Republican Sen. Angela Paxton, Ken Paxton's wife and a lawmaker yet to recuse herself from sitting on the trial, also owes $600,000 to her husband's campaign. Texas KenPaxton DanPatrick TexasGOP TexasPolitics
said conflicts of interest are nearly impossible to avoid in impeachments because they're held in a political body rather than a court of law. However, Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told the paper that the size of the loans involved here creates bad optics.
"We don't want a situation where the public doesn't have faith that decisions by government officials are being made for the right reason," Bookbinder said."And where there are significant loans that may or may not be outstanding, as far as the public is concerned, it certainly raises questions about whether there could be conflicts, whether decisions could be affected by these financial interests.
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