Getting paid to do nothin’
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Tracy Woody has been in court a lot lately.
The Chambers County Justice of the Peace has been trying, and failing, to find a judge who will let him and his daddy-in-law take control of half the oyster crop in Galveston Bay. Woody got a lease from the Chambers-Liberty County Navigation District for his company STORM, but it doesn’t seem to be worth the paper it is written on, and plenty of taxpayer’s money is now being wasted on legal bills trying to educate officials in Anahuac about the law.
The State of Texas was forced to sue Woody’s company Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource Management (STORM), LLC, and District Judge Lonnie Cox in Galveston has stopped Woody’s company from interfering with other oyster fisherman.
Speaking of wasting money…Who is paying Woody while he spends his day engineering his oyster takeover dreams in the bay?
You, the taxpayers of Chambers County.
Woody is a Justice of the Peace in Chambers County, Precinct 3. Chambers County taxpayers pay him $45,000 a year to handle criminal and civil cases. His courtroom is in the historic Pine Island Courthouse, the one that was renovated with tens of thousands of dollars in federal money after Hurricane Ike.
Based on records released this week the courthouse is collecting dust, and Tracy Woody may have the best government job in Texas. He gets paid as a Judge, who doesn’t Judge anything.
The Chambers County Attorney’s office confirms Woody has not held a single court hearing in 2015, which is just about over. ZERO.
In 2014, just six hearings were held. Let’s do the math.
Tracy Woody is being paid $1,875.00 dollars an hour. Your money.
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