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Potentially criminal conduct. these violations of the public trust are alarming and show a systemic pattern of behavior that every member of our committee felt needed to be addressed in a public forum. this is already a historic vote. ken paxton is the first attorney general in texas to get impeached. but there are bombshells during this hours long debate that led to the impeachment. in part it was because house members said that ken paxton has called them, threatening them if they voted yes tha...

Historic because ken paxton is the first attorney general in the state of texas to ever be impeached. now, there was another bombshell. during the hours long debate leading up to his historic vote, and that was when several members said in open forum that members of the house have received calls from ken paxton threatening them that if they voted yes there would be political consequences. there was concern about this so much so that one of the house members took to twitter saying in part, quote,...

Republicans. and the committee that investigated ken paxton is a republican. and he issued a statement after this historic vote that said had part, quote, throughout the course of the investigation we discovered numerous activity that constitute unethical and potentially criminal conduct. these violations are alarming and show a systemic pattern of behavior that every member of our committee felt needed to be addressed in a public forum. this is already an historic vote. ken paxton is the first ...

Submitting a journal statement to amend charge documents to include abuse of power, intimidation of house members, and senate jury tampering in light of charlie ger rens statements that a.g. paxton called and threatened house and senate members. i asked paxtons office about this, and i did not hear back. but ken paxton did take to twitter in response to his impeachment saying in part, quote, i am beyond grateful to have the support of millions of texans who recognize that what we just witnessed ...

So much so that one of the house members took to twitter saying in part, quote, i will be submitting a journal statement to amend charge documents to include abuse of power, intimidation of house members and senate jury tampering in light of states that a.j. paxton called and threatened house and senate members. i asked paxtons office about this but you did not hear back. but ken paxton said in part, quote, i am beyond grateful to have the support of millions of texans that recognize what we jus...

Said before the floor that several members received calls from ken paxton who has now been suspended ever since that vote came down a few moments ago with threatening messages. in fact, there was one of the members who tweeted out that they were going to ask for that to be placed on the record. and i believe we have that tweet for you. and this is from eddie morales jr. tweeting, i will be submitting a journal statement to amend charged documents to include abuse of power, intimidation of house ...

It used to be. it was a place that voted for president obama twice. it is a place where unions have played historically a very significant and important role and be where a lot of peoples jobs and lives have been disrupted by the changes in the economy. and those people tim ryan is arguing arent hearing from establishment democrats on the coasts. nancy pelosi of course representing a san francisco area district. and tim ryan himself outperforming hillary clinton in those districts and of course ...