Brian Slodysko

An investigation into Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton's travel reveals that as Texas attorney general since he took office in twenty fifteen, he took more than two hundred seventy-five out-of-state trips, approximately seven hundred thirty work days where there were no entries on his official calendar, and spent at least one point nine million dollars in taxpayer-funded security expenses.

Brian Slodysko is an Associated Press investigative reporter and reported the story Inside Ken Paxton's Jet-Setting Lifestyle: California Wineries, European Hotspots, and Ski Resorts.

Some of his former deputies have said this in interviews with impeachment investigators.

They repeatedly raised the fact that they didn't have a whole lot of interaction with him at, at times.

Destinations include California's wine country, ski resorts, and overseas tourist locations.

Brian Slodysko is an investigative reporter with the Associated Press.

He co-authored with Jesse Bedayn the story Inside Ken Paxton's Jet-Setting Lifestyle, California Wineries, European Hotspots, and Ski Resorts.

We got all these different records.

But, you know, they, they really didn't engage with the substance of specific questions we asked.

Who is paying for the majority of his travel? Has the state paid for or subsidized in some way beyond his security detail these trips? Um, how many of these are for business? How many are for pleasure? How many for politics? How, you know, how, how does he commingle those things? There, there's just a lot of questions that were left unanswered that they, they did not directly address.

Brian Slodysko is an investigative reporter with the Associated Press.

He co-authored with Jesse Bedayn the story Inside Ken Paxton's Jet-Setting Lifestyle, California Wineries, European Hotspots, and Ski Resorts.