Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he's staying after U.S. Rep Chip Roy calls for his resignatio

[RandySF]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he would not be resigning over allegations of bribery, abuse of office and other potential criminal offenses against him made by his top staffer, even as his former top lieutenant Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Austin called for him to step down.

“Despite the effort by rogue employees and their false allegations I will continue to seek justice in Texas and will not be resigning,” Paxton said in a written statement hours after Roy made his call for the attorney general to resign.

Roy worked in Paxton’s office as first assistant attorney general. He resigned in 2016 after The Dallas Morning News reported that Roy and another Paxton staffer remained on the state’s payroll for more than a month after they stopped working.

Roy said the character of the whistleblowers is “beyond reproach” and called for Paxton to resign “for the good of the people of Texas and the extraordinary public servants who serve at the Office of the Attorney General,” in a statement Monday.

The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV reported Saturday that several of Paxton’s top employees filed a whistleblower complaint with allegations about possible illegal activity by the state’s top lawyer.


https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/10/05/us-rep-chip-roy-calls-for-attorney-general-paxton-to-resign-for-the-good-of-the-people-of-texas/

[DFW]

1. Paxton isn't running against Wendy Davis to keep his job.

Chip Roy is. Does anyone think Roy would give a rat’s ass about corruption among Texas Republicans if he weren’t under enormous public pressure to do it?

[LeftInTX]

2. Chip Roy is pretty disgusting.

[onetexan]

3. exactly Roy's pandering. Davis is well funded and race was statistically tied as of early September.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515397-internal-democratic-poll-shows-virtual-tie-in-texas-house-district

I can't find a more current poll but from what i can see this is a red seat that Dems w flip - it's a tossup @this point per Cook Report. Davis is popular in TX and i'm confident she w kick Roy's butt:

"Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is virtually tied with Democratic challenger Wendy Davis, according to a new internal poll from Davis’s campaign released exclusively to The Hill.

The survey, conducted by Garin Hart Yang Research Group, showed Davis with 48 percent support and Roy close behind at 47 percent support. The results of the survey, which reported a margin of error of 5 percent, puts the two candidates at a virtual tie.

The poll shows a slight uptick in support for Davis, a former state senator, from a July poll that showed her right behind the first-term congressman, 45 to 46 percent. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report also moved the race from “lean Republican” to “toss-up" in July."