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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Kinda disappointed for Gaetz to withdraw, since I'm figuring whoever comes next will be more dangerous.
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I'm resigned to Paxton, which sucks because on top of being a horrible person, the office he runs is horrible. It used to be the AGs were some of the best lawyers in the state. They had interesting work and were outstanding trial lawyers. But turnover since Paxton has been so bad, they'll take whoever they can get now. I was at a dinner last year with one, and he was the most senior in his section. He'd graduated six years ago. I've talked to agency lawyers who have had to spoon feed their AGs through cases. I've heard of AGs who just left mid-case without telling their clients.
And they're ideological now, which wasn't the case previously. In June, someone's out of office proudly stated that they were not in the office that day because of a declared holiday to celebrate the second anniversary of Dobbs.
And this is just the run of the mill stuff, not the whole-senior-staff-resigned-en-masse-and-then-sued-and-got-a-$3-million-settlement-which-kicked-off-an-impeachment-by-fellow-republicans-thing. Which I'm guessing is a selling point.
Otoh, as far as I know, his scandals are run-of-the-mill corruption scandals and not sex scandals, unless you count his wife being a state senator who led the charge to not convict him in the impeachment. There may have been sexual services exchanged there.
