Comptroller Candidates Spar
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Updated: 1:06 PM Aug 18, 2006
Comptroller Candidates Spar
The candidates for Texas comptroller are sparring over legal reprimands and a sexy novel.
Posted: 1:15 PM Aug 18, 2006
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(August 18, 2006)--A spokesman for the Republican state comptroller candidate says her Democratic opponent can't be trusted with the state's money.

Reggie Bashur is spokesman for Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs, who's running to succeed Carole Keeton Strayhorn as comptroller.

He says Democrat Fred Head has been reprimanded at least four times by the Texas Bar Association.

According to Texas Bar Association records, Head was reprimanded twice in 1983 for not returning clients' files after they'd decided to fire him as their attorney.

Later in the 1980s, the Athens lawyer was reprimanded twice for trying to charge higher legal fees agreed to.

Head dismisses the reprimands as the inevitable byproduct of a 43-year legal career, and disputes any suggestion that he tried to take advantage of a client for financial gain.

As for Combs, Bashur calls Head's comments on her now-out-of-print "A Perfect Match" outrageous an outrageous portrayal of a romance novel.

Head claimed Combs’ attack was an effort to divert attention from the book she wrote in the early 1990s, which he called “ a trashy sex novel” and “pornography” because of its steamy bedroom scenes.

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