We're written about this judge before. Today the Waco Tribune has an article about how, after looking at his campaign filings with the Texas Ethics Commission, there are some questions about some of the items he listed. With no response yet after repeated calls by the Trib.

He is also getting attention from legal observers for some of the more unusual items he has reported tapping into his campaign coffers to buy, including the use of political contributions for his personal security, personal grooming, repeated staff “incentive” lunches and reimbursement for his wife for attending political events.

A review of Gray’s officeholder campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission for the past four years shows he has spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds for gasoline, unspecified “office supplies,” computer equipment, charitable donations and numerous “working dinners.”

While we're on the subject, this is the second time in about a week that the Waco Trib has written about Gray. Apparently his colleagues are also complaining about his use of state manpower and equipment.

Judge Tom Gray may have misused government resources — and he certainly confounded his colleagues — when he filed a friend-of-the-court brief as an individual in response to a case involving his court and directed a court employee to prepare it using state equipment.

Gray, chief justice of Waco’s 10th Court of Appeals, filed the pro se amicus curiae brief with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday.

The judge noted in the brief that he was not representing the three-judge court but “in my individual capacity and as a chief justice of a Texas intermediate appellate court” and “as a person interested in the process.”

While Gray makes it clear he wasn’t representing the court in the brief, a cover letter was written on the court’s letterhead stationery and prepared by court employee Nita Whitener, who identified herself on the letter as “legal secretary for Tom Gray.”

As the article notes, it isn't only that he apparenlty used government resources for personal use, but it's a little odd, right?, that he is filing an amicus brief about a case that already considered BY HIS COURT.

Oh. And he's a Republican.