The Texas Grim Reaper’s Fight Against Masks and Health Care
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The U.S. just set another record with confirmed coronavirus cases, surpassing 40,000 in one day. But Ken Paxton is more worried about overturning Obamacare.
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Meet the Grim Reaper of Texas.
Not that state Attorney General Ken Paxton outwardly resembles the hooded, scythe-wielding spectre from the time of the Black Death.
But 14th century Europe had no figure quite like this Lone Star politician from the present pandemic. Here is a guy who is actively opposing measures to keep a deadly contagion from spreading even as he leads an effort that could suddenly leave more than a million people without health care.
