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Ken Paxton Took His $1,000 Pen. He Has Not Forgotten.
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Every so often in Texas, a political scandal arises that is as ridiculous as it is emblematic of the man at its center. A governor’s attempt to pressure his political opponent ends in criminal abuse-of-power charges and an infamous ice cream cone. A senator’s Cancún vacation plans are interrupted, sort of, by an ice storm that leaves millions freezing and without power. For Ken Paxton, one such moment came fourteen years ago this month. Long before his unlikely election to attorney general—before the divine intervention at a Dairy Queen, and before the indictment, affairs, lawsuit settlements, and impeachment—Paxton was in line for security at a Collin County…The post Ken Paxton Took His $1,000 Pen. He Has Not Forgotten. appeared first on Texas Monthly.