While we wait for a resolution to the Kim Brimer/Wendy Davis ballot access lawsuit, take a look at Texas Watchdog's report on Brimer's interesting financial history.
A struggling bank makes loans to a prominent businessman who offers flimsy excuses on why he can't pay back his debt. The gentleman than begs a federal agency for a helping hand, claiming he can't come up with the money.No, it's not a scene ripped from today's headlines -- this was in 1993, and the prominent, wealthy man asking for a government bailout was Republican state legislator Kim Brimer, now proclaimed by business groups as a "champion for free enterprise."