Sierra Candidate Fails to File...again

Seriously, what is it with Carlos Sierra and filing campaign finance reports. Republican candidate for the District 6 EPISD trustee seat for the Franklin feeder pattern Tom Hicks, failed to file a campaign finance report...again.

I don't think this guy has met a filing deadline even once in this election cycle. But its not an over sight, it is much more than that. One time is a mistake. Every time is a pattern of behavior.

If you recall on his recent mailer I wrote about the other day, Hicks holds himself out to be "accurate, accountable, truthful, and knowledgeable".

Not filing his campaign finance report as required undermines that message. If you didn't file it, then you're hardly accountable or truthful. If you filed it, but you filed it late, then you're neither accurate nor knowledgeable.

But this habitual failure of Carlos Sierra and his stable of candidates to file finance reports says a lot about transparency and in a race that is for a seat on the EPISD Board of Trustees, transparency is obviously a big issue.

If it was just the first time, then sure chalk it up to a rookie mistake. But this is the third time in one election cycle that he either failed to file or filed late. That is something that should concern everyone.