The Swamp Is Trying to Cancel Nearly 4.3 Million Votes in Deep Red Texas

PJ Media ^ | 09/08/2023 | DARRELL FROST

[SeekAndFind]

During Donald Trump’s norm-shattering 2016 campaign, he famously promised to “drain the swamp,” referring to the concentration of power and the penchant for corruption among Washington’s political elite and bureaucratic class.

The highlight of this effort was probably when Trump sacked FBI Director James Comey a few months after he became president, ostensibly for botching the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server and leaked emails, though it was really an attempt by Trump—as he admitted—to quash the agency’s investigation into frivolous claims of Russian election interference.

That decision was the tipping point in the events that led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to continue the flawed Russia investigation, which we now know was initiated in response to claims fabricated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Although the investigation found no evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and foreign sources, it crippled his administration for nearly two years, which might partly explain Trump’s resistance to firing Anthony Fauci after it became apparent the policies he was pushing in response to COVID-19 were bogus.

Regardless, although the D.C. swamp has been exposed, the monsters living there want to let the American people know they’re still in control, and now they’re coming after Trump and anyone close to him with a vengeance. While the prosecution of the former president has about as much merit as the Kremlin’s efforts to fight corruption, there’s a decent chance Trump is sent to prison or put under house arrest within the next year, and if he’s the GOP nominee, there will be a serious effort in states he needs to win to keep him off the ballot.

Well, the swamp isn’t confined to the nation’s capital. Now, it’s reared its ugly head in deep-red Texas.

[thinden]

excerpt:

The Texas House impeached Paxton by a vote of 121-23 on May 27, suspending him from office pending the outcome of a trial in the Texas Senate, which began this week. For Paxton to be removed from office, two-thirds of the Senate’s members (21 of 31) must vote to uphold the charges against him.

In a nutshell, a handful of legislators is attempting to cancel the votes of 4,278,986 citizens.

[stanne]

Tgey want texas to be sanctuary now that the mayor of NYC has had enough of his own bragging about being a sanctuary city. He wants $12 billion for his self imposed sanctuary city and he wants to make Texas a sanctuary state. The feds are fine with that and also disregarding Texas voters

Abbot is so quiet as usual. Yuk

[Tench_Coxe]

"Paxton was reelected last year by a margin of 9.8%, fending off three challengers in the primary, including George P. Bush—the son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and then-commissioner of the Texas General Land Office—whom he defeated by 35.9% in a runoff election."

There is the source right there. And given Cheney's recent comments on who he thinks is the greatest threat to "our democracy", Paul Ryan's shenanigans as speaker and at Fox, etc....

Getting the picture yet?

[SeekAndFind]

Governor Greg Abbott is no Ron DeSantis, but the real problem is the Texas House of Representatives, where Republicans have empowered Democrats by allowing them to influence the selection of the speaker, who in turn has appointed several Democrats to chair powerful legislative committees controlling which bills get voted on.

Now, the speaker and his allies—both Republicans and Democrats—are attempting to remove Attorney General Ken Paxton from office through the impeachment process, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office to benefit a wealthy campaign donor and wrongfully terminating subordinates who questioned his actions. The allegations stem from a November 2020 whistleblower lawsuit filed by four of these former employees, with whom Paxton’s office agreed to settle for $3.3 million earlier this year.

Paxton’s alleged crimes aren’t the real reason why the Austin political establishment is trying to remove him from office, though.

His real crime is refusing the play the game favored by most politicians—he follows through on what he says he believes, making those who don’t look bad.

He unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent moderate House Speaker in 2011 when he was a member of that body, and he defeated the establishment candidate for attorney general in 2014. Paxton has sued the Biden administration dozens of times over its policies on immigration, vaccines, free speech, and the environment, and he led the effort to contest the 2020 presidential election at the Supreme Court when he sued four swing states for changing their election rules without the approval of state legislators.

[Bratch]

Accuser Admits He and Seven Bush Allied Cohorts Secretly Went to FBI to Report Ken Paxton Without Any Evidence of Wrongdoing

September 7, 2023 | Sundance | 347 Comments

People are discovering why I have said for several years that Texas is a Red State citizenry led by a majority of Blue cloaked politicians.  The establishment Republicans are thick in Texas, led by the Bush tribe and Karl Rove – the exact same group that supports the con that is Ron DeSantis.

The third day of the Senate impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton continues today, with the group of deputy attorneys in his office (the Bush Clan) admitting they went running to the FBI for investigative support against Paxton, despite having no evidence of wrongdoing.  

WATCH:

Ken Paxton attorney Mitch Little aggressively questions whistleblower witness

Notice how all of the AG office witnesses look exactly like George P. Bush?  They are clones.

Paxton’s crime was easily defeating George P. Bush, which triggered all of the corrupt GOPe appointees, bureaucrats and politicians

[thinden]

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The Senate is composed of 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats. Interestingly, one of the members is Paxton’s wife, but she won’t get to vote on her husband’s fate since the Senate passed rules stripping her constituents of a voice in the matter.

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pretty risky?

just takes 9 rinos & bushies to put the thunderbolt on texass election denier AG

[one guy in new jersey]

Paxton was loaded for bear on election fraud when he was kneecapped by the Texas House. All his office’s prodigious litigation efforts to protect legitimate voters must have ground to an utter halt pending the result of the bogus impeachment proceedings brought against him.

[Rattlesnake_Snook]

“Deep Red Texas”

47% of Texas voted for Biden in 2020

[LastDayz]

Yea well.... most of them were already dead.

[Semper Vigilantis]

I know Texas Rep. David Spiller will not be getting 2 less votes in 2024. If he runs unopposed we will write in Willie.

If Cornyn and Cruz run unopposed Willie will get a few more votes on the national level.

I am so sick of these RINO do nothing traitors living on the public teat.

Here’s the list of votes: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/27/ken-paxton-texas-house-impeachment-vote/

How to find your rep: https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home

[thinden]

thanx for the color

[Rusty0604]

Thank you.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Texas has always been a two party state. From Reconstruction until the 1980s, the two parties were Liberal Democrats and Conservative Democrats. Since the 1990s, the two parties have been Conservative Republicans and Liberal Republicans (aka RINOs). The labels have changed but the ideologies are the same.

[Semper Vigilantis]

OOPS!

I know Texas Rep. David Spiller will not be getting 2 less votes in 2024. If he runs unopposed we will write in Willie.

Should be: "I know Texas Rep. David Spiller will be getting 2 less votes in 2024. If he runs unopposed we will write in Willie."

I really shouldn't type angry.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[dforest]

Wow, that is only very lightly red. RINOs just aren’t liked al all anymore. Most should just be who they really are.

Democrat advocates.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I imagine the Dung Beetle Party has already lined up hundreds of Feral “jugheads” just chompin’ at the bit to get the honor and glory to stick it to Texas with this “democrazy justice booschidt.”

[Pajamajan]

"The Texas house voted to impeach Paxton by a vote of 121-23 on May 27."

Texas, it seems you have 121 House members, who need to be recalled/replaced ASAP.

[stanne]

Whatever. The dem swamp rules in texas because of the weak wimpy republicans

In the house chamber in Austin is a larger than life full body portrait of LBJ. Some VN vets spit when they see it

It’s all anyone needs to know. That and all the city govts in wimpy texas are blue.

Wimpy Abbott will not fix this voter disenfranchisement nor will the wimpy Republican house who were voted in for their tenets not to enable democrat tenets to take over wimpy texas