What Paxton wants answered is if there is a correlation between the implementation of DEI and the frightening problems facing Boeing now.
I don’t doubt that’s part of his intent.
However, Paxton’s request letter states that the inquiry is focused on acts or conduct that violate governing documents or Texas law.
DEI isn’t illegal as a business activity. It was banned in colleges in Texas but it is still a legal business practice.
Therefore, Paxton and the State of Texas has zero right delving into a legal activity.
Even if leftist AGs are harassing conservative employers, two wrongs doesn’t make a right. If the District of Columbia wanted all of Breitbart’s notes taken during interviews to see if THEY are NOT pursuing DEI, I’d say the same thing - pound sand.
It doesn’t matter what I think about DEI or if I think Spirit finds it cheaper to hire Epsilon Semi-Morons.
Now, if Spirit is covering up defective parts, colluding with Boeing to build a Lie/Party Line on the mishaps, or other criminal activities, that’s fair game. Indeed, based in many stories - here’s one https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-was-spirit-aerosystems-sued-lawsuit-explored-as-boeing-door-plug-supplier-repeatedly-warned-of-defects-before-alaska-airlines-incident/ar-AA1mPIf3 Spirit seems to have a number of ethical problems. Indeed, I’d rather Paxton go in that direction - that would be a legitimate exercise of state power. However, the inclusion In Paxton’s “Documents to be Produced” of items 7-11 makes me thing this is chiefly a Red Meat political maneuver.
The minute we champions of liberty and the Constitution and the Rule of Law throw all that overboard because we’re afraid the left is winning, is the minute we have become Legion.
Ome small, final note on Paxton. His lawsuit against Pfizer is stupid. He says it was misleading for Pfizer to claim its vaccine was 95% effective because it offered a "relative risk reduction" for people to who took it. Well, anyone with a search engine can tell the difference between Vaccine Efficacy and Relative Risk Reduction. The Covid shots are a big nasty saga, but I don’t need a lawyer in Texas to effectively say I’m too stupid to tell the difference and I need Leviathan to be my knight in shining armor. Fix the border.
I do see your point and I can see the possibility that DEI might not be the issue. The whole thing might come down to a criminal investigation into a supplier dealing in faulty or counterfeit parts. Let the investigation lead where it may. But, I think Paxton still should look into DEI and either prove that it might be partly responsible or exonerate it.
I think we do need some people in government to fight against govt vaccine mandates and corporate mandates supporting the same policies. When my son completed his service term in the US Marines, the airlines in Tokyo would not let him return to the US without another vax. What he wanted did not matter. The airlines might claim that they had good intentions, but that was simply wrong. I am not impressed that what they did was deemed "legal."