Posted on 06/20/2021 7:44:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
In the race for the 2022 GOP nomination to be the attorney general of Texas, the incumbent is being investigated by the state bar association — and it may not hurt him. His main opponent is the grandson of one president who called Texas home and the nephew of another — and it may not help him.
The incumbent attorney general is Ken Paxton, and his challenger is Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (son of Jeb, nephew of George W, grandson of H.W.).
Republican strategist Jeff Roe calls the looming showdown between the two "the Holy War of Texas."
"We haven't seen a battle like this since the siege at the Alamo," Roe, who ran Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, told Politico.
Paxton is a loyal Trump supporter and minor MAGA star, thanks to his role as an architect of a multistate legal effort to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. He is facing a number of public scandals, including a 5-year-old indictment for securities fraud and an FBI investigation for corruption, which led to, among other things, the abrupt firing of some of Paxton's top aides last year.
Bush, the heir apparent to his family's political dynasty, is trying hard to distance himself from his family elders' public chilliness toward former President Donald Trump, to whom a significant portion of the Texas GOP electorate remains loyal.
Bush believes a change in the state AG's office is long overdue.
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one guy in new jersey, that last post wasn’t meant for you, it was for jimfree.
Yeah, I had figured that was the case. Thanks, though.
It’s the risk one runs when trying to break up a fight.
It’s just that this time, we won’t need to suffer through the one-term establishment CINO trainwreck.
Just remember, the SWAMP is able to think LONG TERM.
Some of them have LIED FOR YEARS until they get themselves into a position of real power, then, and only then do they show their TRUE PROG/LIB/SWAMP COLORS!
Even these LOWLIFES make small, seemingly insignificant mistakes during their tenure, search for these mistakes in what they say and do, then try to extrapolate the long term consequences of those CUMULATIVE MISTAKES.
DO NOT TRUST A BUSH, they are all of the PROFESSIONAL POLITICAL CLASS!
ALL the Bushes are a tight nit family, and they all know how to play the LONG GAME.
To the BUSHES, ONLY THE BUSHES COME FIRST!
TRUST NO ONE, BELIEVE NOTHING, LOOK AT ALL THE EVIDENCE, WEIGH ALL THE EVIDENCE DISPASSIONATELY—ONLY THEN MAKE YOUR DECISION!
As far as I’m concerned, THATS A GOOD THING!
NO WAY
Bush politicians always say anything to get elected. They are pretend conservatives.
Yet another reason why I am Pining 4 TX - so I could vote against this snake in the grass.
Ken Paxton is a great attorney general. DemonRats and Rinos have gone after him with everything they have, which is what this bar association crap is all about. George P. Bush is Jeb’s son. That’s all you need to know about him.
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