{"id":14769,"date":"2016-05-21T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14769"},"modified":"2016-05-21T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T15:19:07","slug":"pay-attention-gov-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14769","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention, Gov. Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s little I can add to this blog post by Brian Sweany of Texas Monthly.<\/p>\n

Except, perhaps, this: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has a sharp legal mind and he ought to know more than he’s acknowledging regarding the conduct of the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n

Here’s Sweany’s blog post:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/abbotts-feigned-ignorance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweany asks a pertinent question: Why doesn’t the governor know more than he knew more than a year ago about Paxton’s conduct?<\/p>\n

The AG has been indicted by a Collin County grand jury on felony accusations of securities fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint as well. Paxton is accused of failure to disclose properly income he earned while giving investment advice.<\/p>\n

As for Abbott’s “feigned ignorance,” as Sweany calls it, I’ll just add this.<\/p>\n

Abbott was a trial judge in Houston before being elected to the Texas Supreme Court. He then was elected as the state’s attorney general, a post he held until January 2015 when he became the state’s governor.<\/p>\n

Paxton succeeded Abbott at the AG’s office.<\/p>\n

It would seem implausible that the governor knows nothing more now than he did a year ago. I don’t want Abbott to convict his Republican colleague, either, through statements to the media.<\/p>\n

Still, to borrow a phrase: Gov. Abbott, what did you know and when did you know it?<\/p>\n

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There’s little I can add to this blog post by Brian Sweany of Texas Monthly. Except, perhaps, this: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has a sharp legal mind and he ought to know more than he’s acknowledging regarding the conduct of the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton. Here’s Sweany’s blog post: http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/abbotts-feigned-ignorance\/ Sweany asks a pertinent … Continue reading Pay attention, Gov. Abbott<\/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":[2006,2652,6130,4661],"class_list":["post-14769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-ken-paxton","tag-sec","tag-texas-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769","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=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14771,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/14771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}