{"id":10004,"date":"2015-07-03T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2015-07-03T16:33:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T16:33:56","slug":"cant-we-get-a-do-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"Can’t we get a do-over?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paul Burka apparently came out of retirement — perhaps just briefly — to write this scathing critique for TexasMonthly.com of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/ken-paxton-problem#.VZaoXwXb5tI.twitter<\/p>\n

To sum up Burka’s analysis: Paxton’s public service career has been totally without accomplishment, yet he won the race for AG this past year because the state’s current TEA party golden boy, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, endorsed him.<\/p>\n

Now the AG is facing a possible criminal indictment in his hometown of McKinney. A special prosecutor is going to take a complaint of securities fraud to a Collin County grand jury. If the attorney general is indicted, what happens then?<\/p>\n

Burka noted that a Texas Monthly colleague asked Gov. Greg Abbott that question, and the government couldn’t\/wouldn’t answer.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0appears to be\u00a0one of those times when Texas voters should ask for a do-over from the most recent election.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not possible, but I can wish for it anyway …\u00a0can’t I?<\/p>\n

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Paul Burka apparently came out of retirement — perhaps just briefly — to write this scathing critique for TexasMonthly.com of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/ken-paxton-problem#.VZaoXwXb5tI.twitter To sum up Burka’s analysis: Paxton’s public service career has been totally without accomplishment, yet he won the race for AG this past year because the state’s current TEA … Continue reading Can’t we get a do-over?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,18],"tags":[1064,2006,2652,3516,4177,4531,4537,4585,4661],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-collin-county-grand-jury","tag-greg-abbott","tag-ken-paxton","tag-paul-burka","tag-securities-fraud","tag-tea-party","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas-attorney-general","tag-texas-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}