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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: wjcsux

Ok by me


41 posted on 03/03/2024 7:12:38 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Ditto!!
Good for him. I hope he is a successful as possible in all he does!!!


42 posted on 03/03/2024 7:19:31 PM PST by bantam
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To: RandFan

If you try to kill a guy, you better not lose. It is called do or die.


43 posted on 03/03/2024 7:25:00 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: 2001convSVT

Ken Paxton would be a great governor, but doesn’t he have his sights set on challenging Cornyn for the U.S. Senate in 2026?


44 posted on 03/03/2024 7:29:40 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Ge0ffrey

The reason Drunk Dade Phelan went after Paxton was that they wanted George P Bush (Jeb’s son) to pick whatever seat he wanted, since we the voters owe it to him. In this case, after his disastrous work in the Land Commissioners office, he decided he should be the AG. He is a Bush after all. Besides Karl Rove wants it also.


45 posted on 03/03/2024 7:36:05 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: RandFan
I hope he gets all the revenge he wants and more. Time to fight back just as hard and dirty as possible.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Much better to get even or ahead of your enemy when they least expect it or thinking they have gotten away with their foul deed. You just never know when something might happen to you for dealing someone dirty. It could be anywhere or any time or any way.

46 posted on 03/03/2024 8:24:41 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: RandFan

I wonder if the moron who wrote this thing would want to have those hounding you invited to Thanksgiving dinner.

IT’S NOT REVENGE IMBICILE...IT’S JUSTICE.!!!


47 posted on 03/03/2024 8:41:18 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: RandFan

If you try to politically assassinate someone, it is best to not miss.


48 posted on 03/03/2024 8:52:42 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: Lisbon1940
Better to call it retribution.

Like Doc Holliday, I prefer to call it a reckoning.

49 posted on 03/03/2024 9:16:12 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: RandFan

Paxton also opposes Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Republican incumbents Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, Judge Barbara Hervey and Judge Michelle Slaughter for denying him the right to prosecute voter fraud.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/19/court-of-criminal-appeals-republican-ken-paxton/

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Hervey will face off against Gina Parker, a Waco attorney, on March 5. Presiding Judge Keller’s opponent is David Schenck, a former state appeals court judge. Slaughter will take on Lee Finley, lawyer from Paxton’s native Collin County.
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50 posted on 03/04/2024 6:21:16 AM PST by nagant
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To: gibsonguy

There are some here who support Dade Phelan.


51 posted on 03/04/2024 6:28:08 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: OKSooner

There are some here who support Dade Phelan.“

There will always be traitors. Mitt would get tens of thousands of votes if he ran for re-election.


52 posted on 03/04/2024 8:09:03 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: RandFan

The case against Paxton seemed a clear case of railroading based upon spurious claims. There should be some decisiveness on people who fell for it or championed it.


53 posted on 03/04/2024 10:10:52 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: RandFan

Serve it fresh and cold, Ken. It is all these dirtbags understand.


54 posted on 03/04/2024 10:12:38 AM PST by dforest
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To: dforest

Ken is a fighter. Refreshing.


55 posted on 03/04/2024 10:19:49 AM PST by RandFan
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To: cowboyusa

And when they win an election they “seize control.”


56 posted on 03/04/2024 10:23:43 AM PST by daler
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