Just Like Cruz, Paxton Was AWOL During Texas Storm

Last Wednesday the Texas capital city of Austin was in the deep freeze. A ferocious winter storm was battering the state and millions of residents were without electricity and potable running water. Grocery store shelves were bare. So that day, as Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, was planning her family’s trip to warm, sunny Cancun via group text, another Lone Star politician made an escape of his own.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton (R), fled the miserable conditions in their hometown and flew north to Salt Lake City, leaving the people who voted them into office – who hired them as public servants – to figure out how to survive all on their own.

According a spokesperson for Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R), Paxton traveled to the Utah state capital and met at “various times” between Wednesday and Friday. Those meetings reportedly were for Paxton and Reyes to discuss “an antitrust lawsuit several states are pursuing against Google.” A spokesperson for Angela Paxton told the Dallas Morning News that the state senator joined her husband “on a previously planned trip to Utah which included meetings that benefit her efforts to promote human dignity and support law enforcement.”