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May 16, 2017      6:09 PM

Update: Nearly 70 whose names were used on pro-school voucher letters did not give permission, GOP lawmaker says

Rep. Travis Clardy’s office contacted those whose names were used, ZERO came back in agreement with “school choice” legislation and didn’t give permission for their names to be used in letter campaign; Clardy says “I think this is criminal”

Ever since the first reports of “fraudulent” pro-school voucher letters, an East Texas Republican lawmaker who received hundreds of them has been busily trying to figure out if any of the people whose names were used in that controversial letter campaign intended to be part of it.

So far, the answer is no.

“I think this is criminal,” said Rep. Travis Clardy, R-Nacogdoches, who on Tuesday provided Quorum Report with the numbers collected by his staff.

By Scott Braddock and Eleanor Dearman

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