[Watchdogs] "State Sen. Troy Fraser said he thinks the news on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative is going to get worse" [The Highlander, April 24, 2009]

[Milton Hawkins]

[This from Friday's edition of The Highlander:]

Delegation gets dose of 'legislative' reality

by Hal Brown
Highland Lakes Newspaper

AUSTIN--It was Burnet County Day at the Texas Legislature on Thursday, but
if members of a 37-member county delegation to the Capitol were looking for
news to brighten their day it was in short supply. The county legislative
agenda is far from being approved.   . . .

State Sen. Troy Fraser said he thinks the news on the Pedernales Electric
Cooperative is going to get worse.

"The concern I have is I'm not sure we've found all the bad (at PEC).  I
think there are some buried bodies we haven't found," he said.  "Once we
start the indictments, which I think they are close to, once they bring
people before the grand jury, I think there are people that are going to
start talking and telling us about things we don't know about."

Fraser said he suspects PEC officials "misappropriated or stole close to $50
million over the last 10 to 15 years. 

"It's unbelievable," he said.

 

[The article continues on other topics, but you have the relevant parts
above.  -  Milton]

Milton Hawkins    mhawkins at tstar.net     830-868-9075

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