96% of Rick's appointees are filled and not lapsed... 4% are serving beyond their expiration dates...

I criticized Matt Stiles and Elise Hu for their Texas Tribune story that quotes heavily from Barry Scheck and other anti death penalty advocates after massaging some numbers to seem like a really big deal (link)...

I produced this pie chart showing that 96% of Rick's appointments are serving in their usual terms without incident and that a small 4% are serving beyond their term's expiration date... this is all based on an open records request of Rick's huge number of appointees on a single date in time...

I also called on Hu and Stiles to just release the raw data, and I appreciate that Matt Stiles did release the data... you can download it here.... http://bit.ly/2EYGxa.

Looking through it there is a lot of personal information about each appointee and it has the date that their terms expire... a random sample of examples of positions with expired terms include...

Branch Pilot, Brazos-Santiago Pass Bar and Tributaries Dental Hygiene Advisory Committee Branch Pilot, Sabine Bar, Pass & Tributaries Branch Pilot, Galveston Bar & Houston Ship Channel OneStar Foundation On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council Teacher Retirement System of Texas Board of Trustees Arts, Texas Commission on the

Some of these have definitely been filled... others I am not so sure about... I am honestly not totally sure what else to gather from this data... maybe someone else can make more out of it...