Houston tea party spinoff King Street Patriots (KSP) has posted its financial records online and challenged opponents to show theirs as well. Since March 2010, the nonprofit reported about $87,000 in income from donations and nearly $15,000 from events.

The Transaction Reports posted on KSP’s website do not list the identities of donors or amounts of individual contributions, but does break out deposits by date. A handful of large deposits account for a significant portion of KSP’s funding, including $15,201 on April 20, $12,150 on June 1 and $7,003 on Oct. 7.

The Texas Democratic Party (TDP) had threatened an injunction hearing unless KSP complied with its open records request. The Democrats have a hearing scheduled Thursday in case TDP general counsel Chad Dunn still has questions over what KSP and its KSP/True the Vote should have to disclose. KSP was incorporated Dec. 30, 2009, while KSP/True the Vote was incorporated June 7, 2010, according to Texas Secretary of State records.

Liberty Institute president/CEO Kelly Shackleford, KSP’s legal counsel, issued the following statement in a news release:

“King Street Patriots has always had their transactional reports available to the public. They are now available online. As anyone can see, there has only been $87,000 in donations over the group’s entire existence. This shows what a joke of a lawsuit this is.

We call on Texans Together Education Fund d/b/a Houston Votes and Texans for Public Justice to make their records public as well unless they are embarrassed to have received a combined total of nearly $100,000 from liberal activist George Soros.”

Houston Votes and its leader Fred Lewis sued KSP and its leader Catherine Engelbrecht for defamation, saying Engelbrecht linked Houston Votes to the New Black Panthers. Meanwhile, Texans for Public Justice filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission, alleging in part that KSP regularly hosts GOP-exclusive candidate forums while not registering as a political committee, contrary to Texas laws against corporate campaign contributions.

Meanwhile, TDP added KSP to an ongoing lawsuit with the Green Party of Texas — a group Democrats also want to make its donors public. Also, TDP filed suit against Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Leo Vasquez, saying he violated the terms of an earlier settlement agreement by providing voter registration records to KSP, which challenged thousands of applications linked to Houston Votes.

Read the Texas Independent for additional KSP coverage.

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