Attorney General Ken Paxton ratcheted up his fundraising in recent months, a sign the Republican is taking Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza seriously as...
, said her campaign finance report shows that “Texans from every corner of our state are ready to fire criminally-indicted Ken Paxton.”
Paxton is awaiting trial on a 7-year-old indictment for securities fraud and facing a more recent FBI investigation into accusations of corruption made by eight of his top aides. After several of the employees were fired, they filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Paxton’s office, which is still pending. Paxton has denied wrongdoing.
A close ally of Donald Trump, Paxton’s campaign shelled out $4,000 on food at the businessman’s New Jersey golf club in September, campaign finance reports show. That month, the pair held aPaxton heads into the final stretch of the race with $4.9 million in his campaign coffers, compared to Garza’s $1.5 million, according to campaign finance reports., Austin Bureau Correspondent
. Allie has covered Texas politics since 2017 and written about everything from tax policy to child protection. She previously worked for the San Antonio Express-News and in New Hampshire, as the statehouse reporter for the Concord Monitor.
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