Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander said he'll vote on the SunRail deal despite the fact that his cousin, Rep. Baxter Troutman, abstained from voting on the grounds that it's a conflict of interest because their family owns a business that works on the CSX lines.
Alexander based his decision on a [...]
Senate budget chief J.D. Alexander said he'll vote on the SunRail deal despite the fact that his cousin, Rep. Baxter Troutman, abstained from voting on the grounds that it's a conflict of interest because their family owns a business that works on the CSX lines.
Alexander based his decision on a [...]
As if the feud with his fellow lawmaker/cousin wasn’t interesting enough, Rep. Baxter Troutman dropped the Ray Sansom bomb in reference to Sen. J.D. Alexander.. Outside of the fact that the former House Speaker’s name is now synonymous with conflicts of interest, invoking his name is sure to test the [...]
There’s little love lost between Sen. J.D. Alexander and Rep. Baxter Troutman (more here). And there will be even less now that Troutman filed an official vote-abstention form with the House Clerk, noting that he’s a “significant” shareholder in a family company called Phoenix Industries, which does work for [...]
