{"id":47470,"date":"2021-04-09T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47470"},"modified":"2021-04-09T01:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:06:35","slug":"texas-ags-office-needs-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47470","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG&#8217;s office needs a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What follows is a brief response to an earlier item I published on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>A social media friend responded via Facebook that he doesn&#8217;t think much of Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush&#8217;s legal credentials as he considers whether to run for Texas attorney general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47462\">George P. might run for AG? Yes! | High Plains Blogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend wrote this, which isn&#8217;t his entire comment, but which deals with a key point in his rejoinder: <em>It would be nice to have a state AG who is a professional &#8212; a prosecutor, a judge, a law professor &#8212; after the embarrassments of Paxton and Ted Cruz, who never missed an opportunity to sue (and lose) over any federal action they didn&#8217;t like, contributing to the image of Texas politicians as right-wing clowns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am going to agree with him on this point: The state&#8217;s top legal official ought to be someone with notable legal experience. Ken Paxton, before he was elected to the Texas House, was a mediocre lawyer with a Collin County practice. Then he ratcheted up his game to run in 2014 for Texas AG. He won. He was re-elected four years later, but between his election and re-election, he got his sorry behind indicted by a grand jury in his home county.<\/p>\n<p>My friend notes that P&#8217;s legal experience is pretty limited, too.<\/p>\n<p>He is, however, a fellow of impeccable integrity, as near as I can tell &#8230; which to my way of thinking is a huge step forward from who we have now in the AG&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com What follows is a brief response to an earlier item I published on this blog. A social media friend responded via Facebook that he doesn&#8217;t think much of Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush&#8217;s legal credentials as he considers whether to run for Texas attorney general. George P. might run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas AG&#8217;s office needs a pro<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[1895,2652,6554],"class_list":["post-47470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-p-bush","tag-ken-paxton","tag-texas-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470","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=47470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47473,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470\/revisions\/47473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}