Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Spreading Influence
Ken Paxton’s crookedness is like a virus spreading all over the country.
The story starts here. Lots of Texans have summer homes in Colorado, and a lot of them have million dollar homes there.
When a small county in the Colorado mountains banished everyone but locals to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, an unlikely outsider raised a fuss: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who called it an affront to Texans who own property there and pressed health officials to soften the rules.
“The banishment of nonresident Texas homeowners is entirely unconstitutional and unacceptable,” Paxton said in a news release April 9, when his office sent a letter asking authorities in Gunnison County to reverse course.
Unconstitutional? Why, my goodness, that’s a heady word to be tossing around in another state where I seriously doubt that Paxton has a home, a recognized license to practice law, or even has a sled. What Paxton does have is gall and a pay-to-play attitude.
On April 9, Paxton sent a letter to small Gunnison County from the official office of the Texas Attorney General “urging” them to reverse course and let part-timers come stay at their property during the lockdown.
The remote community of 17,000 people has only one hospital with 24 beds and no intensive care unit, and health officials cited the scarcity of resources in ordering nonresidents to leave.
This is happening at the height of Texas requiring people from New York and Louisiana to self-quarantine for 14 days.
So why is is important for Texans to be allowed to come back to one small county in Colorado where it just so happens that college friend of Paxton’s (Robert McCarter) has a $4 million home?
Paxton has at least nine donors in Texas who own property in Gunnison County, and who collectively have given him and his wife nearly $2 million in political contributions.
Less than three hours after Paxton announced the letter, Gunnison County granted McCarter an exemption to stay, according to documents obtained by AP. The county says the timing was coincidental.
Ken Paxton: Still indicted for tax fraud.
Thanks to Anna the Geek for the heads up.
The Tom Delayed gambit still works. Do the new charges, excuse me, accusations and pernicious implications become cumulative to his slow walked demise?
1What Gunnison SHOULD have said: “Well, sure thing, Tex. Since you reside here 51% of the time and pay taxes and stuff, you’re as welcome as any other citizen. Wait, you don’t live here and pay state income tax? Go rot in Houston, carpetbagger.”
2Fake news! Associated Press are libtard liars! Ken Paxton is a God fearing tea partier who’s been the victim of a political witch hunt since 2015! Even before they started persecutin’ President Trump for…. Winning! Those devil worshippin’ commies will make up anything!
3And besides, what good is a bought and paid for politician if you can’t depend on him to endanger thousands so a few ordinary patriotic billionaires can let their kids play in the mountains?
The number of witches being hunted in this country is gol’darned alarming.
4AK Lynne:
5Ain’t it the truth?
It’s hard out there for a witch?
“The remote community of 17,000 people has only one hospital with 24 beds and no intensive care unit, and health officials cited the scarcity of resources in ordering nonresidents to leave.”
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This is fairly disconcerting…
‘Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun –
But mama, that’s where the fun is.’
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‘Kind of Like Large Scale Negligent Homicide’: As Trump Urges Reopenings, CDC Report Warns of Surge in Covid-19 Deaths
Edit: Internal CDC document projects U.S. coronavirus deaths could reach 3,000 per day by June 1—nearly double the current daily death toll.
see chart:
full article:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/04/kind-large-scale-negligent-homicide-trump-urges-reopenings-cdc-report-warns-surge
6I’d better haul out that old bumper sticker my brother had. If God had intended Texans to ski, He would have made bullshit white.
I know people from Colorado who won’t drive home with Texas tags on their cars.
7Our little mountain county makes 2nd home owners self-quarantine the first 14 days they get here, and has banned short-term rentals. You should hear the absentee landlords howl! (They must never have seen the size of our hospital, or remember that – with all the trails and restaurants and attractions closed – there’s nothing for visitors to do anyway!…nor is there any t.p. or soap for them to buy.)
8Those of us who live in the Sierras and Rockies are very much aware of how counter productive it would be to throw those owners into “fire sales.” But cutting off their water, gas & electric would serve notice that their cypher locks could suffer such mishaps as to prevent deliveries.
9The small county south of me did the same thing.
10Second home haven for people from NYC.
They were asked at first to self quarantine and then asked not to come at all
P.P.@3 : Now you make me wish I had taken the nom de computer of “devil worshippin’ commie boy”. And changed my profile pic from Mr. Burns saying “Excellent” to Bart Simpson saying “Eat my shorts”.
11I’m not advocating violence or mayhem but…
https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/85832666/burning-cabin
12Our Oregon coastal communities have asked people who own second homes or vacation rentals to please not visit and bring germs from Portland, etc. unless they’re willing to self quarantine for 14 days. Hotels and vacation rentals cannot have any visitors unless for work, essential personnel or if they’re staying at least 30 days. It sucks, I know, our county unemployment rate is one of the highest in the state. But we only have 50 hospital beds, 8 ICU, for 50k residents. So far only 5 confirmed cases and only one was recent. Dotard45 is to blame for it all.
13I’m wondering if there were donations from the richer Texan to the local politicians, too, or if the Texas donations were sufficient.
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