Jack Stick, a lawyer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. He has fought a drunken-driving charge that has gone relatively unnoticed.

In Stick’s DWI case, Perry critics see double standard

A top state official gets arrested for drunken driving in Austin and refuses breath and blood tests. Police cite erratic driving and uncooperative behavior, and critics say the official is unfit to serve in public office. No, this is not the case of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democrat at the center of Gov. Rick Perry’s abuse-of-office indictment. It’s Republican Jack Stick, the top lawyer for the state’s sprawling health care agency, which was recently accused in a federal audit of failing to prevent millions of misspent dollars on medically unnecessary orthodontia. 
 
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