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.
Thank you.
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