Texas Dem operative caught describing paying people for votes, admits it’s ‘shady as f**k’

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An undercover video shows a Texas Majority PAC organizer describing a $25 program as a “roundabout way” of paying people for their votes.
The Democratic-aligned PAC says he described the program inaccurately and has fired him.
Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton accused Democratic opponent James Talarico of trying to “bribe people for votes.”

An undercover video is creating a headache for a Democratic-aligned Texas political group after one of its organizers described a voter-outreach program in terms even he acknowledged sounded “shady.”

Townhall published video Wednesday showing Sky McAdams, identified as an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, discussing a program that pays participants $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom session.

“We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things,” McAdams says in the recording.

Then came the line now ricocheting around Texas politics.

“So it’s like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially,” McAdams said.

Absolutely outrageous!

James Talarico’s team just admitted they are trying to bribe people for votes.

Texans aren’t for sale, no matter how much James Talarico thinks they are. https://t.co/WI8t8jG35o

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 16, 2026

McAdams also acknowledged that directly paying someone to vote for a candidate isn’t permitted, while describing the payment for attending the class as “a little gray.”

“If I was a Republican, I would be pissed,” he added. “I would be like, that’s shady as f**k.”

The program McAdams discussed is described as paid relational organizing — an organizing strategy in which participants are compensated for political outreach to people they already know. Relentless, the firm involved in the program, describes its approach as recruiting low-propensity voters and compensating them for time spent reaching, persuading, and mobilizing friends and family.

Texas Majority PAC reported spending $500,000 with Relentless for a relational organizing program, according to campaign-finance reporting cited by Townhall and other outlets. But Texas Majority PAC strongly disputed McAdams’ description of what participants are actually being paid to do.

“Participants in the program are being paid for grassroots organizing work,” a PAC spokesperson told Blaze News.

“The way it was described by one rogue employee is factually incorrect, not how we operate, and they were immediately fired.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican Senate nominee running against Talarico, seized on the recording. Paxton accused his opponent’s allies of attempting to “bribe people for votes” and declared that “Texans aren’t for sale.”