Here in Tex-ass, the system for determining property values is via a central appraisal district. All taxing entities in a county have weighted votes for the board of directors. Appraisal staff, including the chief appraiser, are hired and theoretically apolitical.
So, it might be bad optics for a chief appraiser to speak to a county political party.
It's surely far worse optics for a chief appraiser to speak to a political activist group.
But that's exactly what Cooke County Chief Appraiser Doug Smithson is doing.
He's speaking to a group called Cooke Conservatives. Worse yet, he's doing it on May 15, right before the end of the Lege session. And, they are nutters. Their February meeting had a "vaccine choice" speaker, Rebecca Hardy of the antivaxxer Texans for Vaccine Choice. (Link is to their Wikipedia page; even with a no-follow code, I wouldn't send you to their website or Facebook page.) They were around pre-COVID, but that has of course exacerbated their nuttery.
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