Friday, May 29, 2026

How It Is

 FoxNews wants to make fun of Talarico, and I was prepared to recall the Anne Richard’s campaign where her opponent spent his campaign mostly make juvenile comments about her. It’s the reason we called her “the Governor Miz Ann.” Schoolyard taunts really don’t work that well in Texas politics. 

But I decided to go a different route:

Houston is bluer than Austin (no InfoWars here. Historic home of the second full Pacifica Radio station). East Texas, just to the north, OTOH, is blood red. Talarico talks about Jesus, and that’s talking their language. (Paxton, OTOH, will be denying he has any mistresses.) Gotta get one of these for the gym. "Talafreako” is not going to save Paxton from this:
The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out:

“The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying.

Adam Hoffman could have faced life in prison. Instead, Ken Paxton and his office offered him a deal that kept him off the sex-offender registry and included no new jail time.”
Oh, and why is Talarico “dangerous”? Because Ken Paxton bought his impeachment acquittal in the Texas Senate: That impeachment trial was largely about that sugar daddy and the house Paxton had him outfit for Paxton’s mistress, the one (among many) he still insists he never had. Really looking forward to the “Biblical grounds” for that divorce case. Everyone assumes Mrs. Paxton meant adultery. I’ve gotta tell you, as a former Texas family lawyer, Mrs. Paxton must really want her pound of flesh to be taking her divorce to court. The toughest divorce fight I ever worked on involved mom getting pregnant during the pending divorce. Everybody agreed who the daddy was (her boyfriend), but she was going to give birth before the divorce was final, making the child presumptively the child of the marriage, and so the husband’s. Obviously that complicated child support issues. It was a procedural tangle only your humble host could love. That case dragged on for over 9 months because there were arguments over property settlements, but nothing anybody wanted to go to trial over.

I had another case where the teenage son had been beaten by Dad with a golf club. We had the photos of the scars on his back. We should have taken him to court and gotten the DA interested in criminal charges. But our client, the wife, adamantly refused to do so, and insisted on a quick settlement and divorce. I had to endure his lawyer berating my client on the phone as we worked out the settlement, all the while looking at those photos I couldn’t even tell him about. “Endure” because I wanted to tell him what a worthless son of a bitch his client was. I still pray that young boy found some peace in his adult life, and didn’t turn out like his daddy.

The point being, no fault divorce usually means going to court once. Most of my cases involved one court appearance, to enter the agreed judgment/divorce decree. Paxton’s wife doesn’t want that. And she doesn’t want at least some of his lies to go unchallenged. There is still time to settle, so she might.

Or she might want her pound of flesh. We’ll see.

 Adding: The contempt for Texas voters is palpable. “Obscure wide receivers from the 2000’s?” Ask Paxton to name one. And who the fuck cares? Texas politics may be conservative, but we never sent “Coach” Tuberville to the Senate. Low as they are, we have our standards.
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2 comments:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa12:51 PM

    Nothing says "low-T" so much as slavish parroting of lines written for Trump the Insult Comic President. Current Fox News makes past Fox News look like McNeil-Lehrer. My question for them is, do they know Bob Wills is still the king?

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    1. Rmj1:50 PM

      Miles and miles of Texas

      I still want Lyle Lovett’s “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas)” made into the state song.

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