North Texas Sen. Kelly Hancock, one of two Republicans who voted to convict Ken Paxton during the attorney general’s impeachment trial, says he plowed through...
Hancock denied any such motivation, saying the two would grab lunch in the years following their time in the House.
“I voted based on the testimony and evidence available to me,” Hancock wrote on X. “With much prayer and wisdom from God. In the end, he gave me a peace I can’t explain.”The News“There was a fairly large group that went into the deliberation with the opinion that basically it’s up to the House and if they didn’t prove their case, it wasn’t our responsibility to go find the facts,” he said.
Between Friday night and Saturday morning, when senators signaled they were ready to vote, “a lot of people’s opinion changed overnight,” he said.Since 2021, Hancock has been on the outs with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. They clashed over whether to reprice billions of dollars in wholesale electricity charges after that year’s winter storm exposed problems with the state’s main electric grid.
The senator wasn’t allowed to vote but said if she had, she would have voted with six Republicans to dismiss the charges at the trial’s start — and to acquit on all articles, she said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.Patrick, who strongly criticized the House impeachment process Saturday, followed through on a vow to seek a thorough audit of all costs associated with the Paxton impeachment.
In a letter to State Auditor Lisa Collier, Patrick asked for an accounting of all expenses incurred by legislative agencies, starting March 1. She was named by a six-lawmaker panel headed by Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont.. Bob has covered state government and politics for The Dallas Morning News since 2002. Earlier, he was a statehouse reporter for three newspapers, including the Dallas Times Herald.
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