Texas Land Commissioner, George P. Bush has declared his bid for Texas Attorney General.
Gatekeepers News reports that George P. Bush on Wednesday night declared his intention to run for Attorney General in Texas. challenging one of the most high-profile Republican attorneys general in the country, Ken Paxton.
“I am proud to announce I am a Republican candidate to be the next Texas attorney general,” Bush, the son of former two-term Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the nephew of former President George W. Bush and the grandson of the late former President George H.W. Bush, said before his supporters in Austin.
Bush is challenging one of the most high-profile Republican Attorney Generals in the country, Ken Paxton.
“Enough is enough, Ken,” Bush said while taking swipes at Paxton, who is currently under indictment for securities fraud and, separately, facing an FBI investigation for abuse of office.
“You’ve brought way too much scandal and too little integrity to this office. And as a career politician for 20 years, it’s time for you to go.”
He hinted that would go after Paxton’s legal issues, saying: “We have a web of corruption and lies that affect one of the highest offices in our land and it’s time for a change.”
Bush is running as a supporter of former President Donald Trump, despite the at-times blistering dispute between Trump and the Bush family. Bush family and Trump have clashed over the years, most notably when Trump and Jeb Bush battled it out in the 2016 presidential primary.
Asked about the attacks Trump has made on his family, Bush admitted that “politics is a contact sport.”
“We’re at a stage in our state where, you know, we can’t let a mean tweet get in the way of doing the right thing,” he said.
Gatekeepers News reports that Trump, in a statement last week, said he likes both Bush and Paxton, who is also his faithful ally.
“I like them both very much,” adding that “I’ll be making my endorsement and recommendation to the great people of Texas in the not-so-distant future.”
Political observers have seen Bush as a rising star in the GOP. He speaks Spanish and was involved in the founding of the political group Hispanic Republicans of Texas.
Bush is a former officer in the Navy Reserves and a former businessman, with a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
