No matter where Kim Brimer campaigns throughout Senate District 10 the "Rent to Own" scandal continues to haunt him. Matt Angle's Lone Star Project combed through Brimer's campaign filings and TEC reports to reach the following conclusion:
The Lone Star Project has conducted an examination of both your campaign filings to the TEC and of real estate transactions involving a luxury condominium located in Austin within the exclusive Westgate Towers. It is clear from official documents and transaction records, that you spent a number of years using campaign funds to further enrich yourself through the purchase and ultimate sale of the Westgate condo.
LSP concludes that through Brimer's luxury condo sale; combined with his improper campaign payments to his wife's realty business, give Kim a net profit of $357,000. At a time when wages for Texas workers is stagnant, the home mortgage crisis is crippling our economy, gas prices are devastating, health care costs are skyrocketing, and inflation is pinching Senate District 10 families, Kim Brimer continues to think of his own well being and not the well being of Texas families.
Texas can no longer afford the Brimer Loophole. In November, Senate District 10 voters have a clear choice between an elaborate get-rich-quick-schemer in Kim Brimer, or a real candidate in Wendy Davis who understands that Texas is at a crossroads and that Tarrant County needs progressive leadership representing them in Austin. As the ghosts of 'Rent to Own' continue and haunt the current Republican state senator from district 10, Tarrant County can turn a page with a fresh face and a fresh approach in dealing with the problems we face as a state. |
