{"id":51605,"date":"2022-05-16T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51605"},"modified":"2022-05-16T18:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T18:50:45","slug":"paxton-not-using-his-name-how-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51605","title":{"rendered":"Paxton not using his name? How come?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/OIP-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51607\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/OIP-1-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/OIP-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/OIP-1.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the indicted statewide elected official seeking re-election to a third term, has decided to go after his Republican Party primary runoff opponent using what I consider to be an odd tactic.<\/p>\n<p>Land Commissioner George P. Bush is too &#8220;liberal&#8221; to be elected AG, the pro-Paxton TV ad says. A Texas pol named &#8220;Bush&#8221; &#8212; the nephew and grandson of two presidents of the United States &#8212; is too liberal? What a joke!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s curious is that the ad doesn&#8217;t mention Ken Paxton&#8217;s name. The ad is paid for by some political action committee that is supporting Paxton. But one doesn&#8217;t know the AG&#8217;s name if one relies only on the ad to make a determination on to whom to vote in the GOP runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. It spurred my thought process. Why won&#8217;t the group divulge the name of the guy it is supporting?<\/p>\n<p>I figure it&#8217;s because Ken Paxton&#8217;s &#8220;brand&#8221; is so sullied by the indictment, handed down in 2015 right after Paxton took office that it doesn&#8217;t want to remind Texas Republicans that they have an alleged crook running the state&#8217;s AG office.<\/p>\n<p>A Collin County grand jury indicted Paxton on a charge of securities fraud. Through a series of delays and legal mumbo-jumbo the case still hasn&#8217;t gone to trial. Last I heard Paxton&#8217;s now supposed to stand trial in Collin County. The case has been tossed back and forth between Harris and Collin counties. What&#8217;s more, the FBI is investigation allegations of illegal activity in his office.<\/p>\n<p>The guy actually should resign from the AG&#8217;s office. Now that he&#8217;s still running for re-election, I am left to wonder why the stern ad blasting George P.\u00a0 Bush makes no mention of the guy the buyers of the ad are supporting.<\/p>\n<p>I believe something is seriously wrong the Paxton brand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the indicted statewide elected official seeking re-election to a third term, has decided to go after his Republican Party primary runoff opponent using what I consider to be an odd tactic. Land Commissioner George P. Bush is too &#8220;liberal&#8221; to be elected AG, the pro-Paxton TV ad says. A Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paxton not using his name? How come?<\/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":[9,18],"tags":[1895,1965,2652,4177,4581],"class_list":["post-51605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-george-p-bush","tag-gop-runoff","tag-ken-paxton","tag-securities-fraud","tag-texas-ags-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605","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=51605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51608,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51605\/revisions\/51608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}