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Juanita has often said that the most easily corruptible job in government is a county commissioner.  They alone decide how every dime of taxpayer money is spent.  Even other elected officials have to beg them for money to run their offices.  It’s the perfect job for a con man.

Like Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole.

“Please, please, please,” Juanita pleads this morning, “do not let this man get off.   He took $100,000 in cash, gifts, and travel from a real estate developer who wanted things done with taxpayer money.  Eversole claims it was merely gifts from a friend.”

“If Jerry Eversole gets off, Fort Bend County Commissioner Andy Meyers will never open his own wallet again for the rest of his life.”

Ten to two hung jury.  Amazing.