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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That would be Dade Phelan from the Beaumont area
A sorry sack of sh*t as we say in Texas
Thank you, Ken Paxton. We need a few 1000 more of you.
Out for revenge, ya’say?
Well...good on him! He should extract every ounce of blood possible.
Ken Paxton, is also one of my favorite Texans and will be elected governor in his time
Good! More power to him. Flush all these worthless RINOs down the toilet.
The proper way to do “revenge.”
Phelan switched parties a few years ago, but old die-hard loyalties remain in force.
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.
Republicans pounce.
I prefer the term reprisal. It is mostly a wholesome concept if not taken too far.
Good for Ken
Isn’t this bass akwards? There’s a reason they went after him.
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
Go Ken!
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.
A march through Texas [especially Austin] to the Sea sounds appropriate.
It’s not revenge, it’s a reconing!
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.
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.
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