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James Talarico’s Senate campaign is celebrating an endorsement from an unlikely political figure — a Texas attorney who once accused Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton of stealing his $1,000 Montblanc pen.Blackvegetable » 21 Sep 2025, 5:17 pm » wrote: ↑ https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-ne ... nfluencer/Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a key Trump ally now running for U.S. Senate, is accused of having an affair with a “Christian influencer” he met last year, according to a report from a UK-baed media outlet.
And if you suspected, for even a moment, that this is as **** stupid as these people get....
Paxton’s wife, Angela, a Republican state senator, filed for a divorce of her own in early July, stating in a tweet that she sought the breakup of their 38-year marriage on “biblical grounds.”
“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton wrote. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”
The Daily Mail report is only the latest political baggage for Paxton as he takes on incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s GOP primary.
The Texas House voted in 2023 to impeach Paxton over allegations of bribery and abuse of office, however the state Senate ultimately decided not to convict. Among the complaints of misconduct were accusations that Paxton had an extramarital affair with a woman he later recommended for a job with a key political donor.
"But, Master Vegetable, Angela Paxton was a state senator.....surely she voted to convict her MegaChurchChristian hubby, if only as a statement of Conscience."
CNN — State Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, will no longer be allowed to vote in her husband’s upcoming impeachment proceedings as a result of new rules the state Senate approved Wednesday night.
The Dallas-area Republican state senator had previously vowed to “carry out (her) duties” and not recuse herself from voting in her husband’s upcoming impeachment trial.
But following delays and closed-door negotiations, the state Senate adopted new rules ahead of Ken Paxton’s September 5 impeachment trial, which now include barring the spouses of members who are the subject of impeachment proceedings from voting.
Which, given that this is Texas, didn't so much as dent its senate's reputation for probity..
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/16 ... ment-vote/
Joe Joplin’s pen, a gift from his wife, became a source of controversy after he left it in a dish near a courthouse metal detector, after which a security camera captured Paxton picking it up and walking away.
At the time, a spokesman for the Texas attorney general explained that he had made a mistake.
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/14/2 ... ng-his-pen