Texas: Attorney General Paxton being investigated for securities fraud

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One of the hazards of single-party government: corruption. 

Mediocrity, to boot. The Texas Republicans are starting to seem like that species of jellyfish that is only found in certain lakes and lacks any ability to sting - after thousands of years of having none of the natural predators that are found in oceans, they simply stopped needing to make an effort.

The deterioration of the caliber of downballot candidates in Texas really reached a tipping point in 2014. That someone like Ken Paxton - a man who, yes, did successfully graduate from law school, but whose career included no judicial clerkships or significant work in constitutional law, and who has spent the bulk of his career doing in-house legal work for companies and as a "financial advisor" - was a major party nominee for attorney general and was easily elected is a scandal in and of itself.

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interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yes. It was over her alleged misuse of funds as state treasurer, but things veered way off topic and the grand jury was treated to bizarre stories of what a high maintenance diva KBH is and how she threw phone books at people who upset her.

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interestting, but let's wait and see. these tx "special prosecutions" have a bad history of being political and not sticking.

Tom DeLay and who else?

Didn't the AG go after Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Yep. And don't forget that half-assed indictment brought against Perry a year or two ago. The Travis County DA is a joke in this regard.

If I recall correctly, they tried to nail Hutchinson for having an aide "improperly purchase" lipstick. Perry, of course, is under indictment for "abuse of power" after trying to remove the Travis County DA after she was arrested for driving while heavily intoxicated and making a complete fool of herself on camera.

Apparently it's a completely different county's DA office that's investigating him, though, although the Travis County office was the one that referred the case to them in the first place; I don't know how much initiative that took on Travis County's part, so this may or may not be the "political hit squad" at work here. The fact that the Travis Country office was involved at all is alone almost enough to call the seriousness of the allegations into question.

1. The governor does not have the authority to remove a county DA from office. What he did - make funding the PUI contingent on her resignation - amounted to blackmail.

2. There is no law requiring those convicted of a DUI to resign from public office in Texas. There have been many cases of elected officials getting busted for drunk driving and remaining in office. Why should a Democratic woman district attorney be held to a different standard?