Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday announced he was launching an investigation into former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s political organization to determine if its fundraising on behalf of Texas Democrats who fled the state amounts to bribery.
Texas House Democrats skipped town Sunday to deny Republicans a quorum as they attempted to carry out a partisan, mid-decade redistricting effort on behalf of President Donald Trump that would give the GOP an estimated five more seats in the next Congress.
“Any Democrat coward breaking the law by taking a Beto Bribe will be held accountable,” Paxton wrote on X.