Not long after Paxton issued his statement, Phelan dropped a bombshell of his own: The chamber’s House Committee on General Investigating was about to publicize the results of a lengthy investigation into Paxton, which had started after the AG asked the legislature to cover the cost of a $3.3 million wrongful-termination settlement of a lawsuit brought by four whistleblowers he had fired. But one thing was clear almost immediately: Paxton’s attack on Phelan was not really about a 15-second video of the legislative session. It is still not really clear what Phelan’s deal was in that clip Phelan himself has not commented. Citing a video that was circulating of Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, stumbling over his words while presiding over the chamber, Paxton accused his fellow Republican of working “in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication.” It was “with profound disappointment,” Paxton said, that he was asking Phelan to vacate his post at the end of the legislative session.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Įarlier this week, seemingly out of the blue, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton issued a statement calling one of the most powerful politicians in the state a drunk.
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