But the shadows over Texas’s folksy attorney general have been growing longer. And the Associated Press has reported that he cheated on his wife, Angela Paxton, who is a Republican state senator in Texas. State prosecutors noted Paxton did not contest a 2014 civil fine of $1,000 and a reprimand from the Texas State Securities Board. Paxton’s defense attorney Philip Hilder was blunt: “Paxton is innocent of these allegations.”The alleged offenses took place when Paxton was a state representative, years before he would become attorney general. “I’ve been around him a lot,” Paxton said in mid-February on a Texas podcast called “Y’all-itics,” a riff on the Texas drawl.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2020 01:09 UTC