Irecently wrote about Beto O’Rourke bringing the fire we all need to Donald Trump’s plan to rig the midterms by rigging Texas’ congressional map. That threat to democracy was, apparently, music to the ears of Texas’ Republican Governor Greg Abbott and crooked Attorney General Ken Paxton.
But now, as O'Rourke put it on Friday, "These motherfuckers are panicking." Paxton took time out from cheating on his now-estranged wife (and maybe his mortgage terms and taxes , too) to stop O’Rourke’s Powered by People group. The group has been helping the Texas Democrats who had fled the state in order to prevent a quorum the state Republicans need to rig their maps and future elections.
Paxton used Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which is “normally aimed at consumer scams” to go after