{"id":9596,"date":"2025-08-20T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/u-s-sen-john-cornyn-runs-ads-targeting-ken-paxton-over-questionable-campaign-contributions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:10:47","slug":"u-s-sen-john-cornyn-runs-ads-targeting-ken-paxton-over-questionable-campaign-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/u-s-sen-john-cornyn-runs-ads-targeting-ken-paxton-over-questionable-campaign-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sen. John Cornyn runs ads targeting Ken Paxton over questionable campaign contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wasted no time in trolling the shit out of his primary rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over a letter federal regulators sent Paxton&#8217;s Senate campaign demanding that it explain $658,000 in potentially illegal contributions. The Current was the first to report the Federal Election Commission contacted Paxton&#8217;s campaign Sunday, ordering its treasurer to refund or explain roughly 100 second-quarter donations that exceed federally allowed limits. By Wednesday, Cornyn&#8217;s campaign was already running a 35-second online ad alleging the FEC inquiry is only the latest ethical breach by Paxton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wasted no time in trolling the shit out of his primary rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over a letter federal regulators sent Paxton&#8217;s Senate campaign demanding that it explain $658,000 in potentially illegal contributions. The Current was the first to report the Federal Election Commission contacted Paxton&#8217;s campaign Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}