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Shell_Seas

(3,339 posts)
Sat Sep 16, 2023, 01:51 PM Sep 2023

Ken Paxton Acquitted On All Charges - To Return To Office

The Texas Senate is full of cowards. Despite the the mountain of evidence of corruption, Senate Conservative bent to pressure and voted to acquit.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/ken-paxton-acquitted-on-all-charges


Scroll to the bottom to see how each Senator voted.

After nine days of deliberation, both sides of the impeachment trial closed today and after deliberation the Senate found Paxton not guilty on ALL Articles of Impeachment.

These were the articles:

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Ken Paxton Acquitted On All Charges - To Return To Office (Original Post) Shell_Seas Sep 2023 OP
At best it was even money. This is the crap that makes people cynical of the political process ... marble falls Sep 2023 #1
Not surprised. Crooks of the same feather all hang together. SWBTATTReg Sep 2023 #2
MotherFUCK this shit. (nt) Paladin Sep 2023 #3
Paxton acquitted LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #4
Will probably celebrate with his mistress. Sneederbunk Sep 2023 #5
sigh blogslug Sep 2023 #6
Paxton ought to complete the effect. Paladin Sep 2023 #7
How can you expect them to vote against a "brother in Christ"? walkingman Sep 2023 #8

marble falls

(57,405 posts)
1. At best it was even money. This is the crap that makes people cynical of the political process ...
Sat Sep 16, 2023, 01:55 PM
Sep 2023

... As Democrats we need to redouble our efforts and not allow this stuff to suppress the vote.

SWBTATTReg

(22,188 posts)
2. Not surprised. Crooks of the same feather all hang together.
Sat Sep 16, 2023, 01:58 PM
Sep 2023

If you looked at the voting, it was very partisan. Figures.

Paladin

(28,280 posts)
7. Paxton ought to complete the effect.
Sat Sep 16, 2023, 03:41 PM
Sep 2023

Start dressing in double-breasted pinstripe suits and snap-brim fedora hats, a la Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart. Smoke big cigars and practice rolling quarters across his knuckles. Never appear anywhere in public without thinly-dressed women and a couple of guys openly displaying tommy guns.

Shit, he might as well. It's not as if Texas Republicans will ever make him pay any price for it...

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