What Next - To Impeach a Republican In Texas
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is slated to begin in the state Senate today. Though Paxton’s history of scandals is long and storied, this could be the first time he’s faced accountability—and all it took was leaving taxpayers on the hook for a $3.3 million bill.
Guest: Sergio Martinez-Beltran, political reporter with NPR’s The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaborative.
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| 0:44.0 | If you really want to start a conversation in Texas, |
| 0:47.0 | Sergio Martinez-Beltren says the way to do it is to walk up to a crowd of people, and other words, Ken Paxton. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't think there's any gray reaction at all. |
| 1:00.0 | It's either people love Ken Paxton and think he is the embodiment of what a real conservative Republican should be. |
| 1:09.0 | Or people really dislike him and think that he is everything that's wrong with politics and with the Republican Party. |
| 1:17.0 | So there's nothing in between? |
| 1:18.0 | No, nothing in between. |
| 1:21.0 | Ken Paxton is the attorney general of Texas, or he was. |
| 1:26.0 | He's on unpaid leave right now, because he's being impeached by the State House of Representatives. |
| 1:31.0 | Paxton is accused of many things, but most importantly, an overly close relationship with a donor and a friend who was under investigation for fraud. |
| 1:41.0 | Paxton's trial starts today, September 5th. |
| 1:45.0 | Only three people in total in the history of Texas, including Ken Paxton, have been impeached by the Texas House. |
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