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We'll see about character among lawmakers

I think I heard it first from then-U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, an Oklahoma Republican, who I’m sure didn’t coin the phrase that noted that you measure someone’s character by “what he does when no one’s looking.”

Still, Watts’s assessment rang true when I heard him say it and it will ring true likely forever.

Thus, the American Phoenix Foundation is set to release hidden-camera video of Texas lawmakers behaving when they think no one is looking.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/disrupt-narrative

APF has made a name for itself exposing misbehavior among elected public officials. It’s a conservative group. Its aim is to reveal how our elected reps conduct themselves. It’s gone after liberal politicians and those associated with liberal causes, such as ACORN.

The leaders of AFP assure us, though, that they’re going to expose conservative lawmakers saying certain things in public but doing entirely different things in private.

Umm, we’ll see about that.