As the clock ticks toward Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial in September, his far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard and spending big to protect their most important ally.
“They romanticize the rural Texan,” Brandon Darby, editor of Breitbart Texas, a right-wing news site that had previously employed Sullivan,. “They wear the hat, the boots and the Wrangler jeans, but their policies actually strangle rural Texas communities.”
Former state Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Royse City, at his desk on the House floor in Austin on April 18, 2023.Leaders of the party were later criticized for what some said was a muted and delayed response to the allegations against Slaton, a “family values” conservative who often touted his career as a Southern Baptist youth pastor.
A party spokesperson disputed the timing of the $100,000 donation from Defend Texas Liberty, saying it arrived March 30 — two days before Slaton allegedly had sex with his aide — but wasn’t posted until April 4 “due to processing times.” Asked twice to provide documents backing that claim, Rinaldi responded that “we can but don’t feel the need to.”
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