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Related: About this forumLooks like Ken Paxton is going to be acquitted
He has been acquitted on the first three articles so far. All by a 14-16 vote. Needs 21 votes for conviction. Only 2 Republicans are voting with the Democrats. And they’ll probably lose their seats next election.

LetMyPeopleVote
(160,929 posts)Comfortably_Numb
(4,182 posts)Ass self shine now. No accountability. Fucking a I hate this god damn state.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,996 posts)They just voted on article 5 and if I was 17 -13 which means five Republicans voted with the Democrats and we need nine.
barbaraann
(9,289 posts)Or a corruption spree?
Paladin
(29,970 posts)And I've been defending my fucking state for a couple of decades, here at DU. This Paxton matter may end all that.
tanyev
(45,926 posts)so I'm curious to see what this does to the Collin County GOP. (Paxton's home county and mine, too.)
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,996 posts)And what this probably means for their law career in Texas. Most of them were at one one time very devoted to Paxton, very religious, and still are very loyal Republicans.
RandySF
(73,063 posts)walkingman
(9,020 posts)Picaro
(1,877 posts)I live here. I’m not at all shocked or surprised.
I moved here from Missouri—a slightly less bad dystopian fascist state. So, not a native.
Texas has always been a national joke when it comes to the insane corruption of its politics.
This is more of the same.
MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)official yet?
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,996 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(7,080 posts)Hoping . . .
budkin
(6,849 posts)And Democrats will never be allowed to win a statewide election.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,996 posts)Acquitted on all 16 counts that they voted on.
2naSalit
(96,279 posts)Slides a little closer to ledge.