It's been a rough week for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in addition to losing another lawyer, his third since proceedings began, a poll released earlier in the week found that nearly two thirds of likely GOP voters wanted him to resign and more than half of Tea-Partiers felt the same way.
Paxton was in court Thursday and talked tough with reporters afterward, but will he survive this storm?
Governor Greg Abbott who has stopped short of supporting Paxton, instead saying he had confidence in the legal system to come to a fair resolution, now waits to hear if the AG will support his line-item vetoes of specific budget items, something the legislative budget board has asked for an opinion on.
One of the biggest budget items is a 130 million to save the G.J. Sutton building on San Antonio's eastside. The condemned and sprawling complex was to house all the state employees in the city if renovated.
And we follow up with the Texas Tribune on their 31 Days 31 Ways series, highlighting a new law each day in August that will impact Texans starting September 1st.
Guests:
- Peggy Fikac, Austin Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News
- Ryan Poppe, TPR's Statehouse Reporter
- Alana Rocha, multi-media reporter for the Texas Tribune
