Texans voted in a Republican Senate primary runoff while state Senator Angela Paxton, divorcing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, released an endorsement list for other statewide offices. She endorsed candidates for attorney general, railroad commissioner, and a Court of Criminal Appeals seat, but did not mention the Senate race featuring her husband. Ken Paxton later won the Senate primary runoff by 28 points over incumbent John Cornyn. The piece links the silence to prior allegations and legal actions involving Ken Paxton, including felony securities fraud charges resolved with restitution, taxpayer-funded payments after corruption-related claims, and impeachment on multiple articles that ended in acquittal. It also references attacks by Republican groups and details of the divorce petition citing adultery.
"Now Paxton went on to beat the incumbent John Cornyn by 28 points anyway, but Angela's silence is still pretty damning. For anyone who needs a refresher on what Susan Collins means when she called Paxton "ethically challenged": Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges that he eventually resolved by paying $300,000 in restitution and completing community service. He was forced to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to former aides who accused him of corruption and were fired for their trouble."
"He was then impeached by the Republican-controlled Texas House on 20 articles including bribery, obstruction, and abuse of public trust - and acquitted by the Republican-controlled Texas Senate. Oh, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee went to town attacking Paxton including posts calling him "Crooked Ken," accusing him of giving a child sex trafficker the "kid-gloves treatment," and one calling his conduct toward his wife "truly repulsive and disgusting." (Since Paxton's win, the NRSC deleted at least two dozen press releases, digital ads, and statements that went after Paxton.)"
"On Tuesday, as Texans headed to the polls to vote in the Republican Senate primary runoff, state Senator Angela Paxton - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's estranged wife, the woman currently divorcing him on " biblical grounds"- put out an endorsement list. She endorsed a candidate for attorney general, a railroad commissioner, a Court of Criminal Appeals seat. What she conspicuously, pointedly, loudly did not do was mention the Senate race featuring her husband of 38 years."
"But back to the whole "biblical grounds" of it all. Angela Paxton's divorce petition, filed in Collin County, listed adultery as the reason for the divorce. Ken, characteristically, put out a statement framing the split as a mutual decision driven by "the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny,""
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