Rick Reed Files Ethics Complaint Against Fellow Candidate
Travis County District Attorney candidate Rick Reed is a stickler for the law. After all, until last week he worked for Travis County DA Ronnie Earle's Public Integrity Unit. Now that he's dedicated to campaigning full time, he's found a problem with the campaign signs of his former boss/current opponent, Rosemary Lehmberg, and doing something about it. (Lehmberg is Ronnie Earle's candidate-of-choice.)
Reed dropped two ethics complaints against Lehmberg this afternoon, for displaying and getting someone to make signs that don't include a notice saying they are "political advertisements".
So, he's popping her for a technicality, but the law is all about technicalities, which is also why I never went to law school. We'll see what the Ethics Commission does about it, given all of its investigations of late and the proximity of election day.
