The Tribune’s Aman Batheja has taken an in-depth look at Midland oilman Tim Dunn, who is best known in the Capitol for his funding of the conservative activist group Empower Texans.
Ken Paxton
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Criminal Justice
TribLive: Branch on Paxton
At our May 8 TribLive conversation, state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general in 2014, laid out the case against his rival in the May 27 runoff, state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney.
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TribLive: A Conversation With Dan Branch
Full video of my May 8 TribLive conversation with state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general in 2014.
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Health care
The Brief: May 7, 2014
The word “mess” doesn’t even begin to describe what greeted the new director of the state agency that supervises the state’s most violent sex offenders when she showed up to work.
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Politics
Branch Led Effort to Defeat Disclosure Rule
During Dan Branch’s first year in the House, he was a driving force behind an effort to prevent the disclosure of conflicts of interest that can arise when lawmakers work for firms that lobby the state Legislature.
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Health care
The Brief: May 6, 2014
With his opponent’s lapses in disclosure making headlines in recent days, some are now questioning GOP attorney general candidate Dan Branch’s own commitment to transparency.
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Health care
The Brief: May 5, 2014
Land Commissioner (and former lieutenant governor hopeful) Jerry Patterson will endorse David Dewhurst in the primary runoff contest over Dan Patrick, Dallas radio station KERA reported on Sunday.
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Politics
Paxton Violated Securities Law, Gets Reprimand
State Sen. Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general, violated the Texas Securities Act by soliciting investment clients without being registered as required by law, according to a disciplinary order made public Friday.
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Inside Texas Politics: The Quest for Hot Sauce
On this week’s edition of WFAA-TV’s Inside Texas Politics, I talked with host Jason Whitely and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bud Kennedy about state Sen. Ken Paxton’s ethics filings, Gov. Rick Perry, Rosemary Lehmberg and more.
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Politics
Paxton Amends Ethics Disclosures
Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, has amended nine of his personal financial statements to correct omissions in his disclosures, all of them related to his service on nonprofit boards, newly obtained filings show.