News Summary

• Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million.
• Paxton, a Republican who is now running for u.s. Senate, took at least 17 trips over three months, including to resort destinations Park City, Utah, and Vail, Colorado.
• He visited the Oklahoma town where he owns a vacation lodge and a Utah community with a golf resort, where he later bought four condominiums.
• State police joined him each time, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job as attorney general.