Thornton, Claiborne now working for Campbell
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 by Jo Clifton
Two former aides to Council Member Ellen Troxclair have landed jobs in the same legislative office. Brian Thornton, who served as Troxclair’s chief of staff, is now the senior policy adviser for Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels. Alice Claiborne, who also worked for Troxclair, has become Campbell’s communications director. Troxclair, of course, worked for state Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs, before running for Council in 2014. Isaac is now a transportation consultant and Troxclair, who retired at the end of 2018, is a lobbyist for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Update: Troxclair told the Austin Monitor she is not a “lobbyist,” but a Senior Fellow at the TPPF. It is an important distinction, she noted, because TPPF is a nonprofit think tank prohibited from lobbying. She is continuing to run her real estate brokerage on a full-time basis and only assist the TPPF on property tax issues as needed, she said.
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