{"id":53370,"date":"2022-11-03T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53370"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:45:14","slug":"ken-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53370","title":{"rendered":"Garza is not Paxton"},"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>I couldn&#8217;t help but chuckle under my breath when I read the opening two sentences of a recent Dallas Morning News editorial.<\/p>\n<p>The paper stated:\u00a0<em>There is little we can find to recommend Rochelle Garza for attorney general except that she is not Ken Paxton.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><em>Frankly, that\u2019s enough.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could say the DMN was set to damn Garza with faint praise as it recommended her for election next week as Texas attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>So, it did that with its editorial that spent most of its space condemning the lunacy that has accompanied Paxton&#8217;s two terms as the state&#8217;s chief law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican AG has been on the hot seat ever since he took the oath of office in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A Collin County grand jury indicted Paxton in 2015 on a charge of securities fraud; he has yet to stand trial. Seven of his top deputies resigned and then blew the whistle contending that Paxton is guilty of felonious criminal conduct; the FBI is investigating the complaint. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it was conducting an independent probe into the securities fraud matter; no decision has come down. Paxton has filed specious lawsuits contending that the 2020 presidential election was infected with widespread voter fraud; he has been laughed out of many courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>This guy wants another four years as attorney general, an office that requires its occupant to be squeaky clean. Paxton falls far short of that reasonable requirement.<\/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>I couldn&#8217;t help but chuckle under my breath when I read the opening two sentences of a recent Dallas Morning News editorial. The paper stated:\u00a0There is little we can find to recommend Rochelle Garza for attorney general except that she is not Ken Paxton. Frankly, that\u2019s enough.\u00a0 I suppose you could say the DMN was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garza is not Paxton<\/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":[8,9,14,18],"tags":[9631,2652,9976,6130,5131],"class_list":["post-53370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-local-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-big-lie","tag-ken-paxton","tag-rochelle-garza","tag-sec","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370","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=53370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53371,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370\/revisions\/53371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}