Ian Prior, spokesman for Paxton’s campaign, did not want to tell CNN when the couple left or returned, but said the attorney general ‘left Texas only after the power went to most of the state, including his own home, returned. ‘
“Attorney General Paxton attended a previously scheduled meeting with the Attorney General of Utah to discuss various issues,” Prior said. He listed a demonstration of a law enforcement simulator simulator and cited a strategy on a Google lawsuit as a reason for the trip.
“I started thinking almost at the moment I was sitting on the plane, because on the one hand, everyone who is a parent has the responsibility to look after our children and look after our family. That’s something Texans did. across the state, “said Cruz, who said in an earlier statement that he had flown to Mexico because his daughters had asked to take a trip and he was trying to be a ‘good father’.
As an official elected to the federal office, Cruz does not have a terrain role in responding to the storm, but natural disasters are often a time when voters reach out to their elected officials for help and access to resources.
As Texas Attorney General, Paxton is responsible for overseeing key aspects of the state’s response to the devastating winter storm.
While government officials are working to turn on the lights again for the Texas households that are still in the dark and to address widespread water outages, some residents are facing damage that could take weeks or months to repair.