Former governor and future two-time failed presidential nomination seeker Rick Perry had two pieces of good news this year: One, that he only faces one felony charge for trying to force Travis County D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg to quit, after the Court of Appeals threw one lesser charge out. Two, that Attorney General Ken Paxton distracted the media with three charges related to securities fraud. To misquote Oscar Wilde: To have one Texas politician under indictment may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two facing jail time looks like carelessness. Our ballot happened to be running during the Paxton fracas, and some readers jumped the gun voting for an indictment that had not yet happened. But combined with votes for "Paxton investigation," "Paxton securities fraud," and "Anything Paxton," we had a handy tie.
