Does Michael Franks Owe You Money?
The Texas GOP Store - aka Michael Franks Printing - owes me and dozens of Republican Party chapters across the state quite a bit of money.
I
teamed up with Franks at the Texas Straw Poll in Fort Worth last year
and joined the TexasGOPStore as his marketing director. For a "15-20%"
commission on individual sign orders, I'd have access and networking opportunities with every major and minor campaign in the state.
He
promised county parties across the state a 10% "give-back" for those
chairs who referred their candidates to his shop -- located in
Huntsville, just south of town.
Franks owes me 15-20% commission on two orders: (a) Randy Dunning's state representative campaign ($6,000 check written to Franks after the original one "got lost in the mail") and (b) Johnny Brown's
Ellis County Sheriff campaign (in which Brown told me over the phone,
"tell Michael Franks to give you the commission since you did the
order.")
Franks, in February, wanted to say that he intended
for 15-20% to be on volume, not individual sales. That's a lie. I'll
produce the e-mails in court.
And that's exactly where I'll be taking it -- after I've had my way in the public.
I've
given Franks since February to make due on these two orders; two other
orders he threw $200 apiece on; that's not going to cut it. No telling
how much money the dozens of county parties are expecting. I personally
e-mailed 85% of our 100+ county GOP chapters soliciting the business in
exchange for the 10% donation to each party's treasury.
I was warned before teaming up with Franks that he'd try to pull something dirty.
Unfortunately for those folks, they didn't have an arsenal called a newspaper network. And unfortunately for me, I was naive.
I was more interested in making in-roads into the state's GOP network.
The county parties and I will get our money back and the people of this entire state will know just how crooked and dirty Michael Franks is. After all, he still owes some county parties some money.
Anyone else have similar stories?
PS:
Franks wanted to hide a new business proposal to get a union mark under
a new name so that he could -- without hardcore GOP activists knowing
-- solicit business from Democratic candidates and organizations.