AUSTIN — Rep. Jeff Leach was “pissed off.” He had just found out that Ken Paxton wanted $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit with a group of whistleblowers who’d...
Paxton first publicly broached the settlement at the Capitol on Feb. 21, when the House appropriations committee held a meeting to discuss his agency’s budget. That day, Paxton talked about his agency’s wins.Chris Hilton, chief of general litigation in the Office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, speaks to the press after the House Committee on General Investigating voted to recommend impeachment for Paxton in a hallway of Texas Capitol extension on May 23, 2023.
First, he accused her of begging him not to hold a public hearing on the settlement. She denied that, calling him a liar.“I won’t be talked out of doing my job and fulfilling my oath,” he said. “I stood in 100-degree weather to get you elected. Never forget that,” Smith replied. “You want to go against me go ahead.”
Leach tried once more to get Smith to commit Paxton to appearing before the Committee on the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, which he chairs, to answer questions about the settlement.It was the last time the two texted about the settlement funding, according to the public records the agency released toState Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Allen, talks on the phone while on the floor of the House chamber of the Texas Capitol in Austin on Thursday, May 4, 2023.
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