Alamo City Conservatives General Meeting

10223 Sahara Dr.,San Antonio TX 78216

06 January, 2022

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Alamo City Conservatives General Meeting - Guest Speaker Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton AG Paxton became a candidate for Texas Attorney General when the incumbent Greg Abbott decided to run for governor to succeed the retiring Rick Perry. Paxton led a three-candidate field in the Republican primary held on March 4, 2014. Paxton faced Dan Branch in the runoff election on May 27, 2014, and won in the November 4, 2014, general election. Paxton defeated his Democratic opponent; an attorney from Houston named Sam Houston. Paxton took office on January 5, 2015. Paxton's wife, Angela Paxton, his closest political advisor, calls her husband "a very competitive person". Paxton won the Attorney General's election without the endorsement of a single Texas newspaper. In 2018, Angela Paxton won the District 8 seat in the Texas Senate. In 2018, Paxton ran unopposed for re-election in the Republican primary. Having received the endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump, Paxton won a second term as Attorney General in the general election on November 6, 2018, narrowly defeating Democratic nominee Justin Nelson, a lawyer, and Libertarian Party nominee Michael Ray Harris. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Paxton threatened to file lawsuits against local governments unless they rescinded stay-at-home orders and rescinded rules regarding the use of face masks to combat the spread of coronavirus. The city of Austin encouraged restaurants to keep logs of contact information, so as to ensure contact tracing in the event of an outbreak. Paxton described this as "Orwellian." Paxton sued the city of Austin again in December 2020 when the city implemented restrictions preventing indoor dining and drinking on New Year’s weekend amid surging COVID-19 cases. In March 2021, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Austin as well as Travis County, this time for the city and county continuing their local mask wearing requirements after Governor Abbott had signed an order ending the statewide mask wearing mandate. *******************************************************