Nothing like a BIG conflict of interest. Commissioner Jim Smith is also a Reserve Deputy under ole Parnell McNamara, no wonder Jim doesn’t care that Parnell committed Common Law Fraud by having a deputy work for him at his house for THREE YEARS. No wonder Jim Smith just goes along to get along, he is another one of Par’s boyfriends who likes to play cops and robbers or cowboys. Perhaps Jim dreams of retiring to a dream job after retirement wearing a diaper and sitting in a Security Car in some Home Depot parking lot?
One thing is for sure it’s a conflict and although probably still “legal” it’s the reason that nothing gets done, nothing gets better, they keep giving themselves raises, they gave a HUGE amount of money to Dustin Chapman our FIRST LAWYER Court Administrator and the question is “WHY”, seems to me that obviously Mr. Chapman is over qualified and after years of NOT having a lawyer as Administrator, why the hell now? Could it be that they need a lawyer so they can just keep putting their toes on the line with Judge King Felton and his precious rags to riches brother in law John Erwin? One thing is for sure THIS SUCKS.
WE had to foot the bill to bring Chapman’s salary UP to lawyer standards when we didn’t even need a lawyer.
THIS smiling man below on the left is Dustin Chapman the Court Administrator, he’s a lawyer and got a whopping 44% raise from his buddies because he’s a lawyer. Whoo hoo, so he couldn’t make a living as a real lawyer and he is overqualified to be a Court Administrator so King Scottie and the Commissioners just raised him 44%. Goodie. No, I don’t think those eyebrows are natural, probably some Grecian Formula for Men, I think they look like quotation marks myself.”””””””””””””””””””
McLennan County administrator to get 44% raise, judge to …
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Aug 25, 2023 — McLennan County Administrator Dustin Chapman will see an almost 44% pay increase beginning Oct. 1, having become a go-to source of specifics …
Now we have a Commissioner and Reserve Deputy in the same place.
Do you like this? Hell no.
Will they stop? No, they don’t care what you think. They’re making millions of dollars and dividing it among one another in quazi lega ways.
It’s time to get mad and RUN against these crooks.
Jim Smith KNOWS ALL ABOUT the gardener/deputy at the McNamara place, does he care? Hell, no. Why? Because he wants to be a cowboy with Par.
NO, tell them, “NO”.
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BIG SMILE on ole Jim Smith’s face, yep, he’s happy, he’s a Commissioner and a Deputy Dawg. He serves TWO masters, the County and, mostly, Big Dick Parnell. THIS SHIT IS WRONG and you know it.
Here are the TWO Commissions that exist, we understand that his Commission is now under Parnell, it has just not been updated since 2009, if this is incorrect and Jimmy is just a Commissioner and NOT A deputy, then tell us, or, perhaps in some debate when someone runs against your big smiley self.
Morales Letter Opinion No. 97-081 (texasattorneygeneral.gov)
Office of the Attorney General State of Texas September 12, 1997The Honorable Lee Price Fernon Baylor County Attorney 101 South Washington Seymour, Texas 76380The Honorable Dib Waldrip Criminal District Attorney 150 North Seguin, Suite 318 New Braunfels, Texas 78130-5113Letter Opinion No. 97-081Re: Whether a county commissioner may also serve as a reserve deputy sheriff (ID# 39419)Dear Messrs. Fernon and Waldrip:You have each asked the same question, namely whether a county commissioner may also be a reserve deputy sheriff. For that reason, your requests have been consolidated and will be considered together.Each of your briefs focuses on one of the two doctrinal areas which may be implicated by this question–the Comal County brief on the constitutional question of dual office holding, the Baylor County brief on the common-law doctrine of incompatibility. We shall examine the questions in that order.As the brief attached to the Comal County request correctly points out, article XVI, section 40 of the Texas Constitution prohibits any person from holding or exercising “more than one civil office of emolument.” Even if reserve deputy sheriff were an “office,”(1) the constitutional prohibition in article XVI, section 40 still would not apply, since the position of county commissioner is specifically exempted by its terms from the prohibition. Accordingly, the constitutional ban on dual office holding does not cover the situation presented by your requests.As the Baylor County letter brief suggests, however, this does not end the inquiry. We must also consider the common-law doctrine of incompatibility. The common-law doctrine of incompatibility prevents a person from holding two public offices whose duties are inconsistent or in conflict (“conflicting loyalties” incompatibility), or appointing himself to another public entity (“self-appointment” incompatibility), or holding an employment subordinate to his public office (“self-employment” incompatibility). Letter Opinion Nos. 94-70 (1994) at 1-2, 95-29 (1995) at 2-3.The Baylor County brief suggests that “self-appointment” or “self-employment” incompatibility would bar a commissioner from holding a position as a reserve deputy sheriff, because the sheriff’s “accounts and budgets are approved by the membership of the commissioner’s court.” We disagree. The commissioner’s court does not appoint or employ deputy sheriffs. A deputy sheriff “serves at the pleasure of the sheriff.” Local Gov’t Code § 85.003(c). “[B]oth the appointment and tenure of a sheriff’s deputy depend upon the sheriff’s sole discretion.” Commissioners Court of Shelby County v. Ross, 809 S.W.2d 754, 756 (Tex. App.–Tyler 1991, no writ). “On the other hand, the commissioners court or members of the court are expressly forbidden to attempt to influence the appointment of any person to an employee position authorized by the court. The commissioners court may limit the number of deputies authorized, but it has no power of naming the individuals to be appointed.” Id. Nor, in our view, would “conflicting loyalties” incompatibility, which applies only when both positions are offices, see Attorney General Opinion JM-1266 (1990) at 4, apply in this situation.Since the authority of the sheriff to appoint deputy sheriffs is independent of the commissioners court, the common-law doctrine of incompatibility does not apply here. Accordingly, neither article XVI, section 40 of the Texas Constitution nor the common-law doctrine of incompatibility prohibits a county commissioner from also serving as a reserve deputy sheriff. Since the court may compensate a reserve deputy sheriff, see Local Gov’t Code § 152.075, both the sheriff and the commissioner may wish to consider the apparent propriety of such an appointment; but the appointment is not barred as a matter of law.S U M M A R YNeither article XVI section 40 of the Texas Constitution nor the common-law doctrine of incompatibility prohibits a county commissioner from also serving as a reserve deputy sheriff.Yours very truly,James E. Tourtelott Assistant Attorney General Opinion CommitteeFootnotes1. We do not now decide that reserve deputy sheriffs are employees rather than officers as a matter of law. See Attorney General Opinion DM-212 (1993) (deputy sheriffs do not hold civil office of emolument as matter of law).Texas OAG home page | Opinions & Open Government |
