Paxton has $125,000 in outstanding campaign loans to the Senate leader. And state Sen....
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, right, gives a thumbs-up after former President Donald Trump mentions him beside State Sen. Brandon Creighton and Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton at a Save America Rally, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Conroe.in the Senate as like a real-world courtroom, with senators sitting as jurors and Patrick serving as judge.
Because the loans are still outstanding,"those start to feel to me like real conflicts," said Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. two-thirds of the 31 senators considering the 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton would have to vote to remove himThe loans are the latest in a growing list of conflicts that have emerged as the Senate is still carving out rules for how the first impeachment trial in decades will proceed when it begins later this summer.
Experts say loans between political campaigns are legal and common in Texas, and they often go unpaid, as has been the case for the Paxton loans so far. But a review of Senate campaign finance records show few, if any, other Republicans currently reporting similar outstanding loans. Many of the existing loans were either personal loans, from a candidate to his or her own campaign, or from a close relative.On Nov.
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