Reminder With FEC Deadline Today: Corrupt Ken Paxton Loves To Break The Rules For His Rich Donors

Jul 15

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Texas Tribune: “Paxton received assistance with home remodel, job for alleged girlfriend in return for helping political donor”

Austin American-Statesman: “Paxton faces scrutiny over taxpayer-funded hotel rooms for donors”

AUSTIN, TX — Today is the day Ken Paxton dreads all year: the deadline to disclose his latest donor list, which has exposed his affairs, charges of “bribery and abuse of office,” and led to him being the first Attorney General to be impeached in Texas history.

Paxton has a long history of breaking the law and rigging the system to help enrich himself and his wealthy donors:

Paxton’s own staff reported him to the FBI for allegedly accepting bribes and abusing his office in a pay-to-play deal to enrich himself and his donor, Nate Paul. In exchange for Paxton intervening to get Paul out of legal trouble, Paul allegedly helped renovate Paxton’s mansion and hired Paxton’s mistress “so that she could move from San Antonio to Austin, and be closer” to Paxton. Paxton reportedly went to extraordinary lengths to obscure their friendship using a “burner phone, secret email account, [and a] fake Uber name to hide ties to Nate Paul.”
In 2026, Paxton was exposed f0r giving taxpayer-funded hotel rooms to donors. It wasn’t until after a state comptroller began auditing Paxton’s office finances that the costs were recovered, leading to two senior officials in the Attorney General’s office resigning.
Paxton helped his rich donor, Robert McCarter, pressure local officials to let him stay in his $4 million lakeside mansion during COVID-19 when the county had restricted it to only locals for public safety.
Paxton doled out lucrative contracts to private attorneys, many of whose private firms donated to his campaign, to argue on behalf of the state at a significantly higher rate, wasting taxpayer dollars. The move confounded legal scholars who said “they should have the people in-house” for much of this work, which would save taxpayer money.