Posted on 03/03/2024 2:42:55 PM PST by RandFan
Ken Paxton hit the campaign trail with a smile last week.
Beaming in photos he posted of events in Collin County, Denton County, Grayson County and Tarrant County, the Texas Republican attorney general campaigned and promoted more than a dozen candidates on the ballot in this week’s primary election.
Most are new faces to the Republican Party, because Paxton, the legally embattled but popular statewide official, isn’t seeking to shore up his party’s incumbents: Paxton is out for revenge.
“It’s time for a whole new slate in Collin County,” he wrote in one post with a photo of him and five Republican candidates seeking to oust incumbents. Two of them are running in the same race — his tweet suggests voters pick one — but all share one key characteristic in their primaries: They didn’t vote to impeach the attorney general last year.
Paxton was impeached on corruption charges by the Texas state House last May, with 60 votes coming from his own party, before the Texas state Senate acquitted him in September and restored him to office.
Now, the attorney general has issued endorsements to candidates in more than 70 contests, with most going to Republican lawmakers who voted against his impeachment or those challenging GOP incumbents who voted for it. His social media accounts boast a two-page, single-spaced list of endorsements up and down the primary ballot Tuesday.
And he has a powerful ally in his effort: Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a dozen of the candidates Paxton is backing, making good on his promise to punish those who voted against his longtime ally.
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Jane, you ignorant shut! (From SNL, when it was still funny).
Ignorant Slut!
Paybacks are a Cankles.
Like the Democrats weren’t out for revenge after the tired old hag lost.
Like the Democrats weren’t out for revenge after their blessed sacrament Roe vs Wade was made kaput.
Etc.
Please spare me the phony jowl-shaking indignation.
Ken Paxton is one of my favorite elected officials in the entire country.
I hopes he gives both the RATs and RINOs hell in the Lone Star state and beyond.
He really is a good guy
I call it obvious, practical, principled, politics.
Yes, Paxton would be great as Trump's AG, but I don't think Trump will overcome the Democrat cheat machine 2024.
Revenge is best served cold!😎
At the very least that rat collaborator House speaker must go. That scumbag conspired with the rats and killed many good bills.
nbc spelled justice wrong again.
Justice and revenge are not the same thing.
As it’s him against the cartels’ favored party in Texas I hope his security is up to par. They’ve already got a U.S. president knuckling under to spread child slavery, fatal drugs and the scum of the Earth undermining the labor market. Well, those who aren’t given the ‘Welcome Wagon’ onto the dole at our expense.
He needs to be Trump’s AG
As he should be.
I followed Paxton’s advice and voted for 3 judges to replace the ones who prevented him from prosecuting election fraud.
I also voted against Dade Phelen’s butt boy Cody Harris and fake Jake Ellzey.
Help Ken Win! He’s the best AG in America.
Better to call it retribution.
And it’s a good thing, too. Venganza a sangre fría-justicia...
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