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District 8 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Rains and Hunt counties and portions of Collin County in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The current senator from District 8 is Angela Paxton .
Angela Suzanne Paxton (née Allen; born February 14, 1963) [1] is an American politician from the state of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, she has represented District 8 in the Texas Senate since 2019. Her political career has been closely tied to her husband, Ken Paxton, the current Attorney General of Texas. [1]
[9] [10] Paxton won the Republican primary while Mark Pharris, a plaintiff in the lawsuit to overturn Texas's ban on same-sex marriage, won the Democratic primary. [11] Paxton won the general election in the heavily Republican Collin County district. [12] This was the closest senate election in the state during the 2018 elections.
State Attorney General Ken Paxton has been ordered to appear before the Texas Senate to answer to 16 of 20 articles of impeachment that were overwhelmingly approved by the Texas House in May. That ...
Senator Paxton may refer to: Angela Paxton (fl. 2010s), Texas State Senate; Ken Paxton (born 1962), Texas State Senate; Lonnie Paxton (born 1968), Oklahoma State Senate; William A. Paxton (1837–1907), Nebraska State Senate; William T. Paxton (1869–1942), Virginia State Senate
Senate District 20: Republican Brenda Dietrich and Democrat Candace Ayars. Kansas House of Representatives House District 50 : Republican Kyle McNorton and Democrat Jessica "J.P." Porter.
The Texas House in May voted 121-23 to send articles of impeachment against Paxton to the Senate for trial. Paxton was accused of abusing his office to benefit real estate investor Nate Paul and ...
Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. The state's current senators are Republicans John Cornyn (serving since 2002) and Ted Cruz (serving since 2013). A total of 27 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Liberal Republican have served or are serving as U.S. senators from Texas.