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
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