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On with @MarkDavis, @KenPaxtonTX is asked about the House investigation into him.

"I don't know," Paxton says. "This is unprecedented for what they're doing. I have no idea why they've chosen to do this." #txlege
Paxton, cont'd.: "This is a level that is shocking to me, especially from a Republican House. This is what they're [using their] time to do instead of some of the important things like school choice." #txlege
Paxton says other statewide leaders are fed up with Phelan, he's just the first to speak out. "I have nothing personal against Dade," but "the results have not been good. The Senate delivers, the House does everything they can to slow things down." #txlege
"We're happy to provide everything we have," Paxton says when asked about preservation letter in House investigation #txlege
Davis: If Phelan explains what happened Friday night — maybe it was a medical issue — will you withdraw your call for his resignation?

Paxton: "I want to see what he says. ... If it's true, put out the medical evidence." #txlege
Paxton on the whistleblower settlement specifically: "We settle cases all the time. If [the Legislature] didn't want to pay it, it's in their hands to either pay it or not pay it, and we knew that." #txlege

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May 24
At House General Investigating Committee hearing on Paxton matter, they're currently introducing a team of five lawyers and investigators with backgrounds in prosecuting public corruption #txlege
"Matter A relates to the attorney general himself, Ken Paxton," lead lawyer Erin Epley says #txlege
Read 14 tweets
May 23
Another twist today — House General Investigating Committee votes to issue subpoenas in Matter A, including for John Doe No. 6 and the Office of the Attorney General #txlege
Committee chair Murr calls the office of the attorney general "the subject matter of Matter A" #txlege
Murr ends by noting the committee is already scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. tomorrow to hear testimony in Matter A #txlege
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Feb 8
New: @DadePhelan is announcing committee assignments #txlege
Speaker pro tem: Geren
Buckley is named new Public Ed chair
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Oct 18, 2022
On media call, Abbott campaign says it expects turnout to go over 10M, as high as 10.6 or as low as 9.8.

2020 turnout was 11.3, 2018 was 8.4 #TXGOV
"Every indication we have, we're gonna win Tarrant County," Abbott strategist Dave Carney says. He adds they "feel very good" about Tarrant, but "it's competitive, not trying to slough if off, it's going to be a battle." #TXGOV
Carney says they feel "spectacularly positive" about South Texas. On the three targeted congressional races, he says: "We can win all three of them today. They're all within victory." #TXGOV #TX15 #TX28 #TX34
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Jul 6, 2022
.@JohnCornyn disapproval doubles among Republicans, from 17% in April to 34% now. (Poll was conducted June 16-24; gun bill passed Congress June 23/24.) texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/new-uttex…
Overall, Cornyn net approval went from -7 in April to -26 now: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/new-uttex…
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May 25, 2022
.@BetoORourke tries to confront @GregAbbott_TX after he speaks at Uvalde presser, walking up to the stage and telling him he’s “doing nothing” on gun violence
O’Rourke is eventually escorted away as some of the GOP officials onstage denounce him for interrupting
"Sit down and don't play this stunt," @TedCruz told O'Rourke, it sounded like.

Another man onstage called O'Rourke a "sick son of a bitch" for crashing the presser.
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