It's even worse than that. Few people outside of Texas know why Ben Barnes got the boot from office. They kicked him out because he was an unindicted coconspirator in the Sharpstown Stock Scandal - basically a huge financial scandal involving kickbacks and bribes where the Governor, Speaker of the House, and Lt. Governor (Barnes) ramrodded a banking bill favor through the legislature for businessman Frank Sharp, who then lined their pockets with a huge loan to buy his own company's stock, which in turn served as colateral for the loan. This artificially drove up the value of Sharps' stock until they bilked it off at inflated prices onto the endowment of a private high school in Houston then took the money and ran, leaving now worthless stock behind. Barnes essentially got the boot because he helped a crony businessman cheat a bunch of kids out of their education money.
i didn't move to houston until 1993 but this guy is notorious for being a crook....then first he says the bush family didn't asked for help with the ANG and then, now that he's prominent with the skerry campaign, says they did....this guy has no credibility...