“He got elected by us they’re trying to overturn our votes,” said Kaci Sisk, the president of the Bulverde Spring Branch Conservative Republicans. That's a sentiment shared by Paxton supporters who showed up to watch the trial. "Anyone who votes against Ken Paxton in this impeachment is risking their entire political career, and we will make sure that that is the case."
"We're spending millions of dollars," Stickland said on the show. The pair rallied viewers to pressure a half-dozen specific Republican senators to vote against conviction. Jonathan Stickland, the president of the far-right Defend Texas Liberty PAC, recently appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast with a candidate for Dallas County GOP chair, Lauren Davis. “Hopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed - I will fight you if it does,” Trump wrote on Truth Social during the House impeachment proceedings. Your decision is literally about democracy in this state,” he said. “Is it up to voters or is it up to politicians to see who stays in office? Your decision is much bigger than Ken Paxton. Paxton attorney Dan Cogdell argued, however, that the impeachment was a question of Texas democracy. "In Texas, we require more from our public officials than to merely avoid being a criminal," he said. Andrew Murr, said Paxton's conduct doesn't need to be criminal to be impeachable and promised illustrative testimony from former staffers with "chilling detail" about how they came to believe their boss was corrupt. In his opening statement, the House impeachment manager, Rep. Emil Lippe / The Washington Post via Getty Images file Ken Paxton speaks in Dallas in July 2021. Paxton has denied all wrongdoing and vowed to fight the allegations. The trial, the first of a state attorney general in Texas history, marks a dramatic fall for a man who gained a national profile as a leader of red states' opposition on topics from health care to immigration during President Barack Obama's administration and who became a key conservative ally of Donald Trump when he was in the White House.
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