Link: http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=2173

...where the Texas Ethics Commission has apparently re-written its own rules in order to determine that recipients of gifts do not have to disclose the monetary value of those gifts, in spite of the Ethics Commission rules that say they have to disclose the value.
Puzzled? Read this article which explains how you too can distort and gerrymander the rules of an Ethics Commission...
And people ask me why I think that the Republicans are incompetent...sheesh, incompetent is the wrong word for this sort of behaviour. This is rule gerrymandering, pure and simple. Otherwise known as ethically cleansed, morally bankrupt behaviour.