We’ve waited seven long years for somebody at the top of the Texas GOP to tell us how they really feel about Ken Paxton’s shameful tenure as attorney general and his uncanny ability to avoid trial on a federal securities fraud indictment handed down way back in 2015.
In a phone call with reporters Thursday, John Cornyn, Texas’ senior U.S. senator and a former Texas attorney general himself, decided to finally say the quiet part out loud.
“This is the chief law enforcement officer of the state of Texas, and it’s a source of embarrassment to me that that has been unresolved,” Cornyn said.
Most officeholders refrain from taking sides in party primaries, and Cornyn isn’t going so far as to endorse Paxton’s GOP opponent, Land Commissioner George P. Bush, but we’re glad to see the senator weigh in nonetheless.
He saying what many frustrated Texans — those who still respect law and order — have been saying for a long time. We just wish he’d spoken up sooner, perhaps before the March 1 primary that ended in a two-way runoff between Paxton and Bush.
We still believe former Texas Supreme Court justice Eva Guzman was the best candidate of the bunch.
Houston Chronicle
