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There was a festive vibe to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s Sunday visit to AT&T Stadium and the Cowboys-Giants. Traveling with the governor were his wife, Mary Pat, and their eldest son, Princeton undergrad Andrew Christie. The family came as guests of the GOP’s national finance chair Ray Washburne and sat in the suite that Washburne shares with his father-in-law, oilman Al G. Hill Jr. Last week, both Mary Pat and Chris Christie had birthdays. So a cake iced with blue stars (the governor has been a Cowboys fan since he was 7) was waiting in the Washburne-Hill suite. Among...

TexGrill Thread: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has enjoyed the life of a multi-millionaire after successfully suing a Houston-based attorney when a falling tree had paralyzed him while he was jogging. Yet, some critics have raised questions after he became an elected officials, and he touted lawsuits reforms that prevented victims of medical malpractice incidents from winning big money lawsuits. Some would call that hypocrisy, but it could be nothing more than a conflict of interest for his family's finances. According to Greg Abbott's recently disclosed tax returns, his wife Cecilia, earns $50.000 a year as managing director of community...

AUSTIN — What do Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush have in common? They both want Greg Abbott to be the next governor of Texas. Both men are among the contributors listed in Abbott’s latest campaign finance report to the state, which covers fundraising over six weeks in June and July that the Legislature was in special session. Trump, the millionaire developer, gave the Republican candidate for governor $25,000 last month. Bush contributed $5,000 in July. Abbott, the state attorney general, raised $1 million, while Republican rival Tom Pauken, the former state GOP chairman, raised $44,395. During the...

AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released personal tax returns Friday that show the Republican gubernatorial candidate earning about $200,000 a year but does not reflect millions of tax-exempt dollars made from a settlement following his 1984 accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Abbott has received more than $5 million and counting from suing the owner of a tree that fell on him during a jog as a young law student. That money is not taxable income, which is common in personal injury settlements. But it also makes his federal tax returns since 2010 an...