…
Grassroots America: “Shockingly Unprofessional, Unacceptable, Embarrassing, and Disrespectful to Taxpayers”
“In 33 years, I have never witnessed such a shocking failure as this year’s budget process in Smith County. County Judge Neal Franklin and the Commissioners have never had one public discussion to set the spending boundaries for the 2026 budget nor have they ever attempted to cast a unified vision for what this budget should achieve for the taxpayers…
Hot Update: Protect Kids | Tyler Library Smut
Thank you to all the volunteers who attended the October 18th library board meeting – the last one of this year! There were about 50 people in...
Our War Against Porn to Kids | Tyler Public Library
When they won't listen, we go to war! Follow our local campaign to save kids from public library smut. Learn what to do! Can we all agree that our...
Just the Beginning – Kid Grooming Porn Must Go | Tyler Public Library
Metropolitan, self-anointed cultural elites preying on children by normalizing smut & pedophilia will not be tolerated. In response to many...
Our 2020 General Election Audit Report
Ever wonder what a real election audit would reveal? We did, so our local government watchdog committee got to work to organize and execute a...
Smith County Jail in the Spotlight – AGAIN
Grassroots America Seeks 4+ Years of Documents from/to Texas Commission on Jail Standards What Every Taxpayer in Texas Should Know about County Jail...


