Ron Wilson's request for a hand out continues to be suspect. On October 27th, Phil reported that Wilson asked Rick Perry to appoint him as Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Wilson's bid for Commissioner is troubling. Not because he supports Craddick's bid for total power. Not because he was a top lieutenant in the push to institutionalize and fund vouchers in Texas. The fact that DPS refuses to release video tapes that may show James Leininger on the House floors isn't the biggest issue either. The problem is, you can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps, and Wilson's friends don't seem like friends of the DPS.
Ron Wilson's client, friend, and rapper, Lil' Flip has something to say about public safety.
Lil Flip - I Got Flow
Cause I got flow, you know I got flow
If I ain't in your gal, I'm in the studio
Maybe that one isn't too bad. How about…
Lil Flip- 7-1-3 (Remix)
I got a lot of girls, some of em give me head
Some of em give me bread, when my money get low
I use to fuck, one three days in a row
But she wouldn't let me drive her car
So I found me a bitch, with a Jaguar
Now I got, two herbs in mind
So don't try and jack, cause I'll burst a nine
That's one shot, two shot, three shot, fo'
And if you don't die, I'ma shoot five mo'
Yeah nigga, I'm on my grind
I'm just like Nas, I'm a mastermind
You got a plan, before you try to do something
Get a rubber, before you try to screw something
......
We can't forget Ron Wilson
He got the Lamborghini, you see it
Just for fun, here is another Lil Flip shout out to his boy Ron Wilson.
Lil Flip - We Blow Endo
Lil Flipper da Leprachun ak da Freestyle King
Sucka Free, Fuckin wit dat Ron-C on dat Dodo tshhh
Nigga ya'll blowin bull shit, Endo nigga dats what we blow
Maybe there is a different Ron Wilson with an Endo who represents a Houston rapper. Actually, Mr. Wilson was a guest star in Lil Flip's music video, "This is the Way we Ball".
As a private citizen, Wilson has the right to do whatever he wants as long as it is within the bounds of the law. However, public servants are held to a higher standard. How can he be the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety while his friends and business partners are out there talking about shooting people on the streets, doing drugs, or screwing around?
Wilson has already shown a complete disregard for the rules. Perry and Craddick continue to use cronyism to reward friends instead of considering actual qualifications. There is no reason Wilson should even be considered for this job. Ever.
Forgive me if this isn't still fresh "news" -- but I'd thought these tapes were long ago released. I had no idea this was still going on.
In 2005, there was a great deal of discussion that the influential millionaire, James Leininger, was holding private meetings with members in a room off the back hall of the Texas House. The Observer requested those videos, to determine whether or not a man who has spent millions of dollars on his pet issue -- school vouchers -- was, in fact, in the back halls of the Capitol. So now, two years, later, why haven't those tapes been released? The latest Texas Observer editorial:
he Texas Department of Public Safety has now spent more than two years and almost $166,000 in lawyer fees fighting a Texas Observer request to release information we believe should clearly be made public. Attorney General Greg Abbott agrees. A state district judge agrees. The state public records law is on our side...
On October 24, in a courtroom at the University of Texas at Austin, DPS will try again to keep the information secret, this time in an appeal before the Third Court of Appeals. If that fails, and it probably will, we have no doubt DPS will go for a fourth strike by appealing to the state Supreme Court.
This is patently absurd, especially since DPS is claiming they can't release the tapes because they are "protecting us from terrorists" -- despite the fact, as the Observer article points out, that those cameras are in plain sight to anyone who walks in the back hall. So unless Leininger is a terrorist, the DPS needs to stop wasting the taxpayer's money and hand over the tapes. Now.
