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Texas can do a lot better than it has done in selecting its top law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n

State Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican (naturally!), is seeking re-election against Democratic challenger Justin Nelson. Paxton isn’t a normal<\/em> incumbent. He happens to be an incumbent who’s been indicted for securities fraud<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But here’s the surreal part of it, the maddening element: Paxton is likely to win re-election when all the ballots are counted on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

I am going to cast my ballot for Nelson.<\/p>\n

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What’s fascinating to me is that Paxton — who used to represent Collin County, where I now reside — in the Texas Legislature. Yet a Collin County grand jury<\/em> found enough credible evidence to indict him for securities fraud; Paxton allegedly didn’t register properly as an investment agent.<\/p>\n

Here’s the fabulous part of it: While he was in the Legislature, Paxton voted against<\/em> a bill that would have made it a felony to commit the very crime for which he has been accused.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News, which has endorsed Nelson, has taken note of Paxton’s penchant for partisanship while serving as AG. To be honest, I kind of expect such from most politicians in Texas. NOt that it’s acceptable, mind you. The partisanship doesn’t bother me nearly as much as having a state attorney general who is under criminal indictment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good grief, man! Can’t we do better than that? Of course we can! Will<\/em> we do better when given a chance to select an attorney general on Election Day? Uhh, probably not, given the state’s hard-right lean.<\/p>\n

Check out the Dallas Morning News editorial\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The editorial board offers a solid reason to go with the challenger. Then again, I’ve been convinced for some time that Ken Paxton isn’t my guy.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas can do a lot better than it has done in selecting its top law enforcement officer. State Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican (naturally!), is seeking re-election against Democratic challenger Justin Nelson. Paxton isn’t a normal incumbent. He happens to be an incumbent who’s been indicted for securities fraud. But here’s the surreal part … Continue reading Clean house at state AG’s office<\/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":[8,9,14],"tags":[1243,2652,4177,4653],"class_list":["post-32934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news","category-political-news","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-ken-paxton","tag-securities-fraud","tag-texas-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32934","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=32934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32936,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32934\/revisions\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}