Ken Paxton
For the past week I have been trying to find the time to tell you about Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who has been under felony indictment for securities fraud since 2015. His defense is delay until everybody dies or they change the law. So far, so good.
Then his entire upper staff all quit one day. Then he got ousted for having an affair.
Well, he got his ample butt subpoenaed by a women’s choice group. Needless to say the last place on God’s green earth that boy wants to be is on a witness stand. So, when the man delivering the subpoena arrived at Paxton’s door … (long read but worth it).
The federal court affidavit alleges that Paxton fled process server Ernesto Martin Herrera, who attempted to subpoena Paxton at his home on Monday morning.
Herrera writes in his sworn affidavit that he knocked on the Paxtons’ door at around 8:30 a.m., and a woman identifying herself as Angela answered the door. When he said he was there to serve Paxton important legal documents, the woman said Paxton was on the phone. Herrera offered to wait until he got off the phone, but Angela said that he was in a hurry. So Herrera said he left his business card with her, and went back to his car and waited.
Almost an hour later, Herrera testified he saw a black Chevrolet Tahoe pull up to the driveway, and then 20 minutes after that, Paxton left his garage and approached the Tahoe. Herrera got out of his car and approached Paxton. “As soon as he saw me and heard me call his name out, he turned around and RAN back inside the house through the same door in the garage,” Herrera wrote, emphasizing “ran” in all capital letters, and underlining the word.
A few minutes later, the woman who called herself Angela came out of the house and got into the driver’s seat of a different Chevrolet truck in the driveway and started it; she also opened the rear door behind the driver’s side and left it open. Herrera said that a few minutes later, Paxton “RAN from the door inside the garage toward the rear door of the driver side.” Herrera alleges he “loudly” called Paxton by name, and said he had important court documents for him, but “Mr. Paxton ignored me and kept heading for the truck.” Herrera said he then told Paxton he was serving him with legal documents and leaving them on the ground beside the truck. Herrera said Paxton got in the truck, left the documents on the ground, and both Chevrolet vehicles left.
Okay, so that doesn’t look good, right?
Watch Paxton put lipstick on a pig.
I’m the victim! I’m the victim! I’m the victim!
Okay, that means that the first time he RAN away from his wife’s car and back into the house, he left his wife there to die at the hands of a “strange” man.
The strange man was there for an hour and half and Paxton didn’t call the police?
And how did this all turn out, you ask?
The judge in the case decided Paxton didn’t have to show up after all.
Texas, Land Of The White Man Put Upon Victim.
Someone should have had a camera ready and took a video of him running like Matt Goetz.
1Well, the good people of Texas could vote him out. Just sayin’.
2If the judge had said Paxton had to show up, he’d probably get something in the mail with letters cut out a magazine, glued onto a piece of paper saying, “We HaVe kIDnapPed Ken pAXton in a Black CHevY TaHoe AND R hOLding him IN an INdiscloSed locAtIOn. He cAn’T aPPear in uR cOUrt.”
3Paxton must have a few judges in his pocket to keep skating away from facing his crimes. As you say, Texas, the Land Of the White Man- add corrupt white man.
4I’m voting early by mail (hopefully it’s not year outlawed) because I’ll be out of the country. When I return, I hope the rest of Texas has joined me to give this man more time with his family and his lawyer in 2023.
5It’s a continuing theme of “actions without consequences” for a select group of well-connected people.
Decades ago, Black comedian Richard Pryor observed this about the justice system in the US: “You go down there looking for justice and that is what you will find, just us.”
6The only surprise is that state troopers didn’t show up to roust out Mr. Herrera. I mean c’mon, Trump already set the precedent that white folks can’t be treated fairly by Messcins.
7Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if Paxton had tried that, and somebody in the chain of command conveniently lost the orders.
There is a saying, “Justice delayed is justice denied” which typically is used in the context of someone being charged with a crime but no being able to get her/his day in court and so lingers on in jail for months or even years awaiting trial.
I would contend that this same saying applies to people like Ken Paxton, who have to money and or power to delay, endlessly, appearing in court to answer for their wrongdoing (see Donald Trump’s MO re: lawsuits).
Delaying trials for the convenience of the accused is denying justice to the people damaged by the shouldbe defendant. Whenever I see a case where some little guy is trying to get justice from the bad actions of some big corporation or wealthy person but ends up either bankrupted by the endless delays practiced by the defendant’s lawyers or has to settles for pennies on the dollar of his losses I find myself wondering when will we see “equal justice under the law”.
8JFC and Christ on a Cracker! 48 years ago I immigrated to Texas for a reasonably priced College education. We had progressive Democrats in charge of State government, protections for consumers, laws against Deceptive Trade Practices that had Teeth! Since the loss of Ann Richards we have spiraled down to challenge Alabama and Mississippi for worst State in the Union for all things not Corporate beneficial. I hate what we have allowed ourselves to become! Fuck Rural Republican Ignorant Assholes!
9JJ, your Taxes Tawk is real poetry that brings a smile!
10The judge in the case decided Paxton didn’t have to show up after all.
Bent judge ?
11This crooked POS will probably win reelection. For the longest time, I’ve felt that Texans were smart enough to eventually wake up and smell the NSGOP coffee. Guess I was wrong…
12Fled Paxton, tough on crime, not.
13https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2658367606/
TedinAustin @9, They’ve all earned their official ‘Asshole Merit Badge’, meritorious Jerkleg Ribbon, and ‘DJT Buttkisser’ device… with recognized distinktion.
https://us1-photo.nextdoor.com/post_photos/cc/f3/ccf3173bf23893b70b76c00c829f8e26.jpeg
14Even worse than Paxton ducking charges, he is failing to do his day job:
https://news.yahoo.com/dysfunction-texas-ag-office-paxton-145933968.html
Having to release sex crime and human trafficers because he lost track of a key witness. Pressuring a prosecutor to withhold evidence in a murder case. Blatant corruption in hiring whoever “donates” $10k or more to his “re-election campaign”. One of those bribers having to quit after showing child porn in a meeting with others in the AG office. He is carrying out political stunts while ignoring the basic work of an AG.
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