Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has proven yet again he has no respect for the Texas Ethics Commission. In the last year Paxton has refused to pay $11,300...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has proved yet again he has no respect for the Texas Ethics Commission.assessed to him by the commission, which is required to ensure candidates for state office file timely and complete campaign finance reports as required by law.These reports are an important part of a transparent electoral process because they tell the public who’s bankrolling candidates, how much they contribute and how that money is spent.
And it gets worse. Because Paxton hasn’t paid up, the ethics commission has followed its standard practice and referred the cases for collection — to the office of the attorney general. That’s an absurd and obvious conflict of interest that points up the need for the commission to be granted more enforcement power by the Texas Legislature.Commission executive director J.R. Johnson declined to comment on where the cases go from here, except to refer questions to the attorney general’s office.
“It would appear a candidate can simply skip filing required reports, ignore warning letters from the ethics commission and accrue sometimes massive fines but have little worry of ever being sued by the attorney general,” we wrote in June 2022. What a sad state of affairs that that now includes the attorney general, himself.A long list of delinquent campaign report filers, Democrats and Republicans alike, is posted on the Texas Ethics Commission’s website, and Paxton’s name is right there.
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