Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald once said, “A man in the wrong can’t stand up to a fellow in the right as long as he keeps on a-coming.” My ordeal with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has come to a rightful end because the truth kept on a-coming.
On Nov. 1, 2020, Paxton fired me and Mark Penley from our executive leadership positions with the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Prior to that time he had either fired or run off six other top leaders in a purge that was unprecedented in Texas history.
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I am a law man, not a politician. I have never run for a political office. My job has always been to seek the truth, work the puzzle (the crime), charge the individual with the appropriate offense and then place him in jail. Unfortunately, in the case of Paxton, I did not get to do that because I was not in control of the investigation.
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