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NBC: After impeachment acquittal, Texas AG Ken Paxton is out for revenge
NBC News ^ | March 3 | By Jane C. Timm

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cianews; fakenews; impeachment; janectimm; nbcfakenews; nbcia; notrevengereckoning; paxton; reckoning; sidebarabuse; texas
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To: gibsonguy

That would be Dade Phelan from the Beaumont area
A sorry sack of sh*t as we say in Texas


21 posted on 03/03/2024 3:40:14 PM PST by TStro (God made all men equal Sam Colt made them polite.)
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To: RandFan

Thank you, Ken Paxton. We need a few 1000 more of you.


22 posted on 03/03/2024 3:42:42 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: RandFan

Out for revenge, ya’say?
Well...good on him! He should extract every ounce of blood possible.


23 posted on 03/03/2024 3:49:26 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Ken Paxton, is also one of my favorite Texans and will be elected governor in his time


24 posted on 03/03/2024 3:57:21 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Asking questions is your right.)
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To: RandFan

Good! More power to him. Flush all these worthless RINOs down the toilet.


25 posted on 03/03/2024 4:05:07 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan

The proper way to do “revenge.”


26 posted on 03/03/2024 4:06:16 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: TStro

Phelan switched parties a few years ago, but old die-hard loyalties remain in force.


27 posted on 03/03/2024 4:11:24 PM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: RandFan

How dare he! Paxton should have just accepted the DEM and GOP’s combined attack to take him out and resigned when they threatened him at the beginning of the impeachment saga.


28 posted on 03/03/2024 4:13:40 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: CFW

Republicans pounce.


29 posted on 03/03/2024 4:21:04 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: marktwain
“When a Republican campaigns against RINOs who violated law, principle, and practical politics to side with the left, it is called revenge.”

I prefer the term reprisal. It is mostly a wholesome concept if not taken too far.

30 posted on 03/03/2024 4:25:55 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: RandFan

Good for Ken


31 posted on 03/03/2024 4:27:22 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: RandFan

Isn’t this bass akwards? There’s a reason they went after him.


32 posted on 03/03/2024 4:28:47 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Revel

One of the most important topics to me. I hold myself back from revenge and do what the New Age weird woman Esther Hicks (Ask and It Is Given and The Law of Attraction) would call a “pivot.” I do something nice for the person.

Here is an excellent book about the distinction.

Payback: The Case for Revenge
By Thane Rosenbaum

Good summary in this review:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo8811560.html


33 posted on 03/03/2024 4:31:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: RandFan

Go Ken!


34 posted on 03/03/2024 4:39:37 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The Dallas Mourning News went on full maniacal pit bull attack mode when Ken Paxton started running for AG years ago. The Dallas paper is about as communist as the Austin “American” Statesmen paper. He has been treated just as badly as Trump has been.

He is one of us.


35 posted on 03/03/2024 4:59:54 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: RandFan

A march through Texas [especially Austin] to the Sea sounds appropriate.


36 posted on 03/03/2024 5:22:05 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RandFan

It’s not revenge, it’s a reconing!


37 posted on 03/03/2024 5:22:48 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: RandFan; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clemenza; AuH2ORepublican; LS
The first thing they need to do is to change the impeachment process in TX so that an impeached person isn't "temporarily suspended" from office until the Senate has a trial and reaches a verdict. Paxton was unable to work for months because of that stupid clause. I can't think of any other state that does that, and the federal government certainly doesn't. (Bill Clinton wasn't "suspended" as President during Monicagate, etc.) It basically amounts to a Texas impeachment working as "The accused is hereby Presumed Guilty until proven innocent"
38 posted on 03/03/2024 6:22:55 PM PST by BillyBoy ( Build Biden Better.)
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To: RandFan

Another backwards article. The uniparty impeached Paxton in order to stop him doing his job; now that he’s cleared it he’s proceeding to do his job.

It’d be stupid to give them another bite at the apple.


39 posted on 03/03/2024 6:58:00 PM PST by No.6
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To: RandFan

Paxton’s survival is why the old axiom, if you make an attempt to kill the king, be sure you succeed.

This episode exposed how many Bush rinos are in the TX House, and why they need to be gone.


40 posted on 03/03/2024 7:11:14 PM PST by lurk (u)
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