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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Staples to Resign

Posted/updated on: September 19, 2014 at 8:24 pm
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thumb_toddstaplesAUSTIN (AP/Staff) – State Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples says he’s leaving office to become president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. Staples said in a statement released Thursday that he’ll step down sometime within the next two months. His departure was expected, following a failed bid for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. His political career began as a city councilor in his hometown of Palestine. He went on to serve in the state House and then the Senate before becoming agriculture commissioner He received attention earlier this month when he raised objections to a school district pilot program that encourages kids to eat meatless lunches once a week. Staples said the effort by Dripping Springs was part of an “activist movement” advocating a vegetarian diet for Americans.

Some are calling Staples’s latest move into question. The research director for the Watchdog Group Texans for Public Justice, Andrew Wheat, says it’s unethical for public officials to run straight to lobbying. Wheat says his group believes public officials should have to wait two years before they take a lobbyist job.



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