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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet'sCHIP IN: Gohmert might be out of our national hair if runs for State attorney general in Texas!
What a joke, irony, embarrassment that what Texas has in office can leave room for GOHMERT to cast himself as the more "moral", less distracting, and less embarrassing choice.
And it looks like George Pee Shrub pee-ed away his pissant family for nothing kissing up to Drumpf who didn't endorse him.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/09/louie-gohmert-texas-attorney-general-2022/
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert exploring run against Attorney General Ken Paxton in increasingly crowded GOP primary
Land Commissioner George P. Bush, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman and state Rep. Matt Krause are also vying for the GOP nomination next year.
Land Commissioner George P. Bush, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman and state Rep. Matt Krause are also vying for the GOP nomination next year.
.... According to video of the event, Gohmert repeatedly warned that Paxton's legal problems could jeopardize the attorney general position for Republicans in November.
"We've got to have an attorney general that's undistracted by moral and legal issues of his own and who can get elected a year from now," Gohmert said.
Gohmert said he would be "all in" if he can collect $1 million in contributions by the end of the day on Nov. 19. If he does not, he added, he would run for reelection to his current seat in Texas' 1st Congressional District. ....
At least three Democrats are running for attorney general: Joe Jaworski, the Galveston lawyer and former mayor of the city; Lee Merritt, the nationally known civil rights attorney from North Texas; and Rochelle Garza, a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union from the Rio Grande Valley. The Democratic Attorneys General Association reveled in the news of Gohmert's potential candidacy, saying in a statement that the primary "is turning into a Texas-sized embarrassment for the Republican Party." ....
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Let'sCHIP IN: Gohmert might be out of our national hair if runs for State attorney general in Texas! (Original Post)
UTUSN
Nov 2021
OP
Paxton asking Austin lobbyists to join him and former President Trump for a fundraiser at Mar Lago
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2021
#6
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)1. Unfortunately the GOP village has more than one idiot.
In It to Win It
(8,236 posts)2. With no shortage of them in Texas
blogslug
(37,999 posts)3. Along with George P? Oh, I hope they all run!
I can just imagine the burning heap of dung that would emerge as the candidate after that primary battle.
Also, here's our Democratic candidate: https://jaworskifortexas.com/
brooklynite
(94,501 posts)4. Because really, what kind of damage could Gohmert do as Texas AG?
Abortion, Civil Rights, voting rights.....
LeftInTX
(25,245 posts)5. He won't win the primary
I bet even if he gets $1 million, he won't run. It's probably a fundraising scam.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,129 posts)6. Paxton asking Austin lobbyists to join him and former President Trump for a fundraiser at Mar Lago
UTUSN
(70,681 posts)7. It's just a Looking Glass world we're in!