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August 3, 2015      5:03 PM

In wake of Paxton indictment, First Assistant AG tries to assure OAG staff

“…as you all know, life brings us lots of curve balls.”

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s likely immediate successor if he were to resign, Chip Roy, on Monday sent out a personal note to agency staff after Paxton was booked into the Collin County Jail on three securities-related charges.

“The Attorney General emphasized to me that he hoped this wouldn’t in any way harm any of the good people who work at the agency, whom, he has come to know and respect tremendously,” Roy wrote to agency staff. “But as you all know, life brings us lots of curve balls.”

Roy went on to describe his own diagnosis, four years ago to the day, of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He described the conversation to tell his wife “the most challenging moment of my life.” He went on to say everyone had similar challenges.

Roy, a former chief of staff in U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s office, went on to write the office would continue to do its job, and that Paxton would continue to do his job. At the end of the day, “there are Texans whom we need to serve,” he wrote.

By Kimberly Reeves