Republican AG Candidate Ken Paxton Voted on State Contracts for his Own Businesses in Legislature
State Senator Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) just can't seem to catch a break. Since improprieties in his financial disclosures were revealed last week, the leading GOP candidate for Attorney General has been MIA, canceling several scheduled campaign events over the past two weeks. His legal problems have already caused him to start losing endorsements.
Now, it's coming to light that Paxton has a history of voting on bills that directly impact his business dealings, violating the Texas state constitution.
Paxton, the self-proclaimed BFF of Ted Cruz, has a history of some unsavory business deals--he previously lost $100,000 in a Ponzi scheme run by a man who claimed to have found Noah's Ark. As the Dallas Morning News reported earlier this week, since joining the Texas Legislature in 2003 Paxton "has started or become part of 28 business ventures."
In the Legislature, Ken Paxton has voted on lucrative state contracts that directly benefit some of those business ventures which is against the law. As Texas Monthly put it, for someone running for the state's top legal position "he's either surprisingly uninformed about what the state's laws are, or surprisingly unconcerned about following them himself."
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15199/republican-ag-candidate-ken-paxton-voted-on-state-contracts-for-his-own-businesses-in-legislature .
[font color=green]The article also points out that this ethically-challenged candidate received $1,000,000 in federal stimulus money for one of his businesses.[/font] 
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