When Paxton’s Senate impeachment trial starts next week, attention will turn toward the Republican senators who will decide his fate.
, see his impeachment as an unfair political move by a GOP-led House they claim don’t represent conservative Republican values.“We are expecting the Senate to have a much cleaner, thought-out process,” said Abraham George, the chairman of the Collin County Republican Party. “We don’t believe the House did that.”
“People feel like it was a rushed process and, because of that, it really leaves major questions in people’s minds,” said John Myers, vice chair of the Collin County GOP. “Why is this taking place now? What are the underlying reasons? Is there, perhaps, some sinister plot behind getting rid of the attorney general?”
“I was absolutely shocked, I had no idea that he was accused of doing these things in the articles,” Lethe said. “What bothered me the most was [Paxton’s team] said it was public knowledge — there’s no way in heck that people knew.” “If the state can’t prove he did what they accuse him of — and he takes the high road, takes one for the team, steps back, not only does it stop the impeachment but he's going to be set up,” Myers said.
“The House did the whole thing in 48 hours … they got the entire packet about 48 hours prior to the impeachment,” George said. “It was done in the last three days of this session, on a Saturday afternoon, where most of the House members wanted to go home and be with their families after five months in Austin.”
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